The 1800s brought profound change to Continental Europe. Thousands of small independent states had ruled as part of larger grand empires in 1800. By 1900, nationalist tendencies had splintered the larger empires and united the independent states into the true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Cats and dogs weren’t the only animals we uplifted you know. There’s the escaped rats, and horses, dolphins, and a whole mess of others. We were busy little gengineers back in the day. We’ve put a lot more controls in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonial militaries have always had budgetary issues. They can rarely afford battleships and fleet carriers, so they make do with smaller ships. They work longer hours, do more with less, and often use obsolete equipment that “real” militaries[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Surrounded by powerful forces that had tried to dominate them for thousands of years, the Germanies finally decided it was high time to come together. Hundreds of different states cooperated to win their independence from the Austrian Empire, only to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An interesting thing about animals is that we can make them intelligent but we can’t make them human. An uplifted dog is a smart dog, not a human that walks on all fours. And they’ve become more a part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonial militaries have always had more experience than the soldiers back home. The men and women on the frontiers live and die by learning, and sometimes get rotated back to teach the homeguard a thing or two. Not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The warships that provided the Wolfenheim Project’s backbone were all old ships. Retired decades before The War started, they came from the first generation of gravtech construction. We found them in museums or drifting in boneyards, and gave them a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the fall of Napoleon, France reeled from being the preeminent power on Continental Europe to what could effectively be called a third rate power. The French monarchy collapsed into the Second Republic, and then Napoleon III reclaimed the throne. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uplifted animals help us in many ways outside the military or guard duties. One that surprised many people was their exceptional capability in the health care industry. Dogs for instance can diagnose pregnancy and mineral deficiencies with a single sniff. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our militaries deployed many ships and soldiers to the fighting in the Outer Colonies. Tours of duty out there became a prerequisite to advancement, though large warships or formations rarely showed the flag. The Outer Colonies were the province of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…