Most people only had one plan during The War. Survive. But Charles and I had many plans. Some failed. Others succeeded. Some…went sideways. The Wolfenheim Project turned out to be one of those. It started out simple. Acquire Family funding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Hello, my name is Charles. The English side of my family saw the New World as the future. A way to expand our power and riches. And so we helped fund several colonies. Probably the biggest was this little one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing I don’t like about the Chinese worlds is that they’re all the same. The single, overriding Chinese culture does not accept challengers to its might. It dominates everywhere it goes, creating a whole lot of worlds that just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the Hundred Years War, we consolidated our rule over the entire island of Britain. And we expanded into other regions of the world, colonizing the Americas, Africa, Asia, and even Australia. We circumnavigated the globe, with ships of war[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen a lot of worlds in my life. Core Worlds. Colony Worlds. Inner and Outer. National or international colonization missions. Small group settlements. Even survey outposts. Russian. Chinese. Alliance. Other. I’ve seen a bit of everything since The War. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of those who live on tide-locked Xin Shi never see natural darkness. Others never see natural light. They live in the slums, on the edges of the habitable zone, where perpetual freezing night or the blast furnace winds of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our return to civilization was an interesting time. Like the Chinese proverb. The War was over. Peace reigned. Or so everybody knew. The affair was too far under the radar to make news. Everybody saw the fire of course. That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hundred Years War brought us together as a people. Saxon and Norman. My family as well, both those that came to England and who stayed in Normandy. It forged us all into a single people. The English. We even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the Chinese policy of giving their version of the treatments only to the rich or to colonists, their Outer Colonies can be pretty fun to visit. Lots of smart and motivated people that would have been trapped in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since Xin Shi has no day-night cycle, there is a single planetary time. None of the vast cities and amusement parks ever sleep. They’re open twenty-four hours a day or night, in perfect sync with Chinese Mean Time, with people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…