Hello, my name is Malcolm. Just about everyone’s heard of the First Battle of Epsilon Reticuli. The greatest Alliance defeat of The War. Over three hundred warships lost in a few hours. First use of gravitic jammers. No survivors. History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2013
Few people realize how far the Normans traveled. Normandy and the British Isles are easy to remember. And from England, we conquered much of the world. But few people realize that we conquered southern Italy, Cyprus, and even regions of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople’s first foray into the space race was a bit of a market changer. Literally. She was the largest rotating space station of the time, with different decks matching the surface gravities of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Named Nilufer Station[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Millions of people travel to Persistence every year, and not because they want to see Half-Blood Falls. Don’t get me wrong. Two rivers, one dyed red by mineral deposits, meeting at a kilometer-high waterfall is a sight very few people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the French Revolution, they went crazy. They took our lands, our money, and our lives. The French side of my family, those who had lived in Normandy for nearly a millennium, were part of the landscape itself, faced mobs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople has colonized a lot of worlds. Of course it’s Constantinople, capital of empires, center of trade for millennia, ancient and powerful and all that jazz. Sure she was getting a bit long in the tooth by the time we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Persistence is the closest world to Independence’s giant star. Over six times as far away as Earth from our Sun, the immense amount of solar radiation and a very strong greenhouse effect keeps the world uncomfortably hot for most people. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Malcolm. Five years of planning and hard work. I always knew there was a chance that the people funding the Wolfenheim Project would realize they were funding it and demand their money back. I even planned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The French side of my family was very pleased with the end of the American Revolution. At first. Then the French citizens had their own little Revolution, and it was not nearly as nice the American one. When we Americans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Persians took Zoroastrianism with them into space, much like American Christianity and Israeli Judaism. It’s simply there, wherever you look. Printed on money, built in the hearts of their colonies, heard in the music, and everything else that makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…