Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 16, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Everyone already knew how the Battle of Japan had gone. The Japanese lost. But theTwilight season four premier did what no one else had yet done on any “mere” entertainment program. They secured the rights to use Empress Aiko’s likeness in full. The former Princess Aiko had long been a fan of the Dixie and Twilight series, and she was eager to let them show the evacuation of Japan from her perspective. Due to time and acting talent, they scanned her body in and generated the footage digitally. It wasn’t the first time that was done either, but the production team pulled it off well enough that few suspected until the credits rolled. That gained them another Emmy nomination.

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Hello, my name is Charles

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

There were only two ways to lift anything from a planetary surface into orbit before Contact. The first was to strap it onto a rocket engine at Cape Canaveral or any of the other launch sites around the world. That was expensive but secure. Most spy satellites were placed in orbit by rockets that way so nobody could peek inside of them. Then there were the orbital elevators. There were six on Earth and most major worlds had at least one of their own. Most cargo went up or down using the elevators because it was so much cheaper than using rockets. We still use them now.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 14, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I didn’t just think of going outside the galactic arms on my own you know. I wasn’t just some wanderlust person looking for someplace new to look at. I had an actual mission. I’d been tracking Shang ship movements for months and found a discrepancy. There was a ship that left but never arrived. There’s more than one actually, but this was the first I found and I was curious. So the short story is that I followed this ship. As far as I could. As far as our engines could take us. Right past the end of the stars.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 13, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight season four returned to the grittier and darker tone that fans preferred. But it originally had only six episodes to close the series. The season premier blew everybody’s expectations though. It started with a quick montage of gang violence in Blacked Out Los Angeles and then showed glimpses of the Battle of London with Big Ben as the anchor point. Then it went full metal with the desperate Battle of Japan. It wasn’t the first time mecha appeared on a network series, but Twilight earned an Emmy nomination for its dramatic portrayal of the Japanese mecha fighting the Chinese landing forces on the western shores, interspersed with the loading of the evacuation ships in the eastern ports.

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Hellcat Starfighter

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

The F-7 Hellcat starfighter entered service five decades after Contact, after we’d had time to learn more about the alien gravitic technologies quickly taking over both military and civilian starship design. She was designed and built by the best gravtech engineers of the time to be the best starfighter ever built. They succeeded. The Hellcats soon replaced the older Blackhawks as the primary American starfighter and proved themselves throughout the Outer Colonies until The War came upon us all. Then they proved themselves again by taking down more alien starfighters than any other Terran fighter. Their frontline service ended with The War, but they continue to serve in system defense fleets, corporate security forces, and private hands throughout the Western Alliance and beyond.

Hellcat starfighter on Deviantart

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