When Jesse James left Serenity to prosecute The War against the Chinese and their Shang allies, Dawn DeMarco remained on his wing. He was a farmer from Kansas. She was a highborn noble of Camelot, in the Avalon system. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James commanded the heaviest defensive fighter formation on Serenity for months. He, Dawn DeMarco, and their twenty-four Avenger-class starfighters represented Serenity’s most powerful strike force until the Alliance could rebuild her fixed defenses. Yes, the Alliance did send battleships,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James was a good flight leader from the very beginning. The Peloran named him Fox, and it really fit him. He wasn’t as flashy as people like me were. He was perfectly happy to sneak around and hit people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently reread Out of the Dark and read Into the Light, two books by David Weber. Out of the Dark started as a short story in the Warriors anthology, and involved vampires fighting in an alien invasion. It has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two weeks ago, Ukraine had plains, trains, and automobiles. They had high rise apartments and indoor plumbing. They had smart phones and easy internet and social media access. They had nice coats and baby carriages. These conveniences are all things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James blames himself for the death of his first wingman early in The War. He could have saved her, you see. It just would have killed him. He has always wondered if he saw how to do it at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James tested out well enough to become one of our original flight leaders back when we all thought we were going to remain a ground-based reserve squadron in Texas. They actually put Drew Keawe, a true First Princess of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James was lucky in cards, but very unlucky in flight training. He was actually the first of us to breathe vacuum by accident. His training craft suffered a catastrophic malfunction that resulted in every flight surface locking open, every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I first met Jesse James in Texas during our basic flight training course. It was a consolidated program, geared towards giving us basic ground combat and flight training, no matter what our final Military Occupational Specialty was going to be.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Several politicians performed State of the Union or rebuttal speeches today. The most powerful quote of the night for me came from Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa. “You shouldn’t have to wake up every morning and worry about the next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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