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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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 21, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Silicon Valley has a much smaller population and land area than Los Angeles, but beautiful crystalline technological megastructures rise far above the surrounding landscape. Some of the most advanced AIs built by humanity run their environmental and security systems. Cars fly through a city that never sleeps on crisscrossing skyways reaching from the heights of the building tops all the way down to their ground level roots in a never-ending rush hour. It is a city of invention that celebrates the accomplishments of the human mind. It is an amazing place to visit.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on November 20, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

After the playful romp in New Orleans, Twilight spent an episode each in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York City. They drove a procession of Ford vehicles around the cities in search of more serious terrorists threats to the American homeland, and communicated on various Samsung phones the viewers could go to the stores and buy. If they lived in an area where law and order prevailed. Twilight’s creators purposefully placed the shiny new cars and phones in front of burned out neighborhoods and emergency shelters overflowing with homeless immediately next door to prosperous neighborhoods guarded by paid security. They drove the surreal reality of America in the middle of the Second Great Depression into the public consciousness with an unapologetic hammer.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on November 19, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Once we perfected the deploying of orbital elevators we began shipping single-tether starter elevators to the existing colonies, and we of course added them to the basic colonization packages. Colonization missions were no longer pure scientific, exploratory, or flag waving expeditions by then. They were big business opportunities and the corporations required a cheap and effective way of moving freight up and down. Interstellar trade was nearly non-existent of course, but when a corporation gave money to support a colonization expedition they obtained certain understandings with the new colonial governments. These allowed many corporations to obtain vast tracts of land on many new worlds that would allow them to grow quite impressively over the centuries.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 18, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

One thing I learned when I visited Los Angeles is that I love it. LA and the surrounding cities are so peacefully multicultural. You can find anything from Indian rain dances to Mexican maraca parties within walking distance of each other. Almost every Asian culture I know of has a place to call home there. You can walk for five minutes and pass by ten different cultures. And Cherry Blossom Boulevard is one of those magical places that everybody has to see at least once in real life. If you come at the right time you can watch as the blossoms carpet the street. I’ve never seen anything else like it in all the worlds. That’s the definition of New Japan really. It’s a whole different world from anyplace else out there.

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