Dear Leoni,

hope you are doing well. Soon we have our 100 year anniversary of our friendship. Maybe we should meet up. Crazy how fast the time has passed. It’s already the 22. century. I can’t believe it! Remember how we joked around that we might have tow more wars and much more pandamics at this time. Well… The pandemic-thing came true, more or less. Remember the corona virus? After that we had five more such viruses. But after the first one we knew how to handle them. What upset our world more was the fight for water. Man were these times full of chaos, pain and suffering. But at least wie made it! And together, all human all oder the world worked together to help each other. I hope you and your family are celebrating the day of unity tomorrow. We will! And I also hope we will see us soon.

With a lot of love Yours Isabel

Dear Caroline,

I wanted to send you this letter so you can see how similar we are, yet how completely different the worlds we are in.

I am looking back through the physical photos we have and of the people chanting in the streets for change. All of screams and cries for a better world. A world where genocide isn’t allowed. I wish I could say we have achieved this dream but we’re far from it.

Captalism.

Although many have tried to achieve a better way or even abolish it completely, the scarcity mindset always won. People always strive for what they don’t have and what a lot of people didn’t have is enough money. Is it money that brings people happiness or is it freedom? Unfortunately it’s hard to find one without the other.

This world is unfamiliar but so familiar. We have developed ways of living in a better way, we have a world where don’t let people starve to death unless it’s by choice. We have a way of saving lives and a way to prevent death but all of that is futile. We have lost our humanity. We have all the technology and the means but we also have greed. And with greed comes fear and with fear comes hatred.

We are running around in circles like hamsters in a broken wheel just desperately trying to make this world better whilst others want nothing but to see its destruction. And I can’t blame them. How can we blindly live in a world with so much money and power and opportunity and resources, yet refuse to give it to all.

The genocide has never ended.

It just took different forms over the years. We achieved liberation whilst sacrificing the freedom of others.

But I will not bore you with the same story.

My hope is for an unfamiliar world; a world where we only see each other as humans. Nothing more, nothing less.

Caleb Wright was a guest character and antagonist on The Rookie. He was the protégé of convicted serial killer Rosiland Dyer. He was portrayed by Michael Cassidy. Wright is first seen in the opening sequence of the dark side when Lucy Chen meets him at bar called Las Torres while she is there with John Nolan, Nick Armstrong and Jackson West. Chen is immediately attracted to him but their interaction is cut short when Chen spots a man stealing money out of the pockets of other customers. Later Wright arrives at the station to give Chen his phone number but Tim Bradford is suspicious of him. Bradford eventually relents and allows Chen to get his number. As Chen and Bradford are on patrol Bradford witnesses Chen viewing a photo of Wright on her phone. Later as Chen and Bradford are heading down the elevator to the medical examiner’s room they both watch a video of Wright on her phone. Nolan and Harper later find a cabin at an abandoned zoo and rescue Nora Valdez Wright’s intended third victim. Wright who is wearing a mask over his face witnessed this and escapes into a storm drain. He attempts to drown Nolan in a vat of water but is interrupted by Harper’s arrival. He then escapes through a door and locks it. In the briefing room the officers believe Bryan Coleman is behind the murders not knowing that Wright had stolen his identity. Bradford tells Chen that she should go out for a drink with another human. Chen then meets Wright at the bar for a drink. At the station Wade Grey reveals that Bryan Coleman was found dead under the cabin and Wright abducts Chen after slipping something into her drink revealing himself to be the actually killer. Picking up in Day of Death Chen wakes up to find Wright tattooing her day of death onto her abdomen. West then tells the other officers about Chen’s disappearance after failing to find her at the apartment that they have together. Bradford,West and Armstrong discover that the video Bradford had viewed earlier had been deleted along with the rest of Wright’s social media pages. Chen wakes up to find herself tied to a chair in a house. Wright enters the room and tells Chen that his intended victim was Armstrong but he had abducted her instead seeing a crime of opportunity. Wright then gets angry at Chen when she correctly profiles him and tells her that he was going to enjoy killing her. After a short time Chen is able to break free of her restraints and she attempts to escape only to realize that the house and the property that surrounds it is completely abandoned much to her dismay. Wright is able to catch up to her and the two struggle briefly until Wright incapacitates Chen and drags her back towards the house. Several hours later Wright begins to lead Chen towards her gravesite with her wrists bound with zip ties. He also pokes her several times with a knife and mocks her. They reach the gravesite snd Wright tells Chen that given the setbacks he was going to have to bury her alive which he did not do with his first two victims. When Chen protests Wright threatens her with a gun forcing her to get in the barrel. She was smart by taking off her ring and tossing it to the ground next to her gravesite. He then further humiliates her by taking a picture of her and showing her the camera on the bottom of the barrel’s lid. He then locks the barrel’s lid into the place and then kicks the barrel into the pre-dug hole. He hurries Chen alive and leaves. He is next seen stalking Armstrong at the graveyard where Armstrong’s wife is buried. Armstrong was about to answer a call from Nolan until Wright confronts him. Seeing him Armstrong reached for his gum until Wright shows him the video feed of Chen. Wright then taunts Armstrong about the death of his wife and explains that Armstrong needs to come with him or else Chen will die. Wright then takes Armstrong’s gun and they both leave the graveyard with Wright leaving both the photo of Chen and Armstrong’s phone behind. The photo has the caption now I have two cops on it is later found by Angela Lopez and Sargent Grey. Wright then takes Armstrong to the house where he is holding Chen captive. There is a barrel in the house and Armstrong runs towards it believing Chen is inside. He finds the barrel empty and realizes he has been tricked but it is too late as Wright points Armstrong’s gun at him and reveals that Chen is buried inside of different barrel. He then tells Armstrong that Rosiland felt bad that he had missed his wife’s death and was giving him Chen’s death to watch instead. Wright then proposes that they will watch Chen’s death together and then he will suffocate Armstrong as well. Later Nolan and Harper find the house after Lopez discovers where it is. Nolan breaches the front door of the house and Harper fatally shoots Wright through the window after he points Armstrong’s gun at Nolan. Armstrong is distraught as Wright is the only who knows where Chen is buried. They try in vain to revive Wright but he dies of his injuries before he can tell them anything. The other officers arrive spreading out over the property to find Chen and Bradford finds Chen after spotting her ring on the ground near her burial site. The other officers then rush over to help Bradford dig up the site. Bradford eventually removes the lid and they find Chen unconscious but she is revived after Bradford performs cpr on her. As Chen recovers from her ordeal in the hospital Nolan goes to visit Rosiland at the prison and reveals to her that they had recovered Wright’s notes about her crimes from the abandoned house meaning that they now knew everything about her murderous past and that she now longer has secrets.

Dear Friend,

Times are different in the year 2024. I’m sure it’s in the history books by the time you are reading this. Covid-19 or the Corona Virus had the entire world in a choke hold for years. The virus infected people but not as much as the fear. It almost like a modern day black plague era. Everyone wearing masks, people being forced to take vaccines in order to do certain things. It was horrifying for the world but in the end we realized that it was more of a horror movie than a real threat to society. It shown what the world can do in such a small time. It weirdly unified us just for us to go back at each others throats. I’m hoping when your reading this letter that your world is a better one. Doesn’t have to be perfect, doesn’t have to involve no world hunger or no homelessness. Just a better world than what I have. What’s special about this letter to you is that I don’t know you, will never know you. But I know that history repeats itself but what we need to do now and in the future is to not produce the same result. I don’t think people don’t realize this but, life is about doing better than the previous generation. Good friend, you may not feel like in the future. Your not in the future but in a time that learned from the past. That’s how humans evolve. Learning from the past. For the times they are a changing.

Dear friend it appears that the world is soon approaching its end. I fear for the safety of myself and others as the government have started a ‘Hunger Games’ situation. It has come to my attention that not many people are scared

I don’t know why it happened, nor do I recall what life was like before that day. I have to say though, life one hundred years in the future is terrifying. Parts of the human race have evolved into terrifying creatures that only come out after sun down. Every evening, right before the sun touches the horizon, the internal siren implanted into the human ear sounds, alerting the remaining population to return indoors and seek shelter. This letter is to inform the current world to change your habbits. Prevent the future from becoming a wasteland of filth, dread, and bloodshed. I leave you now in the hopes I will still be here when you all join me.

To You 100 Years From Now,

If you are reading this…yes, I am, in fact, 100 years in the future. I have one request that will need to be made if you want to see the world prosper and not fail, YOU MUST DO THIS ONE THING. Before I ask you to do this task, let me explain what the world is like in 2124. Today’s world has had some great inventions; we are flying cars, which have been very convenient. The vehicles are still early inventions, so it will take some more years to perfect. The thing is that flying cars are pretty expensive, so there are still a lot of cars driving on land, but give it a couple of decades, and everyone will have flying cars. In perspective, flying cars are like what cypherpunks are for you all. Green technology has been a great thing for our society; it has helped minimize pollution, makes production processes easier and cleaner, and sustains resource management. Lastly, my favorite is Smart Home. This is going to sound crazy to you, but my house cooks, cleans, and takes care of my dog, and it doesn’t do a medical job but gets it done to the absolute t. Although it’s pretty expensive, it is worth it; it’s like having the greatest butler of all time. Even though what I’m saying may sound like what humanity is proposing, the truth is the world is about to end. My request to you is to SEEK JESUS. I wasn’t a believer in Jesus, nor did I believe in any religion, and boy, was I wrong. There is a book in the Bible, the last book of the Bible, named Revelation. It talks about the “end times” and what will happen before and after, and I’m seeing it unfold constantly. During the “end time,” there is a certain person who appears named the “Antichrist,” who will become a political leader, performing miracles and creating a “false peace.” I missed many signs of the end time, but this one I caught was too obvious not to miss. That’s when I fell to my knees and asked God for mercy, I confessed my sins to Jesus and asked him to forgive my sins. I took many religion classes in college, so I was very familiar with the Bible and its story, but I never gave it importance outside of school. I’m warning you that the world you and I live in is not the world we should be worried about, but it’s about where we are going afterward. Heaven or Hell.

Dear Mia,

I hope this letter finds you well in your corner of the Solar Network. I was delighted to receive your last holographic missive; it’s amazing how much clearer the image quality has gotten with the latest updates. It felt like you were right here in my living pod, though I could’ve done without your digital cat pawing at my face during the call!

Life here in Neo-Seattle is as bustling as ever, though I admit it has taken a turn toward the bizarre with the latest atmospheric modifications. The sky glowed an iridescent pink last week, a result of the Council experimenting with new reflective particles to offset solar flares. It was beautiful but disorienting—like living inside an opal. People are divided on whether it’s progress or just another ecological patch job. Personally, I miss the days when clouds were just clouds.

Speaking of changes, I finally upgraded my neural interface last month. The installation was painless, but adjusting to direct thought-to-data access has been surreal. No more typing or speaking to get answers; now I just think the question, and the answer materializes in my vision. Yesterday, I accidentally thought about old Earth cinema, and suddenly I was immersed in a 4D re-creation of some ancient movie called The Matrix. Have you seen it? It’s eerie how prescient some of those old films were about virtual realities. Makes me wonder if they had early insight into what was coming.

On a lighter note, I took my first trip to the Deep Sea Dome last weekend. It’s fascinating how much life thrives under the Atlantic’s pressure now that we’ve restored parts of the ecosystem. The bioluminescent reefs are stunning, and they’ve even started offering “swimming with engineered megalodons” tours. I wasn’t brave enough to try that yet, but maybe next time! I’d love for you to join me; we could make a day of it—assuming your schedule on Mars Colony doesn’t keep you tied up.

Do you ever think about what it was like to live in the 2020s? It’s strange to imagine a time when people couldn’t simply synthesize food at home or heal most illnesses with a single injection. I came across an article in the historical archives about something called a “commute.” Apparently, people used to spend hours traveling in fossil-fueled vehicles just to get to work. It’s hard to believe, especially when I can now hologram into my office or send a projection drone in my place.

Oh, before I forget, my garden AI tells me the Martian soil samples you sent last month are adapting well to hybrid terraflora. I’ll send you a packet of the seeds once they finish programming them for low-gravity growth. It’s such a thrill to think we’re cultivating plants that could someday feed an entire off-world colony!

Anyway, I should wrap this up. The communal VR park is hosting a live symphony from Europa’s ice caverns tonight, and I don’t want to miss it. Send my regards to your family, and let’s plan a synchronous meet-up soon—I promise I’ll keep my holographic pets in line this time.

Until then, take care and don’t let the dust storms get you down.

Warm regards from Earth,

Sana

If you’re reading this now, it means that from the moment you find it, the universe is intrinsically changed. I’ve gone back and forth with myself- what would someone 100 years ago benefit from knowing? How much of what I have to say would not even make sense to you without temporal context?

You live in a time driven by fear and anger. A time with a glaring sense of doom, the knowledge that without a widespread change in how everything is done, the earth itself will die, and everything on it along with it. I can’t say that humans woke up and changed their behavior. But there’s an old saying- “Only when the pain of remaining the same becomes greater than the pain of changing will we change.” And eventually, we did. We had to.

As above, so below. The old World Wide Web was a reflection of the workings of the all. Everything connected, all the time, in infinite ways. Paradoxically, the further we ventured from nature, the more we began to unconsciously mirror it, down to the quantum level. As we became more connected technologically, so did our ideas- “trends” and information became so widespread so incredibly quickly and were almost instantaneously universally accepted that we had created a sort of artificial hive mind.

As this unity transpired, although our opinions became more polar, our feelings became universal: fear, longing, anger were all encompassing. This pushed the people of that time to reject what they saw as traditional. Suddenly, the new cool thing to do was to turn their backs on technology and the world their parents had built. Revolution is never easy, nor without fatalities. Much of the technology of those times was lost to us, as some of the more ancient knowledge of the all was unearthed and revived.

The richest of the rich quickly moved into separate societies. Those that didn’t move far enough quickly enough were torn to shreds. Violently rejected from society, stripped of their belongings, stripped of their power, and often stripped of their lives. The reason you are reading this now is that it has all begun. On December 4, 2024, the CEO of a major insurance agency responsible for many deaths of innocents in the pursuit of endless riches was gunned down in what was then the United States of America. Suddenly, people began to imagine the possibilities if this same course of action was directed towards what we only call “the rest of them.”

Well Pal I really got my self into some trouble this time. I’m not confident that this will get you to you but I’m out of options. This is going to sounds crazy. But I’m in 2125. Last thing I remember I was at a dinner party with Rachel and her cousins. The colors are so dull here. I’ve been sleeping at the bullet train station for a few month a now and have begun noticing all kinds of odd shit about out future. I learned the hard way that the United States is now fifty different countries. All with different currencies. I crossed over to Pennsylvania a week ago and they ran me out with drones so I’m just laying low in Ohio right now. I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about this “Orange Brotherhood”. I think it’s just a men’s club but it freaks me out and I don’t want any part of it. From what I understand they started gaining influence in about 2040 and everyone seems to love them. They did end up stopping war globally but there’s gotta be some thing wrong with them. I haven’t seen this big of a cult following since the Loyalists in 2025. I’ll keep you updated.