Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 28, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Some people say that humans are the most evil things in the universe. Their evidence is all the wars and destruction we commit on each other. All the species of animals we’ve destroyed. The way we’ve torn planets apart for the resources they hold. I can see their point. We’ve made a lot of mistakes. And sometimes they weren’t mistakes. Some people really are evil. But most people just want to live and be happy. That’s what everything that lives wants if you get down to it. And there ain’t nothing wrong with that. In fact that I think that’s what’s right in the universe.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

In real life the Japanese evacuation fleet had to fight all the way across the Pacific. Former Taiwanese, Filipino, South Korean, and even some North Korean warships sailed with them. Along with the last American warships in that part of the globe, the Chinese fought them all the way to Midway. Twilight only showed the scene of the ragtag fleet leaving Okinawa as the last line of defenders fought to slow the Chinese advance. The pursuit didn’t make it into the show due to story focus and time, but the season set came with hundreds of hours of news footage and interviews with real survivors and the Twilight cast talking about the Fall of Japan and the subsequent evacuation.

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Cyberdyne C-5 Liberator / CF-5 Privateer

by on October 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The Liberator was originally designed by the Cybernetic Families during The War to support the larger fleets as transports and scouts. They were designed to carry up to five modular cargo pods between the primary wedge and the engine section. Many pods were designed to carry fighters, weapons, and even ground forces over the years as The War pushed them into jobs they were not originally designed for. And the upgunned Privateer variant became the primary transport for independent Cowboy squadrons supporting the Alliance fleets. Cyberdyne Transtellar Shipping purchased almost all surviving Liberators after War’s End and now sends them throughout Alliance space with the mission of sending small amounts of high value cargo anywhere it is wanted. The Cowboys also continue to use their Privateer variants, though they blend into the existing transport traffic due to appearing identical to their unarmed cousins.

Liberator in full color on Deviantart

Liberator on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

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

America built another elevator at Panama City to go along with the Canal down there. That was part of the arrangement that included Panama joining the United States and gave us an elevator fully under our control. The British Commonwealth built one in Australia as well, and the South Africans lifted one of their own into orbit. That gave us six total orbital elevators on Earth when the Peloran made Contact. Adding the Russian Polar Elevator and we currently have seven Earth elevator complexes, running every hour of every day of every year. We can move significant tonnage on and off Earth without ever lifting a single spaceship off the ground, and the elevators are far cheaper. They have made space travel safe and inexpensive.

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Hello, my name is Jack

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

I need to talk with Aneerin. Yeah, I know. He can be real hard track down when he doesn’t want to be found. And lately it seems like he’s been even harder to track than normal. But I have a few questions I need to ask him. Starting with what exactly that Shang ship did when it ran away from us. Because I don’t believe for a minute Aneerin has no knowledge of it. So I’m going to need to track him down and get some answers from him for a change. Yeah, I know. Answers from Aneerin are like standing on a two-edged sword while drunk. But maybe for once I can get a straight one from him.

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