Fringe elements of society will always be with us. There are some people who will always see, act, and be different. Some will never be able to conform. Some of them will always be able to interact with society, deal with people even as they keep their distance. Others will not. Some never want to. The rise of interconnected technologies in the early twenty-first century gave these fringe elements greater access to society than ever before. That is one reason it all went so bad.
Mainland China had fallen to the socialists by the time of the Korean War and they had an impressive army. They had minimal training but decades of experience in the long Chinese Civil War. They’d taken hideous losses against the Japanese but the survivors knew how to fight. And those survivors formed the core of a million-man army ready to cross the border. They smashed the South Korean and American armies when they came.
Julie and Alex taught me to read music, to study in school, and so much more. And in return I taught them how to play by ear. I taught them to break the rules, in music and in the rest of life. Sometimes the best things in music come from playing outside the rules. Life too. I taught them to put the music down and play what they felt. That was when they decided they wanted to start a band. I was all over that like white on rice.
The early twenty-first century saw a generational change in electronic technologies. The widespread use of mobile computing and communications devices. The merging of the two. The new technologies connected people around the world like never before. But it was not all good. The fringe elements of society did not always use these technologies for the betterment of the society that shunned them you see.
The Wolfenheim Project was a dream given form. Her mission to establish a new colony farther out than any Earth had ever sent. To tell the aliens that we would never stop coming. To show them that we would never give up. It was a grand and ambitious project. Some called it crazy. Others called it fraud. When the people funding the project found out they were funding the project, they demanded their money back. They brought guns. That was when things got interesting.
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