Hello, my name is Charles

by on November 19, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Once we perfected the deploying of orbital elevators we began shipping single-tether starter elevators to the existing colonies, and we of course added them to the basic colonization packages. Colonization missions were no longer pure scientific, exploratory, or flag waving expeditions by then. They were big business opportunities and the corporations required a cheap and effective way of moving freight up and down. Interstellar trade was nearly non-existent of course, but when a corporation gave money to support a colonization expedition they obtained certain understandings with the new colonial governments. These allowed many corporations to obtain vast tracts of land on many new worlds that would allow them to grow quite impressively over the centuries.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 18, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

One thing I learned when I visited Los Angeles is that I love it. LA and the surrounding cities are so peacefully multicultural. You can find anything from Indian rain dances to Mexican maraca parties within walking distance of each other. Almost every Asian culture I know of has a place to call home there. You can walk for five minutes and pass by ten different cultures. And Cherry Blossom Boulevard is one of those magical places that everybody has to see at least once in real life. If you come at the right time you can watch as the blossoms carpet the street. I’ve never seen anything else like it in all the worlds. That’s the definition of New Japan really. It’s a whole different world from anyplace else out there.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on November 17, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Dixie and Twilight shows always had a loose relationship with time. Major events that were years apart in real life happened right after another in the show, but in general they showed things a couple years after they happened in real life. Long enough ago that they weren’t fully remembered by the viewers, but close enough that it still felt like the shows were set almost in the now. The commercials claimed that they were showing us the real stories of yesteryear. They made a few mistakes though. The Ford Mustangs the gang drove in New Orleans weren’t released until a year after the beginning of the battle that ended Twilight season four. Numerous other product endorsements like the phones they used met similar fates at the hands of cyber nitpickers of the time, but modern audiences never notice. Everything is just Pre-Space old to our eyes.

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Taro Scout Mech

by on November 16, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The Taro scout mech was part of the Army 2300 Project, designed to revolutionize America’s ground forces and ready them for the next century. It gave us a fighting chance when The War came upon us all. While one of the smallest mechs used in combat, it is fast, sports superior sensors and targeting equipment, and can jam or hack most enemy systems. It’s armor can blend into the environment, and limited flight capability allows it to clear small buildings and most terrain features. What many consider the most revolutionary aspect of the Taro though is the modular weapons mount that allows it to interface with weapons built by any of the great powers. This capability made the Taro a difficult mech to fight, as the enemy rarely new what exactly it was going to face even if it was lucky enough to detect an incoming Taro before it or distant artillery opened fire on their position.

Taro Scout Mech on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on November 15, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We built our colony ships long and slender due to the required length of the hyperdrives. The long ships served the dual purposes of making the rides smoother and allowing more framework to hang the colonization packages onto. Colony ships were a mass of habitation modules, hibernation chambers, control rooms, cargo bays, and the hundreds of other systems required to setup a new colony cut off from home by years or even decades of travel. Even the girders that held everything together had a purpose. They formed the skeleton of a new space station after the colonization packages detached and dropped towards the new home of humanity. And then the hyperdrive core set sail for Earth where the crew would report the successful colonization of a new world and begin preparing to take the next colony mission away.

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