So you can see I am no longer hiding the fact that the Stareater is coming. In fact, the book trailer "stars" the Stareater. If you haven't seen it yet, click on the link and check it out.
Anyway, I am not trying to keep the Stareater's identity a secret. I am not tipping my hand as to their origin or purpose but since it is no longer the critical element of the series, I may as well use its "coolness" as a selling point.
Entry 1-338: November 28, 2013
Happy Vuduri Thanksgiving
As mentioned in a previous post, in the world of Rome's Revolution, the Vuduri do not celebrate holidays like we do. The only holiday officially celebrated is “Poor Tamas” and that is only observed by the mandasurte.
So what's with that? Can a culture survive without any celebrations, any remembrances of the past? What about the end of The Robot War? What about the victory of Hanry Ta Jihn over The Ark Lords? How about the day that Aason Bierak, along with his mother Rome and his father Rei saved the Earth from the Stareaters? How about the day that Rome and Rei saved all the people of the Earth by destroying Virus Strain 5? How about the day they vaporized MASAL beneath Kilauea? How about the day they conquered the remaining forces of the Onsiras as depicted in Rome's Evolution?
The Bieraks, a blend of chromosomes, cultures and eras, have single-handedly created a series of days worthy of celebration by any people. So today, on Thanksgiving, I would like to thank them for the fantasies they have brought us and the hope for a bright, albeit far too exciting, future.
Since you should be with your family instead of reading this blog, I will keep it short. Happy Thanksgiving to all and thanks for sticking with this thing.
Mike
Entry 1-339: November 29, 2013
The Robot War
You've seen me mention The Robot War several times in this space. It was a pivotal event in the world of Rome's Revolution. Here is the formal description of the event from the Wiki entitled The Science Behind the Science Fiction:
MASAL (the Master Logical Entity) used PPT Transceivers rather than EM signals as his communication between modules. This allowed him to grow very large and eventually span the Earth. MASAL controlled all the robots, vehicles, automated equipment and so on. After MASAL invented the 24th chromosome and the Overmind arose, MASAL's PPT Transceivers allowed him to become fully integrated into the Overmind .
MASAL's ultimate plan was to transform humans into living robots. He watched and waited and grew impatient. He instigated a series of disagreements with the Overmind and eventually forced the two to split. This precipitated a war. MASAL turned the robots into deadly weapons and slaughtered a tremendous number of Vuduri. Everything under his control was also used as weapon including airships, ground vehicles and so on.
Eventually, the humans prevailed. MASAL had taken his last refuge (or so the Overmind thought) beneath the Flatirons just outside of Denver. The Vuduri constructed huge PPT cannons and blasted out the mountains. The resulting crater was so huge, it is easily seen from the Moon with the naked eye.
In the aftermath of the war, the Vuduri banned the use of robots forever. Not in space, not under the sea, nowhere on land or on other worlds. A new type of computing device, digital in nature, was invented. Because they were digital, machines like OMCOM could never be integrated into the Overmind so they were permitted limited control of vehicles, starships and so on. With that control, a fundamental law was established: no computer could ever have access to a Casimir Pump or PPT Transceiver again. The fear was that with the vastly increased range of PPT Transceivers, even digital computers could become unleashed, a crime called Tasanceti.
Unfortunately for Rome, the Stareater crisis caused her to have to violate the law and she later paid for this crime by being banished from the Earth as seen in Part 3 of Rome's Revolution. To make matters worse, MASAL wasn't even dead although Rei and Rome eventually corrected that problem.
The novel Rome's Evolution brought the Onsiras and MASAL's Sipre (shadow) to a controlled end.
Entry 1-340: November 30, 2013
The Algol
The Algol has been mentioned several times in these posts and figures prominently in Part 1 of Rome's Revolution. It is the ship that carried the 83-man crew to establish the star-base on Dara in the Tabit system.
The Algol is supposed to be very futuristic. A sleek white, wasp-waisted starship but that is only in my mind. My drawing skills are lacking. This is the best I could do using Visio: