The Cowboys named me Jester. It was a good name. I earned it. Then the Peloran named me Hart. It took a while for us to make the change. We felt they were trying to take our real names. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Alcyone’s fifth star, Dixie, has a system of three planets and an asteroid belt that is probably the remains of a fourth. They are the only remaining stable planets in the entire Alcyone star system, and humans live on all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South Americans are the most powerful of the non-aligned powers. They maintained strict neutrality between the Western Alliance, Russians, and Chinese as we expanded into the stars. Their worlds became trading posts where traders of all nations are welcomed,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Christian was Cowboy Four in the old days. Christian Mack his name was. We called him The Knife after some old song. The Peloran named him Ram. He’s real loyal and real determined, and he stood with Charles when it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alcyone has five stars. The blue giants, Aa and Ab, have fancy scientific names. The locals call them Ace and Deuce. The white dwarfs, B and C, our astronomically huge mines of star stuff, we call Buck and Cash. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Holidays are an amazing time. Humanity has celebrated during them for thousands of years, from the old Winter Solstice observed by many cultures, to the Jewish Hanukkah. The rise of Christianity brought Christmas and Boxing Day, and the Romans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While we spread out towards the Pleiades and the Chinese emphasized the Hyades, most of the Russian Post-Contact expansion drove straight up, from an Earth perspective, towards the Polaris Sector. They were out of our way and free to fortify[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Three. Where do I start? Charles obviously. Edward Hurst originally. We called him Woodchuck, and it was not a compliment. He radiated Rich White Boy like a fraking limo on Martin Luther King Boulevard. He was not one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alcyone star system is composed of a yellow star and two white dwarfs orbiting two blue giants. The two white stars lost their battle with gravity thousands of years ago and shed much of their mass into gaseous clouds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I was young, Christmas was a Family gathering. Note the capital F. It was a time for the entire extended Family to consider our plans for the next business year. We owned many businesses and there was much to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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