The Industrial Revolution brought profound change to England in the 1800s. Skilled workers could demand higher pay, and a driving need for more production resulted in more jobs available. Household incomes increased, and luxuries once limited to the rich became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When I grew up, I never thought I’d have to really fight for much of anything. Oh, there were the schoolboy scuffles and such, but that’s normal. It was the big fighting I never thought of. War. Earth was so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Core Worlds militaries were the greatest weapons of war constructed by our branch of humanity when The War started. They had the largest warships, the most powerful weapons, the most advanced tanks and mechs, and the best-equipped infantry in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up a satellite of the Hurst family. Charles’ parents wanted him to understand the little people in life, you see, so they arranged for me to be his boyhood playmate. The little people in question being members of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1800s brought profound change to Continental Europe. Thousands of small independent states had ruled as part of larger grand empires in 1800. By 1900, nationalist tendencies had splintered the larger empires and united the independent states into the true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cats and dogs weren’t the only animals we uplifted you know. There’s the escaped rats, and horses, dolphins, and a whole mess of others. We were busy little gengineers back in the day. We’ve put a lot more controls in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonial militaries have always had budgetary issues. They can rarely afford battleships and fleet carriers, so they make do with smaller ships. They work longer hours, do more with less, and often use obsolete equipment that “real” militaries[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Surrounded by powerful forces that had tried to dominate them for thousands of years, the Germanies finally decided it was high time to come together. Hundreds of different states cooperated to win their independence from the Austrian Empire, only to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An interesting thing about animals is that we can make them intelligent but we can’t make them human. An uplifted dog is a smart dog, not a human that walks on all fours. And they’ve become more a part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonial militaries have always had more experience than the soldiers back home. The men and women on the frontiers live and die by learning, and sometimes get rotated back to teach the homeguard a thing or two. Not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…