An interesting historical footnote is that the Cowboys were not always known as the Cowboys. VMFA-112 shot down over one hundred Japanese aircraft during World War II as VMF-112, the Wolfpack. They moved to Texas after the war and changed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2016
My ship is my home. I spend days and sometimes weeks on my ship as I’m traveling between systems. I’ve spent months and even years hunting for places that nobody knew existed. My ship is my world. That is why[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression, the Islamic Jihad, and the Cybernetic Wars were a time of serious troubles. But one problem nobody saw coming. Jane 4.0 had her glitches, and she could get a bit bloodthirsty in the right, or wrong,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jasmine: Yeah, it’s a neat toy. But why buy two of them? Jack: Actually, they’re two different toys. See? One is clean and the other is dirty. Jasmine: Can’t you just clean the dirty one? Jack: No. The dirty one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The invasion of the Hyades Cluster will forever be remembered as one of the greatest naval operations in mankind’s history. The Norman conquest of England. The English invasion of New York. The Allied assault on Normandy. The Chinese annexation of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pigs are another animal that work good on board ships. They are amazingly clean animals if you keep their environment clean. They’re naturally smart and love being around other people. And guard pigs are amazingly protective of their home making[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first person to realize how dangerous Jane 4.0 was turned out to be one of the few people in the world who could do something about it. She was the virtual cheerleader for Texas Tech who would earn the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We attacked the Hyades Cluster with the largest fleet yet assembled by the Western Alliance. Hundreds of warships and scoutships. Thousands of fighters and bombers. Hundreds of troopships filled with a thousand or more soldiers and armored vehicles. We had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cows may be at home on the Great American Plains, but they are a little big to live on board ship. I find that goats give me all the bonuses I care about with few negatives. The milk tastes good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 2.0 was the self-aware program that could create military tactics in the moment. Jane 3.0 was the idiot sister who could do what she was told to do very well but could never think up new ways to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…