Subspace. Slipspace. Hyperspace. Speculative science fiction gave us many names, and picking one was not easy. The science fiction fans had vested interests in getting the name “their” universe used accepted, and the “debate” was energetic. Submariners picked subspace, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s fewer of us as the decades go by. The first Cowboys. Only six survived The War. We’ve lost another brother since then. But there’s more of us too. Every year, more people volunteer to serve in the Cowboys, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the submariners that built the space navy, even the modern navy “dives” into hyperspace and “rises” into normalspace. The clarion call of a commanding officer to “prepare for surface action” is still the standard. But not all their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter White was the last of the original Cowboys. And we were so imaginative in our callsign creation that of course we named him Rabbit. And to make it worse, he was so compulsively punctual that we kept ribbing him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese colonized New Earth first. Through their colony of Xin Xiang (New Town) the Chinese claimed the world as their own. We disagreed with their claim and founded Landing City. For the next two centuries, Landing City and Xin[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Run silent, run deep. Buried in the core of every submariner that ever lived is the urge to do precisely that. When they built the American space navy, they took that tradition with them. They flew the flag when ordered,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bad Chad was a real character, one of the original Cowboys that actually came from Texas. And oh boy did he know it. He had an ego to match the size of his home, and almost always lived up to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we expanded into the Solar System, colonizing Luna, Mars, and Venus, the new American space navy expanded with us. From one ship, to two, to a dozen, the best and brightest of the submarine service took to space. With[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Ten was a good man. Cowboy One Zero if you wanna be particular. Spud we called him for some reason I can’t even remember when I think back on it. He was always moving to a beat that no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When we returned to space in earnest, the Space Force and the Navy argued over who should be the dominant space arm. The submarine service entered the debate by saying that no air or surface fleet commanders had any true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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