To those who grew up in the 1950s, there were three networks that every American watched or listened to for news and entertainment. The government operated a fourth public station. And four decades later a fifth network joined the team.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Third Fleet’s job was to end The War in one swift campaign that would have showed the enemy we could destroy them with ease. It failed. The heavy cruiser Los Angeles and her squadron now return to the nearest Western[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve visited all of the major Indian Nations and many of the smaller ones. The largest ones are west of the Mississippi of course. Though the Chippewa Nations are all east of it, in the Great Lakes region. They’re the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s last season showed Americans snippets of the outside world along with the fighting in Detroit. They showed us glimpses of a peaceful Tehran after the Persian Revolution, and Israeli flags over Syria. We saw the newly renamed Constantinople looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We saw the effects of my plan in the Hyades. All of my Cowboys soon began to wear business suits as their new uniform, and everywhere we went we sought to bring stability. It did not always work of course.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are hundreds of small Indian Nations scattered all over America, but most of them aren’t full-fledged States. Statehood requires a big population and a unified government to declare it. And most Indian Nations have never been that big. One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last season of Twilight showed us a Muslim faith that was divided by competing loyalties. There was the old Sunni and Shia split of course. And there were those who supported hard-line Sharia Laws and those who wanted the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First Fleet defended Earth. Second Fleet defended Alpha Centauri. Third Fleet was our chance to strike back, to take The War to the Chinese, the Russians, and their alien allies. It was the largest and most powerful fleet we had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My plan for the Hyades was to use their culture to drag them out of a dark age rather than try to replace it my own. And so I wore a business suit they would recognize. I walked amongst them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I traveled to most of the Indian Nations in Minnesota when I was young. They are fairly small in most cases, the size of towns or cities. A few are county-sized, but that’s it. They didn’t prepare me for when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…