Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 15, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Islamic State of Detroit had its origins in the Salafi Islamic traditions. They believed in offensive Jihad against the unbelievers surrounding them and saw the defeat of the National Guard as proof that Allah was with them. Twilight’s crew soon found evidence that they were planning a full assault on the National Guard lines, and that the populace did not support their leaders. The Salafis ruled through terror, disappearing entire families of those not sufficiently obedient to their leaders. Twilight’s crew rescued a reporter and her family from one of the government’s “disciplinary teams” and she quickly became their closest ally in the city. And through her Twilight found out just how many people actively stood against the government.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 14, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We tried to capture the worlds of the Hyades intact, but the Chinese fought a vicious scorched earth campaign that left ruins in their wake. It was nothing compared to what happened to the Albion worlds in their last war of course. I have traveled through their systems. I have seen the worlds where the earth was baked and the oceans boiled until nothing remained that could support life. The Hyades was not that devastating. But it was bad enough, and whether or not the locals trusted their own government they knew one thing. We had brought War to their worlds. We were at fault for their dead. I understood. Perhaps that is why I was the one who made the breakthrough.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 13, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I remember coming home after The War and seeing Earth again. But it was not as I remembered it. My home was gone of course. Yosemite falling had wiped it out. It was the cold that got to me. I’d grown up with cold. I knew what it was like to live at negative forty. American scale, not European. But what I came back to was something I’d never expected. We called it Nuclear Winter when I was young. What would happen to Earth if we ever let the nukes fly. Dust in the air. Global Cooling. Catastrophic environmental change. Mass animal die offs. Yosemite Winter didn’t hit all the checkmarks. We fought it real hard. But it was bad. Real bad.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Michigan National Guard failed to secure the ruins of Detroit due to the robotic defenses that cut their armored vehicles wide open. So the military pulled their survivors back and setup a cordon around Detroit. It wasn’t a very good one, and it had tons of holes that smart people could sneak through. So while the military sent in their Jane to deal with the robots, Twilight and her crew snuck themselves into the city and began working to uncover the terrorist sympathizers in Detroit. It turned into a much more dangerous search than they expected. They also turned up far more allies than they expected. The local government was not as popular as they claimed to be.

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Wolfenheim Rising

by on January 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Wolfenheim was over six hundred meters of Class One Colonization Ship capable of carrying ten thousand colonists in cold sleep. She was a skeleton of massive girders with engines the size of frigates. Hundreds of colonization modules designed for habitation, manufacturing, teaching, research, cold sleep, and dozens of other uses filled the spaces between the girders. They are what made her a colonization ship. The modules. She was designed to enter orbit and eject them all. What was left would become the new planetary space station and drop an orbital elevator onto the planet. She was designed to deploy a new colony with all the comforts of home in a matter of hours. That was the Wolfenheim Project.

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