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…
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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…
The end of the twenty first century was defined by the new Cold War between the Western Alliance, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China. While some nations remained neutral those were the three great powers that first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Pre-War economy enshrined the idea of getting the next new hot thing as quickly as possible. If your phone was a year old you needed something better. People bought new cars every two or three years. Toys that broke[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Texas courts were always quick to throw out lawsuits against the Twilight series. The Hollywood courts ruled in favor of Disney though, and that set off a long series of court duels between the companies. They escalated during Twilight’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The later half of the twenty first century became an odd mix of war and peace. The Chinese and Russians expanded their influence on all fronts, absorbing many of the nations around them. And so many others came to America[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War forced changes in most of our lives. Even those who never raised a weapon in anger felt the effects of increased prices of civilian products. The combined industrial might of entire interstellar nations and alliances poured into building[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight lost one of its main cast members at the end of season one to a Disney buyout and other allegations. Not wanting to let a good scandal go to waste, Twilight’s ever-snarky studio advertised their next season as “the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…