I say the universe is better because of humanity. We’ve created art with no more reason than because it is pretty. We’ve sculpted entire worlds to be able to better support life as we know it. We’ve recreated extinct animals[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2015
Twilight’s season four closing music began to play as the ragtag evacuation fleet set sail from Okinawa. Twilight and Dixie stood next to Empress Aiko as they watched the last battle, and then the scene panned forward with a quick[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first orbital elevators were built as a single tether from Earth to orbit. You could send packages up or down, but not both at the same time. One had to be careful with the schedules. The obvious first upgrade[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people say that humans are the most evil things in the universe. Their evidence is all the wars and destruction we commit on each other. All the species of animals we’ve destroyed. The way we’ve torn planets apart for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In real life the Japanese evacuation fleet had to fight all the way across the Pacific. Former Taiwanese, Filipino, South Korean, and even some North Korean warships sailed with them. Along with the last American warships in that part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Liberator was originally designed by the Cybernetic Families during The War to support the larger fleets as transports and scouts. They were designed to carry up to five modular cargo pods between the primary wedge and the engine section.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
America built another elevator at Panama City to go along with the Canal down there. That was part of the arrangement that included Panama joining the United States and gave us an elevator fully under our control. The British Commonwealth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I need to talk with Aneerin. Yeah, I know. He can be real hard track down when he doesn’t want to be found. And lately it seems like he’s been even harder to track than normal. But I have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The joint Japanese-American defense of Okinawa was nearly as vigorous as the defense of the Japanese Home Islands. The only difference was that the defenders knew they would fail long before it started. Every single one of them was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We were the first to build an orbital elevator. That was the Port Harcourt Elevator in Africa. For once we actually beat the Chinese to something. They were right on our heals at Singapore though. And the Russians built one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…