America has faced numerous conflicts in our history. From minor police actions to full-blown wars, our men and women have fought and bled and died for centuries. Those wearing the boots on the ground have always paid the greatest price.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Roaring Twenties also brought women the right the vote in most Western countries. But all was not well. In a time of plenty, not everyone rose and the poor were easy marks for the great orators that preached Socialism[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Canopian Sector is a good place. Not as rich as the Pleiadian or Core Worlds Sectors of course, but what is? It’s a nice place though. A frontier sector where people go who want to get away from civilization[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Roaring Twenties of the Twentieth Century changed everything about America and most of the world too. Increasing prosperity brought about the rise of a powerful middle class that drove unprecedented economic growth. Talking radios and silent movies brought entire[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know what all they teach in schools now but we Americans lost a lot of ships in the initial Shang strikes. The British of course lost a lot of ships at Alpha Centauri. That left the Spanish Armada[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…