[ WP ] Daddy , what did you do in the AI War ?

The moon, mute and bright, hung in a star field unmolseted by city lights. Jayden lay stretched out in a patch of wheat grass. His daughter's warm, small form breathing quietly behind him. Crickets and cicadas, immune to the weight of the moment, trilled and chirped in the still August air. 
 
 `` Daddy, what happened during the war?'' 
 
 Jayden hushed his daughter. `` Wait for the transit, Set, just watch'' 
 
 The moment was only a few minutes away. Once every 3 years, Nephthys, Earth's second, much younger moon would interrupt the moonlight. Its ungainly, geometric form leaving the moon looking unnatural in the early moments of the eclipse. Not many people watched the transit - too many bad memories, too many people lost, but Jayden tried to appreciate it without fear or regret. He wanted his daughter to understand what had happened, too. 
 
 
 The wind kicked up, sending the wheatgrass into a staccato concert of white noise. 
 
 `` Look daddy!'' 
 
 A small triangle appeared on the eastern edge of the moon, dark as charcoal, it grew, slowly, as they watched. 
 
 The crickets stopped, the wind as if in sympathy, slowed and stopped along with them. 
 
 It did n't feel right, it never did. Nature was circles and spheres and parabolas. Not this inked, perfect line interrupting the moon's many billion year watch over the planet. 
 
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 The war of 2047 was the most bizarre war that had ever been fought, and maybe the only just one. Every side had a perfect right to its opinion, each respected the other. Each could n't imagine the heartache of going on living the way the other side needed to. 
 
 It was, as they said, intractable. 
 
 The fighting itself had lasted for all of 16 minutes, if it could be called fighting at all. Broadcast to every device with a screen. Calculations were made, loss estimates were tallied, billions of simulated lives lived, loved, lost and died inside that 16 minutes, infrastructure was vaporized, rebuilding estimates pondered. The insanity and brutality of war made sterile, safe for anyone who was n't a sim. Actual fighting would have been unconscionable. 
 
 In the end, the Augments won by a landslide. 
 
 -Continued shortly- 
 
 
 
 

