Dad officially retired from the Marine Corps over a century before The War. Not that anyone really stops being a Marine you understand, but there’s paperwork and all the official stuff that says you don’t work for Uncle Sam anymore.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2023
Dad officially served in the United States Marine Corps for a century back in the day. It was not official AT ALL that he worked for the AI Council most of that time. Now the Cybernetic Council. He was one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dad was a genuine Space Marine for a century, and he did his best to live up to the reputation of the Corps. There were a rather large number of brothers and sisters in the mix before I was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dad was the first of three kids Grandma Carter popped out back in the day. He grew up hunting wild animals all over the world with his aunt and uncle. Yes. “Those Dang Carter Twins.” And when he was old[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grandma Carter is the undisputed matriarch of our little branch of the family tree. She is nowhere near the oldest Carter, but she’s walked the walks and talked the talks, so she’s the one the family listens to when it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grandma Carter and her friends from Singapore could not break through centuries of animosity and a couple decades of total War to turn all of us into friends. But we weren’t blood enemies by War’s End either. Most people didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grandma Carter was busy cooling The War down throughout the Core Worlds while I was driving a war to the knife in the Hyades Cluster. Guess we were playing bad cops to her good cop. But there were some real[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grandma Carter defended a lot of worlds throughout The War. Russia and China wanted to take us down a peg or three and take our territory. The Shang just bombarded our worlds into the ice age. It only took Grandma[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grandma Carter got in trouble with Western Alliance high command for not attempting to destroy the invasion forces that left the worlds she defended. Command wanted her to KILL the enemy, so they restructured her orders to demand she ENGAGE[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went home from my new job twenty-two years ago in time to find out that a plane had hit one of the Trade Towers. I watched the second plane hit. The third at the Pentagon. The fourth in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…