Jack of Harts

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by on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Diaries

We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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Secure Airspace

by on December 20, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

So now the FAA has secured certain air spaces against drone traffic. Just put out a general announcement that certain areas are no-fly zones for drones. New Jersey. New York City. You know. The general areas where people have been reporting these odd drones that the government has been telling us don’t exist for the last month. And if what I’ve read is accurate, the FAA has even authorized “deadly force” against them. I sure would like to know what’s going on that’s got the feds all up in a twist over it…

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Law Enforcement Drones

by on December 19, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

In what I’m certain is the least surprising news of the week, administration mouth pieces have stated that Law Enforcement Drones are included in the number of drones that have been flying over New Jersey over the last weeks. Let me put on my shocked face. But for some reason, they declined to say what the drones are doing flying over New Jersey. In what I’m certain is a totally unrelated event, some weeks ago a shipment of radioactive waste was found damaged and without the radioactive waste. In New Jersey. You trust the government to tell us if those two unrelated incidents are related, don’t you?

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The Campaign

by on December 18, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

If you are a gamer, you probably have The Campaign. The one big game you either have played or want to play all your life. For me that is the Human Sphere, a BattleTech campaign that counts the Chaos March as the last fully canon BattleTech sourcebook and moves forward into an alternate Jihad and an alternate campaign setting specifically designed to support small unit actions between the two or three dozen major factions. For my gamer friend John, it is just The Campaign. An alternate BattleTech campaign setting specifically designed to support small unit actions between the half dozen Inner Sphere factions. I played in his campaign many many moons ago. Whelp. Now I’m doing it again. And I’m even painting mechs for it again. Yeah. It’s that serious.

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Lame Ducks

by on December 17, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The times are changing, and everybody is paying attention to what the incoming President is saying and doing? He is going to Paris to attend the grand opening of a church that was burned down. World leaders are coming to Florida to talk to him. But whose actually in charge right now? The Lame Duck administration is busy shoveling things out the door on the way out. Pardons. Commutations. Getting rid of building materials Trump got for the border wall. Sending tax money out to non-government organizations so they can continue operating after Jan 20. Publishing new regulations. They may be Lame Ducks, but they still have the levers of power, and they are using those levers to sabotage the incoming administration every way they can…

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Drones

by on December 16, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

There are still drones flying around New Jersey, and many reports say they are moving in packs. Formations. And we still don’t know what is going on. The governments says they don’t know who it is. Or that they are manned aircraft that people are just seeing wrong. Or that they are routine drone traffic from approved companies. But they continue to not tell us what they know, assuming they know anything. And I don’t know which worries me more. The idea that they know and won’t tell us. Or the idea that they don’t know and won’t tell us. Both are a reflection of the dysfunction endemic in the government, especially over the last four years. Both ideas worry me. Again and again over the last four years, we’ve seen local people on the ground say that something odd is going on, we’ve seen the government say nothing odd is going on, and a few months later we find out they always knew something odd was going on and didn’t tell us. I do not like that at all.

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