Independence is the heart of the Tau Aurigae system. It’s also the name most people call the entire system, even the locals. The world was discovered by one of the last NASA missions, the Independence Seven genuine rocket ship. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Few people realize how far the Normans traveled. Normandy and the British Isles are easy to remember. And from England, we conquered much of the world. But few people realize that we conquered southern Italy, Cyprus, and even regions of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople’s first foray into the space race was a bit of a market changer. Literally. She was the largest rotating space station of the time, with different decks matching the surface gravities of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Named Nilufer Station[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Millions of people travel to Persistence every year, and not because they want to see Half-Blood Falls. Don’t get me wrong. Two rivers, one dyed red by mineral deposits, meeting at a kilometer-high waterfall is a sight very few people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the French Revolution, they went crazy. They took our lands, our money, and our lives. The French side of my family, those who had lived in Normandy for nearly a millennium, were part of the landscape itself, faced mobs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople has colonized a lot of worlds. Of course it’s Constantinople, capital of empires, center of trade for millennia, ancient and powerful and all that jazz. Sure she was getting a bit long in the tooth by the time we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Persistence is the closest world to Independence’s giant star. Over six times as far away as Earth from our Sun, the immense amount of solar radiation and a very strong greenhouse effect keeps the world uncomfortably hot for most people. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The French side of my family was very pleased with the end of the American Revolution. At first. Then the French citizens had their own little Revolution, and it was not nearly as nice the American one. When we Americans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Persians took Zoroastrianism with them into space, much like American Christianity and Israeli Judaism. It’s simply there, wherever you look. Printed on money, built in the hearts of their colonies, heard in the music, and everything else that makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Defiance is the outer planet in the Independence system. It’s a very appropriate name. A tiny little toxic, corrosive ice ball with only trace atmosphere, it takes a particularly defiant individual to live there. We probably never would have bothered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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