Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 15, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

VMSB-413, The Flying Nightmares, began The War as a single squadron of twelve Marauders. Much like my Cowboys began with twelve Avengers. The Nightmares fought at Fort Wichita and took heavy casualties along with the rest of the fleet there. The Peloran adopted them along with the rest of Marine Aviation Group 41 during the buildup for the invasion of the Hyades. The Peloran built them and the other squadrons into full wing-strength formations that could take the fighting to the Chinese and their Shang allies alongside our rebuilt fleets, armies, and everything else we threw at the Hyades.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on May 14, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries, The Indian Nations

The Apache Nation revolutionized the mobile home industry after Yosemite fell. Before then, most mobile homes were delivered to their place of final rest and never moved again. Whether that be a trailer park orbiting Europa, or a new corporate warehouse park in need of a quick new office building on Luna. The Apache started building their vacuum-capable mobile homes with hyperspace sails after Yosemite. They couldn’t enter hyperspace alone of course, but a group of them linked up to a hypercapable ship were a different story. And trust me. I have a lot of stories about them locked away in my mind.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on May 13, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Jane 1.0 became the United States Army’s primary voice system for a decade. Then advances in technology and computer coding ushered in a new generation of software. Jane 2.0 was designed to be far more adaptive than the original. The hope was that she would seem less annoying if she knew when to talk and when not to. The adaptive nature worked perfectly and beta testers greatly preferred her to her more literal predecessor. She was superior in every way and breezed through combat trials to the praise of all soldiers involved. Everyone expected Jane 2.0 to be a total and complete success. Real life was not so simple.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I feel I have to modify a statement I made earlier. I have often said that the Marauders became deadly warship hunters after receiving the hyperspace drive and torpedo upgrades. Some people think I am saying they were not deadly before then. That is not the correct interpretation to take out of those statements. The base Marauders were very deadly. We never would have been victorious at Fort Wichita or Fort London without Marauder squadrons supporting our warships and harrying the Shang assaults. They helped hold the lines until we arrived. But once they became independent of fixed space stations or carriers for deployment and could carry weapons capable of generating capital-ship levels of destruction, they became a force multiplier that allowed us to strike back at the Shang.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on May 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

People say the world we live in now is built on seemingly tiny choices people made hundreds or thousands of years ago. Railroad tracks are based on the width of the axel of a Roman carriage for instance. Aircars are built to roll on roads designed for the Ford Model T. And space going homes are built to the same 10 by 80 feet dimensions as mobile homes nearly as old. And yes, I did use the term feet. The American federal government went metric long before my time, but there are still many areas of America that have never made the leap. Remember those tiny choices that people made I was talking about? Yeah…

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