Byzantium is an interesting world. Founded by Constantinople in 2151, it was the first non-Global Three colony. Located in the Arcturus system, it was also the farthest colony of the time, on the edges of the stellar dust cloud our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2012
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…
We learned our own answer to the Fermi Paradox in our first starfaring century. Star travel was expensive. The fuel alone for a single journey could bankrupt small nations, and finding the fuel in the first place proved challenging. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Six years into The War, the French sent the first of a new class of battleships to sail with Aneerin’s fleet. He was named after the one of the most corrupt, Machiavellian, conniving, and ruthless leaders that France ever had. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Independence was the first colony outside The Wall, started by the NASA crew that discovered it. The Peloran Contacted them there, and Independence claims to this day that it was First Contact. According to Earth, the Peloran traveled to Earth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox asked why we had no contact with aliens. At the beginning of the 23rd century, we wondered if the time was right. We only began broadcasting radio in the late 1800s. We had only been traveling through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never was much of a beer drinker as a kid. Of course, all I had access to was the crappy three-two beer sold in Minnesota convenience stores so I wasn’t really missing much. When I was assigned to Aneerin’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Germans colonized their first world in 2147, they gave it a very German name. Deutschewelt. German World. While it may not be the most original of names, the great plains of that world grow some of the best[…]↓ 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…
The Fermi Paradox asked why, if life was common, we had no Contact with aliens. As we expanded, we began to worry that the answer was that they were simply too far away. We could only travel a hundred lightyears[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…