Hello, my name is Betty

by on April 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

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
Posted In: Diaries

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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Hello, my name is Jack

by on April 27, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Every planet has some wilderness out there.  Even Earth has her fair share of them.  It’s where I grew up, and I still own a plot of land there.  No house, but one day I’ll rest there in my family’s field of stones.  In the meantime, I really love going to new wildernesses on new worlds and seeing new views.  There’s so much beauty out there in the worlds, so much we’ve never imagined could be.  It’s amazing.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on April 26, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Despite rigorous controls, pregnancies happened.  And though they were healthy and fit, the colonists lost five mothers and their children to Novaya Rodina.  So their leaders initiated draconian policies to save the colony, including forced abortions.  Those deaths haunt Novaya Rodina to this day, and they have more hospitals and doctors per capita now than any other planet.  Children are precious to them, no matter the nationality, and all who need it will find help.

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