Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 7, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Hyades Campaign began well but soon turned into a quagmire. Our fleets carved through the region’s outer defense forces, but our ground forces did not fare as well. The Chinese fought a scorched earth campaign, using everything up to weapons of mass destruction to deny us victory. We inherited broken worlds after suffering heavy casualties, both military and civilian. The Chinese meant to bleed us so badly that we would be unable to continue the offensive. They meant to leave us broken worlds that would require all of our remaining strength to pacify. It was an effective if ruthless plan.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 6, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Both San Diego and Tijuana where pretty quick to rebuild after Yosemite. We needed San Diego’s factories and the factory workers needed to party in Tijuana after long hard shifts at work. But it would be decades before they really recovered to what they were when I was young. And honestly they never were the same. None of us were after Yosemite. Those of us who went away had to live with two decades of War. Those who remained behind had to deal with the Yosemite Winter. Global Cooling. The New Ice Age. There were lots of names for it. They all boiled down to “it got fraking cold enough that even the Eskimos got tired of it.”

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 5, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s fifth and final season started by answering the questions everybody had asked during the season break. The camera panned down from a night sky to show an American infantry battalion moving towards the ruins of Detroit. It passed through the infantry fighting vehicles, showing grim faces as they tried to steel themselves for the battle to come. The camera shot beyond the column to show the defenders of Detroit ready for battle. They were obvious robots, and when they opened fire on the American force everybody understood what combat AIs could do when unleashed. Of course everybody knew the Islamic State of Detroit used them, but seeing them in full color action was a jolt to everybody’s mind.

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Republic-class Light Carrier

by on January 4, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The Republic is prized as one of the “classic first-generation gravtech beauties” of the starship market. Designed as a light carrier shortly after Contact, it brought both heavy weapons and as many fighters as possible into multi-role combat until their retirement in the 2250s. The War made us reactivate them where they served on the front lines for nearly the entire twenty years. They were retired again at War’s End and now are used by smaller governments, corporate interests, and War reenactors. More civilians have actually ridden on a Republic during a War reenactment than any other class of ship, despite the fact that they were not the most common ship. They will almost certainly remain in service to humanity for decades to come, if not longer.

Republic on DeviantArt

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 3, 2016 at 12:03 am
Posted In: Diaries

China is ever looking for new resources they can use to build more things that they can then sell. That is one of the reasons they are so aggressively expansionistic. They need new markets and new factories, and they do best in markets they control. Chinese businessmen build their colonies and Chinese businessmen conquer other worlds by wielding economics. Generals control troops, but businessmen command the generals. That is why the Cowboys began to wear business suits when we landed on conquered Hyades Cluster worlds. It was the uniform that demanded the most respect of the Chinese.

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