I recently created a wattpad account at the suggestion of a friend. It appears that many authors use wattpad to give free previews of their stories in order to gain interest and to get people to buy their stories. I am giving it a shot to see how it works. I am currently pushing a non-final version of my newest story, Angel Flight, to that service. If you wish to check it out for free, please go take a look on me.
When the Ottoman Empire fell, the Kingdom of Syria claimed all lands on the Mediterranean Sea’s eastern shore. Fearing conservative Muslim leaders, the Christian and Jewish communities in Lebanon and Palestine sought help from French and British forces, who agreed to separate those regions from greater Syria. The Syrians did not agree and raised an army to hold them. France defeated them and took command of Syria and Lebanon for a quarter century.
The Voice of Altair didn’t precisely come from the planet herself of course. Somebody buried a very intelligent, though not cyber-level, computer system on the world and programmed it to talk to whoever terraformed the world. The Voice of Altair thanked us for healing the world and welcomed us to the galactic community in every language spoken by the terraforming crews. To say the least, we were real surprised at that. It isn’t every day a planet talks to you.
The initial Jihadist assaults on British colleges killed many thousands of the best and brightest students, and destroyed some of the most advanced science projects in the United Kingdom. Most of the partial and complete British AIs died that day as well, even though many students broke the rules and took copies of AI code home to work on. Their homes were targeted too. Elizabeth survived the destruction of Cambridge only because her student went on vacation.
The Allied occupation of Constantinople was the first time the city had been conquered in five centuries. With it, the Allies demanded a partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The Allies subdivided the lands of modern-day Persia, Israel, and the Arabian Desert into nations too small to survive, but easy to control. Their goal, after a millennium of off and on war with the Arab world, was to end their power to threaten the West forever. They failed.