Most of us are travelers of some kind. We do a lot of bounty hunting, bringing criminals to justice and the like. Some of us join the Marshal or Ranger programs, becoming official peace officers. Some even become local Sheriffs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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With Contact, the Peloran gave us examples of many new technologies. Some made our warships better. But the Peloran have amazing knowledge of the life sciences and many of these have civilian applications. We engineered new plants for New Antarctica,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Science fiction had a profound impact on the many terms we use now. The hyperspace/subspace argument, which still goes on, is far from the only “debate” we had. When the Peloran gave us the basic secrets of gravitic tech, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are so few of us. Amongst the many tens of billions of humanity, we are thousands. We could have stepped out of normal society and kept to ourselves. Let the rest of the worlds live or die on their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The modern Navy Scout Service is primarily made up of highly-stealthed boats that perform high-risk scouting and raiding missions. From screening Naval formations to penetrating enemy screens and planetary defense networks, they have been everywhere. Usually prowling with a company[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know over four thousand American Ageless served during The War. Almost five. Maybe five hundred of us served when the Shang struck. Over two thousand volunteered immediately after that. Another thousand signed up after the Russians got involved. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Washington’s Ice Age has frozen most of the planet for decades. We’ve saved or cataloged the native plants and animals, and environmental domes across the planet protect our cities and many wild lands. Outside the domes, only the equatorial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Contact resulted in tremendous change to the Scout Service. The introduction of Peloran gravitic technology alone would have been enough, but then Scout Service researchers broke the theory of Peloran stealth systems. The resulting radical redesign of Scout Service boats[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
America built hundreds of warships to fight The War, and they had absolute priority on recruiting the very best Ageless as their pilots. Most of the rest of us were fighter pilots, but there were barely five thousand Ageless in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shang bombarded New Washington during The War, leveling the capital city and driving ash into the air. That alone would have caused a period of global cooling that might have lasted a year or two. But the bombardment caused[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…