The Holidays are an amazing time. Humanity has celebrated during them for thousands of years, from the old Winter Solstice observed by many cultures, to the Jewish Hanukkah. The rise of Christianity brought Christmas and Boxing Day, and the Romans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While we spread out towards the Pleiades and the Chinese emphasized the Hyades, most of the Russian Post-Contact expansion drove straight up, from an Earth perspective, towards the Polaris Sector. They were out of our way and free to fortify[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Three. Where do I start? Charles obviously. Edward Hurst originally. We called him Woodchuck, and it was not a compliment. He radiated Rich White Boy like a fraking limo on Martin Luther King Boulevard. He was not one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alcyone star system is composed of a yellow star and two white dwarfs orbiting two blue giants. The two white stars lost their battle with gravity thousands of years ago and shed much of their mass into gaseous clouds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I was young, Christmas was a Family gathering. Note the capital F. It was a time for the entire extended Family to consider our plans for the next business year. We owned many businesses and there was much to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always enjoyed the Holiday Season. Family and friends getting together for Christmas and New Years parties. The Jews do their Hanukkah thing with their crazy candles of course, but they don’t turn down the fancy parties. Dancing’s fun after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Christmas is an interesting holiday. For two millennia, people have protested against celebrating it. Whether it be the highly religious Christians who say it is too secular, or the atheists who say it is too religious, there have always been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the births of the human races to the present, religion and a faith in God have been an inherent part of our natures. They’ve given us morals to live by, codes of conduct, and commands to eat healthily. Some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the end of the century, the member nations of the Western Alliance had consolidated control of nearly the entire Pleiades Corridor. It was a long corridor of stars, and our fleets were spread out to defend them, but we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Major George Randalf will always be Cowboy Two. He was an old fart, complete with some actual grey in his hair, probably from training young snots like us for most of his life. We called him Gandalf. He always grumped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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