The South American Union colonized most of the star systems around San Santiago and San Andres, but they optioned out certain systems to others. They needed money to fund their own great expansion after all. Probably the largest of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The South American Union’s colonization of San Santiago, and their discovery of the hyperspace run connecting it directly to Alpha Centauri, changed that sector of space forever. It had taken their colony ship nearly three years to make the trip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American Union picked the San Andres colony with care. It was in a largely unexplored sector of space, but there was a star in its neighborhood that might be able to connect directly back to Alpha Centauri. Even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American Union first ventured to unwanted stars. San Pedro, San Mateo, and San Marcus orbited dim or distant stars that took years for their hyperdrives to reach. The Big Three targeted stars they could reach and exploit far[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American Union is well-named. It is a union of independent Nation States. They have a Union Council, and each State in South America and each off world colony has a single seat on it. They elect a President[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American Union and all its colonies are rather more rough and tumble than most other nations. For one thing, it should be no surprise that they are rabidly anti-Communist given their history. The Communists killed far too many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American Union arose out of the fires of the violence accompanying the Second Great Depression to become a major world power. They may not have been one of the Big Three, but they had no wish to survive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The twin fires of drug cartels and Communist movements burned South America after the Second Great Depression brought down the Western World. The drug cartels saw the chance to rule on their own terms without any of the last vestiges[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tiktok is a platform run by the Chinese Communist Party via golden shares that give them control over it. I absolutely support methods of either banning the app or divesting it from the CCP. But I do not like the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four years ago today, there were a few thousand confirmed cases of the China virus in America. The vast majority were in China and, oddly, Italy where a major focus had hit one of their regions. President Trump told everybody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…