August 2, 2184: Industrial Platform (Low Orbit) 380A/X [Reg. EarthArc Shipping, Inc.] Ed Wallace kept his eyes on the screens as the Transport made its final approach to docking. It had slowed to an almost imperceptible crawl: final docking would…
Rumors
August 2, 2184 “I’m telling you, Boss, my brother-in-law says he saw the pictures himself. They are prepping missiles for launch.” “Marty, the Terrans are not going to nuke the Colonies.” Edgar Wallace, senior supervisor of Industrial Platform (Low Orbit)…
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First Strategy
July 21, 2184 Noburo Ishikawa leaned forward, his elbows on the table in front of him, his fingers laced together. He spoke with careful, textbook correctness: Terran was his second language. His colony, New Tokyo, had Japanese as its native…
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Provisional Government
July 21, 2184 Charles Safreth, Interim President of the newborn United Offworld Colonies, watched the agenda items scroll across his handscreen and tried not to let his uneasiness show. It was a terrible disappointment to feel this way. During that…
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Dialog Unlikely To Be Used, The Archive volume 4
It’s been a while since I posted an update around here. Keep an eye out for the “History of the United Colonies” series of posts to resume soon— I took a break from it at what seemed the natural stopping…
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Independence
May 12-22, 2184 “We’ve gone to a popular vote to endorse each step, right back to the Continental Referendum two years ago.” Safreth paced his office, too agitated to settle down behind his desk. “I don’t want to break that…
