Hello, my name is Jack

by on August 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I happen to be difficult to kill. I think it’s one of my more endearing properties. Along with my fantastic fashion sense and amazing personality of course. I have a lot of good points you know. But being hard to kill has come to be real important in a lot of cases. There appear to be a lot of people out there that want to kill me. What can I say? Having enemies means you stood for something in your life. And I have made a lot of stands. I haven’t won all of them. The other guys get a vote after all. But being hard to kill means that I generally get a chance to come back with friends and see about rectifying matters. And I happen to have a lot of friends.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 26, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Humanity did not have enough operational starships to explore every nearby system in the early days of interstellar travel. Hyperdrives were large, complicated affairs that required supernational economies of scale to build. They were far too rare to be “wasted” on manned exploration missions of stars that probably held no habitable planets. That is why they carried the New Voyager Program with them. Every system we explored became the nexus of new Voyager swarms cast out towards the nearby stars we didn’t have time, fuel, or ships to reach. And that is how the AIs spread to every corner of our sector of the galaxy.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on August 25, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

My family had extensive business dealings in the Hyades Cluster long before The War came upon us all. We had operations on many Hyades worlds and contacts on many others. That is one of the reasons I had some standing in the cluster. The Hurst name was known. It gave me a foot in the door. It made certain that people would listen to me when I spoke. But it was my own words and actions, and the actions of all the Cowboys, that made the changes I wanted in the cluster. Not the changes my family wanted. The Hyades Cluster you see today was not the goal my family sought. They wanted something they controlled.

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Get Out of My Galaxy

by on August 24, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, Character Profiles

I make a lot of enemies in my line of work. I don’t really mind much. It means I done something good. Some of those enemies try to kill me the next time they see me. There’s times when they fail. It’s never for lack of trying let me tell you, and sometimes it’s not by much. So you might say that Jessica and Susan have saved my buns more than once when things got a bit deep for me. And those who tried to finish the job tended to get a nasty surprise when they showed up. Now I got a couple things to say to all you people that failed to kill me. I am a real forgiving sort of guy, but Jessica and Susan tend to carry a grudge. And trying to kill one of their friends gets you bumped right up to the top of their grudge list. So get out of my galaxy before it’s too late. You won’t like the alternative.Get Out of My Galaxy - 500

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 23, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The New Voyager Program sent AI probes to every star within 20 lightyears of Earth. They arrived in the nearby systems before humanity’s hyperdrives could propel us to them. Our ships found those systems fully mapped and ready for exploitation. Humanity flew to the star systems further from Earth without those maps though. It would be years or decades before the Voyager swarms decelerated to enter those systems, but their influence on the future of interstellar exploration cannot be overstated.

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