Jack of Harts

Hello, my name is Betty

by Betty on February 26, 2016 at 12:01 am

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The major five networks had been built on expensive transmission towers that only major corporations or the government could afford to build. But in the waning years of the Twentieth Century, city cable companies and national satellite companies began collecting network transmissions and sending them directly to homes with the right equipment. And soon much smaller companies began forming small networks of their own and broadcast their news and entertainment via these two much cheaper options. First dozens and then hundreds of these smaller networks appeared and many people turned off the major networks to listen to these new voices that sometimes spoke very differently. That changed the world.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by Charles on February 25, 2016 at 12:01 am

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The Hyades Campaign was difficult until the end. The Chinese could reinforce worlds before our ground forces could defeat the defenders. That cost us many ships and forced us to retreat far too many times. Within a few years though we had a rhythm in effect. Attack, wait for reinforcements, then attack another system, wait for reinforcements, and by the fifth or sixth attack we would assault the main fleet base of the area. They never knew which attack would be the real one, but they couldn’t leave their systems without support, so we spread them out and hit them with local superiority. We killed as many of their ships as possible in each engagement, and made them pay for every world they held or retook. We wore them down.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by Jack on February 24, 2016 at 12:01 am

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The Cherokee Nation was the largest of the Indian Nations in the late Twentieth Century. They’ve spent most of their history trying to remove all White Man influence though, which has caused no end of controversy. They started as the most racially diverse of the Indian Nations but have gone through successive revocations of citizenship to those with “too much non Cherokee blood” over the centuries. They are now proud to say that they are the most racially pure Indian Nation on the American continent, and recognize none of the other Cherokee Nations as real Indians. But they are still happy to take foreign money in their casinos. I do not understand them at all.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by Betty on February 23, 2016 at 12:01 am

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To those who grew up in the 1950s, there were three networks that every American watched or listened to for news and entertainment. The government operated a fourth public station. And four decades later a fifth network joined the team. Newspapers from New York, Washington, and other cities big and small told their readers all the news that was fit to print. Corporations and governments told the people what the news was and how to think about it, and entire wars were won or lost on the field of public opinion driven by the networks. But that monolithic structure didn’t last very long.

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Angel Strike

by Medron Pryde on February 22, 2016 at 12:01 am

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Third Fleet’s job was to end The War in one swift campaign that would have showed the enemy we could destroy them with ease. It failed. The heavy cruiser Los Angeles and her squadron now return to the nearest Western Alliance port of call. Serenity is a major Alliance colony world with everything that goes with that designation. Serenity is a center of industry with major fleet repair yards in low orbit. Serenity is protected by dozens of orbital forts and permanent fleet defenses that can stop any attack. Serenity is the perfect place for dispirited American sailors to drink the memories of Epsilon Reticuli away. Serenity is safe. They hope.