Gamma Trianguli. Free Tibet. Shambhala. The system has many names. The Chinese had some too but very people outside the Chinese use them anymore. Most of the Chinese industries are gone now of course. The locals didn’t want them and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2014
The growing Core Worlds culture isn’t bad. It’s just…different. And for all that Jack says he loves new things he really doesn’t. He likes to play with new things and people, and then go back to a comfortable real life.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Crusades and the Reconquista of Spain put an end to the Islamic invasions of Europe and the desperate fight for cultural survival that they represented. The wars of the next few centuries revolved around the English-French squabble for European[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like Gamma Trianguli now. The Free Tibetans have completely reinvented their world since The War ended and they welcome us like conquering heroes. Not that we ever fully conquered the system of course. But we don’t let that little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s amazing to see how the twin assaults of The War and our own knowledge affected the cultures of Earth. To many people it did very little. The older citizens of Earth and her colonies took what we made available[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Los Angeles-class heavy cruisers were some of the best ships of their time. Built just before The War began, they were to be a revolution in military technology that would vault America into a new position of dominance. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have fought against great enemies, vanquished devastating foes, and held a line in the sand against others. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. The Islamic State. Communist China. The Shang. We have fought them all and we still live. We are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I returned to Gamma Trianguli after The War ended and the Chinese signed it over to us. It was still a pretty nasty hellhole of a world back then. Thin atmosphere, massive storms, and colder than a prudish stare on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War changed everything. You were going to fall. So we became fighters, starships, and space stations. We became hyperspace buoys, missiles, and more. We sent shards of ourselves throughout your computer systems and became the base of a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Freedom Day is the official name. Others call it Pig Day. We eat pork roasts wrapped in bacon and marinated in beer. We play football with real pigskins, bet on the winners of squealer races, and spill beer on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…