Prohibition during the Roaring Twenties quickly went from being wildly popular to amazingly irrelevant in a matter of years. The rich had purchased stockpiles of liquor before the ban went into effect, and the mafias operated undercover bars where everybody could flaunt the law. Police forces and federal agencies unprepared for the rise of organized crime were unable to stem the tide of violent crime linked to the smuggling of alcohol.
I know I put on airs that Capella is a dangerous place to go. It really isn’t for most people though. The Chinese just don’t want to go another round with us after last time. So they’ve revived the venerable traditions of Old Hong Kong and set aside areas where foreigners are allowed. Of course some people like to push those boundaries. Not me of course. I totally respect boundaries of all kinds and would never dream of violating them…
The loss of Jane 3.0 was a severe setback in American computer warfare capabilities. Civilian AIs took up the slack, but they weren’t designed for international electronic warfare. They still somehow stopped our enemies from performing large-scale incursions into the American data networks. But they were never truly alone. Some of Jane 3.0’s technicians survived the attack you see. They were very busy as the Second Great Depression came upon us all.
I’ll never forget the first time I say Third Fleet. We were back at New Earth again. I keep on going back there you know. I love it. I don’t want to see it. A part of me feels like I ran away. But Third Fleet. Yeah. She was big. Largest fleet I’d ever seen. Amazing. Majestic. Unstoppable. You know I trusted Aneerin’s worry. He’s got the knack. The feel. But I didn’t believe. Not truly. But he was right. We never should have gone to Epsilon Reticuli.
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My family supported Prohibition for purely economic reasons. We owned major interests in oil companies which created fuel for the rapidly expanding automobile market. Our primary competitor in automotive fuel was the alcohol that most farmers created in their back rooms. Prohibition erased that competition and forced an entire nation to buy our product. We made a fortune on that law alone.
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