Which new technology will go horribly wrong? Join me in reviewing some inspiration for cyberpunk gaming culled from my many trips into the worldnet. Enjoy the news:
Hurricane Electric Internet Services has a lovely visualization of the global internet backbone. Very visually pleasing and interesting.
The Australian Defense Force used a DroneGun (really an anti-drone gun) to disable drones around the ASEAN summit. Here is more information on DroneShield the company that makes the DroneGun.
Just in time? As the US Army is starting to assign microscout drones to its units. It will be interesting to see how tactics evolve using tools like this. More information on the Black Hornet drone direct from it manufacturer.
We can now watch the evolution of language in real time. Be on fleek for the future.
A company is retrofitting cargo containers into mobile hydroponic farms. What would you do if you stole one of these instead of your intended target? More information on the company, Local Roots, behind them.
What visions of the coming dark future have you seen recently?
Notes: Image from Hurricane Electric Internet Services but do go look at the full sized one.
Shadowrun continues to be played, not least monthly with introductory games at 
June is named from the Roman month Iunius, or Junius, is named in honor of the ancient Roman goddess Juno who is the wife of Jupiter and oversees marriage among other portfolio. The first half of Iunius is a period of religious purification and was considered the most favorable time to marry by the Romans. It will also be the anniversary of this journal, so I may try and do something special for that.
Two things happen around school: One, more bugs are showing up around the school, leading the school janitorial staff and food services to distraction. Two, students start to go missing. Pink, DD and DoubleUp working with (for once) Officer Bloodhound start searching to local area for the missing students. Some misadventures, dead ends and comedy with local street gangs and sinister garbage collectors. Finally find everyone in a warehouse with many, many beetles that are generating a pleasing hum that put people to sleep and gives them pleasant dreams, dreams so nice that they want to stay in them forever. DD uses her music skills to break the spell long enough for Pink and Glimmer to build a dampening field to neutralize the hum. They get everyone out, while Pink and the others discus what to do about the bugs, Officer Bloodhound has called in an airstrike and the warehouse is destroyed along will all(?) of the bugs.
There is a great deal of chaos and randomness is the Sea of Stars with unusual magical effects just waiting for a trigger, lost artifacts seeking a new owner and fragments of divine essence wanting a new home. Sometimes strange and wonderful things happen, sometime terrible and explainable things happen, but the further away from the center of the Sea of Stars one gets, the more untamed magic there is waiting to happen.
