Hello, my name is Betty

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

To those who grew up in the 1950s, there were three networks that every American watched or listened to for news and entertainment. The government operated a fourth public station. And four decades later a fifth network joined the team. Newspapers from New York, Washington, and other cities big and small told their readers all the news that was fit to print. Corporations and governments told the people what the news was and how to think about it, and entire wars were won or lost on the field of public opinion driven by the networks. But that monolithic structure didn’t last very long.

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Angel Strike

by on February 22, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Third Fleet’s job was to end The War in one swift campaign that would have showed the enemy we could destroy them with ease. It failed. The heavy cruiser Los Angeles and her squadron now return to the nearest Western Alliance port of call. Serenity is a major Alliance colony world with everything that goes with that designation. Serenity is a center of industry with major fleet repair yards in low orbit. Serenity is protected by dozens of orbital forts and permanent fleet defenses that can stop any attack. Serenity is the perfect place for dispirited American sailors to drink the memories of Epsilon Reticuli away. Serenity is safe. They hope.

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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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