Columbia is a name long associated with America, the ethereal woman who calls us to progress into the future. We named cities and universities after her, and spacecraft named for her led us into space. And then there is Columbia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I chose to be born, I knew it would be difficult. My partner was from a bad family. They thought they were a great family, and that is where the difficulties began. He recognized the truth. He had long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people who answered the Fermi Paradox assumed that any alien capable of Contact would want Contact. But some theorized that they simply chose not to talk to us. To my mind, this is the most probable theory. The Peloran[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Danes sent several ships to join The Fleet that we got assigned to liaison with. I got the Havruen, named after the Danish word for mermaid. Now the old fairy tale never named the mermaid, so she picked the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 2169, the first colony ships arrived at New Seattle, 200 years to the day after Apollo Eleven landed on Luna. Unlike New Washington and Dallas, corporations funded and planned it, with only minimal aid from any government, making it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox asked why, if life was normal, we had no Contact with aliens. Some speculated that we did have Contact, but that the information was being suppressed. Reports of flying saucers and alien abductions were common in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Icelandic light cruiser Þór joined The Fleet back in 2318. Named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder and lightning, she picked the name Sif for her avatar. You know, the blonde-haired goddess of earth and fertility. Let me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Republic of Texas secured the necessary infrastructure to colonize a world on their own, they chose a name as large as Texas itself to take their culture to the stars. Dallas. They didn’t need “New” tacked on. Just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the more interesting theories I have heard from the days before Contact is that maybe we had not talked to anybody because they were too alien to talk to. Maybe they had a completely different style of technology[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up thinking America was composed of sovereign States. I’ve since learned that most are States, but that many are Commonwealths, Republics, or even in one case a Star Kingdom. And yet, they are all American. That was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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