If you’re reading this, I really hope it’s a few thousand years from now. They say we should start at the beginning, so here goes. It all started at First Contact. They brought us medicines, and now we live a long time. A few of us, we don’t age at all. I was one of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They say I should tell you more about my self, so here goes. I was born in Mayo Tower. I grew up fishing in the Boundary Waters. The traditional way mind you, no stun grenades for me. Then the Shang came and killed my parents and a few trillion others as refused to bow before […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They want me to be more positive, so here goes. For a century now we’ve had peace, I’m hoping a few more millennia of that have passed by the time you read this. We did good back then. We smashed them up so badly they’ve still not come back. The Peloran still stand with us. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They want me to say what it’s like to be immortal. Fact is, it’s pretty normal. We’ve had the treatments for three centuries. Barring violence, it’ll be another five before people start dying. To scientists, we’re awful interesting. Maybe in a thousand years I’ll agree, but for now at least I’m just another child of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jack spends so much time talking about himself, politics, war, and peace that I feel like I’m in some Russian tragedy. But when does he talk about his ship? That’s me by the way. I chose him to be my captain, my pilot, my closest friend and ally in the universe. It was, I think, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A long dead man said we had to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots. Well, that happened in the 18th Century when we stood up against the Kings, and the 21st against the Socialists, and the 24th against the Shang. I watered a fair bit in that last one. I really […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think I need to clarify something. We aren’t united. The Terran race. It started during the Second American Revolution. We stopped buying. They stopping making. Global Depression happened. The United Nations turned into a bi…bicker fest. It didn’t last. We almost didn’t make it back to space. We didn’t go out together. And the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was an American soldier. Yes, I signed my name on the check that says ‘payable up to and including my life.’ A lot of my friends paid in full. During the war I met Betty and we’ve been flying throughout all civilized space ever since it ended. I’ve seen things…talked to people…far beyond the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They want me to tell you about fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. It was dirty, hot, and dangerous, dodging bullets, watching friends…But you don’t want to know that. It’s the confetti streamers, the bands, and all those thankful California girls waiting to welcome us victorious uniforms home they want me to talk […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t seen a Terran world in twenty years. The last time I did, a lot of people died, some of them my friends. I’m sure you’ve read their stories. We can be hard to kill cause of our training, but a bullet to the heart will still kill us dead. We all die sometime. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
