Today in the CBO
News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
2 May 2296 - Crick Saga Reaches Its Conclusion
The Commonwealth Baseball Organization and the Fairline Hill Estates ball club received good news this morning in the situation involving Crick Dubya.
We had been asked to hold off covering this story until its conclusion so that it would not interfere in the news concerning Babyface Aorta and his gang the Toddlers. Well, today at around 6:30 AM, there was a break, so we can now cover the story for Publick Occurrences.
A sentrybot was alerted to activity coming from a canal drainage about 2.5 miles north of the Fairline Hill Estates. This area was not searched before, though patrols north of that area were looking to prevent the Toddlers and Aorta from reaching Boston proper if they were in hiding.
The alert was the result of a bear trap going off, capturing a roving radstag. Then someone exited the canal drainage to pull the radstag in. Local Brotherhood of Steel troops, along with Nate Howard, then entered the canal drainage, where they found Aorta and seven of his Toddlers holed up in a makeshift fallout shelter within the piping system.
The gang was in the middle of preparing the radstag meat and were surprised by the four men entering the shelter. After a short firefight, Aorta and the gang all lay dead.
Howard gave the following statement: "While were looking to apprehend Babyface [Aorta] and his gang, the Toddlers, they decided to have a last stand instead. Therefore, in a gun battle, Babyface and his gang are no more.
"We now have confirmation that they were indeed the perpetrators in the situation with [Fairline Hill Estates player] Crick Dubya's unfortunate injury due to a crib bomb. We are prepared to support Crick in this time, both through counseling and caps compensation.
"I am also going to work with the [CBO] league council to create a player disability program, with Crick serving as our first participant in the program. We will also make it possible for players who enter the program to a career-ending injury to have jobs available to them within the CBO if they so choose.
"We are happy that this situation has come to a conclusion and now my focus can go back to baseball. Thank you."
We were asked not to report it before Howard's statement, but now we can. Crick Dubya's pitching arm, which was injured in the blast, was unable to be saved and had to be amputated. His career in the CBO is now over. For his career, he started two games. In those two games, he was 0-1 with a 24.92 ERA. In 4.1 innings, he allowed 12 earned runs on 10 hits with six walks and a strikeout. He was drafted in the 26th round by the Yao Guai, number 622 overall.
Due to this morning's events, the game between the Yao Guai and the Vault 81 Dwellers has been postponed from the 1:05 start time to 7:05. Typically, games within a league are staggered to start at 1:05, 4:05, and 7:05 each day although Howard's live networking program has not yet been launched for the current justification of those staggered start times.
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Below, please forgive my atrocious Photoshop skills, but I wanted to show you the progression of this story. Visuals help even when they look terrible!
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2 May 2296 - Bradberton Arrives in Jamaica Plain with New Look
John-Caleb Bradberton and his caravan which include his wife Sierra Petrovita, CBO artist and uniform designer Erin Reische, and various bodyguards and headguards showed up to Jamaica Plain, but something was quite different.
While in Boston, Bradberton had a busy week. For one, an unnamed as of yet doctor performed a head transplant for Bradberton, placing his head on a modified miniature robobrain body. That means that Bradberton is now mobile as we are showing in the accompanying photograph.
Bradberton also said that he made a special trip to the Memory Den in Goodneighbor where he has begun an upload of his memories for a future surgery. We do not know the details of that process, but according to sources, there is Institute technology available to upload one's memories and create a virtual copy. That is how the Institute's Generation-3 synths were able to assume others' identities.
One famous early model of that technology is Commonwealth-famous Detective Nick Valentine, who may be considered the prototype for uploading a live person's memories and then transferring those memories into a synth.
Some have questioned if the Nick Valentine person and synth are actually the same person. Based on our agreed-upon Synths Rights Act of 2289, synths are considered to be individual, sentient beings. Therefore, by law, the uploaded person and the synth are considered to be individual personalities, answering those questions.
Nate Howard's son was also a subject of that transference. While the human Shaun Howard grew up and lived a full life, the child Shaun was a perpetual child. Some critics of the Institute felt that it was an unfair life, especially for synth children since they are never able to move beyond the age of their creation. That is why an update to the Synths Rights Act of 2289 included the necessary incorporation of aging technology in all synths so that they live a naturally-aged life like the humans they live among in the Commonwealth.
There are exceptions to that law, of course, and someone with the wealth and power of Bradberton could potentially subvert those rules.