You know most of the cultures that survived to make it to space considered dogs to be companion animals. Friends. There were some that thought them unclean, but those didn’t make it that far. And we had the Peloran example[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Diaries
I love the Core Worlds, the worlds colonized before Contact. People who lived without gravtech built them, and many are still alive today thanks to the Peloran Treatments. That gives many of them an amazing sense of community, but they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did you know that the vast majority of humanity lives on the same world they were born on? There are not enough starships in all the worlds to carry even a tithe of humanity. Yes, ten percent of Americans served[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over two percent of the population of America died in the Civil War. Yes, many of them were the young and helpless or the old and infirm, but the losses amongst the healthy young men were horrible. Fully ten percent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uplifted dogs are as fanatically loyal to their pack and their pack leader as normal dogs. The gengineers did not change that. All dogs crave the sense of community and order that the military is built around, but uplifted dogs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Children have always led the way into the future. They are the ones who see possibilities and come up with the innovations that change our worlds. People start most new business ventures in their teens or twenties. Extended life spans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Civil War was horrible for my family. Philadelphia. Boston, and New York were the homes we built our power bases from. But we lived in Montgomery, Richmond, and Charleston too. We were respected leaders of the community on both[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uplifted dogs are a totally different animal from gengineered cats. Of course, they started different so I suppose that tracks. Dogs have been man’s best friend since we invited the first wolves to become part of our packs way back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all people, children are some of the most amazing to work with. They have fresh minds, unconcerned with doing things the way they’ve always been done. They see only possibilities, and their imaginations are unbounded by life’s disappointments. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are many neutral powers on Earth and beyond. South America and her colonies are the largest of these. The province of strongman leadership, corruption, and civil wars for thousands of years, the continent was in some ways uniquely ready[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…