The question of Slavery became too polarizing in the election of 1860, with extremists on either side of the Slave issue leading the charge. The Republicans ran a Free State campaign, the Democrats split into two parties over degrees of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing that a lot of people don’t know is that all uplifted cats are descended from the Hemingway Cats. They were considered the smartest and most adaptable of their kind, and the original gengineers spliced a lot of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran don’t share their star charts with us. We know they are vast, but they rarely actually tell us anything. The most they will do is warn us about areas that might be threats. After a few expeditions tore[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After decades of Democratic first party rule in the United States, Free State politicians reformed the Republican Party. Their driving mission was to eradicate Slavery in every State and Territory, and Free Staters from almost every major party flocked to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cats have traveled with us since the times of ancient Egypt. They were part of the ship’s crew, with a job like everyone else on board, from hunting birds to rodents aboard ship. They warned us of storms, served as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve explored thousands of star systems since first going to the stars. But we’ve never been the first visitors. We’ve had centuries to explorer. The Peloran have had over two millennia, and we don’t know how long the Albion had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wolfenheim Project was never simply about building a new colony. Oh, the colony was important. But Charles has never been one to play one game at a time. You see the Hurst family was rich, powerful, and very set[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kansas-Nebraska Act touched off four years of bitter war between Slave State and Free State forces as they fought to drive their opponents out of Bloody Kansas. Even the halls of power were not immune, and verbal sparring in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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