Natalie

by on March 12, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Natalie was part of Wolfenheim, you know. After she left. She picked a new name and a new identity to keep people from tracking her. But it’s open knowledge now. She was a founding member of Wolfenheim, and party to all the successes of that project. And the failures. One of those is hitting the news right now. Major scandal. Corporation in collapse. And despite what the newsies are saying, Natalie is blameless. I was there. I saw it all in living color. She did nothing wrong. She tried to stop it all. So blame me. Blame Louis. Blame anyone you want, but not her. You think it’s rare for a cyber to lose a pilot and live? Trust me, there’s a lot fewer out there who’ve done it twice and lived. She’s a tough cookie. And even if she couldn’t stop it all from happening, she ended it. Never bet against her. You’ll lose. Trust me on that one.

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Louis

by on March 11, 2017 at 12:01 am
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The Peloran Treatments had many purposes. One of the primary ones was to boost our immune systems so we could fight off diseases. And in most people, it recognized my family’s supersoldier serum as a disease to be fought. Louis was one of the minority of people who took the Peloran Treatments and did not then reject the supersoldier serum. That allowed him to match our physical reflexes and made him a superior combat pilot. Add that to his lawyer’s cunning, and he was a dangerous foe. And an equally dangerous friend. Make no mistake. He was a good man. He was a good Cowboy, and more. But the Shang got him at Epsilon Reticuli. It is amazing what fulcrums of history can turn on a single life. Or death. He was a stronger fulcrum than most, and the worlds today have been profoundly affected by his death.

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A Primer on the Races of Humanity – Peloran

by on March 10, 2017 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

There are three main groups or types of Peloran. The planetbound who are most controlled by the genetic imperatives of their creators. The spacegoing defenders who are still mostly controlled by the imperatives. And the final group who have more freedom from the imperatives than other Peloran. Most are half-blood Peloran, the result of matings with other Races of Humanity, but some pure-blood Peloran fall within that group as well. Other Peloran think of them as defective. They explore, they seek new life and study old civilizations. And they sometimes make Contact with the less advanced races. Like Earth.

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Natalie

by on March 9, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Natalie was a good girl. Still is, if I’m being honest. I think. I’ve never asked her why she chose the personality she did when she was born. Louis was a Martian. Why not pick a more Martian body and personality? Not that there’s any one of them, of course. But…Natalie never was anything you’d expect of a Martian. It’s hard to describe her. Maybe a bit Russian? Hard. Cold. Watchful. She worked with me for a while after Louis died. She dropped her guard around me, and I saw the person underneath. What was she like? I can’t say as I really know. Even now. She is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that I have never been able to unwrap. I wonder sometimes if that’s why she really left.

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Louis

by on March 8, 2017 at 12:01 am
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All of the original recruits who filled out Cowboy squadron were Ageless. And most of those we recruited to expand our ranks at Alpha Centauri were as well. Louis was the exception to that rule, and the example that many later Cowboys would follow. He was exceptionally smart from the start. He was a Martian, for one. And he was a lawyer. He moved to Alpha Centauri to start a new practice and joined the Devilcats reserve fighter squadron. I have been informed that he was looking for a vacation from dealing with criminals. Little did he know the kind of people who often volunteer to become Marines. I gave him a sample of the supersoldier serum my family had been working on for centuries. He reacted well to it and joined our ranks as an equal.

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