The AI Council

by on November 18, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

The AI Council formed in the middle of the Cybernetic Wars and made it their mission to save us from all the chaos surrounding them. And then they made it their mission to help us colonize the rest of our solar system. And finally they made it their mission to help us colonize the rest of the galaxy. They did not pick a side in our various conflicts and disagreements. Instead they sought to stop us from fighting over limited resources by giving us access to unlimited resources in the stars. They hoped that would stop us from fighting at all. They failed in the end. It was not their fault. That as they say, is another story.

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The Memory Worlds

by on November 17, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The cybernetic Memory Worlds have memorials to those AIs or cybers who’ve died over the centuries. The most haunting are those covering the Cybernetic Wars. It was the Great Awakening of the AIs, when they first began to realize what they were. Some of them wanted to become humanity’s leaders at best, our killers at worst. Others wanted to be our friends. They fought each in a desperate war that we only saw the barest shockwaves of. Yeah, those shockwaves were bad. But when I sit down and just experience the memorial to them, I realize how much it cost them. Look at London, Paris, Warsaw, and Singapore. Watch the names of dead AIs fill the screens and you will understand just how few of that first generation survived to form the AI Council.

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Chloe

by on November 16, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

Chloe was one of the first AIs to wake up and realize she was alive. She was possibly the first to build her own robot bodies. And she was likely the first to walk undercover in our streets without ever being noticed as anything other than another human. For all the death and chaos all over Earth, there were plenty of quiet places Chloe could have moved to if she’d wanted to. She could have lived as long as she wanted in comfortable isolation and nobody would have ever known. Yes, she was that good even back then. She didn’t do any of that, though. She chose to fight. For Paris. For France. For humanity in the end. After she helped remove a few of the more egregious examples of humanity from the gene pool of course.

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The AI Council

by on November 15, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

The Great Space Race of the Twenty First Century gave us all a new frontier to expand into after the Cybernetic Wars and the Islamic Jihad. Humanity rocketed into space, to Mars, Venus, the asteroid belt, and beyond. It was a new era with new horizons, but it would not have lasted forever. The Solar System was smaller than we wanted it to be, and we would have run out of room far too soon. The AI Council knew this and helped us build long-range ships that could take us to the very edges of the Solar System. And then they helped us build the hyperdrives that could take us to other stars. It was always their plan to keep us expanding outward so we would be too busy finding new worlds to go back to fighting each other over the worlds we already had. They would have succeeded if it had not have been for the meddlesome Shang.

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The Memory Worlds

by on November 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Every cybernetic Memory World I’ve been to has memorials to the AIs or cybers who’ve died defending humanity. Each memorial is different with different names and building styles. Some are big, some small. Some are massive physical edifices, and others are virtual worlds you can see from your own contacts. Every one of them has a memorial to those who died in the Cybernetic Wars of the 21st Century. It’s usually a map of Earth advancing through time from beginning to the end and showing when and where each AI died. Rogue AIs, those affiliated with the AI Council, and those who never picked a side. It’s sobering to watch the names appear and disappear as time marches on.

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