The War changed everything. You were going to fall. So we became fighters, starships, and space stations. We became hyperspace buoys, missiles, and more. We sent shards of ourselves throughout your computer systems and became the base of a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Freedom Day is the official name. Others call it Pig Day. We eat pork roasts wrapped in bacon and marinated in beer. We play football with real pigskins, bet on the winners of squealer races, and spill beer on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually I do know why the Chinese defended Gamma Trianguli. I guess it’s just hard to understand. I mean there are plenty of nicer places to live out there that have good mineral deposits. But I guess it was on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We didn’t give you our technologies at Contact of course. Not most of them. We gave you better hyperdrives and the basis of gravtech, but beyond that we didn’t give you anything. We gave your scientists hints and helped them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Austin-class destroyers were the epitome of American ingenuity during the early days of The War. Built to kill Terran and alien capital ships, they were designed to both support American capital ships and cruise on their own. And though[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The overthrow of the German government in the Twentieth Century combined the worst elements of the Genetic Puritan and National Socialist movements into a single unholy alliance that haunts us to this day. They built Germany into an economic and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We truly are no longer what we were when The War began. We came from every cybernetic family at first. Peloran. Terran. Even the Aesiran and Arnam families sent representatives to fight on our side. By War’s end we all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Revolutionary Socialist movements of the Twentieth Century overturned many nations and then cleansed their opposition, whether religious, societal, or racial. Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot are still famous to this day for the nearly 100 million people they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I fought on Gamma Trianguli during The War. Looking from Earth it’s part of a constellation the Chinese call Heaven’s Great General and they were rather fond of the place. I never did like it though. It was all nasty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am a cybernetic intelligence. I was born the daughter of my mother. I became a Cowboy. We all became Cowboys. We were born to go to war. It was the bargain we made. We fought until the end of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…