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…
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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…
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…
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…