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DESCRIPTION: This is the opening segment of Players: The A.I. War.

THE AI WAR
A TALE OF THE CONTINUING TIME
DANIEL KEYS MORAN
"Players" -- the child, the actor, and the gambler.
The idea of chance is absent from the world of
the child and the primitive. The gambler also
feels in service of an alien power. Chance is a
survival of religion in the modern city . . .
-- Jim Morrison
Players only love you when they're playing
-- Fleetwood Mac, Dreams
THESE ARE THINGS you should know:
On July 3, 2062, the United Nations Peace Keeping Force, under the command of PKF Elite
Mohammed Vance, used tactical thermonuclear weapons to destroy a group of genetically engineered
telepaths living at the Chandler Complex in lower Manhattan.

There are two survivors from that disaster, two children who were raised together and grew to love one
another: Denice Castanaveras, a telepath; and Trent the Uncatchable, the greatest Player of his time.

On January 4, 2070, Trent, fleeing from the PKF, stole the LINK -- the Lunar Information Network
Key -- from under the noses of Elite Commissioner Mohammed Vance, and a young Elite candidate
named Melissa du Bois. It returned the Lunar InfoNet from the PKF DataWatch's control to the control
of those who used it; and it made Trent the Uncatchable a legend --

-- a man who had, before the eyes of his enemies, walked through a wall.

On July 4, 2076, the TriCentennial of the American Revolution, Occupied America rose in rebellion
against the Unification of Earth. In the course of that rebellion, rebels killed three hundred and forty-seven
of the deadly French PKF Elite; killed a hundred and ninety thousand regular PKF troops, of all
nationalities, including Americans --

The PKF, under the command of Mohammed Vance, killed two million Americans. The rebellion failed:
Occupied America remained occupied.
Mohammed Vance became the Elite Commander; after Secretary General Eddore, the second most
powerful individual in the System.