Many governments and people reacted badly when the Peloran made Contact. Some named them devils and refused to deal with them. Others thought they were angels or gods come to bring a new peace on Earth. And those who thought that aliens would have evolved completely different were mystified by the fact that the Peloran were just as human as we were. They have never answered that question either. They have only given us more questions in response. They can be most annoying.
People sometimes ask me what kinds of other people I like the most. And I honestly answer that I love the kind of attractive young women that fall for my Jack of Harts routine. He’s fun and has gotten me a lot of first dates. I like playing him. And I like playing with those who like to play with him. But the girls that take him at face value and never look deeper? Those are the girls that never get a second date.
Texas Tech’s principal had a plan during the Second Great Depression and the drug wars between America and Mexico. She had some understandings with the drug lords and had been doing her best to throw roadblocks up in the way of Dixie, the students, and the faculty as they fought the drug lords. Some of the roadblocks worked. But Dixie and her allies found their way around most of them. In the end, the drug lords demanded a permanent solution to the Dixie problem. They executed it on graduation day.
Welcome to the halfway point in the calendar year. I’ve had a busy year both in real life and with Jack of Harts. It’s been a good year, and for much of that I have those of you who purchase my stuff to thank for it. Now I have one question for all of you. What do you want? What things do you “make do” with a pencil scratching on a torn sheet of paper in your RPGs or wargames where a token or card or something else would make it all look better and more immersive to the gamers? What do you wish other companies would make for you to play with? What do you want?
When the Peloran made Contact, they passed by a hundred lightyears of scout ships and thirty lightyears of colonies to reveal themselves inside our own native star system. And when the quick-thinking British captain invited the Peloran over for tea, the Peloran answered, “we would not have come all this way for excretal Yank coffee.” That answered two questions. “Do aliens understand fart jokes?” And “would they watch us long enough to recognize our divergent cultures before making Contact?” They have never answered the third question. “How long have they been watching us?”
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