I’m starting to realize there’s all kinds of things we don’t know about interstellar travel. I used to think we knew everything there was to know. But now I’m thinking the Peloran left a few things out for us to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2015
The fall of the American federal government forced many foreign-deployed American commands to look to local resources to survive. The Japanese island of Okinawa was one of the largest such bases, and was one of the last parts of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The F-12 Avenger was part of the Fleet 2300 Project to upgrade America’s starfighter capabilities for the coming century. The primary goal was to build Earth’s first hypercapable starfighter and thereby place America on a more even footing with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was the orbital elevators that made us a true space faring species. We could only boost small numbers of people and cargo into orbit before then, leaving most exploration to major government or semi-government agencies like NASA. But once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shang ship got away. It did something we’re still trying to figure out. We were far enough back in hyper with our jamming up that it didn’t see us. But we could see it. It’s like it deployed a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone already knew how the Battle of Japan had gone. The Japanese lost. But theTwilight season four premier did what no one else had yet done on any “mere” entertainment program. They secured the rights to use Empress Aiko’s likeness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were only two ways to lift anything from a planetary surface into orbit before Contact. The first was to strap it onto a rocket engine at Cape Canaveral or any of the other launch sites around the world. That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t just think of going outside the galactic arms on my own you know. I wasn’t just some wanderlust person looking for someplace new to look at. I had an actual mission. I’d been tracking Shang ship movements for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight season four returned to the grittier and darker tone that fans preferred. But it originally had only six episodes to close the series. The season premier blew everybody’s expectations though. It started with a quick montage of gang violence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The F-7 Hellcat starfighter entered service five decades after Contact, after we’d had time to learn more about the alien gravitic technologies quickly taking over both military and civilian starship design. She was designed and built by the best gravtech[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…