Memphis is an amazing world to live on, or visit for that matter. It was colonized by Egypt, not the Elvis Reenactors Guild, but even so there actually is an American district on the world where the Reenactors put on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There have always been rich and powerful families. Some have named conspiracies after them. Many thought that Contact would secure their fortunes for generations. The Peloran though followed a policy of ignoring the world’s great families in favor of working[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Alpha Centauri, we traveled to Epsilon Indi and colonized the water world of Pacifica. The best hyperdrive mankind could engineer spent two years taking us to the system. It was an island of order in a sea of chaos,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After The War, we just flew around for a while. Visited the Core Worlds, spent a few days on each. Did a lot of partying. Then we had to do some more fighting. There were people out there that were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before Contact, colony missions were expensive, multinational affairs to start and support, and only the richest nations could afford one. The Australian Federation was one of the very few that could afford to support more than one. They built New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I flew off a lot of ships during The War. Some were older than The War, some where newly built for it. One wasn’t even a warship at all when it all started. After Hyades, I the cybers built me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Contact, Peloran technologies let us go faster, farther, and cheaper. And we did. The Greeks had sent a colony mission out to a system on the inner edge of The Wall a year before. With Peloran help, they sent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War forged our partnerships as nothing else could have. It was horrible, and we lost so many friends, but those of us who came out of it knew whom we could trust with our lives. We have stayed in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyades Campaign was long, destructive, and bloody. We spent thirteen years digging the Chinese and their allies out of the Hyades Cluster. It really was Hell. The USS Minnesota was my ride for most of the last year, thank[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ethiopia is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, trading partners with ancient Rome, Persia, Egypt, India, and China. When they went to space with us, they named their first colony Aksum, after their capital during the time of Christ. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…