When we returned to space in earnest, the Space Force and the Navy argued over who should be the dominant space arm. The submarine service entered the debate by saying that no air or surface fleet commanders had any true clue of how to spend weeks or months in the dark, far from any reinforcement, a common routine for the submarines. In the end, the Navy submarine service built the first true American space navy.
Jay Lovato is a big old Navajo Indian, and I do mean way older than me. He remembers when the Peloran made Contact. Never did fight much until Yosemite plastered the Navajo Nation. His people called him Running Bull on account of his hulking size, and we…ran with it. He’s a lot faster than he looks let me tell you, and the Peloran actually agreed on the name, just shortening it to Bull. He’s one of six of us originals that survived The War, and he is Cowboy Nine.
In the middle of the Alcyone quintuple star system, between the stars Ace and Deuce, is the reason we came to the Pleiades Cluster in the first place. It’s the reason the Peloran came here too. We’ve traveled thousands of lightyears and never found anything like it, the rarest natural phenomena we know of. At least we think it’s natural. Gateway. Stargate. Wormhole. Science fiction gave us dozens of names for phenomena like it. We call it the Taurus Gate.
When Americans first went to space, the old Air Force led the way. NASA became the civilian face of our space program, but the Air Force continued their efforts. The resulting Air and Space Force became the primary Earth-based defense of America. We lost most of it during the Second Great Depression, but the Star Wars network proved instrumental during the Mexican Drug War, and the larger Islamic Jihad as well.
Cowboy Eight was a real good dancer. She was Hawaiian, so we came up with the amazing name of Hula. Yeah. We weren’t the most imaginative, but she liked it. She died and I helped her cyber live with the loss. Literally. They don’t take the loss of their partners well. Most die. Next thing I knew, her cyber created another cyber in her image. That was slightly against the rules you see. Still is, actually. Her name was Drew. Is Drew. It’s complicated.
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