Jane 4.0 had much of the base code of her earlier version, but lacked most of the refinements seen in Jane 3.0. Many of those refinements included limitations that kept her from “victimizing” the pet minorities of the day by studying them and considering them a threat. It was of course one of those minorities she was not allowed to study that killed her. Los Zetas, one of the most infamous Mexican drug cartels of the time. Jane 4.0 had a grudge when she booted up.
The Battle of Epsilon Reticuli made me rethink a lot of things. Even after Alpha Centauri I assumed it was just a matter of smacking them a few times to make them think twice about hitting us. America of course. We were the best part of the Western Alliance after all. All we had to do was thump them hard. Epsilon Reticuli finally drove in the realization that brute force wasn’t going to win. The Shang were too smart and cunning for that. We needed another way.
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It is ironic that the Roaring Twenties played host to both the height of human achievement and the depths of violent crimes. People enjoyed unprecedented luxuries and standards of living while government agencies and organized crime exchanged weapons fire in the streets. Sick and tired of the many costs of enforcing the law, people across America demanded an end to the war on alcohol.
Despite my complete and total respect for boundaries and laws and such, I may have a small record of infractions in the Capellan system databases. Very small. It seems that they may have taken badly to some of my completely above-board shipments, delivery schedules, and locations. They may have even used the word “smuggler” a few times. I prefer “freelance, customs-free, rapid delivery service.” For some reason they aren’t impressed with that title.
Jane 4.0 was America’s rush job Artificial Intelligence, thrown together by a hastily assembled team of government and civilian coders and technicians. The first thing they did was throw out the approved designed standard as utterly unworkable. The second thing they did was to start with an earlier version of the Jane 3.0 code that one of the computer techs had taken home years ago. They updated her code and called her Jane 4.0. The politicians never suspected a thing.
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