I’ve been to a lot of South American worlds. They’ve worked real hard to stay non-aligned to any of the big powers out there. Even in the middle of The War, they declared neutrality and kept their ships out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2013
Novaya Rodina really isn’t a world that most of us would colonize now. She’s larger than Earth, has a larger mass shadow than Earth, and heavier surface gravity than Earth. Most of her surface is frozen solid, and her air[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Governor Penn wanted his new colony to be a haven to anyone, a place where the persecuted could live in peace. My family was not one of them, but we thought it could be a good place to do business. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I enjoy visiting the Russian worlds. Oh sure, we fought during The War, but there’s a big difference between the government and the people. And honestly, we have a lot more in common with the Russians than many other nations. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I’m surprised that humans live on Novaya Rodina at all. Historically, it all makes sense of course. It is the fourth of five habitable worlds, assuming flexible definitions of the term, in the Alpha Centauri Trinary star system, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people only had one plan during The War. Survive. But Charles and I had many plans. Some failed. Others succeeded. Some…went sideways. The Wolfenheim Project turned out to be one of those. It started out simple. Acquire Family funding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. The English side of my family saw the New World as the future. A way to expand our power and riches. And so we helped fund several colonies. Probably the biggest was this little one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing I don’t like about the Chinese worlds is that they’re all the same. The single, overriding Chinese culture does not accept challengers to its might. It dominates everywhere it goes, creating a whole lot of worlds that just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The richest citizens of Xin Shi can do anything they want, whenever they want to. At any time of day, they can sunbathe on the sunny side, and then cross the line to see a fireworks display in nighttime. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the Hundred Years War, we consolidated our rule over the entire island of Britain. And we expanded into other regions of the world, colonizing the Americas, Africa, Asia, and even Australia. We circumnavigated the globe, with ships of war[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…