When the Peloran made Contact, we used rocket ships. Orbital elevators were our only cheap way into space. We had no control of gravity the way we do now. Then the Peloran Battle Squadron flashed into existence before our very[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My President pushed a treaty through the re-elected Senate that made the Cowboys a shared unit, where we provided the personnel, and the Peloran provided technological support and operational command. There are those in the military high command who never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really like Arkadia. Open skies as far as the eye can see, literally, are only one thing going for it. There are handfuls of planetoids, mostly man-made that pass for cities, and smaller moonlets and asteroids scattered throughout the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Yosemite Yards were built in high geosynchronous orbit near the Panama City Orbital Elevator. All of our major shipyards were up there back then for security reasons. Nobody wanted an American shipyard flying over Chinese airspace for obvious reasons. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t remember the American Presidents of my youth. They didn’t really affect my life. The junior Senator from Colorado did though. When the Shang plastered Washington D.C. with missiles, she stepped up and gave us all an example to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all the worlds I’ve been to, Arkadia is one of the most interesting. It’s not even really a world, properly speaking. A planet that is. It’s part of a binary star system out in the old Albion Sector. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People think that space is cold. They are wrong. It can be cold, and in shadow it is so cold that metal can snap. But in direct sunlight, that same metal can melt due to the heat. Of course, that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Navy called for companies willing to construct new exploration ships, the Numu Federation of western America quickly answered the call by offering the services of their yard complex. They had been building Yosemite Yard for years to support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really did have a chance to retire after The War. I did retire from the military. But no one really retires from being a Marine. Turns out, it’s the same thing for Cowboys. A lot of us have gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Americans have a flair for using names like Freedom, Independence, and Liberty to celebrate the rugged individuality that supposedly won the rebellion. In actuality, it was teamwork and hanging together that made America great, and it was just that organization[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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