Our return to civilization was an interesting time. Like the Chinese proverb. The War was over. Peace reigned. Or so everybody knew. The affair was too far under the radar to make news. Everybody saw the fire of course. That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hundred Years War brought us together as a people. Saxon and Norman. My family as well, both those that came to England and who stayed in Normandy. It forged us all into a single people. The English. We even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the Chinese policy of giving their version of the treatments only to the rich or to colonists, their Outer Colonies can be pretty fun to visit. Lots of smart and motivated people that would have been trapped in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since Xin Shi has no day-night cycle, there is a single planetary time. None of the vast cities and amusement parks ever sleep. They’re open twenty-four hours a day or night, in perfect sync with Chinese Mean Time, with people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Normans almost won the Hundred Years War. We did well in the early years. We raised the first standing armies since the fall of Rome. We researched new ways to fight, new weapons and new strategies. We advanced. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese do an interesting version of population control now. It’s nothing like the forced abortions of older centuries, but seems just as effective. In the Core Worlds, only the rich get the Chinese version of the treatments. Anyone else[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The shores of Xin Shi have the most expensive real estate on the planet. On the sunny side, you can swim in tropical warmth under a never-ending sun, twenty-four hours a day. Or if you prefer, you can relax before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After twenty years of War, we returned home to find our worlds changed while we were away. A deep ice age gripped New Washington. Earth was recovering from a mini-ice age itself, and the western half of America was well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
England became more important to my family during the Hundred Years War. As feudal holders to the French throne, the Normans owed fealty to the French king. But we held the kingship of England in our own right, and we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of people didn’t trust the Peloran when they showed up. Still don’t actually. Many groups tried to reverse engineer their treatments in fact. The results weren’t amazing. The Russian and Chinese Treatments for example have some kinda crazy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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