Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 15, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s final act of season four started with a black screen and the sound of flames and gunfire. An old rock ballad by Queen began to play. The visuals faded out of the black onto the center of Capitol Ave with the ruins of the convention center on one side and firebombed skeletal structures on the other. Twilight, Dixie, Solo, Jane, and a half dozen other AIs they had worked with over the last decade walked down the street, guns flashing in time to the music. Small armored vehicles rolled behind them and the cameras panned in to show the merely human crewmembers diving into dozens of computer systems and waging their own battles. The camera panned out again to show the gangs of downtown Indianapolis fighting their last, losing battle. Only then did the cameras shift once more to show a third group watching from inside the convention center. They did not appear pleased.

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Nara Main Battle Mech

by on December 14, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The Nara main battle mech was the most powerful and capable American mech in the early years of The War. Her twin main laser cannons were capable of decisively wounding most heavy combat units while her lighter lasers and autocannons focused on infantry or scout units. Her armor was durable enough to deflect all but the most powerful heavy weapons, making her a very rugged design. They were most often sent in support of lighter Taros and Katos and tasked with vanquishing any enemy that sought to hunt them down. And when those foes proved too strong, the Naras would often engage them while the scouts retreat before using their superior speed to disengage. The Nara is still used to this day, though it has been retired from front line service. It is a favorite of planetary militias and corporate security forces.

Nara on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on December 13, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Peloran gave us fabricators more powerful than anything we could build when The War came upon us all. They could break down every single strut or system, inject strengthening elements into the mix, and extrude it anew. They could refit anything with modern technologies in less time than we could build it new. And after the Yosemite and New Washington strikes we had far too few factories and yards to rebuild our military in any conventional sense. So we picked through every boneyard, reserve, federal guard, militia, and even private collection we were able to track down. Any weapon of war built in the last four hundred years fed our fabricators and came out to fight against the Shang and the Chinese. It was an amazing sight to behold.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 12, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I played a game inside Hal’s home the first time I visited. She enjoys playing with the kids you know. It was the best game I’d ever played. I really was there. I know full dives have gotten better since I was a kid, but I’ll never forget what my first time was like. I spent hours just walking around Wonderland and thinking that everything was so odd. The programs that lived there were so much smarter than the AIs I’d grown up with. Then I came back out to find that only a few seconds had gone by in the physical world. That was the first time I truly understood how fast the cybernetic world goes by. How slow we are compared to them. It actually scared me.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 11, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s Indianapolis had far more gunfights between competing gangs than the real life one, but that is the nature of entertainment programs. They did not exaggerate the effectiveness of Twilight’s crew though. They’d been schooled fighting the Mexican drug cartels, and Indy’s gangs were rank amateurs next to those foes. So Twilight smashed every gang that got in their way with a ruthlessness learned in Mexico. The season finale took place in downtown Indy where over a hundred thousand gamers had once congregated. The final battle between the horde of gang members and Twilight’s crew never happened in real life. But it made for amazing entertainment on the screens of America and beyond.

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