Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 8, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

Knights Errant Investigations has always operated in multiple environments. Sea, land, and air back in the old days. They added space about as early on as they could afford to build or buy them. They preferred single-man spacecraft that befitted their ideal of lone Knights Errant on missions of justice, and helped develop long-range small craft in the Solar System. Many of the sporting yachts the rich play with now descend directly from those early craft. Contact gave them access to a whole new level of toys to play with, including the F-1 Starfighter. Now the Starfighter was America’s first gravtech fighter, a single-engine dagger-shaped little affair that people absolutely loved. But the four-engine Blackhawk soon replaced it, leaving K.E.I. with the option of snapping up Starfighters in public surplus auctions. The Knights Errant loved them so much that K.E.I. signed a long-term contract with the manufacturer. And that’s how the Starfighter got a new lease on life and the Knights Errant got a new signature one-man spacecraft.

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Chloe

by on December 7, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

Chloe had access to numerous robotic bodies. The first examples she ordered from numerous manufacturers and engineers on the forefront of robotics technology. The second phase she built after acquiring ownership of the best of those manufacturers. That gave her the ability to construct bodies for other AIs as they woke up, and to do other special projects. One of her more secret phase three projects was building bodies that could act as decoys for those who wanted to kill her chosen Napoleon. That is the real reason the “All Free Frenchmen” speech worked as well as it did. The Islamic Brotherhood assassins who attacked his press conference had no idea that the real Napoleon was several blocks away and the one in front of the cameras was simply mimicking his moves and words. He didn’t fear them because he wasn’t there, and so he didn’t react with any fear at all. All while Chloe used the body she had on hand to take the assassins out.

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Christian Mack

by on December 6, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Christian Mack became a household name in the century after Contact with starring and supporting roles in many popular and blockbuster films and series. He was the most famous of the Ageless and used that fame to show the rest of humanity that we were not as alien as many feared we would be. We were just as human as they were. It didn’t stop many from protesting him or trying to drive us out of polite society, but he had a ready smile and a calm demeanor. The popularity that garnered allowed him to create his own filming studio outside Hollywood. And that granted him the ability to approach Knights Errant Investigations with his idea for a new series. The rest is history.

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Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 5, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

Knights Errant Investigations started out with dozens of types of ground and air vehicles. Most of them were retrofitted civilian or military surplus vehicles, but K.E.I. commissioned new designs over the years and decades that followed. They contracted the construction of their own spacecraft in time, and then even starships after Contact. The modern official Knights Errant starship is a modified version of the venerable Hammond-class frigate. They didn’t have anything to do with the original construction, but hired the factory to continue building their version after the American Navy began building newer frigates. The Hammonds have become their symbol in the time since, and whenever you see a Hammond, you can bet you’ll see a Knight Errant nearby. Unless he doesn’t want you to see him of course. But if that’s the case, you’ll probably see him soon anyways.

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Chloe

by on December 4, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles, The Book of Civilizations

There are famous scenes and images in every nation’s history. Churchill saying “We Shall Never Surrender” or De Gaulle’s “Long Live Free France.” The ability to record the exact instant when a descendant of Napoleon gave his “All Free Frenchmen” speech has given France the ability to save her very history. To relive the explosions that smashed the walls all around him. To watch a green-haired girl in a tattered pink dress named Chloe kill one Islamic Brotherhood assassin after another as they followed the explosions in. To witness Napoleon pausing to take a sip of wine while Chloe killed the last assassin behind him. To observe her battered, bruised, and bloody frame standing next to his unbowed frame as he returned to his call for all Free Frenchmen to stand for France. To see Chloe straighten her dress and smile as Napoleon ignored the cut on his cheek as if the Brotherhoods no longer mattered at all. It is a moment in time forever saved for all of France to see, experience, and never forget.

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