edwardroosterHRVST Ch. 22: Ancient Games With New Players Remain The Same
Some games are still played because of their deceptive simplicity. The prize remains even if the players change. The outcomes are never certain, whether it was the first round at first light or the last round before the lights go out. Newcomers to the game can still defeat old masters. Luna, South Aitken Basin, On a train en route to Shackleton Crater, Hyperion “Shisima,” said the Captain. “Excuse me?” Tomassina looked up from her equipment check. The Captain thought about one of his moments ...
edwardrooster2062, Ch. 14.2: Landfall, Part 2
2062 Arcadia Planitia, Mars XIRANG ONE - CHINESE SETTLEMENT - ARCADIA PLANITIAThe bluish sunset marked the end of a long bad day. When night came, the work inside continued. There were injured people and damaged systems to tend to. A fitful sleep for most.Settlements everywhere, from the largest installations to remote outposts, wanted to make it through the night. It was one Martian day at a time. 1 SOL (EARTH CLOCK 24HR:37MIN:22SEC).Hayley rubbed aches, sipped her water to stretch out her b...
edwardrooster1648 4.23 Stupid Games, Bad Ideas, 2909
1960 Park Slope, Brooklyn He learned to read at 4, and he liked to draw his favorite cartoons. His mother encouraged art. At 7, he went to a private school. That year, he and his best friend made a children's book. Everything changed the next year. A car hit him, leaving him with a broken arm and internal injuries. While in the hospital, his mother gave him a copy of Grey's Anatomy. Soon after she was put in an institution. Despite the changes, he became fluent and literate in 3 lan...
Writer: future, fiction, finance, based on history, mythology, and technology
edwardroosterHRVST Ch. 22: Ancient Games With New Players Remain The Same
Some games are still played because of their deceptive simplicity. The prize remains even if the players change. The outcomes are never certain, whether it was the first round at first light or the last round before the lights go out. Newcomers to the game can still defeat old masters. Luna, South Aitken Basin, On a train en route to Shackleton Crater, Hyperion “Shisima,” said the Captain. “Excuse me?” Tomassina looked up from her equipment check. The Captain thought about one of his moments ...
edwardrooster2062, Ch. 14.2: Landfall, Part 2
2062 Arcadia Planitia, Mars XIRANG ONE - CHINESE SETTLEMENT - ARCADIA PLANITIAThe bluish sunset marked the end of a long bad day. When night came, the work inside continued. There were injured people and damaged systems to tend to. A fitful sleep for most.Settlements everywhere, from the largest installations to remote outposts, wanted to make it through the night. It was one Martian day at a time. 1 SOL (EARTH CLOCK 24HR:37MIN:22SEC).Hayley rubbed aches, sipped her water to stretch out her b...
edwardrooster1648 4.23 Stupid Games, Bad Ideas, 2909
1960 Park Slope, Brooklyn He learned to read at 4, and he liked to draw his favorite cartoons. His mother encouraged art. At 7, he went to a private school. That year, he and his best friend made a children's book. Everything changed the next year. A car hit him, leaving him with a broken arm and internal injuries. While in the hospital, his mother gave him a copy of Grey's Anatomy. Soon after she was put in an institution. Despite the changes, he became fluent and literate in 3 lan...
Writer: future, fiction, finance, based on history, mythology, and technology
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1941, The World
So many deaths and so much suffering. They put off fighting in WW I by two years but they didn't have to go to the war, it came to them - on the open seas of the Atlantic. Lusitania.
When it ended, everyone wanted to get on with their lives. A post-war bust then a long boom. Parties despite prohibition. A Lost Generation finding its way. A Boom. A Crash. A Dustbowl. Depression.
It was all too much and nobody wanted to risk more. Not even the League of Nations. They reached back to George Washington's farewell address: “Tranquility At Home”. No one wanted to be taken in by the "rackets" of the banks and corporations, the war machine hiding underneath America's bed, ready to eat its young.
They thought by avoiding the future, they could avoid repeating the past. Again, however, it came for them. They put off the future as long as they could - it always comes.
2880
2X21 -41, THE SYSTEM GRAND VOTE, Cadmus Labs
"They just released the official details, the articles of the 'Grand Halt Protocol', let's hear it.” The room filled with the Grand Halt’s announcement.
"This is our first vote as one society, as we put the Long War behind us... We will halt the waste of resources on distant stars. The last Deepships built will be decommissioned and kept in indefinite storage.... All experimental "Manifold" research will be redirected to energy research...."
"...the investment of all infrastructure which survived the war will be directed for a new peacetime .... confident in Earth's fog calculations, we will now redirect our resources, invest in upgrades to a neglected Dyson Array, and harness the Sun over the next few decades to create a better life...”
"Stop. I've heard enough. Earth ran the numbers but they're wrong. In a few decades, they're going to turn on a manifold with the Dyson, tweak space-time and kill us all. I’m going public with my work and push for a new vote." ”They will come after you.””Let them, I have to do this.”
1941, The World
So many deaths and so much suffering. They put off fighting in WW I by two years but they didn't have to go to the war, it came to them - on the open seas of the Atlantic. Lusitania.
When it ended, everyone wanted to get on with their lives. A post-war bust then a long boom. Parties despite prohibition. A Lost Generation finding its way. A Boom. A Crash. A Dustbowl. Depression.
It was all too much and nobody wanted to risk more. Not even the League of Nations. They reached back to George Washington's farewell address: “Tranquility At Home”. No one wanted to be taken in by the "rackets" of the banks and corporations, the war machine hiding underneath America's bed, ready to eat its young.
They thought by avoiding the future, they could avoid repeating the past. Again, however, it came for them. They put off the future as long as they could - it always comes.
2880
2X21 -41, THE SYSTEM GRAND VOTE, Cadmus Labs
"They just released the official details, the articles of the 'Grand Halt Protocol', let's hear it.” The room filled with the Grand Halt’s announcement.
"This is our first vote as one society, as we put the Long War behind us... We will halt the waste of resources on distant stars. The last Deepships built will be decommissioned and kept in indefinite storage.... All experimental "Manifold" research will be redirected to energy research...."
"...the investment of all infrastructure which survived the war will be directed for a new peacetime .... confident in Earth's fog calculations, we will now redirect our resources, invest in upgrades to a neglected Dyson Array, and harness the Sun over the next few decades to create a better life...”
"Stop. I've heard enough. Earth ran the numbers but they're wrong. In a few decades, they're going to turn on a manifold with the Dyson, tweak space-time and kill us all. I’m going public with my work and push for a new vote." ”They will come after you.””Let them, I have to do this.”
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