Jack of Harts has recently entered a new age of Internet presence. Thanks to work over the weekend with my awesome website provider my WordPress site is updated and I now have a working…wiki. Yes, a wiki. Soon, instead of links to tvtropes consuming hours of your time, Jack of Harts will seek to provide you with the same temporal diversion. I do this of course for your perusal and enjoyment. And because I would like to have some of the stuff I’ve published be capable of being read in a different way. If you are interested in helping me work on the wiki, please message me. And if you have experience with wikis and think you can give me some warnings on what not to do, I’ll be happy to take that too. This is a new venture after all, and will probably be full of learning experiences. 🙂
The survivors of the Hyades had little love their rulers, and less for us when we came. Our military came into the ruins and acted like they were in charge, but every man, woman, and child who grew up in the Chinese system knew that the military took their orders from the businessmen. It was an amazing trap we fell into. I was testing a theory the day I walked out into the streets in the “old money” suit my family favored. I walked without an escort and could feel every eye on me. The two children arguing in the street was my gamble. I demanded to know the reason for their argument as if I had a right to know. They took one look at me and explained everything. I listened, made the best judgment I could on the matter, and they accepted it as if I had every right to make it. That was the day I began to truly understand the Chinese.
Yosemite Winter wasn’t actually all bad you know. I remember when the entire American South West and most of Old Mexico was a desert for instance. Now breads made from Arizona Wheat are a delicacy on all the best Western Alliance worlds. And seeing grass growing around the Egyptian Pyramids is kinda cool. Though there’s something wrong about ice fishing in May outside my old home on the Minnesota-Canada border. And don’t get me started about walking outside in January. But I remember seeing the footage of the fires as they blew through Yosemite National Park. That was the start of a real bad time.
The Islamic State of Detroit had its origins in the Salafi Islamic traditions. They believed in offensive Jihad against the unbelievers surrounding them and saw the defeat of the National Guard as proof that Allah was with them. Twilight’s crew soon found evidence that they were planning a full assault on the National Guard lines, and that the populace did not support their leaders. The Salafis ruled through terror, disappearing entire families of those not sufficiently obedient to their leaders. Twilight’s crew rescued a reporter and her family from one of the government’s “disciplinary teams” and she quickly became their closest ally in the city. And through her Twilight found out just how many people actively stood against the government.
We tried to capture the worlds of the Hyades intact, but the Chinese fought a vicious scorched earth campaign that left ruins in their wake. It was nothing compared to what happened to the Albion worlds in their last war of course. I have traveled through their systems. I have seen the worlds where the earth was baked and the oceans boiled until nothing remained that could support life. The Hyades was not that devastating. But it was bad enough, and whether or not the locals trusted their own government they knew one thing. We had brought War to their worlds. We were at fault for their dead. I understood. Perhaps that is why I was the one who made the breakthrough.
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