Sometimes when I look out on a world for the first time, I just have to ask, “So, is there anything interesting to do in this mudhole?” High rez version available on Patreon
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The Second Great Depression set the Western World against much of the Asian World. The release of Rogue AIs into Earth’s communications networks pitted the Russian World against everybody else. And the fall of Japan and the other Pro-Western Asian[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to a lot of planets in my time. I’ve been to industrial Core Worlds and tiny settlements on the edge of civilized space. I’ve docked in orbital starports with every luxury known to man and landed on dirt-filled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Artificial Intelligences changed the worlds by helping humanity explore the universe. But most people don’t really notice that. What they do recognize is the AI that is part of their personal computer and talks to them all day. They see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Asia had become the greatest bank of the world by the mid twenty first century. Japan and China were the world’s two greatest creditor nations, though Germany was not far behind. Other Asian nations like Taiwan, Singapore, and the not-quit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What do you do when you’re out of luck? What do you do when the chips are down and you’ve got nothing left? What do you do when the bad guys have you down? Well, there’s some secrets I’ve found[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The greatest leap of the New Voyager program has always been to go where our ships cannot travel. That was interstellar space in the twenty first century. Now it’s intergalactic space. No matter how good our ships are, there is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An age-old law of economies is that those who owe money become indebted to those who loan the money. It is one of the reasons that early Christians were not supposed to borrow and loan. So that no man would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes you get into a fight you’re just not prepared for. You may think you are. You may have trained for years to be ready. You may think you are the biggest of bad asses who can take all comers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Voyager program continues to this day. It is no longer the primary form of interstellar exploration as it was in its infancy, though they do go places where no ship can survive. The tiny probes scout safe routes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…