In 2169, the first colony ships arrived at New Seattle, 200 years to the day after Apollo Eleven landed on Luna. Unlike New Washington and Dallas, corporations funded and planned it, with only minimal aid from any government, making it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2012
The Fermi Paradox asked why, if life was normal, we had no Contact with aliens. Some speculated that we did have Contact, but that the information was being suppressed. Reports of flying saucers and alien abductions were common in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Icelandic light cruiser Þór joined The Fleet back in 2318. Named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder and lightning, she picked the name Sif for her avatar. You know, the blonde-haired goddess of earth and fertility. Let me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Republic of Texas secured the necessary infrastructure to colonize a world on their own, they chose a name as large as Texas itself to take their culture to the stars. Dallas. They didn’t need “New” tacked on. Just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
One of the more interesting theories I have heard from the days before Contact is that maybe we had not talked to anybody because they were too alien to talk to. Maybe they had a completely different style of technology[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up thinking America was composed of sovereign States. I’ve since learned that most are States, but that many are Commonwealths, Republics, or even in one case a Star Kingdom. And yet, they are all American. That was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Utopia is an old Greek word that means “no place” at all. Of course, “good place” has the same pronunciation, resulting in an historic debate over whether there is or can be any Utopia at all, anywhere. When the Western[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox asked why we had no Contact with aliens. Some suggested that alien was the operative word. There was no reason to assume that aliens were similar enough to us to want to talk. Perhaps they thought faster[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Nigerians were one of the Big Three African countries back in the day. They actually even had a navy that meant something when The War began. When Africa joined the fight, the Aradu came in with guns thundering. Well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…