Most people think of the Wild Wild West as the period from end of the Civil War till the 1880s, during the reign of the gunfighters. Historians generally consider it to take place from 1803, when the United States purchased[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I grew up in northern Minnesota, where we had a special kind of dog. Timberwolves were the gengineers’ first wild project you see, and some called them a failure. Yes, they’re intelligent, but they refused to follow our rules. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Inner Colonies are linked to Earth almost as closely as the Core Worlds. Most colonists came from the many aspects of life their nation enshrined. And they are located inside The Wall of interstellar debris that separates us from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The reason there are relatively few starships is the cost of hyperdrives. Spaceships are extremely common though. Most star systems are teaming with small ships moving between planets and moons carrying cargo or passengers. People take weekend trips to vacation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the Civil War ended, hundreds of thousands of Americans streamed West. Defeated Confederate soldiers, weary Union cavalrymen, farmers, railroad tycoons, and more traveled Westward to make new lives for themselves. They created the Wild Wild West that many still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did you know dogs were beasts of burden for thousands of years? Horses weren’t used in America until the Europeans introduced them for instance. There and many other places, it was just dogs. I suppose it shouldn’t have surprised everyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Inner Colonies are those worlds we traveled to soon after Contact. Most were still government colonies, but many of them incorporated at least some Alien technologies. More importantly, they were founded with the knowledge that we were not alone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The European branches of my family thought America would become a threat to the global balance of power if not addressed. They hurt us. The South did not recover from the legacy of the Civil War for generations. But in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…