Hello, my name is Jack. I’ve always taken things day-to-day, minute-to-minute. No plan survives contact with an angry father, so why bother making one? I prefer to wait for someone else to commit to an action, and then do what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2013
The modern Navy Scout Service is primarily made up of highly-stealthed boats that perform high-risk scouting and raiding missions. From screening Naval formations to penetrating enemy screens and planetary defense networks, they have been everywhere. Usually prowling with a company[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know over four thousand American Ageless served during The War. Almost five. Maybe five hundred of us served when the Shang struck. Over two thousand volunteered immediately after that. Another thousand signed up after the Russians got involved. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Washington’s Ice Age has frozen most of the planet for decades. We’ve saved or cataloged the native plants and animals, and environmental domes across the planet protect our cities and many wild lands. Outside the domes, only the equatorial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Contact resulted in tremendous change to the Scout Service. The introduction of Peloran gravitic technology alone would have been enough, but then Scout Service researchers broke the theory of Peloran stealth systems. The resulting radical redesign of Scout Service boats[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
America built hundreds of warships to fight The War, and they had absolute priority on recruiting the very best Ageless as their pilots. Most of the rest of us were fighter pilots, but there were barely five thousand Ageless in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shang bombarded New Washington during The War, leveling the capital city and driving ash into the air. That alone would have caused a period of global cooling that might have lasted a year or two. But the bombardment caused[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. The Marines have this thing about every Marine being a rifleman. Even pilots like me. They also have a thing about training every Marine in martial arts, to control our minds, our characters, and our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new Navy Scout Service of the late 22nd Century was always hungry for more funding to build more ships, but the politicians gave them barely enough to scout for the major Naval fleets. At the same time, they lavished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mischief is fun. Kathleen Reynolds according to her dossier. In a lot of ways we get along like a house on fire. She joined us after the first Battles of Alpha Centauri, and was the first Cowboy to fly a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…