Month: January 2016

Theories

(Program note: I originally intended this “History of the Colonies” series to be weekly posts, but I’ve fallen into more of an every-other-week schedule. That probably makes more sense, since I have actual novel-writing to do as well, not to…

Complications

Spring, 2183 Throughout the first half of 2183, the Offworld Colonies began making plans that, with hindsight, clearly pointed in the direction of independence from the Terran Federation. Historians today continue to debate whether Colonial leaders intended to move toward…

Inauguration Day

Monday, January 27, 2183 The alarm that any offworlder must have felt at the election of Alexander Monroe, and the broad gains in the Terran parliament by his Born to the Earth party, had only intensified in the eleven weeks…