Hello, my name is Charles

by on November 29, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Peloran, and the Roderan and Shang when they came, did give us at least a few examples of “surplus” hyper and gravitic drives.  The hyperdrives were faster and hardier than our own, and most of the samples were torn apart for study and replication.  We retrofitted a handful of them into existing naval warships though, and those hybrid ships became the fastest warships we owned.  The Russians and Chinese did the same thing of course.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 28, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I had another good day today.  I sat back, a drink in my hand, and watched a world I’d never been to go by before my eyes.  Tomorrow I have a job to do, but today I just enjoyed life.  Everyone needs to take time to do that from time to time.  It’s even more important with modern life spans.  I can’t imagine working at the same job, doing the same things day after day, for over a century.  Or longer.  So take a break.  Make a change.  Live your life, not your work.

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Arkadia

by on November 27, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

According to Arkadian history, after the total destruction of the other half of the Arkadian Binary system, the survivors towed one of the last remaining moons over to the smoke ring surrounding the other star.  They renamed it Antigonia, after their destroyed homeworld, and in the last two thousand years it has become the center of civilization in the Arkadian Ring.  It is also the place where we found a very special artifact that we had been searching for.

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Hello, my name is Dorothy

by on November 26, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Long ago, we came to a new, strange world that made little sense to us.  We struggled to grow corps in the alien soil, but they failed.  But we made friends with the natives, and they helped us.  We worked together, growing new food and hunting the local animals.  In the end, we all celebrated together, thanking God for the friendships that helped us gather the food we needed to survive the coming winter.  That is the essence of the holiday we call Thanksgiving.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on November 25, 2012 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Peloran did not actually give us high technology.  Not much at least.  They gave us basic gravitic tech and improved hyperdrives generations ahead of our technology, but they were far below true Peloran technology.  They gave us a taste, a very good taste, and then taught us what we needed to know to design those same technologies on our own.  In the words of an old parable, they taught us how to fish.

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