I’ve always enjoyed the Holiday Season. Family and friends getting together for Christmas and New Years parties. The Jews do their Hanukkah thing with their crazy candles of course, but they don’t turn down the fancy parties. Dancing’s fun after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Christmas is an interesting holiday. For two millennia, people have protested against celebrating it. Whether it be the highly religious Christians who say it is too secular, or the atheists who say it is too religious, there have always been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the births of the human races to the present, religion and a faith in God have been an inherent part of our natures. They’ve given us morals to live by, codes of conduct, and commands to eat healthily. Some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the end of the century, the member nations of the Western Alliance had consolidated control of nearly the entire Pleiades Corridor. It was a long corridor of stars, and our fleets were spread out to defend them, but we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Major George Randalf will always be Cowboy Two. He was an old fart, complete with some actual grey in his hair, probably from training young snots like us for most of his life. We called him Gandalf. He always grumped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alcyone star system is composed of five stars. The two largest giants rotate around a common center of gravity, as close to each other as our Sun is to Jupiter, and no planets remain around either of them, if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We colonized Alcyone to act as a diplomatic mission to the Peloran while we placed more refueling colonies between it and Earth. By 2250, the trip only took two years, even including the transit through The Wall. We scattered the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The original Cowboy One was Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Johanson. He was one of the guys that…well…he was real nice, but real hard too. He had to be to get all of us into fighting shape and that wasn’t easy. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I find it interesting that so many humans strive to improve their conditions. Not all by any means. Not even most. But there are always those who look for a better way to peel a potato. Some want to get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There have only been four Cowboy Ones since they reactivated the squadron for The War. We normally don’t change numbers. I will always be Cowboy Five, and there will never be another Cowboy Five. But there will always be a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…