Defiance is the outer planet in the Independence system. It’s a very appropriate name. A tiny little toxic, corrosive ice ball with only trace atmosphere, it takes a particularly defiant individual to live there. We probably never would have bothered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There were two main winners in the Revolutionary War. The Colonies of course. The French as well. They weakened the British Empire by helping tear the Colonies away. Unfortunately, a century of on and off war with the British had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Persians follow Zoroastrianism ever since the Islamic Jihad. It was a big religion native to the area back before the original Islamic conquest, and it’s made a big comeback. Looking from the outside, the faith seems fairly simple. Creator[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pre-space scientists would have considered our colonization of Independence to be a remote possibility. You see, Tau Aurigae is a G8 III, a yellow star whose surface is cooler than Earth’s sun. But she is a giant star, one that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Malcolm. My mission was to launch a colony mission farther away than any previous colony. We called it the Wolfenheim Project. We had all the money we needed. We had enough ships to make the trip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Revolutionary War was a long and hard fight. It was not really a revolution of course. We did not overthrow the English government. War of Independence is more accurate, but everybody knows it as the Revolution. Possibly that is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve read a lot of crazy studies focused on Persia’s Iranian days. The problem they still have is that some people think the stuff the Iranian regimes did reflects the true culture of Persia. You know that’s like saying that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our oldest religions teach that God created the universe, and all life in it. That He created us in His image. They say that is why all life is so similar to ours. Other people theorize that an older race[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During the Revolutionary War my family was Tory. We remained loyal to England. Mostly. We did very little real fighting though. We were merchants after all. And we were not named Hurst. The elements of my family that survived in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Persia went through some real changes back in the 2000s. For one, they got rid of the name Iran. Iranian fanatics did enough crazy stuff during the Islamic Jihad that the Persian Revolution wanted nothing to do with that name[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…