Our first hyperdrive was so slow it took a year to fly to Alpha Centauri. We spent decades exploring just the systems within fifty lightyears of Earth on those drives. They were so expensive that only the rich or the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Diaries
I’ve been to a lot of worlds in my lifetime. During The War, I fought over or on them. After that, I just flew around. There are a number of them I don’t like, but most planets have something I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a world in Terran space that the cyber families colonized shortly after Contact. It was an inhospitable world, one where humanity did not live, orbiting a star that humanity does not travel to. We built a repository of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. What does it take to be a pilot in the age of cybers? Reflexes. You need reflexes to move fast and the instincts to use them even when you don’t know why. You have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I grew up…everywhere, on the fastest hyperspace-capable ships in Terran hands. By the time I was twenty, I’d been to every major colony within 100 lightyears of Earth, attending high end business negotiations with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up in International Falls, on the edge of the Boundary Waters. People up there actually have a fair bit of contact with aliens. The Arnam live and breath underwater, but salt water is just as deadly to them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America, Earth. Yes, that makes me a not-so-puny Earthling, if you count place of birth, not race. I spent the first three months of my life in Earthspace. That is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people talk about freedom. The freedom to live where they want to, to say what they want to, to do what they want to do. Very few people speak out though. Of those, very few are willing to stand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The government works for you. Never allow it to take your freedom of speech, or your ability to defend it. And always use your freedom of speech to let everyone know that you won’t allow it.
There is a holiday in America that celebrates the legacy of a Christian minister who taught everyone that there was a better way to live. He used the media of the time to show everyone that all races should have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…