I’ve been to a lot of conventions over the years, on many planets. And sometimes off planet too. Gaming conventions, gun conventions, car conventions, spacecraft conventions, they all have one thing in common. They are about boys and girls of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2013
The farther we travel, the more life bearing worlds we find. The difficult thing is actually exploring all of the star systems now within a year’s travel of Earth. No single government has sent ships to every star in that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born to an American cybernetic family. We specialized in business administration, conforming to laws and exploiting loopholes in them. Yes, we have a proud history of being that most detested of all forms of life. Rules lawyers. Trust[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even after gaining new territory stretching to the Pacific Ocean, there was far more room to expand into in Northern America. The Slave economy of The South depended greatly on its warmer climate, and the Missouri Compromise Line placed a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did they play that cartoon about the rat and the cat always fighting each other when you were young? I remember them like they are yesterday. I used to really like that rat. He seemed like a carefree guy that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We do actually know of dead alien civilizations. The Albion, the Ennead, and many others died two thousand years ago. They were very thorough when it came to ending each other in that old war. But they were thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Officially, we purchased Texas and New Mexico as part of the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. We actually gave them much better terms than most victors give the vanquished. But Mexico was never happy about the loss of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The intelligent rats expanded fast after getting out of the lab. They smuggled themselves on trucks, trains, planes, and ships bound for pretty much anywhere. And they bred like…well…rats. I never really saw them where I grew up. Northern Minnesota[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are many theories as to why intelligent life is so rare. Some follow the old pre-Space alarmist ideas of global war wiping out civilization as we know it. Insert global warming, global cooling, stray asteroids, killer plagues, alien attacks,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve done so much in my life. Administration. Running a warship. Flying fighters. I was born to work with the public. It’s in my code. To my crew, I’m the person they can talk to about anything when they’re having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…