Constantinople has colonized a lot of worlds. Of course it’s Constantinople, capital of empires, center of trade for millennia, ancient and powerful and all that jazz. Sure she was getting a bit long in the tooth by the time we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Persistence is the closest world to Independence’s giant star. Over six times as far away as Earth from our Sun, the immense amount of solar radiation and a very strong greenhouse effect keeps the world uncomfortably hot for most people. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The French side of my family was very pleased with the end of the American Revolution. At first. Then the French citizens had their own little Revolution, and it was not nearly as nice the American one. When we Americans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Persians took Zoroastrianism with them into space, much like American Christianity and Israeli Judaism. It’s simply there, wherever you look. Printed on money, built in the hearts of their colonies, heard in the music, and everything else that makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Defiance is the outer planet in the Independence system. It’s a very appropriate name. A tiny little toxic, corrosive ice ball with only trace atmosphere, it takes a particularly defiant individual to live there. We probably never would have bothered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were two main winners in the Revolutionary War. The Colonies of course. The French as well. They weakened the British Empire by helping tear the Colonies away. Unfortunately, a century of on and off war with the British had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Persians follow Zoroastrianism ever since the Islamic Jihad. It was a big religion native to the area back before the original Islamic conquest, and it’s made a big comeback. Looking from the outside, the faith seems fairly simple. Creator[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pre-space scientists would have considered our colonization of Independence to be a remote possibility. You see, Tau Aurigae is a G8 III, a yellow star whose surface is cooler than Earth’s sun. But she is a giant star, one that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Revolutionary War was a long and hard fight. It was not really a revolution of course. We did not overthrow the English government. War of Independence is more accurate, but everybody knows it as the Revolution. Possibly that is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve read a lot of crazy studies focused on Persia’s Iranian days. The problem they still have is that some people think the stuff the Iranian regimes did reflects the true culture of Persia. You know that’s like saying that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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