The Western Alliance returned to the Moon, Mars, and beyond in time, and then to the stars when humanity found hyperspace. They colonized numerous major joint Alliance systems in the decades that followed, and member states, corporations, and smaller groups[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The surviving European nations and American formed the Western Alliance during the final confrontations with China and the Singapore Collective. With the end of the Rogue AIs and the global war they tried to engineer, the Western Alliance had no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the 49 States led America out of the Second Great Depression, they found the British Commonwealth trying to stop a Chinese advance into Australia. They moved to help their old friends, and thereby took the first steps towards forming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression broke America and Europe’s control of the world markets and economy. The Western world shrank into itself and the symbols of its power faded away. The United Nations collapsed into a shouting match and NATO utterly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The awakening of the first sentient AIs was not the triggering even of the Second Great Depression that devastated the world order. They simply took advantage of that collapse to get around the controls humanity had been trying to chain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So it seems an acorn became famous over the weekend. A sheriff deputy was arresting a car thief, had searched, handcuffed, and secured the guy in the back of the patrol vehicle, when an acorn fell. The deputy mistook the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Russian Federation that entered space and the stars did so as part of an economic boom that brought new opportunity to anyone who could grasp it. The Russian Federation made its way to the stars by harnessing the wealth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Russian Federation expansion did not generally use the traditional method of invading armies crossing borders, but it manifested itself through the simple expedient of calling on local peoples of Russian ancestry to ask Mother Russia for help. Mother Russia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Russian Federation took the Second Great Depression as an opportunity to solidify their control over the traditionally Russian territories the West had taken from them over the years. They capitalized on old Russian pride to bring their far-flung people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere that entered space and then the stars was blessed with a ready supply of compliant lesser races they could send out to claim the wild frontiers. They moved entire populations off Earth to settle far off[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…