The Weylan are a fundamentally trustworthy people if you ask most races. But their Contact with us was not always smooth. The Protestant wing of Christianity that is most strongly concentrated in America does not appreciate blasphemy against God. Naming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for November, 2017
The hyperspace routes we used before Contact and in the first century after Contact where highly proprietary. Each major alliance held tight control over our systems and the runs that united them. Alpha Centauri was our largest shared system due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So what do we do when the bad guys come calling? We welcome them with open arms, of course. I prefer what the Society for Creative Anachronism still calls a fifty caliber revolver. Yes, it uses gunpowder. And bullets. Lots[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One important thing to consider about the Weylan is that they are fundamentally a peaceful people. The Albion designed them to be dangerous in battle but to crave peace above all else. That makes them some of the most heavily-armed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems like it’s only been a few weeks since I’ve said this. I’m tired of all being mean and hurting each other. A country concert. A bike path. A church. We know why the bike path attack happened. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We bypassed Proxima Centauri on our way to the Alpha Centauri Binary System. Proxima is a red dwarf star, and even the worst planets in the Binary System were far more easily habitable. Most of biological humanity does not even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It turns out that Rhiannon isn’t much older than I am. Maybe a few years at most, though nailing down exact times can get a bit tricky when birthplaces are the best part of five thousand lightyears apart. We decided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Weylan are born infertile. They can’t have children the natural way. The Albion designed them that way on purpose, after losing too many promising Weylan to the rigors of childbirth. The problem was the wings. Birds grow up inside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hyperphysicists sometimes call Alpha Centauri a quadrinary star system. There is the primary Binary System composed of Cen A and Cen B that most people think of as Alpha Cenaturi. Then there is Cen C, often times called Proxima Centauri[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rhiannon is one of the younger Weylan out there. She was not alive during the last great war. She did not see the Ennead destroy her homeworld. She did not kill the Ennead in response. She didn’t even live through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…