South of the Aleutian Chain and over the trench a man is reminded of how central the sun is to his life. At all times of the day, it pulls him upward and sets its eye upon the dark things that cast shadows on the earth and cause him to yearn for a day when he himself will no longer cast shadows but rays of glory
I'm sure you've all heard the stories about the Phoenix. About the notorious figures that have cut its rugs. Or the Republic of Freebooters getting started at one of its tables. Everyone’s heard of our battle with the Tax Revenue Fleet. But people rarely think about its humble beginnings. This is that story.
Absent government coercive controls, people and markets in general will always prefer to use hard rather than soft money. In situations of freedom, the strong money 'drives out' the soft money.
This memo intends to brief the federated societies of the galaxy on the status of one specific emerging civilization that has increasingly been of interest to our members, and further, to recommend caution when traveling unannounced nearby their local planet.
William Harvey demonstrated the mechanism of blood circulation in the 1620s, demolishing ancient and medieval knowledge about the body’s humors.