Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Navajo Nation lives in their cultural homeland, but that does not mean that their history has been easy. They engaged in raiding against other Indians before Europeans arrived. They fought scorched earth campaigns against the Spanish. Then they fought raiding wars with the Mexicans and finally they fought our American army. We finally defeated them during the Civil War and they’ve not fought another war since. Even against the Shang they maintained official neutrality, though thousands of their young men and women volunteered to serve the American militaries. I like their people but do not understand their council members.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The ease of navigating the new networks of the Twenty First Century allowed humanity to access the recorded history of Earth with their fingertips. Their new pocket-sized personal computers could access the Smithsonian, the Louvre, or read ten thousand year old tablets smuggled out of Baghdad while they drove around town. For the first time in history, the common man could see every version of the Bible ever printed at once, and they could listen to an opera sung live a thousand kilometers away. Instead humanity watched reality shows that were anything but realistic and posted pictures of cats to their cyberspace walls.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on March 10, 2016 at 12:01 am
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If you saw only what the networks reported, you would believe that every American pilot who fought with the Peloran was a Cowboy. That is not entirely accurate. And all of us did not pilot Avengers. No single weapon can be used against all enemies you know. The Avenger is an excellent fighter, but Marauders are more deadly towards capital ships, and Shooting Stars are powerful military transports. Combined arms attacks are usually far more effective than more singular attacks, and we brought every advantage we could find to the Hyades with us.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 9, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Dinetah is the largest Indian Nation by land. And unlike many Indian Nations the lands are those that the Navajo have lived on for centuries. Their histories say they came from the coastal lands of California long ago, but even they don’t know where they came from before that. Maybe boats from Asia. Or that frozen bridge that people talk about between Alaska and Russia. Wherever they came from, they seem happy to live in Dinetah now, the place they believe God created the world from. Or something like that. They don’t think in American, so sometimes things get lost in translation. I’m never fully certain I got the idea right.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 8, 2016 at 12:01 am
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After decades of slow and glitchy message boards or an early Internet that ran on old copper telephone lines, the Twenty First Century introduced revolutions in both hardware and software technologies. Fiberoptic lines became the backbone of the new long distance networks, and wireless towers and nodes allowed the widespread use of distributed computing. Personal computers stopped being relegated to a floor in a room with a static screen, or to a still bulky portable platform you could place on your lap. Personal computers became handheld devices that could be left in a pocket while you walked around town. And for the first time in known history, people could communicate to anybody they knew, even to the other side of the Earth, while they walked around the mall or had lunch at a restaurant.

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