The people of Novaya Rodina have spent centuries slowly diverging from the rest of humanity. Between the early genetic screening and later planned and unplanned genetic manipulation, the change has been pronounced. The first difference that most people notice is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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We are a product of the normal universe we live in. Einsteinium Space or normalspace as many call it. The universe we can see from the surface of a planet. We can no more live in hyperspace without shielding than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The traveling preachers of the First Great Awakening traveled across the Colonies, and even into Indian Territory to spread their word. They said we should have an emotional relationship with God, not merely sit in a pew and listen to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Indian worlds are different from most other worlds I’ve been to. India is one of the oldest civilizations out there, with cities thousands of years old on Earth. I’ve been there, and the sense of age is amazing. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The colonists of Novaya Rodina were screened for any illness, and any genetic predilections towards them. Every future colonist was similarly screened, to keep the planet itself from killing them. They were an entire population chosen from the best of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1700s were a time of religious revival in America. The First Great Awakening it is called. New preachers taught that the Bible said all men were created equal, and that it was our place to read the Bible and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The African colonies are interesting. I love visiting, but my word are they not exactly what I’d call normal. The Africans have totally different cultural ideas, and they love planets that I could barely live on. Oh, every planet has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For over a decade, the colonists of Novaya Rodina fought the world itself in their bid to settle it. Then international humanitarian organizations worked with the Russians to build a hospital in orbit. Rotating to replicate Earth gravity, the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We cybers lead good lives. We can travel the datanets of entire worlds, star systems even, with a freedom that no flesh and blood human can understand short of a virtual reality. And even those are pale imitations of what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1700s, France and England slipped into the Second Hundred Years War. In America, we call them the French and Indian Wars. In the last of those wars, the Seven Years War, the first true World War, we fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…