Many people forecasted the end of the United States of America when the federal government defaulted on their loans and the Second Great Depression swept across the globe. Those people did not reckon with political entities like the Republic of Texas or the other State governments who stepped out of the wreckage with renewed missions of their own. Federal military units were forced to count on those States for support and quickly became effective or official members of the State Guards. And those that signed up with Texas began hunting the drug cartels down. They became headline news across America, and real life members of the Texas Guard were immortalized as children’s action figures. It is ironic that the fall of the federal government gave America something to cheer about.
I love the water. It’s where I came to have fun and play on summer days. It’s where I relaxed and enjoyed bonfires on summer nights. I hooked up with friends over here in front of this café. I remember their ice cream to this day. I jumped off this promenade and spent hours in the water with people I wanted to spend my entire life with. This is where I grew up. This is where I wanted to live until the day I died. This is where I discovered girls. This is where I earned the name Jack. Right here.

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The New Voyager Program was designed to study the stars and tell us what they were like so humanity’s future generations could follow them. It is ironic that their discoveries helped humanity find the secrets to going to the stars within a matter of years. Many swarms who expected to have centuries to study their target systems alone instead arrived to find humanity already there. They were welcomed in some systems. They were treated like interlopers or worse in others. Some considered them American spies. The Chinese and Russians were particularly aggressive in hunting them down.
The Republic of Texas spearheaded the American involvement in ending the drug wars. Arizona, New Mexico, and the California Republics had their own parts of course, but the Texas Guard threw the greatest weight of weapons and men at the problem. They were the largest military in America short of the national armed forces, and would have ranked in the top ten list of world militaries on their own before the Second Great Depression began. So their command of the border situation became natural when the federal government collapsed.
Betty is an old school kind of girl. She wears a lot of yellow sundresses, but she borrows a lot of ideas from Jasmine. Now Jasmine’s a new kind of girl, so dressing up to go out on the town can get awful interesting as they’re trying to match outfits. Me, I’m happy with something in white. Something that shows off my awesome personality you know. And white goes with almost anything they pick. Sometimes it’s yellow, or white, or even red. And sometimes it’s something blue.

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