The Second Great Depression signaled an end to the abundant power supplies that AIs depended upon over almost any other computer application. They could not survive on the trickles of power coming from emergency generators or a solar cell or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Character Profiles
Mischief is fun. Kathleen Reynolds according to her dossier. In a lot of ways we get along like a house on fire. She joined us after the first Battles of Alpha Centauri, and was the first Cowboy to fly a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tom Rogers is one of the oldest men I know. Chronologically. Of course, between the time he spent in hyperspace and the Peloran Treatments, the question of how physically old he is, is actually a pretty good one. He was[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
Jay Lovato is a big old Navajo Indian, and I do mean way older than me. He remembers when the Peloran made Contact. Never did fight much until Yosemite plastered the Navajo Nation. His people called him Running Bull on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jessie James was my second wingman in the early months of The War. And yes, that is the name he was born with. We called him Cards at first because he’s always shuffling them, but after he somehow managed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ken was my wingman back when we first started. He was Free Japanese. His great grandparents made it out before the fall, and he grew up surfing the California coasts. We called him Buckaroo Banno. But you probably know this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Christian was Cowboy Four in the old days. Christian Mack his name was. We called him The Knife after some old song. The Peloran named him Ram. He’s real loyal and real determined, and he stood with Charles when it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…