Most Veterans got to enjoy the celebrations of War’s End, but we Cowboys, and the other Ageless, got truncated real quick. It started when the media asked how someone scarred by twenty years of War could be trusted in normal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s amazing really, just how short an attention span people can have. Realty shows bracketed by one-minute news reports simply don’t provide for an informed citizenry. And when the news cycles can be measured in days, today’s heroes who fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Veterans got to enjoy the celebrations of War’s End, but we Cowboys, and the other Ageless, got truncated real quick. It started when the media asked how someone scarred by twenty years of War could be trusted in normal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I arrived late to the celebration at Old New York. I was late enough that I did not have time to celebrate at all. My guide never arrived. That was my first clue that while The War was over, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember the celebration at Old New York like it was yesterday. I found myself with old friends, some of the few who survived the fall of Yosemite. They held me together. Well, they say that we held each other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After The War, we went to Old New York for the celebration of War’s end. The celebration went on for months, as Veterans came from across known space. Whether retiring or on liberty, the Veterans came home and celebrated with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stories, and the ability to tell them, are one of the many things that make us human. Our imaginations drive us to do things we don’t yet know how to do. Our wishes make us grow, our growth makes us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Peloran made Contact, we used rocket ships. Orbital elevators were our only cheap way into space. We had no control of gravity the way we do now. Then the Peloran Battle Squadron flashed into existence before our very[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My President pushed a treaty through the re-elected Senate that made the Cowboys a shared unit, where we provided the personnel, and the Peloran provided technological support and operational command. There are those in the military high command who never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Yosemite Yards were built in high geosynchronous orbit near the Panama City Orbital Elevator. All of our major shipyards were up there back then for security reasons. Nobody wanted an American shipyard flying over Chinese airspace for obvious reasons. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…