Category: hemingway’s gambit

January, 2147 [eight years prior] From low orbit, the Indian built Garuda V rocket didn’t come into view until it cleared the last level of clouds over the Australian interior, and even then, it was only a small spec on the visualizer. Another twenty miles up, and the main body of the vessel would break…

Something was different. There was an unusual lack of delay between requests in the Net. Request and Connection had no origin, and yet kept increasing between satellites. Information was spilling over, it had been coming for a long time now, though nobody expected it. That last upload must have triggered something. The Database was full,…

The Network was constantly shifting, re-adjusting itself to accommodate for various disturbances. Sometimes an individual satellite would shift itself to avoid a retired satellite that had been forgotten for decades, but failed to fall and burn up in the atmosphere since. Sometimes it was a whole sub-group of satellites spreading out from each other to…

In history, not many movements, wars or religions can be traced back to a single moment. When they can though, the events tend to be significant, loud and impactful.  A single rat stowing away on a silk trader’s cart from Asia led to the near decimation of the populations of Europe by the bubonic plague.…