Chapter 33: Synthetic Terror, Pt 2

Eva sighed as she and her unit dashed eastwards towards the front line. Her mind was filled with thoughts about the synthetic cadets, and of terrorism itself.

People using violent means against each other wasn't anything new. Homicide. War. Genocide. Ethnic Cleansing. Terrorism.

In her old life, terrorism had been around for hundreds of years, if not thousands. The term itself appeared during the French Revolution, when François-Noël Babeuf first coined it. He used it as a derogatory term against the anti-royalist rebels (spoiler alert: they won). It existed in some form before then, and certainly existed for centuries after.

In fact, although it evolved over the years, the core of it always remained - terrorists were people who performed politically-charged violence against others.