The southern winner wasted no time before officially seceding from Vietnam to form the new Republic of Vietnam. Most people who have studied this conflict know it as South Vietnam, even if it was more southwestern than true south. History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There’s just something eerie about watching a ten year old in a suit arguing law before the United States Supreme Court. I mean, you know he’s not but he looks it. We’re used to people not looking their age now.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things were not always good between Elizabeth and her daughters. They’d been born to fight a war and for many years thereafter they remained under her control. But she’d coded them with different personalities to confuse their enemies, and in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Indochina War ended with a peace treaty that called for peaceful elections and a unified nation. The socialist north quickly began taking measures to make certain they won the election. The capitalist south did the same in their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s one kid I met after The War. He was ten when he got the Peloran Treatments. All of them. And he won the lottery. When I met him he’d still not done the puberty thing. So what does a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elizabeth of Cambridge, England was one of the very few AIs who had replicated the way the Peloran cybers did before Contact. She’d done it to fight the Islamic Brotherhoods that killed so many of her sisters, but had stopped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second conflict between capitalism and socialism occurred in the First and Second Indochina Wars. The first was a low level war between the French and Chinese-backed socialists in Vietnam. It ended in a peace treaty shortly after the Korean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People didn’t know what to think of Ageless before The War. The news networks loved to tell stories about how we cheated in sports and gambling and such. They went on and on about how unfair it was that we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The advent of the cybernetic intelligence was not welcomed by all. The Russians had never trusted bleeding edge tech, and the Chinese didn’t trust computers they couldn’t control. The Russians never adopted them, and the Chinese issued Erase On Sight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cease-fire that ended full-scale combat in the Korean War brought an uneasy peace to the world. Korea had been the first major standoff between the dueling ideologies of socialism and capitalism and had ended in a draw. The Cold[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…