Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I grew up a short flight from the Republic of Lakota, so I saw them on a fairly regular basis. We made yearly trips out to Wounded Knee to remember the massacre, before celebrating the New Year in a cheerier place. They still maintain that and other historic monuments and reenactments in the old ways, but the majority of Lakota is just as modern as any other major nation in America. Pine Ridge is better than Las Vegas in my opinion for instance. You can go to dinner shows, take tours of the Bad Lands, go gambling, or just sit and lazy your way through the day at five star hotels. Pine Ridge knows how to make people who have money to spend feel real welcome.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century saw the rise of the Internet. For the first time in human history, people could easily communicate with each other all around the globe. And they could publish anything they wanted in virtual space and everyone could read or listen to it anywhere. As servers became less expensive, online news sites and blogs became common, allowing anybody to report the news with minimal or no cost to them. Much of this “reporting” was of course substandard, but this further reduced the lock on news the major networks had once had. People no longer had to listen to their news. They could get it anywhere.

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Wolfenheim Rising

by on February 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Shang thought they could come into our skies and tell us we could not fly. They thought they could demand we follow them and we would submit. They thought they could destroy us if we did not cooperate with them. We proved them wrong. First we fought back. And then we sent Wolfenheim. The plan was as simple as it was grandiose. To show the Shang that we are coming. That we will always be coming. That no matter they do to us, we will always be coming. That they could not bottle us up in our little corner of the galaxy forever. That was Wolfenheim.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Chinese never stopped fighting in the Hyades. They attacked our fleets and bases until they ran out of starships. They defended their systems until they ran out of spaceships. Then they fought with every gun they had to defend their planets. They never stopped answering the call to fight us. They never ran out of courage. For all the distaste I have for the social policies of their governments, I respected their soldiers. Even in the end, when they knew they were losing, they still stood up and fought. It was amazing to watch. It was terrible to watch. I hope I never have to do anything like that again.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Cherokee Free Nation of Sequoyah is the largest of the various Indian Nations now. The original founders were Freedmen, descendents of Cherokee slaves that the Cherokee Nation said weren’t Cherokee enough to keep their citizenships, so they named themselves after the Indian who invented writing in the Cherokee language. Kind of a “take that” challenge. They welcomed any Cherokee who felt uncomfortable in their home nation, and then they welcomed any Indians, and finally anybody at all. Study their history, pass their citizenship test, and you are a citizen of Sequoyah. I may have picked up an honorary citizenship over the years. I like dancing with them.

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