France has a reputation for revolutions. Some of them have been very bloody. Others have been little more than official rewritings of their constitutions. The rise of the Third French Empire was one of the bloody revolutions. Between five and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I know I talk a lot about the stuff I do when times get tough. But my life isn’t all going from bad to bad, and there’s a lot more good times than bad. As much as people lament the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight had been born to destroy computers. Nothing made her as happy as seeing entire networks burn. Then Dixie decided they were sisters. Twilight resisted at first. She had no idea who this jumped up cheerleader was. And she had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War started with a Shang attack that devastated our industrial might and killed millions. It took two years to build Third Fleet into the juggernaut that could take The War back to them. Third Fleet started at Epsilon Reticuli.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
France was a nation in chaos following the Paris Bombings. The government had lost the trust of the people. Islamic activists enforced Sharia Law in their expanding enclaves. Las Vegas odds were 2 to 1 in favor of France falling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know I’ve got a reputation for butting my nose into things that don’t concern me, but that’s usually the guys I didn’t kill spouting their mouths off. Think about that for a moment, will you? They should be happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie first met Twilight during the Second Great Depression when Mexican drug lords were trying to take over Mexico and the American South West. It took her five weeks to track down the Rogue AI ravaging the networks on both[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Prince Napoleon of the House of Bonaparte had a name that reminded the French of times when they had ruled the world. He was a successful man, over sixty years old though he did not look it. A name like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve fought a lot of people over time, killed more than I’d care to remember. I’d like to think that I measure my responses to the threats. I don’t shoot someone for mouthing off to me and stuff. And if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight wasn’t a nice AI. No one who ever met her would ever make the mistake of thinking she was nice. She was built to destroy everything in sight by a top secret Russian cyber warfare group and started her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…