Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Chinese never stopped fighting in the Hyades. They attacked our fleets and bases until they ran out of starships. They defended their systems until they ran out of spaceships. Then they fought with every gun they had to defend their planets. They never stopped answering the call to fight us. They never ran out of courage. For all the distaste I have for the social policies of their governments, I respected their soldiers. Even in the end, when they knew they were losing, they still stood up and fought. It was amazing to watch. It was terrible to watch. I hope I never have to do anything like that again.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Cherokee Free Nation of Sequoyah is the largest of the various Indian Nations now. The original founders were Freedmen, descendents of Cherokee slaves that the Cherokee Nation said weren’t Cherokee enough to keep their citizenships, so they named themselves after the Indian who invented writing in the Cherokee language. Kind of a “take that” challenge. They welcomed any Cherokee who felt uncomfortable in their home nation, and then they welcomed any Indians, and finally anybody at all. Study their history, pass their citizenship test, and you are a citizen of Sequoyah. I may have picked up an honorary citizenship over the years. I like dancing with them.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by 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 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 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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