When the Republic of Texas secured the necessary infrastructure to colonize a world on their own, they chose a name as large as Texas itself to take their culture to the stars. Dallas. They didn’t need “New” tacked on. Just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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One of the more interesting theories I have heard from the days before Contact is that maybe we had not talked to anybody because they were too alien to talk to. Maybe they had a completely different style of technology[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up thinking America was composed of sovereign States. I’ve since learned that most are States, but that many are Commonwealths, Republics, or even in one case a Star Kingdom. And yet, they are all American. That was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Utopia is an old Greek word that means “no place” at all. Of course, “good place” has the same pronunciation, resulting in an historic debate over whether there is or can be any Utopia at all, anywhere. When the Western[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox asked why we had no Contact with aliens. Some suggested that alien was the operative word. There was no reason to assume that aliens were similar enough to us to want to talk. Perhaps they thought faster[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Nigerians were one of the Big Three African countries back in the day. They actually even had a navy that meant something when The War began. When Africa joined the fight, the Aradu came in with guns thundering. Well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tranquility is the art of being free of stress or disturbances. We named the first place we set foot on Luna the Sea of Tranquility. And it was a top candidate name for the first six Alliance colony worlds. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One explanation for why we had not made Contact was actually a question of the future of the human condition. Many people theorized that as we, or anyone else, expanded our technology to the singularity point, we could leave our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I served on the HMAS Melbourne when her squadron joined The Fleet. Ten years into The War we were making a major push against the Chinese, and the Australians wanted in on it. I learned that all Australian sailors spend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sanctuary was colonized with the mission of celebrating the unity of the Western Alliance, despite the infighting going on between the richest and poorest members of the Alliance in the mid-twenty second century. Instead it became a symbol of Alliance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…