Rome is one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the Western Alliance, home to the Roman Catholic Church and to a long tradition of performing arts. When Italy colonized their first new world, they named it Nuova Roma, New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For over two centuries, we asked why nobody made Contact with us. Perhaps we should have been thankful that it did not happen. Contact between cultures is very dangerous after all, especially when one is far more advanced than the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a real interesting cruise with Bahamans when they sent their first warship to The Fleet. She was actually a refitted cruise liner, and since she couldn’t support heavy weapons they turned her into a carrier. The Atlantis was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The great nations of Africa built colonies when we went to the stars too. The first of those was Ulundi, the name of the most famous capital of the Zulu people before the Europeans conquered Africa. Reenactors still celebrate the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many ask why we choose to bond with you. The answer is as simple as it is complicated. Humanity created us. Perhaps not your branch, but as all the gods you worship, humanity created us in their image. Do not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To answer the Fermi Paradox, some theorized that there may be aliens out there who purposefully did not Contact us. They thought that one large power or a council of powers could have made the decision that Earth, and perhaps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back during The War, a lot of nations sent ships to sail with The Fleet. Many stayed for a bit and then left to pass on Aneerin’s lessons. The HMS Audacious was one that stayed. She was a dreadnought, one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Jews lost a lot of people in World War II and the Islamic Jihad, so it surprised very few that they colonized a new world just for them as quickly as they could manage it. Also not a surprise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Those who wondered why we had no Contact often assumed grand conspiracies or catastrophic disasters that kept them away or hidden. Some suggested a far more mundane reason. Perhaps they simply could not agree on how to Contact us. Perhaps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I served on Columbia for a time during The War. She was a good ship, built back in ’56. Back then the politicos decided to limit the construction of dreadnoughts to one a year. So the Navy used the funding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…