The Games of Drones: A Sequel to The Age of Drones

Military drones and space drones had evolved to become the new air force and space force. Highly advanced drones had taken over the skies and outer space, not only to fight wars, but they were also used for tasks such as security and traffic control over non-warring territories. Smart drones, equipped and embedded with the latest in artificial intelligence and battery technologies, were accorded prime importance in commercial, military, medical, and civilian applications.

For military and drone buffs, including artificial intelligence savants, the year was 137 AOD, or Year 137 in the Age of Drones. It was 137 years after two historical milestones had altered the world, encompassing both the developed and the developing countries. The first historical milestone had been the worldwide propagation of DAPI, or Drone Application Programming Interface, which enabled both humans and drones to reliably communicate and seamlessly interact between them.

DAPI was widely accepted and eventually became the global standard because of its open source DRONAL programming language, or short for: Direct Resonance Optical Neural Artificial Language. Another historical milestone had been the enactment and passage into law of The Drones Act by the United States Congress more than a century ago. The Drones Act was considered a landmark piece of legislation allowing drones embedded with cutting-edge machine learning and state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to engage in commercial activities, including leasing land and real properties, among others.

A consortium composed of the private sector and the military establishment had put up several drone ports throughout the country decades ago. Each drone port had a research facility as an adjunct. The Drones Act likewise included a special digital currency, the Drone Crypto Coin, for sentient drones to use.