The Branan start their history books with the day the Albion left. Not because they hate the Albion, but because the Albion were part of their pre-history. The days of the ancient past when their creators shared the world with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Political assassination has no place in a civil society. There. I’ve said it. Again. I’ve been called a hypocrite and worse for that saying in the past, but I’ll say it again because I think it’s important. Deadly important. Political[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Owain Reese was middle-aged for a Thunderbird when we first met. Their average lifespan is no more than fifty or sixty years, you know. And even the strongest of them are naturally fragile next to us, but guardians like Owain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morgan wasn’t the first Thunderbird I met. That honor goes to the ship captain who hailed me after they arrived at Sunnydale. But she was certainly one of the first Thunderbirds I ever met. She’s not an artificial intelligence. Nobody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “squirrelly” nature of the Branan is not what made them a failure of Albion gengineering. The Albion could have worked with that. What they couldn’t work with was a far more fundamental flaw. They had been too ambitious when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thunderbirds cannot speak our languages, and we cannot speak theirs. We can understand each other given practice, or use translator programs if we lack it, but those options do not fill one serious hole in our communications. Names. The inability[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morgan died over a thousand years ago on the Thunderbird’s home planet. She left her flesh and blood body behind to become one with the networks and gain immortality. She spent the first millennia of her second life traveling throughout[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion were serious little gengineers in their day, and we can see their results all over human space. Some of their experiments worked as planned. Some did not. The Branan of Betelgeuse fell into the second group. They are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So some of you know that I used to have healthcare. I did what you are supposed to do. I went to college, I got a degree, and I got a job using that degree. Then the computer industry in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I learned much on my trip to Betelgeuse. I made contacts and allies that would be useful in later years, and negotiated trade agreements that helped both our peoples. The Peloran were generous in their own way, but they needed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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