Me and my friends spent every day of summer going to the beach when we were young. Me, Julie, and Alex would meet friends at the promenade every morning. There wasn’t a day of summer that went by when we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2016
The New Voyager Program was built around swarms of thousands of tiny spacecraft with solar sails. Powerful orbital laser arrays accelerated them up to one quarter of the speed of light for the trip across the interstellar gulfs. They traveled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are times when I realize that everything I’ve known about life is wrong. When everything I know about an entire race is wrong. The Peloran are a very calm race, always nice from what I’ve seen, always courteous and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese meant for the Hyades Cluster to be the crown of their space empire. They built it into an industrial and military fortress that could forever defend their interests. My family helped fund the effort and learned more about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I happen to be difficult to kill. I think it’s one of my more endearing properties. Along with my fantastic fashion sense and amazing personality of course. I have a lot of good points you know. But being hard to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity did not have enough operational starships to explore every nearby system in the early days of interstellar travel. Hyperdrives were large, complicated affairs that required supernational economies of scale to build. They were far too rare to be “wasted”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family had extensive business dealings in the Hyades Cluster long before The War came upon us all. We had operations on many Hyades worlds and contacts on many others. That is one of the reasons I had some standing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I make a lot of enemies in my line of work. I don’t really mind much. It means I done something good. Some of those enemies try to kill me the next time they see me. There’s times when they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Voyager Program sent AI probes to every star within 20 lightyears of Earth. They arrived in the nearby systems before humanity’s hyperdrives could propel us to them. Our ships found those systems fully mapped and ready for exploitation.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you know when it’s the best time to mount a sneak attack? I do. So do the Shang. You wait for them to be all fat and happy. Best is right after they’ve won a great victory. Once they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…