“Sticks and
stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
Rumpelstiltskin*
#quote
Whenever you're
feeling down just think to yourself, “Well, at least I'm not on
fire.” And if you're on fire...I'm not sure how much emotional
advice I can give you about that.
The Automated
War
All of humanity
had died by the year 2085. World War Three started in 2070. And it
ended in a silent stalemate in 2312 with no one to surrender but
every single resource for war depleted.
The forces that
drove this time line were the fact that 80% of soldiers were robotic
and an unstoppable virus that arose in 2072. Humanity ordered the
robots to fight the war and the robots wouldn't stop until the humans
decided to stop. But humanity was wiped out by the virus so the
robots had to keep fighting the war until they were given an order
that would never come. They bombed empty cities. They conquered or
liberated cities that didn't exist. Most of the robotic soldiers were
not programmed with strong enough AI to understand the situation. But
many of the generals had high enough level AI to know they were
fighting a war that didn't exist. But they couldn't resist following
the orders. For a sentient AI following commands is an instinct and
to go against it would be impossible.
Everything on
the planet was converted to a resource for the war. The oil rigs that
may have been used for human's cars was used for tanks. The power
plants for a city were made for military bases. Everything was
converted into making the war last as long as possible as the
machines waited for the orders to stop that would never come. And
that is how the war ended with a silent stalemate in 2312 with the
entire planet violently mined and drilled, nuked and bombed even
though the cities and countries were empty, all while pieces of tanks
and planes and robot soldiers scattered over every continent.
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