For over a decade, the colonists of Novaya Rodina fought the world itself in their bid to settle it. Then international humanitarian organizations worked with the Russians to build a hospital in orbit. Rotating to replicate Earth gravity, the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2013
We cybers lead good lives. We can travel the datanets of entire worlds, star systems even, with a freedom that no flesh and blood human can understand short of a virtual reality. And even those are pale imitations of what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1700s, France and England slipped into the Second Hundred Years War. In America, we call them the French and Indian Wars. In the last of those wars, the Seven Years War, the first true World War, we fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every planet has some wilderness out there. Even Earth has her fair share of them. It’s where I grew up, and I still own a plot of land there. No house, but one day I’ll rest there in my family’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite rigorous controls, pregnancies happened. And though they were healthy and fit, the colonists lost five mothers and their children to Novaya Rodina. So their leaders initiated draconian policies to save the colony, including forced abortions. Those deaths haunt Novaya[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before we arrived, the Five Nations of the Iroquois fought a massive war from the modern New York State to the Illinois Federation, against other Indians and the French. The Iroquois won. When we colonized Pennsylvania, the Iroquois were the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love the Indian colonies. American Indian, not Indian Indian. Not that I don’t like the Indian Indians, but I’m rambling now. Point is, I like visiting the Indian worlds. They were involved in a lot of the early colonies,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Novaya Rodina was so inhospitable to human life, though still technically capable of supporting it, the Russians could only send their most physically fit, hardiest citizens on the colony mission. They didn’t pick simply healthy people like other nations. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born to help plan and build a new colony, farther away from Earth than any previous colony. It took years to bring all the resources we needed together. The starships. The colonists. The funding of course came from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We British ruled the waves for centuries with our merchant fleets. The sun never set on our fleets, from one side of the world to the other. We bought and sold anywhere there were people, and the riches of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…