People sometimes ask me what HALO drops are like. Well, I’d like you to envision a bunch of grown men screaming like children. Cries for God’s helping hand to keep them from going splat at the end. OK, now that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Diaries
Twilight started season two as a diligent but disaffected individual. She’d lost one of her best friends, and that made her question everything she’d learned. Dixie became the anchor that kept her on our side, but the season nemesis Solo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What most people who grew up after Contact fail to realize is that Pre-Contact spaceships generated gravity by spinning small sections of the outer hull around the central spindle frame. Most of the ship was in zero gee unless they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They started The War. Well, the Shang did but the Chinese were quick to pile on. And of course there are the reports that they knew about the Yosemite Strike before it happened. They doubly deserved what happened if that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s second season nemesis was the recurring Rogue AI. He wore a different dapper suit every episode, donated by a local Texas company, and the show made certain to show a close up of their distinctive logo at least once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our first starships were spindly, fragile things. They were a slender needle nearly five hundred meters long designed to pierce the wall between normalspace and hyperspace. Fuel tanks and crew quarters surrounded the central spindle with little room for anything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What happens when you humble an enemy? What happens when you beat them? What happens when you break them so badly that the only thing worse than surrendering is fighting on? What happens when the man that signs the surrender[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s season two spent most of its time in Texas and the surrounding States, fighting against human terrorists that absolutely did not belong to any of the known real life terrorist organizations. There was one major recurring Rogue AI that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Third Fleet was our best hope to defeat the Shang once and for all. To send them running back home with their tails between their legs. Third Fleet failed. We became those who ran, though we learned something important before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese changed everything when they made their first hole into hyperspace. Scientists had still been arguing over whether it was even possible to do so up to the second it happened, and some hours later due to how long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…