Life on the Frontier
An Explorer ship can expect to be out of touch for more than two years at a stretch with only the most infrequent contact with other Explorers or with urgent…[...]
Wormholes
Unknown to most, Wormholes are naturally occurring tunnels through space. They allow, through the use of sophisticated detection and navigation equipment, travel from one end of the wormhole to the…[...]
A Visit to Kumbu
There are various periods in Humanity's history that can be legitimately called "The Dark Ages". Any period where there is a lack of records represents the unknown. The period of…[...]
Ajinabi
We were startled by our uniqueness. The first Explorer craft took the time to catalog everything they encountered, well aware that it would be scratching the surface of the biosphere's…[...]
Trade Talk: Tales of Sol
There is a world, twelve pipes from here, where the people are soft and covered in a very fine fur, from top to bottom. At first glance, they all look…[...]
Bit quiet
Moving house so no broadband.[...]
The Ant Hill
Swarm Intelligences were prevalent on Earth in the form of social insect colonies long before we encountered the Ant Hill. We knew that a set of relatively primitive individual behaviors…[...]
The American Dream
It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It…[...]
Aliens: The Snakes of Rist
Rist is an Earth-like planet orbiting a yellow star. Astrogation has not yet pinpointed the location of the system. Explorer craft are free to enter the system but are not…[...]
The Conquest Society
The planetary solar system around HO Librae (also known as Gliese 581) was discovered in CE 2007, several hundred years ago. At the time we knew very little about planet…[...]
Other Intelligences
Throughout the Universe, Human Unity has encountered many forms of intelligences, from the surviving cetaceans (Dolphins) and cephalopods (octopuses) of Earth to the snake-like overminds encountered near Rist. Our society…[...]
Wii3D…VF….omfg…
Okay, I dig this.[...]
Romero’s Blizzard
Very heavy snowfall overnight. Deeply uncharacteristic! 'er indoors compared the ungainly gait and broken formations of the snow walkers to the shambling undead today. See why I love her?[...]
Strange New Worlds
I've been reading a lot more recently and kinda enjoying the low-tech aspect of it. It doesn't require batteries, works in almost any light and gives more of a sense…[...]