Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 10, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Our early conquests in the Hyades Campaign were difficult to pacify. The Chinese deployed weapons of mass destruction to leave ruins in their wake, and then accused us of using the weapons. It was a brilliant strategy in many ways. The survivors did not trust us after that, and it is difficult to bring law and order to an area when the locals do not trust those enforcing the law. We needed a new plan. We knew the colonists did not like their rulers, but we were “the other” that could not be trusted either. We had many lessons to learn when it came to dealing with the Chinese culture. We had a crash course in it.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 9, 2016 at 12:01 am
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There’s lots of science that tries to explain what happened after Yosemite. There’s lots of theories and speculations. Some say the massive reduction in fossil fuel usage caused a reduction in the greenhouse gases that kept heat from leaking out into space. Others say all the dust in the air reflected the heat away from us before it even got in. Those are the two big theories. Some say they both worked together to really kill us. The end point is that it got really cold. Even for someone who grew up in Northern Minnesota. And then a few months later there was that whole big badda boom in the other Yosemite. I remember when that was a national park, not a memorial.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 8, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Michigan National Guard moved quickly upon finding out the connection to so many terrorist plots of the previous years in Detroit. They rolled in via the highway in a long column of infantry transports with a mission to wave the flag and track down the terrorists. The Islamic State of Detroit was peaceful according to every report, so the government expected no armed resistance. The attack on the National Guard came without warning in real life and Twilight recreated that as much as they could. The opener used modified gun camera footage from the combat to make it feel more realistic and delivered an action packed episode the rest of the season tried to live up to.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 7, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Hyades Campaign began well but soon turned into a quagmire. Our fleets carved through the region’s outer defense forces, but our ground forces did not fare as well. The Chinese fought a scorched earth campaign, using everything up to weapons of mass destruction to deny us victory. We inherited broken worlds after suffering heavy casualties, both military and civilian. The Chinese meant to bleed us so badly that we would be unable to continue the offensive. They meant to leave us broken worlds that would require all of our remaining strength to pacify. It was an effective if ruthless plan.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 6, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Both San Diego and Tijuana where pretty quick to rebuild after Yosemite. We needed San Diego’s factories and the factory workers needed to party in Tijuana after long hard shifts at work. But it would be decades before they really recovered to what they were when I was young. And honestly they never were the same. None of us were after Yosemite. Those of us who went away had to live with two decades of War. Those who remained behind had to deal with the Yosemite Winter. Global Cooling. The New Ice Age. There were lots of names for it. They all boiled down to “it got fraking cold enough that even the Eskimos got tired of it.”

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