You know the saying about rats fleeing sinking ships? Yeah, that was actually based on reality. Rats got on actual water-sailing ships back in the old days. Don’t ask me. I don’t know. When a ship started sinking, the rats[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people wonder why we continue to explore other systems at all. We have enough room on the worlds we’ve discovered to live on for thousands of years without crowding after all. The vast majority of us never leave the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the threat of Britain diminishing in the thirty years following our successful war with Mexico, we stumbled towards another war of our own making. Abolitionists demanded Slavery’s end. Slave States in turn threatened Secession, until we passed the Kansas-Nebraska[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to a lot of conventions over the years, on many planets. And sometimes off planet too. Gaming conventions, gun conventions, car conventions, spacecraft conventions, they all have one thing in common. They are about boys and girls of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The farther we travel, the more life bearing worlds we find. The difficult thing is actually exploring all of the star systems now within a year’s travel of Earth. No single government has sent ships to every star in that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born to an American cybernetic family. We specialized in business administration, conforming to laws and exploiting loopholes in them. Yes, we have a proud history of being that most detested of all forms of life. Rules lawyers. Trust[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even after gaining new territory stretching to the Pacific Ocean, there was far more room to expand into in Northern America. The Slave economy of The South depended greatly on its warmer climate, and the Missouri Compromise Line placed a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did they play that cartoon about the rat and the cat always fighting each other when you were young? I remember them like they are yesterday. I used to really like that rat. He seemed like a carefree guy that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We do actually know of dead alien civilizations. The Albion, the Ennead, and many others died two thousand years ago. They were very thorough when it came to ending each other in that old war. But they were thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Officially, we purchased Texas and New Mexico as part of the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. We actually gave them much better terms than most victors give the vanquished. But Mexico was never happy about the loss of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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