Hello, my name is Charles

by on August 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The later half of the twenty first century became an odd mix of war and peace. The Chinese and Russians expanded their influence on all fronts, absorbing many of the nations around them. And so many others came to America and Europe for protection. But the Second Great Depression, the Islamic Jihad, and the Cybernetic Wars had affected them worse than the other nations. It simply took them time to recover. But once they did, neither the Russians nor the Chinese felt like testing them. They all had many new acquisitions to digest after all.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on August 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The War forced changes in most of our lives. Even those who never raised a weapon in anger felt the effects of increased prices of civilian products. The combined industrial might of entire interstellar nations and alliances poured into building the weapons it took to fight the Shang and their allies. There just wasn’t a lot left over to make new cars, phones, or even toys for kids. People had to keep what they had working, because replacements were hard to come by. That took some people a long time to figure out.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 25, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Twilight lost one of its main cast members at the end of season one to a Disney buyout and other allegations. Not wanting to let a good scandal go to waste, Twilight’s ever-snarky studio advertised their next season as “the series that brought you Disney’s next great action star” and there were more lawsuits. The Texas courts dropped them and more people came to check out the series that was making such a controversy. The network laughed its way to the bank while Disney was not so amused.

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Forge of War

by on August 24, 2015 at 12:01 am
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I grew up on the lakes of the Minnesota and Canada border. I fished in summer and winter, under warm sun or through frozen ice. I burned fires in summer nights to celebrate being alive, and on deep winter nights just to stay alive. It was all I wanted back then. I was never going to leave. Then the Shang came and ended that life forever. They forced me to change. No, that’s not fair. I didn’t have to change. I didn’t have to grow up. I chose to do it. I wanted to make them pay. Not the best motivations I grant you, but that was the genesis that made me what I am today.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on August 23, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The global networks had broadcast everything we as humanity did for all to see. Music crossed the world in seconds, rumors moved faster, and our vices hid beneath the surface in hidden networks. Corporations fought software piracy, religions fought sinful expressions, and nations fought other nations. In the age-old demand of the offended, they called for the silencing of their enemies. And when the “hate speech” was allowed, they attacked the networks that hosted it. The networks that survived did so by offending no one, or by having better defenses than the others.

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