We spent nearly a month in Arkadia after The War. We were looking for artifacts there. Arkadia was destroyed back during the Great War a couple thousand years ago, but there are lots of relics you can still find there. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I really like Arkadia. Open skies as far as the eye can see, literally, are only one thing going for it. There are handfuls of planetoids, mostly man-made that pass for cities, and smaller moonlets and asteroids scattered throughout the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all the worlds I’ve been to, Arkadia is one of the most interesting. It’s not even really a world, properly speaking. A planet that is. It’s part of a binary star system out in the old Albion Sector. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA and so many others flew out to Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Indi and so many other systems on rocket ships, barely touching the barest depths of hyperspace for fear of running afoul of a rogue gravity wave. We lost[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We spent the first decade of our exploration to the stars moving around the Alpha Centauri double star system. Between the Alliance, the Russians, and the Chinese, we started five major colonies on four habitable worlds, in addition to over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first hyperspace engines were painfully slow by modern standards, achieving barely over four times the speed of light. The trip from Earth to Alpha Centauri took a year. While short compared to the later Pre-Contact Colonization Missions, let alone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My first trip to Alpha Centauri was an interesting experience. I have memories of it from the family members who’ve been there before, but it was the first time I actually saw the place. We spent a few weeks there,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever been to Arkadia? They were real powerful back in the old days, then the Ennead blew them away. Now they have the most unique world I’ve ever been to. Imagine a cloud of gas wrapped around a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…