Virginia

by on June 4, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Virginia Adams was one of the first Ageless to come out of the original Peloran Treatments. She was a teenager at the time, and still wore the body of a teenager a century later when the Shang came for us. She was older in mind, of course, but many people did not see that on first meeting. Let me assure you that “Ginny” was impressive at using that to her advantage by going places where teenagers could pass without notice while adults would be stopped on sight. She was serving in the Marine Corps Reserve on New Earth when my Cowboys arrived the first time. We had taken heavy casualties against the Shang and their Chinese allies, and we needed new blood to expand our numbers. She volunteered and I have never regretted my decision to accept her.

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Abbi

by on June 3, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Abigail’s status as one of the few fully functioning AIs before Contact was instrumental in gaining access to Peloran cooperation and technologies. The Peloran cybernetic families recognized that the Adams Family treated her as a family member rather than an employee or a possession. That was real important. Virginia Adams and her Abbi ended up joining the Marine Corps Reserve together, and spent the next century enticing other recruits. Their off-duty escapades and parties were particularly legendary, and I’m not joking. They made the news. Interstellar news. I might have attended some in my time. I never met a good party I didn’t like, you know. I met them again on New Earth after The War began. The Cowboys needed new pilots, and they were ready to step up. I’ve never regretted having them on the team. They’re good people.

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A Primer on the Races of Humanity – Arnam

by on June 2, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Another disadvantage the Arnam have is that they do not see as well as we do in surface daylight. Their eyes are optimized towards seeing in pitch dark, and while their multiple eyelids keep bright lights from blinding them, they lose numerous finer details in the bargain. They see the world through a haze of filters that shift the natural light spectrum, and of course they can see infrared light. They have natural heat vision, which doesn’t work so well on a hot, bright day, in the middle of a desert. But is of much more use on a cool, rainy day, in…oh…Northern Minnesota. Many Arnam happen to live there due to the pleasant, wet, and cool climate. Washington State, Maine, the British Isles, and Scandinavia house other major Arnam populations for similar reasons.

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Virginia

by on June 1, 2017 at 12:01 am
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The Adams Family is one of the oldest great families of America, having left Britain in the 1600s. They were leading figures in the revolution against British rule, provided two presidents and numerous other public servants to the first republic, and two more presidents to the second republic. They supported and participated in the first expansion of humanity to Luna, Venus, Mars, and beyond, and helped found our first colonies on New Earth and New Washington. Virginia Adams was born into that tradition of public service, and became one of the leading proponents for cooperation with the Peloran after Contact. That is how she found herself taking the Peloran Treatments on public broadcast to prove she trusted them. Little did she know what that would mean until she began noticing the side effects that would become known as the Ageless.

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Abbi

by on May 31, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Abigail Adams was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, second president of the United States. When the Adams Family began working on artificial intelligence, they named the result after her. Generations of Adams children grew up with Abigail, or Abbi as many called her, as one of their earliest friends, confidants, and confessors. She even registered as a pastor with the Congregationalist Church so she could claim the counselor’s right to refuse to divulge anything her children told her. She also picks a different, unique avatar for each child that grows up with them over time. This particular version of Abbi grew up with Virginia Adams, and stayed with her when she fulfilled her family tradition of public service in the Marine Corps Reserve.

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