If you ever go to Gamma Hydrae, take the booster shots. Seriously. Even I do. They keep the star’s radiation from killing you. They aren’t perfect though and you’re gonna want to take some serious gene treatments when you leave. Those aren’t a formality. You do not want a tumor growing in your favorite places. Even I get a full medical scan when I leave. I did not live through everything the Shang threw at me so I could be killed by a fraking star.
Watson and Sherlock were truly civilian AIs, not designed for combat in any way. They incorporated some combat algorithms but never really had the true drive to engage in cybernetic warfare. But they were very good consultants and they helped hundreds of major corporations secure themselves against the cybernetic threats of the Second Great Depression, the Islamic Jihad, and the rise of the Russian and Chinese hegemonies. They still offer these services to this day.
Genetic Puritans in America reduced the influence of minority races in the early 1900s but it was in Europe that their true goals would be realized. Divided between dozens of polities and multiple alliances with centuries and sometimes millennia of war, Europe was far easier to pit against itself. Religious and ethnic minorities that didn’t belong to millennia-old towns were the easiest to marginalize. People didn’t care if they went away. Nobody missed them.
Gamma Hydrae killed most of the first colonists. Radiation poisoning destroyed their cellular linings and caused them to deteriorate until they died. In a time when old age was becoming a thing that people used to die of, the people in that system died of it in a matter of months. It was an ugly and very permanent way to die. One of the colonists turned out to be Ageless though, and her body fought the radiation. That gave the medical types something to work with.
Watson and Sherlock spent most of their time working on various cases of cyber crimes until the formation of the Western Alliance. Russian and Chinese hackers were their primary nemeses, but smaller nations and non-national hackers loved to try their skills against British or American computer systems. The two AIs became experts in counter-hacking and learned every theory and technique they could find or create. They were an impressive team.
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