The first test run of Peloran crashed and burned when the hit puberty after two years of accelerated life. They became rebellious and cavalier. Each of them wanted to prove they were better than the others, and drove each other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The initial Albion plan for the Peloran had been to accelerate their growth until puberty, and then spend a year maturing them through puberty as they were trained for combat. That would give them trained young soldiers in three years.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the primary differences between Peloran and Terran humanity is the Peloran growth cycle. The Albion originally created the Peloran as test tube babies grown in artificial wombs. The first batches were all male, since they were supposed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Earth branch of humanity has met many branches of humanity and other species since leaving the solar system. The Peloran are an example of a race that can almost pass for Terran. Their pointed ears and other features give[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen men that can survive in the vacuum of space. I’ve seen men that can live in the deepest darkest caves. I’ve seen men obviously designed to live on high-gee worlds, and I’ve seen people who lived inside the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We really do live in good times now. I tell myself that every day. But I watch what the governments do and I don’t like a lot of it. They don’t teach about all the people I’ve met out there,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion did a lot of gengineering back in their day, leaving behind a lot of species as their legacy. You’ve heard of the Arnam and Peloran. Most of you haven’t heard of the others. Most have full human intelligence,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cheap little toys we brought home from Betelgeuse showed us that the Thunderbirds had the same tech base as the Peloran. That brought up all kinds of interesting questions. “How did they get it?” was one of the big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “cheap toys” we brought back from Betelgeuse is how we learned the Thunderbird’s secret of course. In examining the tech, we realized it had the same base as the tech the Peloran use. Two thousand years of divergence of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a lot of bluffing involved in our Contact mission at Betelgeuse. The birds saw our ship deftly evade almost all of their weapons fire. We never fired back so they didn’t see our weapons in action. Thank God. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…