A light-skinned man with long blond hair and brown eyes lies in a makeshift bed in a distant campsite. A female speech synthesizer tells me that this man has no parents nor any friends or enemies. His name is Jonathan Patience and he is a computer-generated fictional character living in Sheldon County number 1,515,459,035. I am listening to this description of Jonathan's life on a podcast called Sheldon County. Its host and creator is an artificial intelligence named SHELDON.

A small band of heroes willing to take on a daunting foe or die trying. The rag-tag bunch of heroes is diverse, comprised of various races and sexes: a dashing young captain and his strong female counterpart, a humorous robot who has no trouble engaging in combat, and various other side characters. In the end, most of these characters will die for their cause, but they'll strike a major blow against the enemy. Sounds a lot like the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One, doesn't it? In that film a small crew of Rebels led by Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor sneak into the Imperial base at Scariff to steal the Death Star plans.