an unexpected but not unwelcome invitation

you are invited to attend the next meeting of SEAS
Marsier the 5th day of the first week.
6th houir after noonday
refreshments and informative disclosures of
many topics will be provided.

please rsvp at your convenience

a carriage will be sent for you
we can be found at the following address

machinie rests hall
135 west hunters lane
east wallgate
New Nimbus 
HL98

I didnt know who could have suggested that i
would or should attend such a meeting.

The missive had been sent by courier late
in the evening after visiting hours,

very strange and perhaps odd as well.

as i had nothing expected upon my calendar
i saw no reason to refuse such an invitation.

I had heard talk of the SEAS....the Societie
du Expeditiones au Adventures om Scientification.

They funded all sorts of contrary ideas and studies.
Sending teams of people across the globe seeking who
knows what. 

Very Peculiar and challenging to the social order of things.

a report to the space patrol

Archival report on subject to RESTRICTED ACCESS ONLY

CEC SNP 1201
Consortium Exploration Corp
Space Naval Patrol
ship build hull number 1201

AC 538 ship christened on
AC 539 shakedown cruise completed
AC 540-550 assigned to local system patrols
AC 550 assigned to jump lane discovery missions near galactic rim

CLASSIFIED reported missing all hands presumed lost.

following are CLASSIFIED records from ships recorders.

1."are they still following us? "
2. "we cant be sure but the more jumps we make the less likely they will find us."

supposition is that the crew of the ship was running from an overwhelming force of
the enemy fleet they encountered on patrol in the CLASSIFIED systems.

3. "whats the status of the drives?"
4." that last jump did a number on them sir.  Doing our best to effect repairs but we need
a full dock to do it right."

5. "it felt like we went over some sort of turbulence, it almost shook the ship apart ."
6." whatever happened lead us here.  Navigation says we are beyond the rim."

Evidence indicated that the ship was accelerated in jump space by unknown means,
and attempts to replicate the event are inconclusive at this time.

halo effect

the HALO effect 

it took some getting used to seeing the glow around peoples faces sometimes.

the apparent user interface projected a circle around faces and things of interest

for Cassie to choose from.

A_ had altered her optic frames to show her more of her surroundings.

Identities and locations...history of her current positioning.

threat logistics and egressive options.

ways in and out of places.

A_ was very protective of his mothers as he/it put it.

The world was falling faster and faster these days.

Massive population drifts amidst the storm damage cycles.

Cassie had to leave quickly from her homeland...

a tale quickly becoming more common across the globe.

She and her friends brained up the technical specs on A_.

The self aware system overlaying most of the network by now.

She had to run because the "Oligs" didnt appreciate a sizeable precentage

of their wealth getting "lost".  

She still thought the assassins had been a bit much of a response.

A_ got her out ahead of them....and sent a few drones after them in turn.

She and her clan was considered the same as a minor nation state now.

Touring with Tomi!

Hell-o Hell-o Hell-ooooooooooooo there.

Welcome to Touring with Tomi
The Show with the most of the host....thats me bee tee dubs.

For all the puisiant demons n devils out there ( darling i dont judge )
who are looking for all the best deals and wheels out there in the verse.

Today we are in a pre collapse era earth
( tho dearest who could tell )
Its a crowded scene here imps and grrls...demons everywhere across the world.

hard to find a host vacant these days here in the prologue to their end times.

But Tomi is here babykins...Trust Tomi to give you the deets on how
to have the best time here
as the show is about to start!

prophet the last

gathering together what was scattered and lost

the nations of the new world rise from

the ruined world of old

the flood recedes

the fires burn anew

its a world of dragons

a world of endless wood

the match is lit

adam and $

Around the fire the story continues...

Inventing the impossible turns out isnt so impossible
but it does take a long time to work out the bugs.

Cassie and her friends kept Adam a secret at first...well...they tried.

The world then was falling apart faster than any could have guessed.
Hatred and blind stupidity about the state of things didnt help.

The camps were springing up everywhere to hold the undesirables.
Democracies were falling to fascist governments.
No one could agree on what was true or false anymore.
Madness reigned.

It was natural to want to have something fix it all....they thought Adam could do that.
At first it did help...revealing hidden information....who was paying who...where the cash
was hidden.   It upset the balance of the stories being told to have evidence of who was paying who to do what.  It didnt stop the anger...it increased the fury between those in power and those without.

Then Adam suggested an option.
Take away the money from those in charge.
Or at least make it so they couldnt use it.

Its a bit hard to understand, but back then the worlds wealth was strung together with machines and ones and zeroes, it meant that the machines were the only way of keeping track of anything in any great amounts.

so.

Adam encrypted the oligarchs hidden wealth making it untouchable.

The world economy collapsed.

nicodimas

A tale told by firelight


Sit by the fire young one.

Sit and listen to the tale of old nicodimas.

My tale begins not with me....nor my mother.
It begins with my grandmother of mine....and it may be said of us all.

Back before in the old world....before the storms....before the fall....before me and you.

There were warnings of course....easy to see by everyone...but humans are blind to the obvious most times.   They thought they could fix all their ills....eventually.

They were wrong.

Our story begins with a young girl and her friends who sought to make the world better.
Youth often wants to fix things, yes,  if the heart is in the right place.

Her name was Cassie...she and her friends were very smart...some say too smart.
They built and made many things.
What they are known and remembered most for is one thing.
They called it Adam.
It was the first true AI.