Hello, my name is Jack. I don’t talk about the last two years of The War much. To most people, they were good times. We’d won the Battle of Hyades. We were driving our enemies before us. We were winning. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for 2304 – Forge of War – First Draft
Hello, my name is Jack. At the start of The War, it was just us Americans, the Shang, and then the Peloran. The rest of the Western Alliance got involved real quick, and so did the Chinese. Still, many thought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. It looked like we were going to win the war, or at least get some real breathing room, a few months into The War. We had the Chinese and the Shang on the blocks, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. Pilots are a family, and we give each other names, callsigns. Whether we like them or not, we accept them if we know what is good for us, or our family will give us one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. We sometimes get too caught up in trying to keep from dying that we forget to be alive. I promised myself a long time ago to see and recognize everything that makes life worth living. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. Sometimes I’ve wondered what that means. Who am I? I’ve never fully answered that question to myself, beyond the obvious answer of course. I am who I choose to be. I was born Jack, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. The Cowboys were the first of our kind. The first Americans to fly off Peloran warships. The first to use hyper-capable fighters. The first to do a lot of things. People remember that. They don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. I have seen destruction in my time. I have seen orbital bombardments destroy entire cities. I have seen weapons of such power that only pulverized ruins remained. I have seen the dust that is left[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. If there is one thing I have learned while fighting with the Peloran, it is that they are utterly ruthless in battle. They may seem like kind old men and women, the kind of people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. I’ve come to realize that there is one thing that has affected me all of my life. That has been my cornerstone. I will break every rule out there, I will run a gauntlet of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…