The Chinese colonized New Earth first. Through their colony of Xin Xiang (New Town) the Chinese claimed the world as their own. We disagreed with their claim and founded Landing City. For the next two centuries, Landing City and Xin[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Run silent, run deep. Buried in the core of every submariner that ever lived is the urge to do precisely that. When they built the American space navy, they took that tradition with them. They flew the flag when ordered,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bad Chad was a real character, one of the original Cowboys that actually came from Texas. And oh boy did he know it. He had an ego to match the size of his home, and almost always lived up to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we expanded into the Solar System, colonizing Luna, Mars, and Venus, the new American space navy expanded with us. From one ship, to two, to a dozen, the best and brightest of the submarine service took to space. With[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Ten was a good man. Cowboy One Zero if you wanna be particular. Spud we called him for some reason I can’t even remember when I think back on it. He was always moving to a beat that no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When we returned to space in earnest, the Space Force and the Navy argued over who should be the dominant space arm. The submarine service entered the debate by saying that no air or surface fleet commanders had any true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jay Lovato is a big old Navajo Indian, and I do mean way older than me. He remembers when the Peloran made Contact. Never did fight much until Yosemite plastered the Navajo Nation. His people called him Running Bull on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the middle of the Alcyone quintuple star system, between the stars Ace and Deuce, is the reason we came to the Pleiades Cluster in the first place. It’s the reason the Peloran came here too. We’ve traveled thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Americans first went to space, the old Air Force led the way. NASA became the civilian face of our space program, but the Air Force continued their efforts. The resulting Air and Space Force became the primary Earth-based defense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Eight was a real good dancer. She was Hawaiian, so we came up with the amazing name of Hula. Yeah. We weren’t the most imaginative, but she liked it. She died and I helped her cyber live with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…