Tag America

The AI Reckoning: Humanity’s Future in the Hands of the Few

jvtorres Leave a comment

In Episode 12 of The Rise of King Asilas (The Manifest Destiny), the central question isn’t about power, it’s about sacrifice. When survival hangs by a thread, do you abandon your moral code to secure victory? Or does crossing that line ensure you’ve already lost? It was a moment that resembled that point Caesar “crossed the Rubicon.” There was no going back for King Asilas. The window was closing for him to make his move that would change the world forever. And he wasn’t going to hesitate in that moment.

Now imagine that dilemma… not in a fictional kingdom, but in Silicon Valley boardrooms, classified Pentagon briefings, and quiet diplomatic backchannels between Washington and Beijing. Because today, the same choice is unfolding in the AI arms race. And the terrifying truth? The outcome may not be decided by nations, but by a handful of executives, intelligence officials, and unelected architects of the digital future. All of which facing the same closing window, the same urgency to make their move and change the trajectory of the human race. The stakes are just as high as for the fictional king blowing up Canada’s government. Even higher than what Caesar himself faced when he led his troops across that river and changed the direction of Rome (and essentially the world) forever.

Publicly, artificial intelligence is marketed as productivity tools, chatbots, copilots, and assistants. Privately, insiders speak of something else: strategic dominance. And with those strategies come contingency plans and covert maneuvers to offset blindsided attacks and stay several steps ahead of adversaries. Sound familiar? It should. This is exactly what King Asilas does throughout the series. Behind polished keynotes and quarterly earnings calls, a quiet consolidation of influence has taken shape. A small cluster of technology giants, defense contractors, and national security agencies now sit at the helm of systems that can do everything humans can do any a million times better and faster. This isn’t innovation. It’s leverage. And leverage, in the wrong hands, becomes control.

The Moral Fracture: Speed Over Safeguards

King Asilas’ philosophy, overcome your moral code to survive, now echoes through strategic doctrine. Policy circles increasingly frame AI as a zero-sum contest. Whoever builds the most advanced systems first will set the rules for the next century. Lag behind, and you don’t just lose market share, you lose sovereignty. Organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations openly describe AI as a defining arena of geopolitical rivalry, particularly between the United States and China. The framing is clear: supremacy in AI may determine military dominance, economic command, and global influence for generations.

But here’s the unspoken part.

When leaders believe they are racing against extinction-level disadvantage, ethical hesitation begins to look like weakness. In fact, some AI proponents are believed to be on a suicide mission, risking the entire human race as collateral damage should their gamble turn catastrophic. And most think tanks believe the AI supremacy will lead to global collapse and perhaps the end of humankind as we know it (if not blatant extinction). Is this hyperbole? Could it just be exaggeration? Likely not. Think about King Asilas and his mission: to save humanity. What was the cost? Destruction of global government systems. How was his consolidation of power achieved? His weapons were far superior to those of other countries. And the global system collapsed, one by one until all that was left was King Asilas. And where did he lead the people? To their ultimate fate in Armageddon.

The simple version of the story is “systems were deployed faster than they could be understood.” That was King Asilas’s advantage. By the time the world could react to his weapons, it was already too late. This is the exact same scenario we face (collectively) as a species in the face of this wicked race for AI supremacy. Once the winner shows himself, it will spell doom for all of us on this planet.

The Existential Threshold

The AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in 2023 produced the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, acknowledging the need for coordinated safeguards. But declarations are not enforcement. Agreements are not guarantees. History shows that when transformative power becomes available, competitive instinct often overrides restraint. Nuclear deterrence created uneasy balance, but AI differs in one critical way:

It can replicate.
It can scale.
It can evolve.

And unlike uranium, its raw material is data, which is something no nation truly controls. The communities of this world have become so dependent on media via the Internet, that the very idea of losing control of those abstracts has some adverse physical consequences. For example, when YouTube ran into some data issues recently and the site went down, within minutes the hashtag #YouTubedown trended like wildfire. It was pandemonium within the hour. Utter panic set in. Anxiety spread. Was this the end? It isn’t even relevant if the event was choreographed or not, the outcome was troublesome. Are people that dependent on media platforms? Absolutely. What would happen if all of them shut down? Honestly, the beginning of the end. Too much of people’s identities are woven into the cyber fabrics of social media that eliminating them would erase people’s brains, their core reason for existence, and chaos would ultimately ensue. It’s kind of like “releasing the fog” and the effects of the Trishul in some sense. Masses of people would blame their leaders and oust them from their state houses. Blood would flood the streets.

And if you think someone holding AI supremacy couldn’t do this with the touch of a button, you are sadly mistaken.

The Concentration Problem

Here’s the part rarely discussed openly: The most advanced AI systems are not evenly distributed across humanity. They are concentrated in a small circle of corporations and government partnerships. Their control is largely overseen by a few executive teams, intelligence committees, and let’s throw in a few classified programs for good measure. Decisions are made about alignment, deployment, safety thresholds, and access is granted to individuals most citizens will never meet, and certainly have never voted for. Yet the decisions made by these select few could determine:

  • Whether labor markets destabilize overnight
  • Whether autonomous weapons become normalized
  • Whether misinformation ecosystems become indistinguishable from reality
  • Whether humanity retains agency over its own technological creations

This is not a democratic process. It is a technocratic inflection point. And to be honest, it would never move forward with any speed if held to the standards of a democratic process. The AI arms race is on and there’s no time to ask the public for their opinions and votes. Such delays would hinder its progress and our enemies would have the advantage. Speed was something King Asilas understood very well in his assault on his enemies. “Waste no time” was something the king often uttered throughout the series. It wasn’t a filler. It wasn’t an irrelevant phrase. It was repeated because time means advantage. The longer it takes you to make a significant move, the more advantage you surrender to your adversaries. This is the mindset of the curators of the AI arms race. It resembles (horrifically) that of the fabled king. And there’s no doubt the outcome would be the same for humanity.

Gabriel’s Warning

Throughout the King Asilas series, Gabriel represents moral resistance. Translated into today’s context, that voice exists among researchers, ethicists, and policy advocates arguing that dominance without guardrails is not strength, it’s systemic fragility. Unchecked AI doesn’t just threaten rivals. It threatens everyone. These threats cannot be brushed off as standard corporate banter or propaganda meant to instill fear in order to assert more control on the masses. A catastrophic failure in one system can ripple globally. A misaligned autonomous defense protocol could escalate conflict unintentionally. A hyper-optimized economic AI could hollow out entire sectors before safeguards respond. And that spells doom. For everyone.

Simply put (in Gabriel’s voice): Victory without virtue becomes self-sabotage. As one listens to the words spoken by these AI pushers, it sounds eerily similar to a mentally ill person on a mission to incinerate an entire city in order to feel warmth. Compassion or reluctance to address the instability of the mentally ill person is signing one’s own death warrant. Avoiding confrontation only ensures the madness will continue with impunity. The masses are as much at fault as the sheep for following the Shepard over the cliff. The warnings are blaring. The picture has been painted. The threat is real. Yet, the world does nothing. And there is no virtue in doing nothing.

The Real Question

The public debate frames AI as progress. The strategic debate frames AI as power. But the deeper question (the one whispered in policy briefings) is this: Are we building tools to empower humanity… Or constructing a cognitive infrastructure so powerful that control inevitably consolidates in the hands of the few who built it? Or worse, consider the possibility it goes into the hands of one man.

History’s empires were limited by geography. Digital empires are limited only by bandwidth. And for the first time, humanity may be approaching a threshold where decision-making power over information, defense, and economics converges into systems overseen by a tiny group of actors operating beyond meaningful public scrutiny. It would be a “High Council” or sorts. But there will always be a head of that council. A head. And on that head, you can bet will be sitting a gold crown.

That is the true dilemma of Episode 12 playing out in real time. Planting bombs inside of Spartans (like AI systems plotting in the dark corners of the Internet), sending them into command centers disguised as someone else (like Trojan horse viruses and malware), destroying everyone in proximity, ushering in a new dominant force, a king. Then, an unfettered absolute authority swoops in to “save the day” and restore order. We know how this ended for the Canadians in Episode 12. And we also know how it ultimately ended for the rest of the world when King Asilas finally revealed what his secret weapon was. The world had to react to something completely new, and something they had no answer for. That concentration of defense took precedence and world leaders could not focus on the man, King Asilas, himself. Who was this man? How did he arrive to wield so much power? And when they stopped to try and reason with him, it was already too late. Their only choice by that time was to kneel before their new ruler, whether they liked it or not. The loss of privacy, then the loss of sovereignty. They had lost the game before they sat down at the chess board. The absolute authority of King Asilas was a consolidation of access. They couldn’t even make a move, at least not without permission. Think about that.But the road to societal collapse (although brutal and bloody) took more than mere technological (and military) superiority. There were other forces at work, if you recall the characters of the series. Reptilians, cannibals, and occult entities are infused throughout the entire storyline. If the Epstein files has shown us anything in these recent weeks, it’s that The Rise of King Asilas feels less like fiction in 2026.

King Asilas Update: The Path to “Eviscerate” and Beyond

jvtorres 2 Comments

Greetings, citizens of the New Kingdom of America.

Many of you have been wondering about the release of Eviscerate, the long-awaited film adaptation of the King Asilas saga. I want to take a moment to share where things stand and what’s coming next. Over the past months, I’ve been reworking key scenes using advanced A.I. tools to achieve a far more cinematic and immersive experience. This process has opened new creative doors, allowing me to expand the story in ways that were previously impossible. With A.I.-enhanced visuals and faster production workflows, the world of King Asilas is about to grow even more epic and visually stunning.

This does mean the release of Eviscerate will take a bit longer, but it’s for the best reason imaginable. The film is evolving into something larger, something that will set the tone for what’s to come in 2026 and beyond. Expect new storylines, deeper lore, and a visual experience worthy of the King himself. In the meantime, fans of the written word can dive into Ouroboros, the latest installment in the King Asilas universe — now available in hardcover just in time for the holiday season. Orders placed soon will ensure delivery before Christmas, making it the perfect gift for any fan of the New Kingdom of America. Here’s what one recent reviewer had to say:

“Ouroboros captures the dark brilliance of Asilas’ world while pushing the boundaries of storytelling. It’s bold, haunting, and unforgettable.”

Thank you all for your patience, support, and continued loyalty to King Asilas. The best is yet to come. If you really want to have some fun in the meantime, go to Grok or ChatGPT and ask it to give you a breakdown of the Rise of King Asilas. It’ll blow you away. And, oh yeah, the Lost Episodes have begun on our Patreon. Sign up and get the latest.

— JV Torres
Creator of The Rise of King Asilas

Abigail: The Princess of a Princess

jvtorres Leave a comment

“Asilas was involved in black ops government projects that crossbred humans with the alien Drax race to produce hybrid humanoids that could survive in the realm of the Drax and essentially be blood factories.”

Abigail Sierra was on track to become the most powerful Spartan in Asilas’s army. So powerful, in fact, that she could have been the one to overthrow Asilas himself. He figured this out through a series of dreams, omens, and probing the young girl’s mind over the course of her training as a Spartan soldier. He forgo his plans to make her the premier Knight Spartan and savior of humanity –even as he held out hope she would change her perspectives and align herself with spiritual philosophies he subscribed to. However, she never showed any interest in religion and was too headstrong to be convinced there was a divine being, a God, a creator, and overseer of humankind, and thus she limited herself in particular areas of training that involved heightened consciousness and awareness in the universe. Abigail never wanted to be a “believer” in God or divine creation, and no amount of discourse with the king would or could change her mind.

Asilas’s plans for Abigail began from her birth. Her conception was part of a secret hybrid project that began long before Asilas became king. As a General in the army and a high ranking member of the Ordo, a very secret and powerful group of elitists that participated in occult rituals, Asilas stood with members of the Ordo as representatives of mankind as they hashed out alliances with alien races and manipulated governments around the world. Asilas was involved in black ops government projects that crossbred humans with the alien Drax race to produce hybrid humanoids that could survive in the realm of the Drax and essentially be “blood factories.” The Drax never paid much mind to Asilas, as he was seen as merely a human slave. However, some in the hierarchy of the Ordo were not immune to his abilities or persuasion and, over time, he was able to use his secret abilities to smuggle hybrid babies out of underground laboratories dotted around the United States. Each hybrid baby had human and Drax DNA, but were essentially human. The hybrids would later become his Spartan army because they were immensely more powerful both physically and mentally than pure humans. Asilas had a partner in this scheme –his former army comrade Quintin Capone, who had become a high ranking administrator in the New York City Public School System and eventually became its Chancellor. Capone used his position in the school system to place these hybrid children in schools with foster parents who were paid a monthly stipend to care for them and raise them as their own children.

The Lemuria Connection

Abigail was different than any other Spartan soldier. Her Drax DNA did not come from a Drax warrior; it came from Lemuria, a princess of the Drax High Order. Lemuria was the most powerful Drax on planet earth. Her Drax Lords seldom ventured to earth and preferred to reside in other interdimensional domains –leaving Lemuria as the sole ruler in the human domain. Lemuria used her own DNA to create clones of a special Drax warrior named “Russel” and created an elite guard to protect her while she dwelled on earth after the death of the Drax prince who proceeded her. With her DNA in the Russel clones, she could not only control each one, she could sense everything they sensed –so long she was within 99 miles of any of them.

Fortunately for Asilas and Abigail, Lemuria and the Drax tended to stay in cold regions, such as the northern and southern poles ,and remained as far from human activity as possible. Asilas was assigned to oversee the Drax elite guard cloning project out of sheer chance and had access to Lemuria’s DNA samples. He smuggled one sample out and created one hybrid baby from it. That baby was Abigail.

This was one of the reasons Abigail’s limitations frustrated Asilas to the point of exhaustion. Although he knew she held the key to become the greatest Spartan warrior on the entire planet, he also knew her unwillingness to receive God into her heart made her vulnerable to corruption and essentially make her a danger to his reign. In his original plans, Abigail would have lead the American Alliance to battle with the Drax after all nations on earth aligned with America for the Great Revolution and ultimately free humanity from the grip of the Monster Group. The only way Abigail would be able to remain strong enough to resist all temptations was to have a strong faith in God. This was how Asilas figured she could combat Lemuria’s control once she met the Drax on the battlefield. However, since she never accepted the notion of God, she would have eventually been commandeered by Lemuria and turn against America.

Abigail was merely a teenager when she began her training as a Spartan. From the onset, she demonstrated superior power over all other cadets. Asilas and Capone kept a very close eye on her development and determined Abigail would mature to become powerful enough to defeat whole platoons of Drax warriors. Her lack of spiritual enlightenment, however, sealed her doom and Asilas used his Ace card to destroy the Canadian government instead. She would naturally become too dangerous to him. The king mourned Abigail when she died in Ottawa, not so much because of his love for the girl, but because a major play in his master plan had to be scrapped. He reluctantly sent Abigail to her death prematurely simply because he had no other choice. This disruption in his plans presented a significant challenge and left a major void for the king and America’s Great Revolution that would come to an explosive eventuality in mankind’s greatest test in Antarctica.

Listen to Abigail’s final moments in season one’s finale.

Lemuria and the Drax High Order

jvtorres Leave a comment

The Drax were the most dangerous entities on earth and had been the secret human masters for thousands of years. Although Asilas was well aware of the Drax long before he was chosen by them to be King of America, there was much about them and their hierarchical system he simply did not know. As a member of The Ordo, Asilas had access to some of the most incredibly fascinating and horrifying realities about a system designed to keep human beings occupied with trivial matters and never seek to heighten their awareness or consciousness. If humans ever realized the true power of their minds, the Drax would never have been able to control them. Asilas knew this and was able to mask his true heart and intentions as he raised to the highest levels of The Ordo.

 

Lemuria was a Princess of the Drax High Order. Her role was to oversee and manage the affairs of people and delegate their human surrogates to create chaos, engage in senseless wars, use the military complex to develop high-tech machines of various types as disruptive apparatuses to manipulate mankind –even using weather modification technologies to keep humans in a constant state of fear. Lemuria, for all her thorough inclinations, was not a military strategist. It was never necessary for her to be this. However, when facing King Asilas and the encroaching American Allied forces, Lemuria would not heed any warnings from her advisors –not even from the Devil himself. She wanted to resolve the matter of ridding the world of Asilas on her own and take her victory back to the Drax High Order and stake her rightful claim to the line of succession and realize her ultimate goal of becoming the Queen of the Drax.

 

In King Asilas’s Revolution, there was one thing that was not quite clear: Why were the Drax not attacking humans out in the open? Asilas had hoped the taking of Europe, England and Africa would surely make the Drax face the American military in an open battlefield. He needed this to happen so the entire world would finally align with him and America. However, Lemuria continued to order the Drax to stay out of sight, as she was also aware of Asilas’s goal of uniting the world in his campaign to fight them. She did not want to make that unification happen easily for Asilas and decided to wait until he would have no choice but to fight them on their terms. This would ultimately lead Asilas’s Revolution to the ends of the earth –to the ultimate showdown between man and beast in the most inhospitable place on the face of the planet…Antarctica.

 

Lemuria believed if she stood her ground, the Drax warriors would destroy the human army. If successful, she would be hailed as the greatest Drax Princess in modern times and would surely be in line to be the next ruler of the Drax race. Her Drax warriors were the most insidious and powerful creatures this world had ever known, and it would take all of Asilas’s best military strategies to have a chance to win his Revolution and free humanity from their ultimate masters. Lemuria would defy even her most trusted and battle tested generals in her desire to defeat the American King in an epic war that would change the course of humanity for a thousand years. However, Asilas would lead his army into the belly of the beast and orchestrate the most dramatic assault the Drax had ever encountered.

The Importance of Quintin Capone

jvtorres 1 Comment

King Asilas is not a man who needs reassurances about the decisions he makes. He is the quintessential leader and does not rest until he completes his mission, and reflects on the costs once his objective is achieved. Which has mustered curiosity by some as to why Quintin Capone is such an important figure in Asilas’s inner circle. The easiest analogy to use when evaluating the situation and the people surrounding the king is the classic game of chess. The king has two bishops, two knights, two rooks, a queen, and two lines of pawns. By episode 4, we already know his queen and who his two bishops are: Quintin Capone and Dr. Ezekiel. These men give the king guidance and he trusts their points of view. Minister Jeremy Oreb falls into the category of a knight because Asilas sends him to meet combatants, terrorists, domestic rebels and other threats with the might of his guns.  President Jackson is a rook because he proves to be valuable to the king in terms of public opinion. He also maintains ties to the monster group. We also know who some of his pawns are: Abigail Sierra and Rachel Canaan, but Rachel was likely sacrificed in episode 4. When you look at the characters in the show through this lens, you begin to see how their maneuvering is determined. Each move is calculated with another anticipated by the king.

But how did Quintin Capone, a school chancellor for New York City Public Schools during the second civil war, become the most powerful “right-hand man” of the New Kingdom? The show does not give any clues as to how Capone became so trusted by Asilas. The novel does explain this in detail. Capone was once in the Army and served alongside of Asilas in their early years. Asilas ascended in rank and Capone left the Army due to an injury. They remained friends and stayed in touch over the years. To sum it up, during the war, the United States was in utter chaos -with battlefronts scattered across the entire country. The one place where the civil war was not felt so disruptively was New York City. School children continued to go to school and life was as normal as it could have been during such a tumultuous time. The establishment of Marshall Law at the conclusion of the war by General Asilas enabled school systems to be community hubs for dissemination of information, instructions, basic first aid, and a plethora of social services so people would not have to venture far from their homes during the transitionary period. In a large city like New York, this emergency system kept the enormous population from plunging into utter turmoil. Capone, along with the mayor, reassured everyone life can continue as normal as long as they followed the instructions given by Washington and General Asilas. While cities like Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles experienced great upheaval by a restless and paranoid population, New York was largely controlled and managed to stay peaceful during the government transition period. This decorum by New Yorkers on such a vast scale did not go unnoticed by Capone’s old friend, General Asilas.

When Asilas became king, the first person he asked to join his circle was Quintin Capone. For most, he was an enigmatic figure, but New Yorkers and people in the education field on the east coast knew Capone quite well. He was feared and despised by some, but respected by all. No one wished to cross him professionally or personally. So, to those who knew Capone, they were not nearly surprised to learn he would sit at the right hand of the king. The two men were very like-minded and always seemed to accomplish whatever they put their minds to. Their love and admiration for one another is evident in the way they converse. Capone, a brilliant man in his own right, was too smart to question the king when he knew his mind was made up. And whenever he spoke in contrast to the king’s ideas, he knew it to be wise to bow figuratively and literally. However, Asilas had no siblings and was not very close to many in his family since his days in the Army and Capone became his surrogate brother. He loved Capone for the figurative “brother” he was to him. But in the game of chess, Capone was his bishop and would sacrifice him only if absolutely necessary and only if he knew it would help him win the game.