by Corbeau | Apr 18, 2019 | |
Somewhat unsubstantiated theory follows, based on Sound and Silence, p. 32. Marsco’s original artificial intelligence, the Central Trinity system, was a double-edged gift from humanity to help guide (or regulate, or slow, or limit) the growth of technology in...
by Corbeau | Apr 18, 2019 | |
Some time before AE 70, Pulse began a social unification project that was wrecked by ASR’s creation of the Cogs. We don’t know what this project was, but there’s hints. First, Pulse’s slogan: Become limitless. Second, we know that in its...
by Corbeau | Mar 16, 2019 | |
TTI expands their catalog as they learn more about the “native” life on Europa, developing bioships, living armor, and strangely interactive implants. The creation of customized life becomes the meat and potato service offered by the company as the flow of...
by Corbeau | Mar 16, 2019 | |
Life on Europa is…different. Violence erupts on the ice moon, and TTI’s bioship fleet shows a strange telepathic communication. Spyglass investigates after Europa’s second mass suicide. TTI, always a very private organization, begins to withdraw from...
by Corbeau | Mar 16, 2019 | |
The IRPF establishes a permanent quarantine zone around Terra, which completely discourages any sort of freelance exploration of the area. Totally.
by Corbeau | Mar 16, 2019 | |
The seeds of Terra’s destruction are found on Europa, centuries before TTI unlocks the ice-moon’s secrets. Radio telescopes trained on Europa discern the shape of the monolith, and use its strange geometry to code a very dangerous artificial intelligence....
by Corbeau | Jul 11, 2018 | |
The Transcendent Age was a period that was, in a sense, controllable. The strange powers that Transcendent Technology gave its users were still the tools of Vectors, even if they weren’t perfectly understood tools. As the new century dawned, Sol seemed to be...
by Corbeau | Jul 9, 2018 | |
When TTI released the Transcendent Implant, that single technology shook the corporate space, but not since the GeoMat had a single technological innovation changed society so thoroughly… and perhaps never so quickly. Transcendent Technology revised Vector...
by Corbeau | Jul 9, 2018 | |
Up until perhaps 350 AE, Vectors hadn’t really expanded beyond the orbit of Mars. There was lonely Luna Colony, but it was still an airless moon. A few robots were decaying on Mercury as a part of the Dawn March project sometime in the 200s. Venus was just a...
by Corbeau | Jul 8, 2018 | |
Early Sol’s corporate terrain was built exclusively by MarsCo. There’s no way around this. All Terran corporations that managed to survive in some form on the red planet did so as subsidiaries of MarsCo. The earliest of the Post-Terran megacorps–ASR,...
by Corbeau | Jul 8, 2018 | |
History is written by the winners, and we are dealing with the history of the vectors, the undisputed victors of the greatest, and last, culture war in humanity’s long history of same. When the curtain parts on Mars, the spotlight of history remains on the red...
by Corbeau | Jul 4, 2018 | |
The distant past is largely lost to Vectors. The elements of the world’s history that were recorded describe the growth of a decentralized, global community on Terra linked by mobile communication and an independent spirit that would not be bound by government...
by Corbeau | Jun 30, 2018 | |
In the years following the destruction of their homeworld, humanity has what, conservatively, one could call a cultural good cry. There is no way to get a full figure of how much of Terra’s information wealth is lost, either to the nuclear destruction of the...
by Corbeau | Jun 29, 2018 | |
A flaw in the Rat species’ coding and anti-mutt protocol threatens to muddle all the various breeds of rat into a homogeneous single species. The rats embrace this. With Genotype’s assistance, over several decades they selectively refine their breed into...
by Corbeau | Jun 29, 2018 | |
Tasked with protecting MarsCo’s preeminent status as the transportation solution for Sol, Pulse develops the controversial Digital Transmission process. “Digitrans” involves a combination of neural recording, high speed data transmission, molecular...
by Corbeau | Jun 29, 2018 | |
A corporation on the edge of breaking into the ranks of the Megacorps puts a huge sum of money toward commissioning their own Bluesky station near Jupiter orbit. Decades later when they attempt to destroy their own station, they learn a valuable, final, lesson: MarsCo...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
HSD present day (as of book one.) Since 700 the timeline has evolved with the introduction of Lumen and the multi-corp strike on Terra, which are likely to be a part of the metaplot of HSD2.0.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
[slider]Cel phone browsing exceeds desktop internet browsing: welcome to the mobile age. The backstory of HSD before it enters the science-fictional is primarily the growth of internet culture, this is an arbitrary landmark in that growth. Date: 2014, from Wikipedia....
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Terran internet encyclopedia “Reddit” frames cuil theory. This may or may not be the item mentioned in HSD 1.0 to a Terran database referencing Cuil Theory. In Sound and Silence the lore goes into more detail about Transcendent research on Terra, which is...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Beginnings of the World Wide Web, soon the basis of the chaotic online community that moves away from government rule. The pre-science-fictional timeline of HSD is mostly the growth of the internet culture. This is an arbitrary milestone in that history. Date: 1989,...
