Dai Nihon’s conquest of space gave a new dimension to the tactical balance: space superiority. Today, it is axiomatic that control of a planet’s surface can only be achieved through control of circumambient space.—Armored Combat: A Modern Military OverviewHeisaku Ariyoshi C.E. 2523Donryu meant St...
As Duarte died, the mob’s roar faded, then resurged, a rolling wave of sound echoing across the plaza.Dev watched, horrified, as Duarte’s bloody, headless body sagged backward, legs still caught in the strider’s open dorsal hatch, outstretched arms dangling over the Ghostrider’s hull above the pr...
Sophisticated programs can duplicate themselves as they run and can even improve on the original design. Given an advanced enough biotechnology, there seems to be no reason why the human mind cannot be duplicated the same way and transferred as a living program to another, possibly artificial bod...
1905They’d found time at last to be alone together, and a place as well—inside the cargo bay of an ascraft slung from Eagle’s belly. Technicians and crew members were still swarming through the Eagle, getting her ready for her long flight, but the air/spacecraft, already packed with provisions an...
We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken.—GEOLOGIST SIR CHARLES LYELLnineteenth century C.E.Kara felt leaden, scarcely alive at all. Since the Battle of Earth, as the conflict in Earth’s Solar System was now officially c...
This, we agree, must be related to the new reports—and the sudden SWIFT silence—from Wide Sky, and we both feel a quickening that in an organic life form would be interpreted as growing excitement.Using our private channel, we have discussed at length the apparently easy destruction of the Mark X...
A desert world, incompletely terraformed, the planet possessed but five major centers of human population, all existing under sealed domes, when the Xenophobes emerged from the ground in C.E. 2498 and attacked, apparently without provocation. The second incursion—alerting the Hegemony that this w...