This weekend we thank all Fathers for helping to raise the next generation that will inherit the Earth. And maybe beyond if our best natures manage to work out. A Father is an example to a daughter of the king of man she should find, and for a son the kind of man he should group up to be. To all who rose to this challenge, whether you were involved from the beginning or you walked into the job later, we all thank you for weathering the storms and making things better.
The Georgian Navy does not stand and fight like tanks at ten paces the way other navies do. They strike from the darkness and do not wield weapons that make them easy to find. They utterly lack heavy gravitic cannons, as well as the heavy capital lasers other navies use. Instead they fire torpedoes that move in slowly and carefully until achieving final attack range. Some carry one-shot gravitic cannons or laser emitters, while others have more standard gravitic or explosive warheads. All carry integral deflection grids and point defense networks that allow them to penetrate active defense grids. It is important to note that those Fleet 2300 warships they purchased were heavily refitted with torpedo launchers and heavier stealth systems rather than maintaining their standard armaments. This has done nothing to reduce the thoughts of other navies that the crews of Kings Bay are a squirrelly lot.
The impact of Kings Bay on Georgia’s space program cannot be underestimated. It was started at Kings Bay, Kings Bay crew served aboard the vessels, and Kings Bay training made everything possible. And Kings Bay culture drove it into a number of interesting cul-de-sacs. For one thing, they do not fly or sail on spaceships. Georgia has boats that dive into subspace, not ships and hyperspace as many other nations term them. And Georgian boats rarely stand out front and center in any battle. They are some of the stealthiest vessels in space, and they prefer to poke around the edges of battle and send in small numbers of stealth torpedoes rather than more active massive missile salvoes. They do not wish to stand out in battle, even limiting their energy armaments to those needed to maintain their point defense networks. In case all of their plans fail and someone actually sees them well enough to shoot at them.
Kings Bay became the Confederation of Dixie’s second space launch facility, but it would not be the last. Every other State started their own space agency in time, built their own launch facilities, and flew their own ships into space. But Kings Bay had the best training facilities. It turns out that the best way to train people for flying through space in a tin can is to put them in a tin can beneath the ocean. Long-term cruises under those conditions helped Georgia prepare crews for space, and many of the early Confederation crews trained at Kings Bay. The other States would eventually build their own training programs, but Kings Bay is still home to the best training program and space launch facility in the Confederation. In their opinion. Florida disagrees on both points, as one would expect.
Wednesday was cancer treatment day, as usual per the last months. The not-chemo infusions are down to once a month now, but the blood draws and the hospital visits are still every week. The doctors want to make certain that the oral not-chemo is working and that the various bodily organs aren’t shutting down in protest over all the crazy going on. Good news. They aren’t. The body is responding like a champ and cleaning out the nasty dead stuff the treatments are targeting very happily. Bad news. None that the doctors can see. Treatment is going along well, and they are looking forward to the next three months of treatment to verify that all is going well, and then six more months of maintenance treatment to make certain it is gone. Cancer sucks, but thank God for the Mayo Clinic. They are making things good.
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