Hello, my name is Jack. It was a long War. A lot of us didn’t make it out. Many of us that did…well…for a lot of us we really didn’t. Make it out entirely. War’s not pretty, and it’s not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2013
When we returned to space in earnest, the Space Force and the Navy argued over who should be the dominant space arm. The submarine service entered the debate by saying that no air or surface fleet commanders had any true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jay Lovato is a big old Navajo Indian, and I do mean way older than me. He remembers when the Peloran made Contact. Never did fight much until Yosemite plastered the Navajo Nation. His people called him Running Bull on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the middle of the Alcyone quintuple star system, between the stars Ace and Deuce, is the reason we came to the Pleiades Cluster in the first place. It’s the reason the Peloran came here too. We’ve traveled thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Americans first went to space, the old Air Force led the way. NASA became the civilian face of our space program, but the Air Force continued their efforts. The resulting Air and Space Force became the primary Earth-based defense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cowboy Eight was a real good dancer. She was Hawaiian, so we came up with the amazing name of Hula. Yeah. We weren’t the most imaginative, but she liked it. She died and I helped her cyber live with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hades is the last inhabited world around the Alcyone system’s fifth star. It’s a sulfur-rich world, but despite the name, it’s extremely cold on average, with ice sheets stretching from the poles to near the equator. Constantinople used the ice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After The War, all we wanted to do was rest, relax, and never have to worry about fighting ever again. It was not meant to be though. They did not want to let us retire. They wished us always there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople is the last great non-aligned power. The City stretches from the Mediterranean to the Black Seas, and has been a major center of trade for thousands of years. When humanity went to the stars, The City sent scouts to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jessie James was my second wingman in the early months of The War. And yes, that is the name he was born with. We called him Cards at first because he’s always shuffling them, but after he somehow managed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…