Many people say that the Chinese celebrate New Years at an odd time. Fact is, for thousands of years, New Years was based on the planting or harvesting seasons. China and ancient Rome both had New Years in spring, while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not long after me and Sam first met, she asked what I would have done if she hadn’t found me. I joked about getting a lot more sleep for one. She offered to help me out if sleep was that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things we’ve always done is help people. First we helped them by fighting to drive the Shang away. Then we fought some more because the times called for it. After that, we started traveling, and we found[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the start, we thought the Terran Bubble would be trouble. NASA sent Magellan Seven in 2120 on a forty-year mission to study The Walls of The Bubble and found them impassable. NASA started sending Vulcan Missions in 2170, tasked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pilots have flown for hundreds of years now. For the first two centuries, we flew on our own instincts, judging and guessing where we were and just hoping we didn’t make a mistake that killed us. In the late 1900s,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Terran race remembers the Peloran meeting with the British in the Terran System as the moment of Contact. We cybers track our moment of Contact to the world called Independence. Just barely outside The Wall that kept so many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We literally ran into a serious problem in our first century of hyperspace exploration. Our hyperdrives were so sensitive to interference, we had to fly “up” or “down” from the sun to escape the solar wind and all the junk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s this bar at Gateway called Cowboy Joe’s. There’s a room in the back reserved for anyone who flew with the Peloran, regardless of nationality. There’s cheap honeyed ale, cheaper beer, free conversations, and a place to step away from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We do investigations sometimes. I remember one day we were at a school at the request of the principal, but nobody else knew. I was walking around the halls and one of the administrators thought I was a substitute teacher[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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