Hello, my name is Jack

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

Most people forget that Venus and Mars were our first big run at weather modification. They weren’t always places you could walk around in without shirtsleeves you know. Same for Luna and all those moons around Saturn and Jupiter. And we tended to play a bit when we left our Sun behind too. The various planetary Weather Services were all real good at holding things together long before The War came. The Chinese were just the first people to weaponize weather the way they did. They did a lot of damage before we caught on to their tactics. But we got them back in the end.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 26, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Salafi Muslim guns kept a semblance of peace and security for their friends in the Islamic State of Detroit. Though their “modesty police” had driven the non-Muslims out of Detroit, and now happily roamed the Shia neighborhoods in search of naked ankles or uncovered heads in need of a lesson. Twilight’s crew was nearby when a crowd of Salafis pulled a teenager out of her home for the crime of living with her stepfather’s sons. The penalty for being alone with men she had no blood relation to was death by stoning, but the neighborhood came to her defense and the street quickly devolved into a violent riot between Salafi and Shia Muslims. Twilight’s crew got it all on camera.

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Steel Hammer Main Battle Tank

by on January 25, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

Named the Wang Chung Five by Western Alliance Consolidated Intelligence before they learned the Chinese name, the Steel Hammer is one of the older tanks in use by the Chinese Liberation Army. It carries armor plates heavier than cars, a main cannon capable of destroying many enemies with a single salvo, and miniguns, missiles, and mortars for dealing with lesser enemies. Or enemies hiding behind terrain because they are afraid of the main cannon. The Steel Hammer was one of the more common War Era tanks in the Chinese Army, and continues to serve to this day in garrison and militia units.

Steel Hammer on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 24, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Hyades was a long, hard campaign. A decade of fighting on planets and asteroids and space stations against a Chinese Liberation Army that did not know the meaning of the word “surrender.” Literally. I do not think they had the concept in their mind. China was the Middle Kingdom, the best and greatest of all nations on Earth, and the Han Chinese were the master race that could never be defeated no matter how many barbarians raged at their gates. Defeat was unthinkable to them. Unimaginable. They might lose individual battles, but every soldier that died to our guns knew that they were paving the way to Chinese victory with their blood. It was that inability to imagine true defeat that proved their undoing.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 23, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Minnesota was real cold when I got home. California was real wet. And a host of other changes had come over Earth. The United States Weather Service had taken care of the really bad stuff, stopping every hurricane in the last five years, and they’d even made a dent in the tornado action on the Great Plains. They’d done a good job stabilizing things, but the global climate was a lot cooler than it had been before Yosemite fell. I don’t mind that one bit, but the Weather Service still has to give Florida special attention to keep all the orange groves from dying. Thank God they’re more reliable than the Postal Service.

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