Peloran

by on May 2, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

I was there the day the Peloran made Contact with us. I watched them walk on the surface of the Earth and my first thought was to wonder if this was truly the first time for them. That first entourage had just the perfect mix of alien and humanity in their manners. They looked and acted so much like us in so many ways, and yet there was a carefully crafted alien manner to their movements. I say crafted because I never believed they had come to us unprepared. They were too much like us to make that kind of mistake so far from home. They had shown us a human face to make us comfortable. And they showed us alien manners so we could not forget where they came from.

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Peloran

by on May 1, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

I grew up in a world after Contact. I always knew the Peloran were human. Assuming the expanded definition of the word we use now, at least. Of course they’re stronger than most Earthborn humans. And they’ll heal any wound that doesn’t kill them in a matter of hours or days. Though they’ll have to have been real badly hurt to count out the days. They can hear and see things better, and they are naturals when it comes to combat. Put a weapon in their hand, and they’ll use it like they were born to. Which they pretty much were.

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Peloran

by on April 30, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

When the Peloran made Contact with Earth, the greatest reaction was surprise. Humanity had long thought aliens had to exist out there somewhere. That Earth wasn’t alone in the cosmos as a source of life. The surprise was at just how…human the Peloran were. Aneerin and his crew actually looked more human than many teenagers walking down the streets. They could have disappeared into the crowds of any city on Earth and no one could have found them. That caused more than a little bit of consternation on Earth.

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Avengers Endgame

by on April 29, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

A little movie came out a decade ago. It featured an arrogant prick with delusions of grandeur who did not work well with others. He had a laundry list of personal defects, and couldn’t hold to a prepared speech with cue cards in his hands. In the end, he said four fateful words that changed movies for a decade.

“I am Iron Man.”

We were next introduced to a big green guy with anger management issues, an angry Norse god with an affinity for lightning, and a god among men who could fight all day long even before he was injected with a super soldier serum that made his body as strong as his will.

Their stories collided in the first Avengers movie and super hero movies as we knew them would never be the same again.

Avengers Endgame is upon us now, and I will say again what I have said before.

It is a love story.

It is a love story to a decade of films starring actors great and small, and characters of grandeur and substance. And since this is a time travel story, we get to see actors and characters we thought were long gone. And others that are only recently gone.

It is a love story to all the fans who have stuck with them since the day we heard the fateful words, “I am Iron Man.”

Avengers Endgame is a capstone to the story begun in that film. To that story and the stories of so many other characters we’ve been introduced to in the years since. Mothers and fathers. Sisters and brothers. Friends and family. I loved every minute of it, from those packed with action to those slow and poignant.

I give it two Infinity Gauntlets raised high in celebration.

Oh…snap. 😉

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The AI Council

by on April 28, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The AI Council spread their probes far and wide into the galaxy and sent word back to us as to which systems were most promising. They also helped sculpt the colonies when they arrived via suggested colony sites based on their years or decades of observations. And they helped to shift our attention from discoveries that might have been unsettling. It took us decades to realize that every planet we colonized truly was host to life that was fully compatible with our own. And the less said about the theories that we were not the first to live on these worlds the better. Literally.

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