Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 24, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The defense grids of our warships have always been built of many systems.  Devoted to keeping our ships alive against enemy attack, they include electronic warfare grids, active point defense grids, passive stealth grids, and more.  When the Peloran gave us the secrets to gravitic tech, we designed systems that generate gravity bands to deflect weapons fire away from our ships.  They are deflection grids, though civilians have many other names for them.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 23, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Most of us are travelers of some kind.  We do a lot of bounty hunting, bringing criminals to justice and the like.  Some of us join the Marshal or Ranger programs, becoming official peace officers.  Some even become local Sheriffs or Police, though not many have yet chosen to settle down like that.  Me, I’m a drifter.  Part time bounty hunter, explorer, and partier.  I do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like doing it.  I’m a Cowboy.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on February 22, 2013 at 12:01 am
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With Contact, the Peloran gave us examples of many new technologies.  Some made our warships better.  But the Peloran have amazing knowledge of the life sciences and many of these have civilian applications.  We engineered new plants for New Antarctica, designed to reinforce the greenhouse effect of the world, and within a decade the planet began to warm.  It has become an amazingly Earth-like world in the decades since, and home to a major Alliance colony.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 21, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Science fiction had a profound impact on the many terms we use now.  The hyperspace/subspace argument, which still goes on, is far from the only “debate” we had.  When the Peloran gave us the basic secrets of gravitic tech, we quickly harnessed them to protect our ships, just as they did.  We had very long debates over whether to call them shields, screens, deflectors, or a host of other names.  They never truly ended in civilian society.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 20, 2013 at 12:01 am
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There are so few of us.  Amongst the many tens of billions of humanity, we are thousands.  We could have stepped out of normal society and kept to ourselves.  Let the rest of the worlds live or die on their own like most of the Peloran have.  Most of us took our cue from Aneerin though.  We travel, explore, and meet new people wherever we go.  We help when needed.  In short, we involve ourselves everywhere we go.  And that is why we are usually welcome.

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