Tensions between Mexico and Texas soon erupted into open warfare. The resulting Mexican-American War saw American troops vanquishing the Mexican army and navy on all fronts, from Texas, to California, to Mexico City. Whig opponents of the war called it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2013
We’ve uplifted a lot of animals to human-level intelligence. Gorillas and the other simians were easy from what I understand. Dolphins and similar guys were already high on the sentience list. We did cats and dogs too. Opposable thumbs and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is one thing that we’ve found that is very rare in our travels. Throughout all of Terran space, we’ve not met another natural star-traveling race. For all the life-giving worlds we’ve found near Earth, for all the living beings[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Republic of Texas lived a very short time. In effect, it lasted long enough for Texas to ask for annexation by the United States of America, and for that request to be accepted. Texas never forgot her history[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
History talks about how we met aliens and found out they were human too. Homo Sapiens that is. Homo Stellaris. Whatever. Point is, it’s sorta true. Yes, the most powerful are, but there are others. We’ve uplifted cats and dogs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The frequency of habitable worlds in our area of space is far beyond what scientists ever projected. Some people theorize some intelligent design process. Our terraforming of Mars and Venus is as an example of that. But we have yet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Malcolm. I was born in a time of peace. It was a time of healing with new medicines, and a time of building hundreds of new colonies. We laughed and danced and loved. We weren’t perfect[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Santa Anna signed an agreement recognizing the Republic of Texas. In return, the Texans agreed not to shoot him dead and sent him away. In practice, once he was gone, Mexico never accepted the agreements, stating that he had no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arnami live and breathe under water. They grow up knowing that the world is made of three dimensions. Swimming up and down is as natural as going left or right. That actually makes them very good special navigators. And they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One surprise to many scientists was the discovery of habitable worlds around nearby giant star systems. A giant star is formed when a normal star like our own sun reaches the end of its life cycle and expands, usually eating[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…