The Roaring Twenties gave once-backward America unmatched economic clout, and they used it to invest in destroyed economies. Humbled Germany accepted the loans and their economy rebounded. They paid their War Reparations to the Allies with ease, who turned around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now Canopus of course doesn’t have the same year as Earth. It doesn’t even have the same day. So they kinda play fast and loose with holidays, fitting them as close as possible to what Earth is celebrating at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People said that technology had no moral compass. It was the weakness of computers that they would do whatever they were told to do. But the Artificial Intelligences that developed in the Twenty First Century became that compass. They became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As The War faded from the short memories of most people, they put aside the privations and rationing. Factories devoted to war machines turned their capacity to the civilian markets and there was suddenly no end to what we could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Canopus has a beautiful climate, amazing beaches, and worlds’ famous alcoholic beverages. You know what that means right? The parties are legen….wait for it….dary. Seriously. And I don’t mean they have a week of Spring Break parties and pack up.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Battle of Epsilon Reticuli changed The War for us in many ways. It was not the destruction of so many ships that changed things. We had the industrial capacity to replace them. It was the psychological impact that made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The German people were angry after World War I. They saw themselves as the victims of foreign powers and a government too weak to stand against them. A series of Socialist and Workers’ parties called for a change, and shouted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Beyond the beaches of Canopus there are also vast fields that grow succulent foods. And of course they take special care to make the special stuff. There is a reason that Canopian brandies and wines are famous everywhere we have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the Japanese were busy building a new empire and the Allies worked to disassemble other empires, the shattered husk of Germany labored under odious Allied sanctions. Required to pay reparations and give up vast tracts of resources, the German[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We didn’t colonize Canopus until after Contact. It is a long ways from Earth even now, and no colony expedition of the time could have made it through The Wall. Now it’s one of our Beacon Stars and a major[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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