Los Alamos gained fame after World War II as the place where the first atomic bombs were built. It helped to change the world, and then spent the Cold War designing newer and more powerful bombs that would never be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2020
One of the “looking back” moments in the Jack of Harts universe is what I call the Second Great Depression. It was (will be) a global economic collapse bad enough to compare to the First Great Depression of the 1930s,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bludworth Space Marine’s innovative spaceship designs that could launch and land in water captured a significant share of the spacegoing markets in the Twenty-Second Century. Most of the dedicated space forces thumbed their noses at the Bludworth designs as no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bludworth Marine was a leading maintainer, recycler, and refurbisher of old wet navy warships in the later half of the Twenty-First Century. But as the nations of Earth went to space, they sought to expand into that new and growing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bludworth Marine quickly became the Republic of Texas Navy’s largest supplier of new and recycled oceangoing ships. They refurbished numerous old United States Navy warships for Texas, like the retired Wasp-class amphibious assault ship that had spent the previous decades[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Houston riots ravaged most of downtown Houston during the Second Great Depression. The mayor ordered the police to leave the “peaceful protesters” alone, and one of the largest cities in America burned in the riots that followed. The State[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bludworth Marine was the largest owner of naval construction and recycling yards in Texas when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. They owned multiple port facilities on the gulf coast, and competed successfully in the civilian shipping market.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas had few State-owned naval yards when the Second Great Depression began. They had long relied on private enterprises to support their small number of State Guard ships, and the Federal government had long since abandoned all major naval bases[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I graduated from college in 1999. I studied in computer science with a business secondary, and went straight to work in the industry I had long since chosen to aim for. Computer technical support. My first full time job was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base woke up from over two centuries of slumber when the Shang dropped Yosemite Yards onto half of America. They did not care about the strike on the District of Columbia. Those were dirty rotten feds.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…