We found out one reason why we had never made Contact with aliens or discovered their existence. We couldn’t hear their signals. They were on the wrong frequencies, scrambled for security so we could not even detect them apart from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In the later years of The War, any world or nation that could build a paperclip became real important to the war effort. Even the Irish navy came out swinging, if a little drunk at times. I got assigned to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born on Earth, and took my first steps into space on Luna. My first trip to the stars ended on New Earth, long before The War truly touched it. My first sight of New Washington though was in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 2205, we had been worrying over the Fermi Paradox for nearly three centuries. Why were we alone? If we weren’t alone, why did we have no Contact with aliens? Many theorized that we either had not been in space[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eleven years into The War, we just called Aneerin’s cobbled together collection of ships The Fleet. Every nation and world had its own fleet of course, but to those of us who’d been there since the beginning, The Fleet was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Byzantium is an interesting world. Founded by Constantinople in 2151, it was the first non-Global Three colony. Located in the Arcturus system, it was also the farthest colony of the time, on the edges of the stellar dust cloud our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We learned our own answer to the Fermi Paradox in our first starfaring century. Star travel was expensive. The fuel alone for a single journey could bankrupt small nations, and finding the fuel in the first place proved challenging. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Six years into The War, the French sent the first of a new class of battleships to sail with Aneerin’s fleet. He was named after the one of the most corrupt, Machiavellian, conniving, and ruthless leaders that France ever had. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Independence was the first colony outside The Wall, started by the NASA crew that discovered it. The Peloran Contacted them there, and Independence claims to this day that it was First Contact. According to Earth, the Peloran traveled to Earth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox asked why we had no contact with aliens. At the beginning of the 23rd century, we wondered if the time was right. We only began broadcasting radio in the late 1800s. We had only been traveling through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…