31 A Year's Worth
A lot can happen in just about a year's time and this is especially true for the people of Veurr with its budding culture and civilization.
The people of Veurr or Asgardians as to what they're calling themselves now and it's few thousand AI's; The Vanirs had officially declared themselves independent from Earth and are now ever so slowly started developing their own government and culture.
Elections have been had and he would have wanted to secede his position after the declaration if not for the people rioting in protest, instead they officially crowned him for some reason as the Allfather; continuing with the Norse theme they've got going on.
As the Allfather in the government, he oversee the entirety of Asgard's people and it's army. Below him were four prime ministers that manage Asgard's four society; the Civil Society, the Militant Society, Research and Development Society and lastly the Overseeing Society.
The Civil Society handles the civilian side of things and are responsible for its development. The CS operates as a democratic society were officials are elected into position in a three to six years per term.
The Militant Society handles the military itself and are responsible for the defense of the people both external and internal. A branch of the Militant Society; the police force is under the command of the Civil Society but in the event of War, they fell under the MS. The MS is a merit and achievement based society.
The Research and Development Society handles everything science related; from civilian tech to military tech, they are to become the back bone of Asgard's development. This are often populated with various scientist and engineers but some exception such as artist are also involve.
Lastly, the Overseeing Society that deals with internal and external auditing as well as the High Judiciary element for all of the society. They serve as the bridge between the societies and are what handles the check and balance. This have been unanimously been voted to only contain voluntered AI shackled to be impartial with its judgement for the fairness of all society.
The Overseeing Society is curently handled by Huginn and Muninn and are his eyes and ears over the society. Of course the AI also answers to the people, In which they can be voted out and subsequently shackled when voted in, a reform that the AI's themselves pass to better serve as Judiciary and Auditing force of Asgard.
This style of chaotic governance is only made possible due to the AI's who manage the every little details of logistics of each society, from the mundane things such as supply and consumptions to the smooth intercooperation of each society. This type of governance shouldn't have work but somehow it does and its flourishing. The humans and AI's had manage to make it functional in just less than a year with the first babies being granted first citizen status in Asgard just a few more months later.
He watch the night sky of Veurr and saw gliterring specs of lights, moving to and from the constructed artificial rings in great speeds and if it weren't for his enhance senses that can speed up his reaction time then it would have look more of a dancing shooting stars.
This was another development worthy of mentioning. The earliest iteration of Amazo; the robot capable of replicating any powers it could observe, made it's debut earlier that year but was short-lived as the League with Batman's analytical prowess made subsequent use of its flaw to defeat and disassemble the poor robot in pieces.
The real battle was with the UN and the League over the jurisdiction of the remains of the robot. The League argued well, denoting that the UN didn't have the necessary capability to secure and reverse engineer said technology but alas it was a losing battle because they are still a signatory with the UN.
Of course such amazing piece of technology couldn't be left to rot in some unknown secured vault or worse be stolen by a villain so his beloved daughter offered SENTRI's expertise in robotics to reverse engingeer said tech and it seems Wayne also had the same thought since a day later he also offered his company, long story short SENTRI and Wayne through a joint partnership will reverse engineer the tech and submit it to the UN, any discovieries made the companies will also have.
Now this is significant because the light travelling in extreme speeds up above are Amazo drones created by SENTRI itself. While this drones are considerably much weaker and only replicate one or two powers at a time, it still was an obscenely useful tech especially for constructions and mining purposes.
Superman and Flash powers combined had propelled his Ring project by alot and are now taking shape.
His further musing were interrupted when he felt a pair of arms, lovingly embrace him from behind. He turned to a beautiful sight that most of the men on Earth would've die to behold to.
Karen in all of her glory.
"Can't sleep?" He ask Karen. The dim light of an alien night sky reflecting on her skin giving off an ethereal glow. Her smooth skin bathing in a moonlight glow that left everyone in awe, she look every bit of the goddess that he thought she was.
"Had a nightmare" She replied with sadness plaguing her beautiful face. "I keep dreaming about their deaths..and how utterly useless I was." She solemnly added.
He lovingly embrace her in turn, relaying as much love as he could muster. "I'm sure your family would think differently" he reassured her. "what with you kicking darksied's ass so thoroughly that his counterpart here could probably felt it." he added jokingly.
karen's lips quirk upwards as she imagine darkseid feeling phantom pains on his behind. She look him in the eye and took his lips softly. "Sleep with me tonight." she whispered.
"Alright" He replied before kissing her in the forehead. The two then quietly made their way back into the bedroom and lay there cuddling till they fell asleep.
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"Batman to Superman please come in." Batman called as he frowned at the constant alert of the watchtower's computer.
Something just trip his advance early warning system and he's wary that this might be another prelude to an invasion. His worries deepened as a red organic ship that's more flesh than an interstellar starship made of metal was spotted by his deep space sattelites in saturn.
"what is it Bruce?" replied Superman over the comms.
"An organic ship just entered our solar system and it's seems to be moving towards Earth, I want you to intercept it for me while I assemble the rest of the team." He said with a little bit of growl threatening to escape his mouth on reflex when hearing his real name being use.
"Will do, just going to dock this ship first in a nearby port." Batman could hear the amusement lace within Superman's voice, irritating him a bit further but he let it go for now in favor of calling the other members.
Once the call was made, the computer notified him of an incoming transmission. He checked it for malware and when he was finish, he accepted the call and came about his wayward adopted son.
"Bruce, we need to talk." He could tell that Robin didn't like the idea of contacting him. 'stubborn...just like him' Batman cannot help but thought.
"The Titan's have found something that I think is way above our paygrade, if possible we want to talk in lengths with the League for a possible action." Robin added.
'He sound desperate...and concerned' He thought. 'Someone close..or a friend..member of the Titans is maybe involve' He mused glad that his protegee has finally found where he belonged. 'Now's not to be distracted, the problem must've been great for him to ask for help.' He thought to himself.
"Alright. We'll meet you up in the watchtower, we're also currently holding a meeting." He said.
Robin nodded looking relieved and said hesitantly "Thanks..Bruce.." before cutting off the connection.
Bruce was left to his own musing before it drifted to his protegee's request. "Seems coincidental..." He muttered before turning back to the screen displaying the ship slowly approaching the Earth. "I've got a bad feeling about this." He couldn't help but mutter.
