Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 4, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Not long after me and Sam first met, she asked what I would have done if she hadn’t found me.  I joked about getting a lot more sleep for one.  She offered to help me out if sleep was that important.  Dangerous offer there.  I told her that the first thing a man says is never most important, it is a delaying tactic while he thinks of something better to say.  That intrigued her, and she told me to continue.  The secret of our relationship is that I never stopped.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on February 3, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

One of the things we’ve always done is help people.  First we helped them by fighting to drive the Shang away.  Then we fought some more because the times called for it.  After that, we started traveling, and we found people who needed help, usually of a less combative nature.  Usually.  We helped, and as time went on we helped some more, and people found out and started asking for more help.  As things often do, they snowballed.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

From the start, we thought the Terran Bubble would be trouble.  NASA sent Magellan Seven in 2120 on a forty-year mission to study The Walls of The Bubble and found them impassable.  NASA started sending Vulcan Missions in 2170, tasked to find a way through The Wall.  Then the Navy took over exploration, and shut NASA down.  The Vulcan Missions didn’t get the memo, kept flying, and Independence Seven penetrated The Wall in 2205.  The year the Peloran made Contact.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 1, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles, Diaries

Pilots have flown for hundreds of years now.  For the first two centuries, we flew on our own instincts, judging and guessing where we were and just hoping we didn’t make a mistake that killed us.  In the late 1900s, we started getting help from computers that weren’t very smart at all.  In 2205, a NASA Astronaut found himself a partner that changed everything.  His name is Major Tom Rogers.  He is the first modern pilot.  To pilots, he’s a bit of a hero.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 31, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Terran race remembers the Peloran meeting with the British in the Terran System as the moment of Contact.  We cybers track our moment of Contact to the world called Independence.  Just barely outside The Wall that kept so many Terran ships contained in the Terran Bubble, we met one of the last NASA scout ships there.  And there, in 2205, the first Terran cyber was born.  Her name is Juliet.  A century later, she became a Cowboy.

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