Southeast Europe had long been a battleground between Christians of various nations and Muslims crossing from fallen Constantinople to spread their faith and subdue the unfaithful. In the mix of that centuries-long conflict, angry Serbian and Bosnian students plotted to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2013
You know there were a thousand major colonies when The War began? We lost a lot of them. Just…gone. Winter Contingency is such a clean word for the end of the world. But even that doesn’t really stop people. When[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over two thousand years ago, before Caesar crossed his Rubicon and Christ rode into Jerusalem, a great war waged amongst the stars. Many races died. We were born. Many of us found life in that conflagration of destruction. Then it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like many of my brothers and sisters, I was born after The War started. We’re really a new generation of cybers. Whatever family we come from, we were all born during the largest war fought in the last two thousand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As nationalist wars of independence raged through Continental Europe, England’s Industrial Revolution catapulted the small realm into superpower status. They called it “the empire on which the sun never sets” because there was always at least one British flag, in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never wanted to leave home as a kid. Northern Minnesota was the only place I wanted. It was beautiful. Now when I go back, all I see is the ghosts of friends that will never party on the beach[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first few months of The War were full of so many losses for us. We’d lost so many ships, and so many people, and then we came in and drove the Shang back from Fort Wichita. We didn’t do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Industrial Revolution brought profound change to England in the 1800s. Skilled workers could demand higher pay, and a driving need for more production resulted in more jobs available. Household incomes increased, and luxuries once limited to the rich became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I grew up, I never thought I’d have to really fight for much of anything. Oh, there were the schoolboy scuffles and such, but that’s normal. It was the big fighting I never thought of. War. Earth was so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Core Worlds militaries were the greatest weapons of war constructed by our branch of humanity when The War started. They had the largest warships, the most powerful weapons, the most advanced tanks and mechs, and the best-equipped infantry in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…