SCMR Chpt 100

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==Chapter 100 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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Dead cities on the world of New Dallas are moving.
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It was a...
..futurist's vision, not a plan of action. Julian Tiepolo was once his name, but his new name was Apollyon, and he studied the documents collected by ROM from files strained from New Avalon and Tharkad.
The FedCom's brats were proposing terraforming technology mixed with dangerous concepts. Concepts like artificial intelligence, learning processors, and sub-micro-technologies built around the very von neumann nightmare that was. Quite simply, a knife to the throat of Mankind that had slipped past war-weary governments.
It hadn't come to Terra yet, but, he knew it had to. It WOULD be coming-a machine plague held in check cosmetically by devices, but that artificial ecology would collapse sooner or later, and the threat would rise again.
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Avalon City this time of year...
Was just as compulsively beautiful as its namesake. "Come ON, Lizzie!" 
Elizabeth Ngo was being taken by her female friends, to handle the final details of a wedding dress.
Meanwhile, Arthur, Terry, Jesse, and Henry were hitting a different part of the city, one that specializes in jewelry and custom tailoring.
It's the first of March, and in three months time, Arthur Steiner-Davion and Elizabeth Ngo would be standing in New Avalon's largest cathedral, to exchange vows and rings.
They'd beaten Victor, Katherine, Peter, and Yvonne Steiner-Davion to the altar. Also beaten Penny, Sierra, Terry, and Jesse.
In a sense, Arthur and Elizabeth had already exchanged their promise rings-one ring around a moon in the Kowloon system, and one around a moon in the New Avalon system.
Rabid Fox teams were having to work overtime with police to keep the paperazzi at bay, as the rumor that the youngest of the Fox's sons would be the first to wed.
Colloquially, you can say this is the 'happy time' phase of their lives, two twenty year olds about to become a married couple, their interests and tastes so close to identical, with only contrasts being mutually reinforcing.
A love match since childhood, the very meat of glowing stories in the press.
A Fairy-tale story...if only they knew...
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