1981 San Mateo, California The "Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron" was a simple game despite "several volumes of rules". In the game, everyone designed a fleet of warships with a budget of a trillion dollars, for a game of fleet versus fleet. A large scale version of childhood game "Battleship". Until there was 1 fleet left as the winner. Enter a Stanford computer scientist. His progam, Eurisko, ground away at the problem at Xerox's Alto Parc (the birthplace of the PC). 10 hours a day, ...

1981 San Mateo, California The "Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron" was a simple game despite "several volumes of rules". In the game, everyone designed a fleet of warships with a budget of a trillion dollars, for a game of fleet versus fleet. A large scale version of childhood game "Battleship". Until there was 1 fleet left as the winner. Enter a Stanford computer scientist. His progam, Eurisko, ground away at the problem at Xerox's Alto Parc (the birthplace of the PC). 10 hours a day, ...

1980, SoHo, NYC He sold a postcard of his art to Warhol, for $1 in 1979. His girlfriend Suzanne supported him as a waitress. "He was attracted to people for all different reasons.... driven by intelligence. He was attracted to intelligence more than anything and to pain”. Later, an art show with photocopies of his work. A costume, turned fashion, designer, Patricia Field sold his painted clothing line and displayed his sculptures in her shop window. His first national exposure in an article "...

1980, SoHo, NYC He sold a postcard of his art to Warhol, for $1 in 1979. His girlfriend Suzanne supported him as a waitress. "He was attracted to people for all different reasons.... driven by intelligence. He was attracted to intelligence more than anything and to pain”. Later, an art show with photocopies of his work. A costume, turned fashion, designer, Patricia Field sold his painted clothing line and displayed his sculptures in her shop window. His first national exposure in an article "...

2921 Ganymede, Jupiter The Triumverate, ready to commence and celebrate the Great Upload ceremonies, was surprised by the sudden appearance of thousands of ships all over the System. Elena, as Lenamay, the greatest Expee performer of the system, cut her performance short and disappeared back to the seclusion. That was the official story for Elena's alter ego. Meanwhile she piloted a swarm of thousands of ships to distract the Triumverate. And then word of the sudden quiet that fell acros...

2921 Ganymede, Jupiter The Triumverate, ready to commence and celebrate the Great Upload ceremonies, was surprised by the sudden appearance of thousands of ships all over the System. Elena, as Lenamay, the greatest Expee performer of the system, cut her performance short and disappeared back to the seclusion. That was the official story for Elena's alter ego. Meanwhile she piloted a swarm of thousands of ships to distract the Triumverate. And then word of the sudden quiet that fell acros...

2X99 December 31, The DeepShip Birmingham "Captain, we're approaching the first marker." "Very well. I'm coming." The shipwide alert of a defolding began, flight checklists activated. Shipmates nodded as the Captain headed to the control room. Everyone was smiling even if they didn't show it. "Attention crew, defold in progress. Entering local space. First marker connection underway." The DeepShip Birmingham was connecting with a DeepProbe sent many years ago from Earth. "Local...

2X99 December 31, The DeepShip Birmingham "Captain, we're approaching the first marker." "Very well. I'm coming." The shipwide alert of a defolding began, flight checklists activated. Shipmates nodded as the Captain headed to the control room. Everyone was smiling even if they didn't show it. "Attention crew, defold in progress. Entering local space. First marker connection underway." The DeepShip Birmingham was connecting with a DeepProbe sent many years ago from Earth. "Local...

Persephone, daughter of Jupiter, and Ceres, goddess of the harvest, was renowned for her beauty. S he was the obsession of Pluto, king of the otherworld, Hades - he kidnapped her. She ate the food of the underworld, Pomegranate seeds, binding her to that realm. A compromise was made: Persephone promised to split her time in two worlds, Home and Hades. Lenamay was under the evening sky without need of protection. No dome. No suit. Sleeping under an open sky and offline. She was not 'Verse...

Persephone, daughter of Jupiter, and Ceres, goddess of the harvest, was renowned for her beauty. S he was the obsession of Pluto, king of the otherworld, Hades - he kidnapped her. She ate the food of the underworld, Pomegranate seeds, binding her to that realm. A compromise was made: Persephone promised to split her time in two worlds, Home and Hades. Lenamay was under the evening sky without need of protection. No dome. No suit. Sleeping under an open sky and offline. She was not 'Verse...

1988 NoHo NYC The rocket of his art took him to new worlds. He shared the world of his mind in new places. A floating studio began in an East Village apartment, covered in sketches, drifted to SoHo NYC, Venice, California, and West Hollywood in 1982. His girlfriend at the time was an unknown singer who called herself "Madonna". He later settled in "North of Houston". Art and music, artists and musicians, exhibitions, shows and benefits. He began with grafitti, postcards and people's clot...

1988 NoHo NYC The rocket of his art took him to new worlds. He shared the world of his mind in new places. A floating studio began in an East Village apartment, covered in sketches, drifted to SoHo NYC, Venice, California, and West Hollywood in 1982. His girlfriend at the time was an unknown singer who called herself "Madonna". He later settled in "North of Houston". Art and music, artists and musicians, exhibitions, shows and benefits. He began with grafitti, postcards and people's clot...

1961 Berlin A long war, made of two global wars with a 20 year break in-between, turned the world upside down and killed millions. There was another pause in 1945 - just long enough for a new kind of secret war to begin. A ‘Cold War’. The victors looked at the spoils and turned on each other. They split Europe in half, and in public, each side declared they would win the peace through productivity. Behind the scenes they would compete in other ways. The Eastern half failed to put enough food ...

1961 Berlin A long war, made of two global wars with a 20 year break in-between, turned the world upside down and killed millions. There was another pause in 1945 - just long enough for a new kind of secret war to begin. A ‘Cold War’. The victors looked at the spoils and turned on each other. They split Europe in half, and in public, each side declared they would win the peace through productivity. Behind the scenes they would compete in other ways. The Eastern half failed to put enough food ...

2921 Autumn, Asteroid Belt Inside a stealth masked DeepShip - a hollowed out asteroid the size of a large city. "This will work. What was tried before had failed. A second chance doesn’t mean a chance to make the same mistakes.” "It sure didn't feel that way a few months ago. I thought I was going to fall forever inside this ship.” Jake shook his head. "But Jakey, I got you nephew." AL smiled, and then winked at June. June patted Jake's shoulder. "Before, we didn't have Elena t...

2921 Autumn, Asteroid Belt Inside a stealth masked DeepShip - a hollowed out asteroid the size of a large city. "This will work. What was tried before had failed. A second chance doesn’t mean a chance to make the same mistakes.” "It sure didn't feel that way a few months ago. I thought I was going to fall forever inside this ship.” Jake shook his head. "But Jakey, I got you nephew." AL smiled, and then winked at June. June patted Jake's shoulder. "Before, we didn't have Elena t...

1941, Hollywood There were not enough workers to help build the war machine the Allies needed for WW II. Women became shipbuilders - they worked close to the metal and assembled an armada. "We Can Do It." Everyone contributed, including a woman from an upper-middle class Austrian family, Hedwig Keisler. She had a brief film career that included an award winning film banned in the U.S. - ended with a disastrous marriage to an arms dealer. She ran away to Hollywood and became a star. In her spa...

1941, Hollywood There were not enough workers to help build the war machine the Allies needed for WW II. Women became shipbuilders - they worked close to the metal and assembled an armada. "We Can Do It." Everyone contributed, including a woman from an upper-middle class Austrian family, Hedwig Keisler. She had a brief film career that included an award winning film banned in the U.S. - ended with a disastrous marriage to an arms dealer. She ran away to Hollywood and became a star. In her spa...

2916 Earth, The Necklace. "She’s ready to go. I trust you that they won’t see her leave.” June Birmingham's face, softened by the years, looked the same as Fernanda Marie-Therese Roque remembered. The last 2 survivors of a minor battle from the Long War. Decades ago. "Fernanda, you did well keeping Elena off the Triumverate's scopes after she ran away. I'm ready for her. I’ll keep her safe.” "It helped when you met her. When I brought her to Mars, and then Earth, she exceeded a...

2916 Earth, The Necklace. "She’s ready to go. I trust you that they won’t see her leave.” June Birmingham's face, softened by the years, looked the same as Fernanda Marie-Therese Roque remembered. The last 2 survivors of a minor battle from the Long War. Decades ago. "Fernanda, you did well keeping Elena off the Triumverate's scopes after she ran away. I'm ready for her. I’ll keep her safe.” "It helped when you met her. When I brought her to Mars, and then Earth, she exceeded a...

2921 "I'm ready." Elena, floated into a special chamber built into the DeepShip. Her friends had hijacked a ship the size of city, hollowed from an Asteroid, one of thousands, from a near-forgotten spacedock - without triggering any alarms. Elena spent the last few years to become a shipmaster, under one of the last great ones, June Birmingham. The truth was she had been preparing since childhood for something unique. To merge a lifetime of play, practice and profession with a new field,...

2921 "I'm ready." Elena, floated into a special chamber built into the DeepShip. Her friends had hijacked a ship the size of city, hollowed from an Asteroid, one of thousands, from a near-forgotten spacedock - without triggering any alarms. Elena spent the last few years to become a shipmaster, under one of the last great ones, June Birmingham. The truth was she had been preparing since childhood for something unique. To merge a lifetime of play, practice and profession with a new field,...

1936 Spain It was a war between a Republic versus an Army and Aristocracy. The will of might against the will of the people. There were volunteers from other countries coming to fight. Men and women. The war included Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Capitalists, Artists, Writers, Poets, Journalists, Painters, Actors, and Film-makers. Picasso's "Guernica" portrayed a war machine at work. After 1936 he stopped being apolitical. Hemingway, Neruda, Orwell, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Miro, ...

1936 Spain It was a war between a Republic versus an Army and Aristocracy. The will of might against the will of the people. There were volunteers from other countries coming to fight. Men and women. The war included Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Capitalists, Artists, Writers, Poets, Journalists, Painters, Actors, and Film-makers. Picasso's "Guernica" portrayed a war machine at work. After 1936 he stopped being apolitical. Hemingway, Neruda, Orwell, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Miro, ...