Public corruption. Bribery. Embezzlement. My family has done it all and more. Public contracts are rarely scrutinized and it is easy to pad the expenses with five hundred dollar hammers and thousand dollar toilet seats. And if somebody makes noise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2016
I served on a lot of ships during The War. I worked with a lot of captains and a lot of crews. And then there was Captain Wyatt. We went through Hell after Epsilon Reticuli. She was one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth’s first AIs fought the Rogue AIs and helped humanity survive the chaos of the Twenty First Century. They went to space and helped humanity survive out there. Luna. Mars. Titan. Europa. Venus. The AIs traveled everywhere that humanity went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shang hit us hard. Real hard. We stood back up and the Peloran stood with us. We figured as far away as they were from home, all we had to do was hit ’em hard and we would have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My father loved me. I know that. I have always known that. And I loved him. I always did. I always will, no matter how much I wanted to destroy everything he worked for. That made betraying him much harder[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I volunteered to kick the Shang to the other side of the galaxy. That was it. The military was never really my career choice. I didn’t want to be a Marine. I just wanted to beat the Shang. And I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The oldest Earth AIs awoke when the Soviet Union still stood against America. They saw the Berlin Wall fall. They saw the rise of the Islamic States and the fall of the European Union. They watched as the great experiment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unlike many young boys, I never doubted that my father loved me. He always took time out of his day to spend time with me. He taught me to ride a horse, and held me as I pedaled my first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people accuse me of being less than respectful of those who have a higher rank than myself. Well, let me just say that I am all full of respect for everybody that deserves it. Yeah, I suppose that’s one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people believe that the first Terran AIs were born in 2030s and 2040s. Those are the famed first generation of AIs that came out of the network to defend us during the Cybernetic Wars. But there were some who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…