After suffering under French occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, many peoples protested the return of old Kings or Emperors that ruled from far away, and nationalistic refrains echoed in the streets. The Kingdom of Sardinia is famous for fighting the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Uplifted animals can carry weapons into battle with us, but that is generally not their primary mission. Most animals at better at some things than we are. Both dogs and cats have spent thousands of years guarding our homes at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was very little fighting in the Core Worlds before The War. Raids and even outright invasions were not uncommon in the Outer Colonies though. Other than a few high profile colonies, they were people who wanted to leave Earth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The uplifted cats we recruited for the Wolfenheim Project spent most of the trip prowling around, looking for stowaways. They caught a lot of rats that somehow penetrated all of our screening procedures. We rarely saw the cats, except when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fearing that another Napoleon could rise and conquer all of Europe, the great powers enacted a series of defensive alliances to maintain the status quo. An attack by any realm would trigger two or three other realms to come to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve uplifted so many different races since figuring out the gengineering required. Some like cats and dogs go everywhere we go. Others are rare, or stay away from the rest of us. You see, despite what a lot of people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonies are separate from Earth, with tenuous contact to the Core Worlds of humanity, and many were founded by small groups of people. Historical Reenactors colonized Camelot for instance, though many question the accuracy of their reenacting. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In America, my family’s strategy was to strengthen those they thought could break the Union. In Europe though, the French Revolution was a clarion call of just how dangerous a revolution of the disaffected masses could be. Many of my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the years, the gengineers have uplifted most of the dog breeds. The process works best on the larger breeds. I guess there’s questions of brain size versus skull size and such. But they’ve refined the uplifting process pretty good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Outer Colonies are the true testament of our expansion into the stars. Outside The Wall that contained us, they stretch out hundreds of lightyears to Antares, Canopus, Polaris, and the Pleiades. Clusters of many colonies huddle together for mutual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…