Genetic Puritans in America reduced the influence of minority races in the early 1900s but it was in Europe that their true goals would be realized. Divided between dozens of polities and multiple alliances with centuries and sometimes millennia of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Gamma Hydrae killed most of the first colonists. Radiation poisoning destroyed their cellular linings and caused them to deteriorate until they died. In a time when old age was becoming a thing that people used to die of, the people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Watson and Sherlock spent most of their time working on various cases of cyber crimes until the formation of the Western Alliance. Russian and Chinese hackers were their primary nemeses, but smaller nations and non-national hackers loved to try their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just received my first copy of Forge of Wars: Tactics this weekend. I’ve already found two things I need to change now that I’ve seen it in action. Both art related. Possibly a third. It amazing to have the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
America’s Ku Klux Klan was one of the most powerful Genetic Puritan organizations of the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were created after the Civil War to keep the black race in their place through murder and terror. Their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The truly odd part of Gamma Hydrae is the star. She’s a mostly normal G-type giant star towards the end of her lifetime. But she emits some particularly nasty forms of non-visible radiation we did not discover until the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After regular datanet access between England and America was restored, Watson decided to embrace his American nature more fully. He began to wear cowboy hats and boots, western-style trenchcoats, and other accoutrements that left no doubt he was from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The end goal of the Genetic Puritans was the reduction of those races of mankind deemed inferior. It was of course for the betterment of the human race in general that those inferior breeds had to end. Evolution at its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gamma Hydrae is an odd system. We hadn’t colonized it yet when the Peloran made Contact. It was over a hundred lightyears from Earth, and nearly as far away from other inhabited systems. It was in a dead-end region of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The irony of their names has never been lost on Sherlock and Watson. In many ways they actually played on the irony when they recreated their avatars for a Second Great Depression-Era world. Sherlock’s London Fog trenchcoat, Christy’s of London[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…