The Fermi Paradox asked why we hadn’t been Contacted. Some said that we had. Most of our older religions worshiped beings of great power that came from the sky. We called them gods. The worship of the gods, God, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2012
The Fins have a long history of fighting the Russians, being occupied by the Russians, rebelling from the Russians, and fighting them again. Shooting Russians is practically a national sport. So when the Russians entered The War, Finland joined in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve got copies of myself living on…well…more worlds than Jack can count. And on many worlds he’d rather not go to. Francia was one world he didn’t want to see. Me, I loved it. The French brought their love of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War was difficult for us. The aftermath was worse than we expected. We were cultural heroes. They did not like that. They owned the media and used that influence to attack us. They got us retired. Thanks to Marine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When we were not Contacted, some people wondered if it was because advanced cultures could create something akin to radio, television, computers, or interactive online worlds. Such attractions could have resulted in people simply not caring about the outside world,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back when The War started, Belgium had no navy at all. They had a bunch of merchants, but no warships. So they called for volunteers from their merchant ships to crew their new navy. After some bad battles, they sent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rome is one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the Western Alliance, home to the Roman Catholic Church and to a long tradition of performing arts. When Italy colonized their first new world, they named it Nuova Roma, New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For over two centuries, we asked why nobody made Contact with us. Perhaps we should have been thankful that it did not happen. Contact between cultures is very dangerous after all, especially when one is far more advanced than the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a real interesting cruise with Bahamans when they sent their first warship to The Fleet. She was actually a refitted cruise liner, and since she couldn’t support heavy weapons they turned her into a carrier. The Atlantis was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The great nations of Africa built colonies when we went to the stars too. The first of those was Ulundi, the name of the most famous capital of the Zulu people before the Europeans conquered Africa. Reenactors still celebrate the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…