America colonized New Washington in 2113 as a way of proving that America could travel to the stars without relying on the entire Western Alliance. It was a warm and tropical world back then, lush and brimming with life. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2013
The submariners built our first space navy, but when the surface navy admirals finally bribed the politicians to give them a space navy, the submariners found themselves relegated and losing funding for their “silly little boats.” But they were the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tom Rogers is one of the oldest men I know. Chronologically. Of course, between the time he spent in hyperspace and the Peloran Treatments, the question of how physically old he is, is actually a pretty good one. He was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Earth survived The War relatively intact. The Shang alliance attacked the world multiple times, trying to drive the Western Alliance off it. The Shang even performed an orbital bombardment of Landing City once, though newly built ground-to-orbit defenses bled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. Some flames test us. Some flames break us. Some temper us. Some melt us. We are all a result of the flames that I have burned through our lives, and the way we met them. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Subspace. Slipspace. Hyperspace. Speculative science fiction gave us many names, and picking one was not easy. The science fiction fans had vested interests in getting the name “their” universe used accepted, and the “debate” was energetic. Submariners picked subspace, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s fewer of us as the decades go by. The first Cowboys. Only six survived The War. We’ve lost another brother since then. But there’s more of us too. Every year, more people volunteer to serve in the Cowboys, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For two centuries, the Western Alliance and the Chinese vied for control of New Earth through their surrogates in Landing City and Xin Xiang. They fought not with bullets but with land grabs, resource hoarding, and old-fashioned economic warfare. Both[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…