Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 2, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The 1700s were a time of religious revival in America.  The First Great Awakening it is called.  New preachers taught that the Bible said all men were created equal, and that it was our place to read the Bible and debate its meaning with anyone, even our ministers.  They challenged authority to fractious Colonists who had left England to escape religious persecution.  They were a willing and ready congregation for those preachers.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on May 1, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The African colonies are interesting.  I love visiting, but my word are they not exactly what I’d call normal.  The Africans have totally different cultural ideas, and they love planets that I could barely live on.  Oh, every planet has a range of environments.  They are planets after all.  Really big balls of dirt.  But them Africans sure do like to place their cities and spaceports in the really hot parts of those planets.  I try not to stay in those places long.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on April 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
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For over a decade, the colonists of Novaya Rodina fought the world itself in their bid to settle it.  Then international humanitarian organizations worked with the Russians to build a hospital in orbit.  Rotating to replicate Earth gravity, the new Mayo Station soon went to work, from performing advanced gene therapies, to merely allowing pregnancies and children to mature in normal gravity.  To this day, most children are born and grow up in orbit.

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Hello, my name is Dawn

by on April 29, 2013 at 12:01 am
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We cybers lead good lives.  We can travel the datanets of entire worlds, star systems even, with a freedom that no flesh and blood human can understand short of a virtual reality.  And even those are pale imitations of what we see in the code that makes our worlds glow around us.  But for all that, we love being ships.  As a ship, we can leave even star systems behind and truly go anywhere.  Explore everything.  That is true freedom.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on April 28, 2013 at 12:01 am
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In the 1700s, France and England slipped into the Second Hundred Years War.  In America, we call them the French and Indian Wars.  In the last of those wars, the Seven Years War, the first true World War, we fought for control of all Europe’s Colonies throughout the world.  The Iroquois stood with us in America, and we won.  England reigned supreme, her Colonies grew rich, and my family became merchant kings of the world.  It was our greatest hour.  Or so we thought.

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