The initial Jihadist assaults on British colleges killed many thousands of the best and brightest students, and destroyed some of the most advanced science projects in the United Kingdom. Most of the partial and complete British AIs died that day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Allied occupation of Constantinople was the first time the city had been conquered in five centuries. With it, the Allies demanded a partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The Allies subdivided the lands of modern-day Persia, Israel, and the Arabian[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most works of fiction that suggest Altair is a welcoming system for life don’t realize that the sun is all wrong for it. There were planets there, but they’d gone downhill long before we found them. After Contact though, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Isle of Britain was a center of advanced computer programming before the Second Great Depression hit. Many of the best colleges in the known world competed in the drive to create true artificial intelligence. Oxford’s greatest creation was Victoria,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…