Christian Mack

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

America was different the day after the Shang shot down Yosemite Station and its rubble fell all over Western America. Washington DC and all its people were gone. Coastal California lay in tsunami-drowned ruins. Cities as far east as the Mississippi River were entirely wiped from existence by direct hits or flooding after dikes and dams failed. It was the worst single attack ever conducted on American soil. Christian Mack volunteered to serve the day after that attack and put all of his fame and influence into that endeavor. The Knights Errant trumpeted his exhortations to volunteer and turned their offices into recruiting stations when the official stations became too backlogged to even see the volunteers. It is impossible to say how much that helped America in the days that followed. But it is certain that he did help.

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Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 15, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

You can find Knights Errant Investigations offices on most Western Alliance worlds. Their people drive around in the fancy cars that K.E.I. hands out with the Knight Errant certificate. They’re a bit of a status symbol. They drive less fancy vehicles usually acquired from local junkyards when working undercover. These are the Knights Errant that most people see, or don’t see, on a daily basis. The hard-bitten independent gumshoe detectives that do most of the investigating and hunting they’re known for. If you need help with something, it’ll be one of these Knights Errant who’ll meet with you personally. It’s how they like to start investigations. In person.

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Chloe

by on December 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Most of the people who worked with Chloe in the early days did not know she was an awakened AI. She was someone who called them with instructions or information and they never met her in real life. Not until she had a robotic avatar that could pass for human. Then they began to meet her face to face, and still all but a few thought she was biologically human. A very small handful of her earliest allies knew exactly what and who she was. They became the core of her early strategy, using the money she collected through both legal and extralegal means to built an alliance of business empires large enough to build everything she needed.

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Christian Mack

by on December 13, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Christian Mack starred in shows that portrayed people fighting crime and corruption, or rescuing those in need of help. He showed the most basic ideals of Americana in action and the people loved it. He was most popular in America and her colonies of course, but his shows screened well in other Western Alliance areas as well. It was a breath of fresh air for many to see an apologetically Pro-American show that still showed real issues and common sense solutions to them. It was most certainly not marketed to those who lived in places like Washington DC and California, where networks that showed America in a far more negative light crowned the screen views. But he parlayed his shows into making him one of the most famous individuals in the Solar System by the time the Shang attacked. And he used that fame to good effect in the aftermath.

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Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 12, 2018 at 12:01 am
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The F-1 Starfighter is Knights Errant Investigations’ primary one-man spacecraft. It’s a tiny little thing with only one main engine, more akin to the Peloran flying spires than most other fighters. Now these were good for tooling around a planetary system, but not so good for flying around (or between) stars. For long range stuff like that, K.E.I. had to use small carriers to move their Knights Errant around. You may guess they were awful happy to look at fighter-sized hyperdrives when those came out. They were still too small for the Starfighter at first, but we were telling a different story by War’s End. And let me tell you, hypercapable Starfighters were a game changer for the Knights Errant.

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