There was no way to keep Contact secret from the Betelgeuse populations. Too many birds had seen the scout arrive, and they spread videos of it throughout their version of the nets long before their government could even think about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Another great consequence of the Great War of the early Twentieth Century was the fall of the Russian Empire. Like most monarchies, the Czars of Russia had stumbled along with varying degrees of lustrous and lackluster performance for centuries. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the first exchange of weapons fire in Betelgeuse, our scout came back around and approached slowly. The scout gave the local birds time to study her as the First Contact Package began to flood space with electronic emissions. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Ottomans demanded and received a total Greek withdrawal to the pre-War border, and secured Allied acceptance of their new Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was dead, the last Sultan left Constantinople with the British, and the new Turks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know the guy who flew that scout into Betelgeuse by the way. He wore a cowboy hat during The War. Still does in fact. He learned to like it too. He’s Ageless like me. Took the Peloran Treatments back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Ottoman “rebels” drove the Greek invaders all the way back to the shores of the border between Asia and Europe where Constantinople resided. The British defended the city for the official Ottoman government but declined to fight in support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our scout ship to Betelgeuse had few weapons, and the local weaponry hopelessly outclassed those she did have. They fired first of course, and they got a few good licks in on our scout ship. Then she used her Peloran[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grecian politics had long been divided and the new king of Greece replaced his military leaders with people more loyal to him than those who drove the Ottoman nationalists to the edge of defeat. The new leaders lost the greatest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Betelgeuse colony expedition consisted of hundreds of literal starships. They were Slower-Than-Light ships of course, but in other ways were actually far more advanced than our scout. Luckily for all of us we each had First Contact procedures, us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The nationalist revolution stood against the Allies in the remains of the Ottoman Empire after World War I ended. Unable to crush the revolution through peacekeeping measures, the Allies commenced full-scale invasions of the Ottoman Empire once again. The Greeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…