The German people were angry after World War I. They saw themselves as the victims of foreign powers and a government too weak to stand against them. A series of Socialist and Workers’ parties called for a change, and shouted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for May, 2014
Beyond the beaches of Canopus there are also vast fields that grow succulent foods. And of course they take special care to make the special stuff. There is a reason that Canopian brandies and wines are famous everywhere we have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We established the Great Pacific Firewall to protect the remaining American computer networks from Chinese hackers. The fall of Japan and the Philippines shattered the firewall for a time, and the Kingdom of Hawaii became a highway for Chinese hackers. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the Japanese were busy building a new empire and the Allies worked to disassemble other empires, the shattered husk of Germany labored under odious Allied sanctions. Required to pay reparations and give up vast tracts of resources, the German[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We didn’t colonize Canopus until after Contact. It is a long ways from Earth even now, and no colony expedition of the time could have made it through The Wall. Now it’s one of our Beacon Stars and a major[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Second Great Depression came and devastated the American economy, Amber did what she could to continue watching and alerting her agents. But between the general failure of the power grids and the fall of the international communications networks,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Third Fleet was our best hope for victory. Epsilon Reticuli was the first step in our mission to end The War once and for all. Go in with overwhelming force and blow the dust bunnies out of anything the enemy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Japanese culture of the Twentieth Century was heavily rooted in the idea that the Japanese race was superior to all others. Even other Asians were less human than the Japanese, and so they knew without doubt that the world[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen men that can survive in the vacuum of space. I’ve seen men that can live in the deepest darkest caves. I’ve seen men obviously designed to live on high-gee worlds, and I’ve seen people who lived inside the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people were afraid of what a computer would learn about humanity if it watched them. They feared it would see how bad we were. But while Amber saw the warts, she also saw that most people just wanted to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…