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…
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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…
Europe had been watching us slide into war for decades. They saw it as a good thing, an end to a future threat. They stockpiled years’ worth of cotton and when The South seceded, they could survive the loss of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ship cats are different from other cats. They are just as intelligent and just as self-centered as other uplifted cats, but they seem to have a deeper need to join our world. They enjoy being with us, enjoy working with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran spent a century helping us learn to build better gravtech. We ran through what must have been thousands of years of technology in a mere century. We created new worlds with it, both physical and virtual, and many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Slave States saw the coming Republican majorities in the House and Senate as a threat to their way of life. They feared an outright abolition of Slavery, and the European branches of my family jumped on that fear. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…