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…
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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…
The War was almost as hard on the Chinese as it was for us. I’m serious. They walked into it prepared and knowing how it would end. They were the superior race in their minds. We were too weak to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Market research from season one suggested that people didn’t enjoy the cybernetic side of Twilight as much as the network had hoped. That was why season two went real world so heavily. It also featured several actors from Dixie in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Americans like to think that we have always been the motherland of inventions. We like to think that we changed the world and conquered space with our culture of dogged determination. And it is easy to think that when you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I wonder what our worlds would be like if there’d been no War. We’d have a lot less technology of course. The Peloran really had to open up their can of tricks for us. But what about our culture?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While hackers and lawyers fought over Twilight, it’s season two premiered in the top ten for United States viewers. It was number one compared to the other minor networks. They made a big splash with the opening scene of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Third Fleet was our best, strongest fleet, built to take The War to our enemies. Aneerin counseled caution before moving, but the Western Alliance was desperate. We had fought the Shang and the Chinese around Earth and Alpha Centauri for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…