The original surveyors designated Sunnydale’s sole asteroid belt with the ironic name of Cobbledale. Most locals call it the Cobbles, and leave it at that. They aren’t very rich with heavy metals, or anything else for that matter, but asteroid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many consider the Branan to be a warlike race. The truth is that they are no more warlike than us. They just don’t hide that fact from themselves. We publicly decry war while waging it on many levels all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Shang are painting us with sensor sweeps,” Betty reported and glanced towards one of the displays where it showed a complex diagram of colors. “We’re scattering and jamming below detection levels. But I think they’re getting suspicious.” “Prepare to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyades Cluster is not native to our region of the galaxy. It has been traveling for eons, from some long ago birthplace where heavy metals were more common. The star population is different, and the very interstellar dust and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The joker who named the planetary bodies of the Sunnydale system was in rare form when he named the three major moons of Torchdale. Char, Sear, and Toast are about as habitable as their names suggest. But after a liberal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Life Branan have many superficial similarities to our own artificial and cybernetic intelligences. But do not assume they are the same. Artificial intelligences are inherently artificial, coded by a living human to perform a task or group of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese and their allies had nearly scrubbed us from the over one thousand star systems within a hundred lightyears of the Hyades Cluster. It was the greatest prize humanity had found in the stars, a fortress of interconnected star[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Torchdale was the primary fleet base in Sunnydale during our buildup for the attack on the Hyades Cluster. She’s a gas giant with three major moons, dozens of minor ones, and a veritable motherlode of heavy metals and other fun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The real trick to understanding the Branan is to recognize the fact that they’ve had fully developed physical and digital worlds living side by side since before Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took over the Roman Republic. Earthborn humanity grew[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We were recovering from one hurricane a week ago. Now we are being hit by another. And this is September 11. It is amazing the confluence of events that can happen on any of the three hundred and sixty five[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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