While France suffered through revolutions every few months, the majority of my family decided to make certain they would not have another chance to conquer the known world. One of our more successful agendas was the unification of the Germanies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2013
The Constantinople Trade Network goes everywhere that humanity has gone. We puny Earthlings at least. They’ve even set up some offices in alien space. Yeah, I’ve been to some of them too. I’ve really gotten around since The War. Actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale has a gas giant, one asteroid belt, and five terrestrial worlds orbiting her. Scorchdale and Sizzledale are too close to the sun to be habitable under any common understanding of the word. Scorchdale’s heavy mineral resources and low gravity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the defeat of the French Republic, we installed those nobles who still lived back in command of France. Unfortunately, they were as unpopular as they had been before the French Revolution, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople created a lot of trade worlds as we expanded into the stars. Arcturus. Antares. Celaeno. Canopus. Polaris. Rastaban and more. They all orbit giant stars that twist the fabric of hyperspace more than standard stars. Starships can sail between[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale is one of the hottest stars we’ve colonized, her surface nearly white-hot against the darkness of space. Only spectacularly inefficient greenhouse effects make any of the worlds under her powerful fires habitable at all. The Republic of California acquired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Malcolm. I have met many I would consider friends over the years. There are only a very few that I would trust with my life. There are even fewer that I would drop everything for. Charles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the French Revolution, the man known simply as Napoleon rose to power and conquered Western Europe. My family organized coalitions of the most powerful nations of the time to fight France, but coalition after coalition failed to do the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Byzantium is an amazing place. The planet, not the old city name. She’s ringed by orbiting space stations that do nothing but trade and buy and sell stuff. It’s like a giant outlet center in places. In other places, it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Independence is the symbol of progress in the Pleiades Sector. The oldest and richest colony, all expeditions to the sector have passed through her space on the way out to their final destinations. Even the Alcyone Expeditions stopped there to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…