The Apache were the first Indian Nation to focus their efforts on going to the stars. Just as they became more nomadic on Earth, they began building a new space industry devoted to small hypercapable craft. I remember saving one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Jane 1.0 was typical of American military engineering of the time. Her software took up far more room than comparable civilian systems due to extensive security and backup subroutines. Her hardware was slower and more expensive because it was designed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people do not know that the genesis of the F-18 Tomcat was in the Fleet 2300 Project. While one design team worked on the Avenger, another series of teams competed to create the replacement for the Hellcat along more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Indian Nations did not focus on interstellar colonization before The War. Many of their people left of course, just as many people of every nation went to the stars. But the nations themselves never focused on leaving Earth. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The United States Army’s original Jane 1.0 was a highly secured software system similar to the other voice interface programs of the 1900s and early 2000s. They used a voice actress to record her speaking parts and Jane spent most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I nearly died a month ago. My appendix burst. It burst big. I blew a 1.5 centimeter hole in the side of an organ that is only 2 centimeters thick. I have been healthy my entire life. I have never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project did not have an easy life. Many politicians did not even see the need for it. Our fleets were larger and more powerful than ever, and every warship was sturdier than older designs. Improved technologies had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Apache Nation that rebuilt itself after Yosemite fell was far different from the urbanized culture they had before. Most of their young men and women went to War for one thing. And those who stayed behind wanted to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bitching Betty became the primary name of voiced computer systems in America for nearly half a century. Then Apple released Siri to the consumer market and everything changed. Microsoft answered with Cortana and Amazon made Alexa. They became mascot and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project was a revolution in warship and fighter technologies. It consolidated a century of study into alien technologies and combined it with our best engineering to make a new fleet that could stand up to anything in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…