The Peloran Treatments had many purposes. One of the primary ones was to boost our immune systems so we could fight off diseases. And in most people, it recognized my family’s supersoldier serum as a disease to be fought. Louis[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for March, 2017
There are three main groups or types of Peloran. The planetbound who are most controlled by the genetic imperatives of their creators. The spacegoing defenders who are still mostly controlled by the imperatives. And the final group who have more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Natalie was a good girl. Still is, if I’m being honest. I think. I’ve never asked her why she chose the personality she did when she was born. Louis was a Martian. Why not pick a more Martian body and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All of the original recruits who filled out Cowboy squadron were Ageless. And most of those we recruited to expand our ranks at Alpha Centauri were as well. Louis was the exception to that rule, and the example that many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They were driving into the sun when the authorities flagged them down. They hadn’t thought much of it at first. Then the authorities had starting slinging around words like “water smugglers” and “arrest” and “prison” and other bad words. Julie[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If there is one thing I have learned while fighting with the Peloran, it is that they are utterly ruthless in battle. They may seem like nice little tree huggers, the kind of old men and women you would trust[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Marine Corps ordered Susan to shut down her physical body. They were against Corps policy back then, you see. I remember her calmly saying no. Then they threatened to drum her out of the service and she invited them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once a Cowboy, always a Cowboy. That is our policy. Jessica may have gone her own way since War’s End, but she will always be one of us. We will always be here if she needs us, and she is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran have a genetic imperative to seek peace and calm in every situation. It is hard to make them fight, and seemingly harder to fluster them. Many of them have lived for hundreds or thousands of years, and they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Susan was always a bit of a rebel. She got that from her pilot, by the way. She’d been a street rat that joined the Marines to get away from the gangs. I asked Susan once what she’d seen in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…