I'm back on the Andromeda for the foreseeable future. There was another kidnapping attempt made on me, and this time other people got hurt too. Nobody I knew personally, but it was getting ridiculous. My defenses are for obvious enemies, not for people hiding amongst legitimate visitors. They were gonna put me in a cold case and carry me out. (That ( Read more... )

The Barretts have come to Beantown, and it's funny how tan we all are now. I hadn't noticed it on myself until I saw them. With all our space travel we got a bit of that pasty spacer look. On Planet Paradise, we're outside a lot, them more than me ( Read more... )

Beka came to see me, finally. Just Beka, since Dylan isn't popular around these parts. We chatted a bit. She told me the current engineering staff is doing pretty good, which made me happy that somebody's taking good care of my baby but unhappy because who really wants to hear that everything's going fine in their absence. She told me that Doyle's ( Read more... )

We're still working on the government thing here. A lot of the little enclaves have 'em now--and most of them are even some kind of democracy or republic as opposed to dictatorships (see, I have grown a bit out of my cynicism about democracy)--but we're still having trouble convincing people to join up for a kind of world government. I know some ( Read more... )

A whole evangelizing group of Wayists led by Rev Bem found us. Probably some Wayist resurrected on the planet sent out a signal, even though Brendan and I specifically begged everyone via world-world teleconference--we're not tech-less here, thankfully--not to send out anything into space that might be intercepted and tell people that Earth is back ( Read more... )

I haven't been contributing much here lately, but I've got good reasons for that. Dylan finally got permissions for a hush-hush trip for us to the Sol system. He didn't totally believe that a god reformed the Earth, but the flaming letters in space and hot pink doves in his office convinced him that something was going on. None of us wanted to make ( Read more... )