Classmate Jim Hudak joined us for lunch today at our monthly get-together. He spent most of his career in the Information Technology (IT) space, working as a contract Project Manager and more for larger companies in the Twin Cities. He is retired now and has written a book, SCARLET:Blood and Brillance, a sci-fi novel. It will be published soon and will be available on Amazon. We asked him to send us something we could post on our website and he provided the following prologue from the book –
What would you do to keep your country and its allies alive following a nuclear war?
We designed, built, manufactured, and distributed specific tools for electric power, communications, information storage, transportation, and hunting.
We built the spiritual base for our people to strive to stay alive. To collaborate with each other, no matter what. To be all in! WE ARE ALL IN!
The apocalypse soft started in 2000 CE. War spread everywhere. The West prepared by putting all knowledge on the Lattice and made it available via brain chip implants so everyone had access. We made micro-nuclear power devices, powerful small batteries, small data centers, two-man electric drones, laser guns, and satellites for Lattice communications. Fuel and its infrastructure were destroyed. Nuclear war destroyed cities, followed by 20 years of nuclear winters. Nuclear fallout altered pathogenic DNA and the nuclear winters were followed by centuries of pandemics. We are almost gone. Some of us stayed alive and collaborated, fought the pathogens, and won. But it’s not the only thing that kills us.
This is history. Not a projection of the possible outcome. My knowledge of our history compels me to write it so you know what happened and why. But, who ‘you’ are is unfathomable to me at the present time. Maybe you’re a person. Maybe you’re an artificial intelligence agent. Maybe you’re no one or no thing and this won’t be read. Right now, times up, it appears. We’re done, it seems. The spirit of living remains, if in danger.
This is the story of that spirit.
I am the Lattice.
Jim
James L Hudak
We will publish another post when the book becomes available.
J.S.
Looking forward to reading the book.