The Albion did a lot of gengineering back in their day, leaving behind a lot of species as their legacy. You’ve heard of the Arnam and Peloran. Most of you haven’t heard of the others. Most have full human intelligence,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Great War was not limited to a conflict between European powers alone. Japan and China vied for power in the East in a prelude to future conflicts for instance. Japan attacked first, capturing many German bases and demanding steep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cheap little toys we brought home from Betelgeuse showed us that the Thunderbirds had the same tech base as the Peloran. That brought up all kinds of interesting questions. “How did they get it?” was one of the big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Third Fleet was our last best hope for victory in the early years of The War. It failed. Epsilon Reticuli became a lesson every naval officer studied before graduation, a battle no one wished to repeat. Serenity became a mixed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Germany finally accepted defeat and surrendered to the Allies, the German-Russian peace treaty was declared void. Russia quickly moved to retake the lost regions, but the locals preferred independence and fought back. Now known as the Russian Civil War,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “cheap toys” we brought back from Betelgeuse is how we learned the Thunderbird’s secret of course. In examining the tech, we realized it had the same base as the tech the Peloran use. Two thousand years of divergence of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Russian Duma attempted to continue fighting the Germans in hopes of regaining lost territory, Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Provisional Government entirely. The new government signed a peace treaty with Germany, renouncing all Russian claims[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a lot of bluffing involved in our Contact mission at Betelgeuse. The birds saw our ship deftly evade almost all of their weapons fire. We never fired back so they didn’t see our weapons in action. Thank God. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over three hundred Alliance warships flew into Epsilon Reticuli. It was our most powerful fleet at the time. My Cowboys helped pull fourteen ships out of that mess. Fourteen. Yeah, I know most people say only one ship made it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Millions of Russians died in The War, millions more retreated from the German armies, and millions were captured. In population alone the price they paid was staggering, but they also lost vast territories to the German war machine. The economic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…