Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 22, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We were the first to build an orbital elevator. That was the Port Harcourt Elevator in Africa. For once we actually beat the Chinese to something. They were right on our heals at Singapore though. And the Russians built one in Sri Lanka not long afterwards. One of the problems with being a far northern nation was that they never were able to build an old elevator on their territory. They did build one over the North Pole after Contact though. That is the only Earth elevator that does not orbit. It is held in place by a series of gravitic generators. Severnyi Polyus is I do believe the most amazing piece of engineering ever built by the Russian Federation.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 21, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I’m starting to realize there’s all kinds of things we don’t know about interstellar travel. I used to think we knew everything there was to know. But now I’m thinking the Peloran left a few things out for us to figure out on our own. I should have seen that coming. I guess I just assumed they unlocked everything back during The War. But then they never did tell us what was so important about the Hyades until the very end. They never like to give us the whole story you know. They can be bloody annoying in that way.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 20, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The fall of the American federal government forced many foreign-deployed American commands to look to local resources to survive. The Japanese island of Okinawa was one of the largest such bases, and was one of the last parts of the Japanese islands to fall to the Chinese invasion. Twilight season four’s first episode showed that fall in living color. And while not entirely historically accurate, it also showed Twilight and Dixie performing an emergency transmission over the remaining communications lines across the Pacific in order to help. The network had to show the stars of their show doing something more than watching after all.

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Avenger Starfighter

by on October 19, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The F-12 Avenger was part of the Fleet 2300 Project to upgrade America’s starfighter capabilities for the coming century. The primary goal was to build Earth’s first hypercapable starfighter and thereby place America on a more even footing with the alien powers. America had only recently begun to miniaturize hyperspace system down to a scale that could work for fighters though, and the main hyperspace needle running down the length of the Avenger’s long nose assembly resulted in the largest starfighter ever built. The Avenger was in fact too large for the Navy to approve production and it would have been relegated to the status of a mere testbed platform had The War not come upon us all. The Cowboys became the first operational squadron to fly them, and the rest is history. They still fly them now, a statement to anyone who sees them that even the ugliest of ducklings can become swans if allowed to fly.

F-12 Avenger on Deviantart

F-12 Avengers on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 18, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

It was the orbital elevators that made us a true space faring species. We could only boost small numbers of people and cargo into orbit before then, leaving most exploration to major government or semi-government agencies like NASA. But once we built the elevators we could send people and cargo up or down all day, every day. And once you get out of the gravity well it takes very little fuel to go anywhere in the solar system. Interstellar travel was still too expensive for the masses, but the solar system was our playground and humanity spread throughout it in a matter of decades.

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