Tianjin

by on February 21, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

I will never forget Tianjin. That is where I took the sniper bullet in the shoulder. It is a painful memory. The crowd thought I was dead. So did the sniper and that is why I lived. He packed up and began to leave his position. That gave me time to stand back up, draw my weapon with my other hand, and shoot him dead. It was a bad shot. I had hoped to capture him alive, but was operating at a distinct handicap. Still, good did come from that confrontation. It was the first day the populations of the Hyades Cluster used the term Immortal and Cowboy together. I did not correct them. The Chinese government did not appreciate that at all.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 20, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I’ve visited all of the major Indian Nations and many of the smaller ones. The largest ones are west of the Mississippi of course. Though the Chippewa Nations are all east of it, in the Great Lakes region. They’re the largest Indian nation that doesn’t own a large big block of territory you know. They have small pockets of land throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Some of the best casinos in America are on their lands if I say so myself. I may have visited them as a kid. A lot. Those tribes have some serious money, enough that they’ve actually funded a very respectable little star fleet of their own. I’d fight at their side again any day of the week.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on February 19, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s last season showed Americans snippets of the outside world along with the fighting in Detroit. They showed us glimpses of a peaceful Tehran after the Persian Revolution, and Israeli flags over Syria. We saw the newly renamed Constantinople looking out over the remnants of Greece and Turkey. And we saw the war still going on in North Africa. The Islamic State of Detroit stood nearly alone in a world where the other Islamic States had already been brought low by internal rebellion or foreign armies. The Jihad would continue to go on for decades, but Twilight showed us how the last of the Islamic States died.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 18, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We saw the effects of my plan in the Hyades. All of my Cowboys soon began to wear business suits as their new uniform, and everywhere we went we sought to bring stability. It did not always work of course. Not every local population were interested in listening to foreign devils. And once the Chinese realized what we were doing we became high profile targets. But that helped us in other ways. Few things impress a crowd like taking a shot that would kill a normal person and then standing back up. The Chinese may have legends about Immortals, but few things get their attention so well as showing that you are one in the present.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 17, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

There are hundreds of small Indian Nations scattered all over America, but most of them aren’t full-fledged States. Statehood requires a big population and a unified government to declare it. And most Indian Nations have never been that big. One village, town, or city just doesn’t have a lot of pull when you are talking to a nation that crosses an entire continent. That is why they formed the Federation of First Nations during the chaos of the Second Great Depression. It gave them a single voice and helped to pool their resources towards reinvigorating all of the Indian Nations following the fall of the federal government.

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