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I did not know it at the time, but looking back, I know that 2008 was the day that all of this started. I wouldn't say that 2008 stood for one specific thing or another, just that it was the day that everything we knew about the world began to bleed away and become something new. Looking back at the time, it seemed like the beginning of chaos and destruction. 2016 was when things seemed to somehow get a lot worse before they got any better. It felt at that point like the world was coming apart and everything I knew was being swept away. The whole world was fragmenting into a million pieces and I was just watching peace slip through my fingers. I think I cursed myself and the world, because I recall begging the universe for things to... come back together.
What a fool I was. Hindsight reveals so much, and I was so ignorant at the time.
The world is carved up into alliances and spheres of power. Each of them has conflicting ideologies of how the world should work. Heh. We always had Mutually Assured Destruction right? The fears were that some "Rogue Nation" would get a WMD and use it, or that nations would fall apart and lose access to their stockpiles. As the new alliances rose up to replace the old ones, there arose a new "Superweapon" that would make the old ones obsolete more or less.
This new "Superweapon" was not a WMD, it could not be fired at someone or detonated over a city. No amount of rubber and lead would protect you from it. This technology was known as an "ARASI". This was a classified and highly powerful technology, and there still is a lot of rumors... But the general idea is that if someone was able to daisy-chain enough PlayStation 7s together inside a mobile trailer... Some random person could use the ARASI to communicate with, organize, and lead a formation. The ARASI was so advanced and intelligent, that it could amplify someone with intelligence, but little understanding of war... into something on the level of Napoleon or Patton or Alexander.
This technology had already won wars, and just a handful of systems with tens of millions of American dollars worth of processing power had already won three civil-wars. Germany, France, Nigeria...
What a fool I was. Hindsight reveals so much, and I was so ignorant at the time.
The world is carved up into alliances and spheres of power. Each of them has conflicting ideologies of how the world should work. Heh. We always had Mutually Assured Destruction right? The fears were that some "Rogue Nation" would get a WMD and use it, or that nations would fall apart and lose access to their stockpiles. As the new alliances rose up to replace the old ones, there arose a new "Superweapon" that would make the old ones obsolete more or less.
This new "Superweapon" was not a WMD, it could not be fired at someone or detonated over a city. No amount of rubber and lead would protect you from it. This technology was known as an "ARASI". This was a classified and highly powerful technology, and there still is a lot of rumors... But the general idea is that if someone was able to daisy-chain enough PlayStation 7s together inside a mobile trailer... Some random person could use the ARASI to communicate with, organize, and lead a formation. The ARASI was so advanced and intelligent, that it could amplify someone with intelligence, but little understanding of war... into something on the level of Napoleon or Patton or Alexander.
This technology had already won wars, and just a handful of systems with tens of millions of American dollars worth of processing power had already won three civil-wars. Germany, France, Nigeria...
