The Normans almost won the Hundred Years War. We did well in the early years. We raised the first standing armies since the fall of Rome. We researched new ways to fight, new weapons and new strategies. We advanced. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese do an interesting version of population control now. It’s nothing like the forced abortions of older centuries, but seems just as effective. In the Core Worlds, only the rich get the Chinese version of the treatments. Anyone else[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The shores of Xin Shi have the most expensive real estate on the planet. On the sunny side, you can swim in tropical warmth under a never-ending sun, twenty-four hours a day. Or if you prefer, you can relax before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After twenty years of War, we returned home to find our worlds changed while we were away. A deep ice age gripped New Washington. Earth was recovering from a mini-ice age itself, and the western half of America was well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
England became more important to my family during the Hundred Years War. As feudal holders to the French throne, the Normans owed fealty to the French king. But we held the kingship of England in our own right, and we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of people didn’t trust the Peloran when they showed up. Still don’t actually. Many groups tried to reverse engineer their treatments in fact. The results weren’t amazing. The Russian and Chinese Treatments for example have some kinda crazy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Great Wall of Xin Shi isn’t actually a wall of course. It does ring the planet, where day and night meet, but it isn’t a single building by any means. It’s broken up by lakes and small oceans, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the Normans ruled England from Normandy. My little branch of the family actually did move to England, but many of us stayed. We continued to speak our own little version of French, and to rule the island as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s an old saying, from back before Contact. You can be full of wisdom or full of youth. You can’t have both. That’s still true of the lower classes in places like China and India, where population and cultural pressures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The betrayals we suffered after The War caught us by surprise. Even most of those in Charles’ family did not see them coming. Perhaps we should have. We knew they did not like us. Even those nominally on Charles’ side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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