Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 13, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I remember coming home after The War and seeing Earth again. But it was not as I remembered it. My home was gone of course. Yosemite falling had wiped it out. It was the cold that got to me. I’d grown up with cold. I knew what it was like to live at negative forty. American scale, not European. But what I came back to was something I’d never expected. We called it Nuclear Winter when I was young. What would happen to Earth if we ever let the nukes fly. Dust in the air. Global Cooling. Catastrophic environmental change. Mass animal die offs. Yosemite Winter didn’t hit all the checkmarks. We fought it real hard. But it was bad. Real bad.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Michigan National Guard failed to secure the ruins of Detroit due to the robotic defenses that cut their armored vehicles wide open. So the military pulled their survivors back and setup a cordon around Detroit. It wasn’t a very good one, and it had tons of holes that smart people could sneak through. So while the military sent in their Jane to deal with the robots, Twilight and her crew snuck themselves into the city and began working to uncover the terrorist sympathizers in Detroit. It turned into a much more dangerous search than they expected. They also turned up far more allies than they expected. The local government was not as popular as they claimed to be.

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Wolfenheim Rising

by on January 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Wolfenheim was over six hundred meters of Class One Colonization Ship capable of carrying ten thousand colonists in cold sleep. She was a skeleton of massive girders with engines the size of frigates. Hundreds of colonization modules designed for habitation, manufacturing, teaching, research, cold sleep, and dozens of other uses filled the spaces between the girders. They are what made her a colonization ship. The modules. She was designed to enter orbit and eject them all. What was left would become the new planetary space station and drop an orbital elevator onto the planet. She was designed to deploy a new colony with all the comforts of home in a matter of hours. That was the Wolfenheim Project.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 10, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Our early conquests in the Hyades Campaign were difficult to pacify. The Chinese deployed weapons of mass destruction to leave ruins in their wake, and then accused us of using the weapons. It was a brilliant strategy in many ways. The survivors did not trust us after that, and it is difficult to bring law and order to an area when the locals do not trust those enforcing the law. We needed a new plan. We knew the colonists did not like their rulers, but we were “the other” that could not be trusted either. We had many lessons to learn when it came to dealing with the Chinese culture. We had a crash course in it.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 9, 2016 at 12:01 am
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There’s lots of science that tries to explain what happened after Yosemite. There’s lots of theories and speculations. Some say the massive reduction in fossil fuel usage caused a reduction in the greenhouse gases that kept heat from leaking out into space. Others say all the dust in the air reflected the heat away from us before it even got in. Those are the two big theories. Some say they both worked together to really kill us. The end point is that it got really cold. Even for someone who grew up in Northern Minnesota. And then a few months later there was that whole big badda boom in the other Yosemite. I remember when that was a national park, not a memorial.

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