I’m three quarters Scandinavian, so when the Swedes sent a squadron to support Aneerin, I jumped at the chance to fly off their flagship. Her Swedish Majesty’s Ship Gustav Adolf is named after one of the greatest kings in Swedish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2012
When the Alliance established new colonies, they chose peaceful, optimistic names. Serenity is one example, and became one of the Core Worlds of the Western Alliance. And like many of the Core Worlds, it became a priority target during The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During the twentieth century, we used massive, brute force transmitters for our radio and television signals. We proclaimed our existence and our technological sophistication for anybody to see, without any encryption or security of any kind. We did not transmit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Spanish Armada used to be the scariest navy in the world. It certainly wasn’t anything like that when The War started, but when the greatest Alliance fleets failed to bring victory, the Armada was there. Their battleships held the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I live a lot of lives, having left shards of myself on almost every world I’ve been to. There are some that aren’t friendly to my kind, so I tend to stay away from those. New New York as it[…]↓ 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…
We found out one reason why we had never made Contact with aliens or discovered their existence. We couldn’t hear their signals. They were on the wrong frequencies, scrambled for security so we could not even detect them apart from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the later years of The War, any world or nation that could build a paperclip became real important to the war effort. Even the Irish navy came out swinging, if a little drunk at times. I got assigned to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born on Earth, and took my first steps into space on Luna. My first trip to the stars ended on New Earth, long before The War truly touched it. My first sight of New Washington though was in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 2205, we had been worrying over the Fermi Paradox for nearly three centuries. Why were we alone? If we weren’t alone, why did we have no Contact with aliens? Many theorized that we either had not been in space[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…