So here’s the thing. Thunderbirds don’t speak English. They don’t speak any human language. They’re beaks can’t emulate our sounds at all. And it’s the rare human that can speak their words. Parrots can talk both ways, which is real[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people don’t know how many alien species we’ve made Contact with over the years. Partly that is because they are either human like us, or genengineered Albion creations, or both. Partly it is because people in charge of our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I traveled to Betelgeuse shortly after we made Contact with the Branan. The Thunderbirds as most people refer to them. The most important thing to remember about them is that they were never as primitive as some thought them. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I met my first Thunderbird on Sunnydale back when we were assembling the fleets for the big push into the Hyades Cluster. I didn’t know word one about them at the time. I’d been born long after that Contact, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things we learned very soon after Contact was that the long-dead Albion were industrious little gengineers. It was the reason they were dead, after all. The Ennead had taken exception to their perversions against Mother Nature, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The events of this weekend remind me why, when I first wrote Jack of Harts, I had things get worse before things got better. There are generations of people out there who have been taught that others are less human[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Virginia Adams was one of the first Ageless to come out of the original Peloran Treatments. She was a teenager at the time, and still wore the body of a teenager a century later when the Shang came for us.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Abigail’s status as one of the few fully functioning AIs before Contact was instrumental in gaining access to Peloran cooperation and technologies. The Peloran cybernetic families recognized that the Adams Family treated her as a family member rather than an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another disadvantage the Arnam have is that they do not see as well as we do in surface daylight. Their eyes are optimized towards seeing in pitch dark, and while their multiple eyelids keep bright lights from blinding them, they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Adams Family is one of the oldest great families of America, having left Britain in the 1600s. They were leading figures in the revolution against British rule, provided two presidents and numerous other public servants to the first republic,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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