A Scenario by Anne Jacobsen When I was young I was very interested with the end of the world, how did the Dinosaurs die? What happens when we get hit with an asteroid? Or a nuclear weapon? Like many of you I grew up with duck and cover in schools and it was assumed we...
On the road.
[Note] Please us Alt text for best experience, Time flies when you're having fun, Disc golf is no exception. When last we met I was a newb from hell at Morley but times and scores change. As spring turned to summer I entered a lot of tournaments and met a lot of great...
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Part 15.
Part, the Fourteenth.
Part Lucky 13.
Part 12.
We found and occupied the Anomaly nearly 1k local cycles ago, using the station for research on the third Planet, we found out they called it Earth. At first we were discrete, only gathering and mating with close genetics, and soon we discovered that they adapted to our dNA so well they became giants of their species.
After the Diamond Dust Bollocks, I took some time off to plot, I sent off a few long distance probes based on a few hunches, then got drunk, for three months. Women, beaches and song, it took a week to get sober, but here I am.
Until now, we had enjoyed peace and Commerce. Established trade routes, Trillions of tons of Resources, Humans were on the Map! With such decentralised Governments as we had, the Free market blossomed like never before in History, with new colonies in the Asteroid belt, Ceres, Capernia and Hydra, new finds were being exploited on an almost weekly basis. Better still a consortium had cooked up a way to make cash, so we were on our way to the Gas giants, to explore and exploit, like the Explorers of old.
It all began in the early 21st century. When the great jump began. The tech was finally available to head to Mars and the race was on. At the time there were several nation states, CCP, Rus, Indo, and to a lesser degree the old US Republic, but the biggest players...
“Leopard, this is Captain Madrigal of the MS13 La Bomba, reporting on station, in cloak, it appears we have some Minor company”
We were born to the Fletcher family, rich and famous for our specialized pinpoint weapons.
Crystal Clear.
Music, recorded music…at home.
Shrooms, man. Shrooms.
Tales of the Belt The first Rule of ‘roid mining is Never shit where you eat, I’m getting ahead of myself. sorry. We all started as share miners for, you guessed it, Amazon. The deal was quite good at first, we made some big finds and were able to buy...
Another Saturday, another road trip, the plan was lunch at North channel brewery then south to drop N1 at College in Big rapids MI, then after Sister dragging ass, I was told to bring my camera, we are going north, to Frankfort, home of Stormcloud brewery, Yippee! Up...
Tales of the Belt Mi llamo es Paolo Escobar Olmos, sorry for the slip of the tongue, please call me Paul. We began as a small gang on Earth, trading in goods and services that at the time were forbidden and carried great penalties, including Death. We found a leader...
Tales from the Belt Chinee will buy from anyone Dis Cat has always escaped us, but not this time, we got good intel from CCP, so we’s tracked ‘im slow and far back, so as not to leave a bloody wake. It took 6 months! Why so slow?, let’s on wi it. Da Peoples call us...
Tales of the Belt “So what do we really know about this guy?” After the collapse of the Amazon, which is a tale in itself, the trade guild was formed, mostly Sales and advertising people, they still had specie, so weren’t affected by the demise financially, but...
A Tale of the Belt They aren’t ‘Roids exactly, more like a large, coalesced pile of debris we called Diamond Dust, and I found one. They are full of rare earths, water ice, and yes diamonds, not dust but industrial grade chunks, easier to harvest than grow in...
I visited an old friend, who held my arms and wondered, what stories they could tell? So many years, so much pain.... And She held me tighter..... Most people have Scars, physical and mental, and I have a few, as some of you know, But let’s take a tour of a lifetime,...
After the Vogons wiped the entire Sol system clean, Humans were scattered amongst the worlds, like rats on a ship, the Elon had taken over most of human space, overwhelming the humans there with his mind fuckery, rendering Trillions incapable of being...