Not surprising, wife and I attended the Thursday night showing of F8 of the Furious. Obvious spoiler alert warning is obvious.

Eager to steal some of that sweet sweet encounter suit money, DitKorp Klidergruppen engineered a cuirass based suit if light body armor, largely based on the composite coalition suit.

Fun fact: I have an independently owned local theatre that does fun little things, like a one night showing of the 2001 The Fast and the Furious. While not new, it was fun to see a favorite movie on the big(ish) screen again.

Recently attended a showing of the 2017 Beauty and the Beast starring Emma Watson. The following are my thoughts on the movie

The Fleet tending bases of the Federation fleet

Part factory, part grocery store, part fast food joint

The induction of the Meena Ascendant into the Lunar Order of the Anunnaki, including the confession of the Ascendant and a recitation of the history of the the Hidden Masters and Greater Mysteries

Man/Moment/Machine

Dimensional Science has started to unlock the understanding of the fact that the universe is made of layers, and these layers while interacting with each other, are very distinct from each other.

The Personal Accessory Network is the aggregation of all the SmartDevices in a person's household, as well as their personal gadgets, and their cybernetic implants.

Joint Operations Space Headquarters - Annex 1, also known as Joshua-1 station

the interior space of an arco is modular

Giant Robotic spider that loves farming, Buddhism and selling weapons of mass destruction. The cosmic era.

Aldus Huxley imagined a future where the masses were controlled by readily available doses of a drug called soma. The Cosmic Era is rife with drugs, some illicit and some marketed with the accuracy of laser guided weapons. The only thing he got wrong was that there isn't one happy pill, there are hundreds to choose from.

The House of the Forsaken replaced the failed Order of Ixion with the cyborg commandos of the Gendarme Maschina

The Agonizer is a peripheral device used as a negative reinforcement tool

rejuvenation station

Squirt guns are typically non-lethal weapons used to deliver debilitating chemical agents.

A low end private security force, the Order of Ixium operated as the enforcers and henchmen of the House of the Forsaken

These are not, in spite of their name, the eggs of actual Doppelgangers...