The Kato strike mech was part of America’s Army 2300 Project and envisioned a mobile mech carrying a particle accelerator gun for superior striking power. Numerous Katos have been fielded since, from standard trooper mechs that fight in platoon strength[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for November, 2015
Humanity lost more ships at Alpha Centauri then in any other system during The War. The warehouses, the elevators, the hyperspace runs, everything about it made Alpha Centauri more valuable than any system short of Terra itself. And some people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing I learned about Silicon Valley is that they have seemingly endless patience when it comes to technological accidents. And they have exactly zero tolerance for outside interference that results in things that look like accidents. Hacking someone else[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back before the Second Great Depression the Indian tribes were split up between many small reservations all over the country. They had little physical power but a procession of Indian-owned casinos over the previous three quarters of a century had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The oldest Pre-Contact trade routes were the richest. Most of them started or went through Alpha Centauri due to how its three stars twisted hyperspace. Alpha Centauri hyperspace runs were the fastest way to get anywhere and Alpha Centauri was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Silicon Valley is what some of the more artfully minded people call a monument to invention. It focuses on computer technologies of course, but any inventor is welcome in the city, and the Edison Patent Office is the busiest patent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s fourth season saw the gang going to the Indian Reservations for the first time. Their trip to New York City started a search that ran up Long Island to the Hamptons until they rolled into the Shinnecock Reservation. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The advent of the Chinese civilization’s Sixth Millennium was an auspicious time for the Asian worlds’ most powerful representative to reinvent their military in order to stand fast against their always-changing Western foes. New ships, tanks, mechs, and all manner[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We were beginning to generate some small interstellar trade routes before the Peloran made Contact. Every world had orbital elevators that gave them impressive local economies, and the luxury trade was picking up. San Lucas blood wine is an example[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Silicon Valley has a much smaller population and land area than Los Angeles, but beautiful crystalline technological megastructures rise far above the surrounding landscape. Some of the most advanced AIs built by humanity run their environmental and security systems. Cars[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…