Pacifica

by on November 14, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Pago Pago is the one truly great big city of American Samoa. Pago Pago Harbor is one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, and is protected from storms by Mount Pioa in the east. And that same mountain brings down fresh rain in an amount no other harbor in the world can match. It is one of the most livable and productive sites of its kind in the world, and some of the greatest seafood companies on Earth have called it home for centuries. Restless Samoans looking for a better life come to Pago Pago to make it big, and if that small city isn’t good enough for them, they can catch a ship or a flight from there to any place else on Earth and beyond. It is where tourists come to sea the beautiful islands, and it is where New Hong Kong businessmen come to negotiate new deals on fish delivers to their home islands that are forever in need of more food. It is the hub of American Samoa’s economic power, and the various clan chiefs throughout the islands use it to acquire the foreign monies they need to buy all the conveniences their people demand.

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Pacifica

by on November 13, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

American Samoa is much like the Midwestern States in many ways, if you replace the endless tracks of fields with endless tracks of ocean. Small towns or clan gathering areas of between a hundred and a thousand people dot the various islands, both natural and manmade. They farm fish instead of wheat or corn for a living, and they work long hours to keep their boats and nets working. Samoan fishers are trained in the old ways, without relying on personal fishing assistants to do their work, just as they are taught in school to do their own math and remember their history from their own memory rather than using a personal computer. The granting of personal computer and personal assistant is a coming of age ceremony in modern Samoa, proof that the child is one step closer to becoming an adult. The work ethic they learn as children is one of the traits that make Samoans so effective when they go to seek success in the big city of Pago Pago and beyond.

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Veterans Day

by on November 12, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art

On Veterans Day, we thank those who served our nations in defense of our freedom.

We see so many places out there in the world where people are fighting just to live. To taste even a piece of the freedom we enjoy. Syria. Afghanistan. Venezuela. Hong Kong. It reminds me how much of an exception we are. The safe and secure world we’ve built behind the wall of soldiers who volunteered to hold the ramparts for us. We have inherited a better world than most of the rest of the world, and we dare not forget why.

That is why I say Thank You for all of your service.

Everything I write is dedicated to those who have defended the freedom that makes it possible for me to write my stories.

And here are some members of Bull Squadron, Marine Fighter Attack Wing 112, The Cowboys, with an old Humvee in the background. They really were a well-connected bunch.

Alice White, daughter of the White Family of San Francisco, Earthborn
Jay Lovato, son of the President of the Navajo Nation, Earthborn
Daniel Freemon, son of the President of Dixie, Earthborn
Virginia Adams, daughter of the Adams Family of Massachusetts, Earthborn

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Veterans Day

by on November 11, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice that ultimately ended World War I took effect.

Whether we call it Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, or Veterans Day, people all over the world remember this day and those who have served in one of the most dangerous occupations we have yet found.

And so I say Thank You for your service.

Every story I write is written in honor of you who have served, for it is your service that gave me the freedom to do it.

These are members of Hart Squadron, Marine Fighter Attack Wing 112, The Cowboys, with an old World War II jeep in the background. Or maybe it’s a new version meant to look like it…

Reina Ono of New Japan, Neko
Jack Hart of Minnesota, Earthborn
Ken Banno of New Japan, Earthborn
Aeryn Davies of Minnesota, Arnam

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Veterans Day

by on November 10, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art

On this coming Veterans Day, I would like to say Thank You for your service.

I seek to honor you all with the stories I write, for I would not be free to do it were it not for you.

Thank You.

The characters in this render all come from Wolf Squadron, Marine Fighter Attack Wing 112, The Cowboys, with a modern Bradley in the background.

Morgan Reese of Betelgeuse, Thunderbird
Charles Edward Hurst (Wolf) of the Hurst Family, Earthborn
Christian Mack of Knights Errant Investigations, Earthborn
Rhiannon of Arkadia, Weylan

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