The new Navy Scout Service of the late 22nd Century was always hungry for more funding to build more ships, but the politicians gave them barely enough to scout for the major Naval fleets. At the same time, they lavished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mischief is fun. Kathleen Reynolds according to her dossier. In a lot of ways we get along like a house on fire. She joined us after the first Battles of Alpha Centauri, and was the first Cowboy to fly a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
America colonized New Washington in 2113 as a way of proving that America could travel to the stars without relying on the entire Western Alliance. It was a warm and tropical world back then, lush and brimming with life. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The submariners built our first space navy, but when the surface navy admirals finally bribed the politicians to give them a space navy, the submariners found themselves relegated and losing funding for their “silly little boats.” But they were the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tom Rogers is one of the oldest men I know. Chronologically. Of course, between the time he spent in hyperspace and the Peloran Treatments, the question of how physically old he is, is actually a pretty good one. He was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Earth survived The War relatively intact. The Shang alliance attacked the world multiple times, trying to drive the Western Alliance off it. The Shang even performed an orbital bombardment of Landing City once, though newly built ground-to-orbit defenses bled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Subspace. Slipspace. Hyperspace. Speculative science fiction gave us many names, and picking one was not easy. The science fiction fans had vested interests in getting the name “their” universe used accepted, and the “debate” was energetic. Submariners picked subspace, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s fewer of us as the decades go by. The first Cowboys. Only six survived The War. We’ve lost another brother since then. But there’s more of us too. Every year, more people volunteer to serve in the Cowboys, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the submariners that built the space navy, even the modern navy “dives” into hyperspace and “rises” into normalspace. The clarion call of a commanding officer to “prepare for surface action” is still the standard. But not all their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter White was the last of the original Cowboys. And we were so imaginative in our callsign creation that of course we named him Rabbit. And to make it worse, he was so compulsively punctual that we kept ribbing him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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