Introduction and Welcome

Hey everybody, this is my new blog to talk about me, my Second Life, and my online business, Hypersonic Space Systems.

I am a swedish/karelian girl trained in engineering, programming, 3d design, and fine arts. I speak english very well since I've spent so much of my life in the states (my father was an engineer in the aerospace industry here in the US, and my education was in American schools), it sometimes seems like swedish is a second language to me! I live in the US as I have dual citizenship, but am still very proud of my homeland.

I have worked in the virtual world of Second Life for several years, currently focusing on content creation because it seems like most every other area of business Linden Lab has made it impossible for people to earn a living.

I am also a supporter of Woodbury University, which I feel has gotten a very bum rap in SL and been treated criminally by Linden Lab and other residents like the JLU and the Emerald team. The JLU have been discredited now, and Emerald has been banned from SL for their criminality, so Woodbury is now being vindicated as innocent, guilty only of standing up for the truth and free speech.

In SL, I build spacecraft, aircraft, flight instruments, space habitats and other scripted products that I sell through my Hypersonic Space Systems store on SL Marketplace. I have a store in the Scilands estate community, in Space Island region, right on the airstrip of the Space Studies Institute, where you can find hangars for many of the New Space firms that are making headlines in the real world, from Virgin Galactic, to SpaceX, XCOR, Masten Aerospace, and Armadillo Aerospace, as well as many others. I am currently building a demo O'Neill Cylinder space habitat for the National Space Society, Oregon Chapter.

You can find HSS vendors in a number of the most popular airports and RP sims in SL.

For fun I RP as a member of the Merczateers Tactical Forces, the premier military faction in SL combat. The Mercz are a freelance militia corporation hired by the Groznovian government to stabilize and defend one of their cities that is home to the Protean industrial facility. I belong to the Mercz Air Division, and engage in air and ground combat frequently. You can see my merits and awards on my profile picks inworld.

I also like to RP Star Wars (I am currently scripting a Protocol Droid for Grancha the Hutt that will translate his native Huttese language into basic/english and back). In SWRP I am a Corellian Security officer (retired) and CEO of a starship construction firm in the Corellian Shipyards. SWRP focuses on a timeline some 220 years after the events of the Star Wars movies, so it leaves a lot of room for individuals in the community to innovate drama and plot twists independent of the Lucasfilms franchise.

I'll be talking more about my company products, about my RP activities, and more about life in Second Life in general in future postings.

ALSO: Contrary to the claims of a certain nasty and mean SL estate owner in her blog, I am not an alt of a well known former estate owner, although I know that person well. That is all I am going to say on that topic. Linden Lab knows who I am, she does not.