Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 24, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The Industrial Revolution brought profound change to England in the 1800s.  Skilled workers could demand higher pay, and a driving need for more production resulted in more jobs available.  Household incomes increased, and luxuries once limited to the rich became commonplace.  New discoveries in medicine increased the human lifespan, and the monumental differences between the blue-blooded rich and the poor began to shrink.  It was the first step into a new world.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 23, 2013 at 12:01 am
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When I grew up, I never thought I’d have to really fight for much of anything.  Oh, there were the schoolboy scuffles and such, but that’s normal.  It was the big fighting I never thought of.  War.  Earth was so peaceful back then.  Still is actually.  I don’t spend much time back there.  There’s just too much to do in all our colonies.  And I’ve become a bit of a wanderer.  Staying in one place just doesn’t work for me anymore.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 22, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The Core Worlds militaries were the greatest weapons of war constructed by our branch of humanity when The War started.  They had the largest warships, the most powerful weapons, the most advanced tanks and mechs, and the best-equipped infantry in all the worlds.  What they lacked were two things.  Combat experience and a solid officer corps to depend on.  Oh, they were well trained, but training only goes so far when the balloon goes up.  For us, it wasn’t far enough.

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Hello, my name is Malcolm

by on October 21, 2013 at 12:01 am
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I grew up a satellite of the Hurst family.  Charles’ parents wanted him to understand the little people in life, you see, so they arranged for me to be his boyhood playmate.  The little people in question being members of a family that had served them for generations.  I’m afraid they never did understand how most people lived.  Charles did.  So did I.  We had a good tutor.  That’s why we did what we did.  Someone had to, after all, and we understood why.

Wolfenheim Rising

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 20, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The 1800s brought profound change to Continental Europe.  Thousands of small independent states had ruled as part of larger grand empires in 1800.  By 1900, nationalist tendencies had splintered the larger empires and united the independent states into the true nation states that we recognize today.  It is ironic that despite numerous wars of conquest, and peaceful merger attempts, the accepted borders of European nations have changed very little since then.

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