The Indian worlds are different from most other worlds I’ve been to. India is one of the oldest civilizations out there, with cities thousands of years old on Earth. I’ve been there, and the sense of age is amazing. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The colonists of Novaya Rodina were screened for any illness, and any genetic predilections towards them. Every future colonist was similarly screened, to keep the planet itself from killing them. They were an entire population chosen from the best of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1700s were a time of religious revival in America. The First Great Awakening it is called. New preachers taught that the Bible said all men were created equal, and that it was our place to read the Bible and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The African colonies are interesting. I love visiting, but my word are they not exactly what I’d call normal. The Africans have totally different cultural ideas, and they love planets that I could barely live on. Oh, every planet has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For over a decade, the colonists of Novaya Rodina fought the world itself in their bid to settle it. Then international humanitarian organizations worked with the Russians to build a hospital in orbit. Rotating to replicate Earth gravity, the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We cybers lead good lives. We can travel the datanets of entire worlds, star systems even, with a freedom that no flesh and blood human can understand short of a virtual reality. And even those are pale imitations of what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1700s, France and England slipped into the Second Hundred Years War. In America, we call them the French and Indian Wars. In the last of those wars, the Seven Years War, the first true World War, we fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every planet has some wilderness out there. Even Earth has her fair share of them. It’s where I grew up, and I still own a plot of land there. No house, but one day I’ll rest there in my family’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite rigorous controls, pregnancies happened. And though they were healthy and fit, the colonists lost five mothers and their children to Novaya Rodina. So their leaders initiated draconian policies to save the colony, including forced abortions. Those deaths haunt Novaya[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before we arrived, the Five Nations of the Iroquois fought a massive war from the modern New York State to the Illinois Federation, against other Indians and the French. The Iroquois won. When we colonized Pennsylvania, the Iroquois were the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…