Hello, my name is Charles

by on September 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Many people who answered the Fermi Paradox assumed that any alien capable of Contact would want Contact.  But some theorized that they simply chose not to talk to us.  To my mind, this is the most probable theory.  The Peloran do not talk about it, but when they made Contact it was via radio transmissions using our frequencies and encryptions, in perfect, if slightly old fashioned, English, suggesting that they had been watching us for some time.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on September 1, 2012 at 12:01 am
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The Danes sent several ships to join The Fleet that we got assigned to liaison with.  I got the Havruen, named after the Danish word for mermaid.  Now the old fairy tale never named the mermaid, so she picked the name Vanda, which I guess means water, for her cyber.  Then she picked a translucent water nymph look for her holoform.  She even got her avatar to go translucent with some fancy illusion tech.  I gotta say, I approved of the look.  She pulled it off well.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 31, 2012 at 12:01 am
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In 2169, the first colony ships arrived at New Seattle, 200 years to the day after Apollo Eleven landed on Luna.  Unlike New Washington and Dallas, corporations funded and planned it, with only minimal aid from any government, making it the first corporate colony world.  Chosen for its high mineral and precious metals content, its founders built Gatesville to be the center of computer research in all the worlds.  I may dabble a bit in that field myself.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on August 30, 2012 at 12:01 am
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The Fermi Paradox asked why, if life was normal, we had no Contact with aliens.  Some speculated that we did have Contact, but that the information was being suppressed.  Reports of flying saucers and alien abductions were common in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries for example, but the major Earth governments constantly ignored them or investigated and found them untrue.  Was this suppression?  Some believe that Contact in 2205 is simply when they went public.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on August 29, 2012 at 12:01 am
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The Icelandic light cruiser Þór joined The Fleet back in 2318.  Named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder and lightning, she picked the name Sif for her avatar.  You know, the blonde-haired goddess of earth and fertility.  Let me tell you that she and Betty really hit it off.  Especially when we stopped in port for repairs.  Those two blondes were Trouble with a capital T when they started playing with the local boys.

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