It’s always easy for a cyber to tell the difference between a Western Alliance system and one that was settled by the Russians or the Chinese. A Western system will have cybernetic stations scattered throughout space all the way out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2016
When the Chinese struck, they killed three Peloran destroyers, a starbase, and every Peloran on them. It took us three weeks and five lightyears to track that fleet down. It’s kinda funny. I made my first trip to the Western[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mexico had never expected America to default on her debts. But they failed to recognize that the common American felt no compunction against refusing to pay off a debt they had never agreed to. When the federal government ran out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Are you here to stay?” she asked and I started to remember her. When I last saw her she had brighter hair and less swimsuit. She’d been one of the few Arnam that stayed through the Minnesota winters. We’d gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine entire worlds filled with conversations. Imagine light and energy flowing from world to world. Imagine the depths of space alive with the thoughts of billions of intelligent minds. Imagine standing at the edge of a star system and looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mexican government suffered from similar issues as the old American federal government. Centuries of insider dealings and graft had generated a culture of corruption that no citizen trusted. And America’s default on Mexican loans brought down the government that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So there I was, innocently showing my two best girls around the place I grew up in, when an Arnam came out of the water. Now that’s normally not a strange thing. They live under the water after all. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Voyager swarms found easy homes in some systems. They were the first to arrive at many stars near Earth, many of which were never settled by humanity at all. If they didn’t have comfortable worlds, humanity didn’t follow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was one of the first Cowboys. We were ten then. We were hundreds by the end of The War. We were the tip of the spear that kicked the Shang’s asses across the universe. We were on recruitment posters,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people forecasted the end of the United States of America when the federal government defaulted on their loans and the Second Great Depression swept across the globe. Those people did not reckon with political entities like the Republic of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…