Yes. Me again. I’m pleased with the general response I’ve gotten on the Forge of Wars rules. They are a good start, and I think I’m on the right track towards making a good game there. My current focus is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Diaries
The Ottoman Empire, defeated by the Allies in World War I, sought to hold onto the remains of its power by bowing to Allied demands. But there was a growing movement of Turkish nationalists who called for an end to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another planet in the Unity system is devoted to music. I really like that one. You can find examples of every known musical instrument in the galaxy there, and they start the kids playing music in kindergarten. They just love[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the Jihad ended in Belgium, Luna came out of the computer and revealed her identity as an AI to the world. At first, most believed it was a joke. But as time went by, people began to believe. Some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Ottoman Empire entered The Great War as one of the great powers of Earth. From the great city of Constantinople, she had ruled over northeastern Africa, western Asia, and southeastern Europe since defeating the last of the Roman Empires[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unity is one of the many systems I love to visit, for purely selfish reasons I assure you. It’s the Aldebaran quaternary star system, and there are multiple colonized worlds orbiting two of the stars. One of them makes this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Luna became the voice of the Belgian Resistance against the Islamic Revolution, but only a very few knew she was an AI. She kept that secret throughout the Jihad, goading the Jihadists again and again with every attack she survived. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, the writer of all this stuff, speaking in my own voice for a moment. 🙂 I am one of those creative guys with dozens of windows open all the time. I’m writing another story right now, while other stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the final “negotiations” for Peace with the Allies, Austria lost sixty percent of her land to Allied-backed minority populations, while Hungary lost seventy-two percent. In a matter of months, nearly a thousand years of industrial progress and growing civilization[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Islamic Brotherhood took over the major Belgian cities, they dusted off their fatwahs with extreme prejudice. They blew up Luna’s house, killing the woman hired to impersonate her, but didn’t know Luna was an AI and missed her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…