The South needed more political power to protect their way of life. For that they needed more people and more representatives in Washington. The Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River didn’t count for that. Previous presidents had maintained[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2013
The Arnami really do have a kazillion eyelids. Their amazingly light-sensitive eyes can see deep under the ocean surface. Normal surface light would blind them if it weren’t for the eyelids. And yes, all those eyelids closed against the light[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale is the name of the system, the star, and the primary colonized world. Well, technically they call the star Sunny, but that’s getting picky from an outside point of view. The world is a lovely place to live, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The European branches of my family considered America a threat to their future. They saw an issue that could break it. Slavery. The North was opposed to the very idea of Slavery on religious and economic grounds. The South depended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love visiting the Arnami worlds. Yeah, most of them got Winter Contingencied during The War, but those that survived are something else. Yes, they do live under water. No urban legend there. Heck, a bunch of them live in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Torchdale is the single gas giant orbiting Sunnydale. Bright orange and red clouds gave it the name and it fits. Its atmosphere is amazingly rich in rare minerals, making it a very superior fleet base for our starships. There are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The American AI Rights League has been trying to outlaw AI labor since before The War. Even before Contact. They’ve been closely tied with the Human Labor Unions since the beginning. Didn’t like seeing their jobs taken by machines. So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fall of the Republican Party initiated a time of crisis in America. Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party promoted Slavery and a strong Executive branch. John Adams’ National Republicans and the Anti-Masonic Party stood against Jackson, a very high level Mason,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even some Chinese worlds are happy to see us. We still fly in awful careful, let me tell you. But, sometimes they need something done that they just don’t have the resources to handle. And like us or not, who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve been reading carefully, you may have caught onto the naming scheme some comedian decided to use for the worlds of Sunnydale. They were feeling particularly “humorous” when they named Cobbledale. It’s not even a world! It’s an asteroid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…