Alpha Centauri

by on November 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

The oldest Pre-Contact trade routes were the richest. Most of them started or went through Alpha Centauri due to how its three stars twisted hyperspace. Alpha Centauri hyperspace runs were the fastest way to get anywhere and Alpha Centauri was home to the first Extra-Solar orbital elevators and the largest warehouse complexes we had yet built. Alpha Centauri was the one place other than Earth every company that styled itself an interstellar player simply had to be at. That is why Alpha Centauri became such a large target during The War. Everyone wanted it.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 25, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Silicon Valley is what some of the more artfully minded people call a monument to invention. It focuses on computer technologies of course, but any inventor is welcome in the city, and the Edison Patent Office is the busiest patent center in all the worlds. It’s normal to see some young inventor walking through the streets testing a new invention in the wild. It’s also common to see when the invention fails, sometimes in rather hilarious ways. The amazing thing is that the locals actually celebrate those failures. Their founding ethos is that every success is built on a thousand failures, so failing is simply one step on the path to success. I wish more people thought like that.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on November 24, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s fourth season saw the gang going to the Indian Reservations for the first time. Their trip to New York City started a search that ran up Long Island to the Hamptons until they rolled into the Shinnecock Reservation. It was a rich, prosperous, and cosmopolitan reservation with a competent police force, good roads, nice houses, and very happy citizens paid via revenues from a casino and golf club the tribe owned. It was an interesting look at the mid-century status of Indians in America’s law-abiding areas. Twilight’s gang learned that some people on their list had been using the reservation’s docks for some time, and been paying impressive tips for no questions asked. The tribe’s chief was very sorry he couldn’t help them, but suggested that they may find answers to their questions in the Iroquois Nation.

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Thunder Jaguar

by on November 23, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The advent of the Chinese civilization’s Sixth Millennium was an auspicious time for the Asian worlds’ most powerful representative to reinvent their military in order to stand fast against their always-changing Western foes. New ships, tanks, mechs, and all manner of war machines were ordered to usher in the Sixth Millennium as only Earth’s oldest civilization could. With consummate superiority. The Thunder Jaguar was the recon mech they showed the worlds. Or rather they didn’t show them off. They allowed us to find them the hard way. And they hurt.

Thunder Jaguar on Deviantart

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San Lucas Blood Wine

by on November 22, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

We were beginning to generate some small interstellar trade routes before the Peloran made Contact. Every world had orbital elevators that gave them impressive local economies, and the luxury trade was picking up. San Lucas blood wine is an example of one of the Pre-Contact luxuries that all the rich had to at least pretend to love when amongst their peers. It was the civilized thing to do after all. Find some local resource that they could run better than the locals and turn it into a profit by bringing it back home for their fellows to ooh and ah over it. Many of the trade routes we run now found their origin in those heady Pre-Contact days when we thought we ruled the universe.

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