I served on the HMAS Melbourne when her squadron joined The Fleet. Ten years into The War we were making a major push against the Chinese, and the Australians wanted in on it. I learned that all Australian sailors spend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sanctuary was colonized with the mission of celebrating the unity of the Western Alliance, despite the infighting going on between the richest and poorest members of the Alliance in the mid-twenty second century. Instead it became a symbol of Alliance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi Paradox had many answers. One was that the twenty first century industrial societies used so many resources to maintain their lifestyle that the Earth, and in fact the entire Terran System, could not possibly support us. Many preached[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just about every nation in the Western Alliance, and some outside, sent warships to fly with Aneerin’s fleet. The Greeks did their part too, sending a heavy cruiser squadron. I flew off one of them for a while, the Andromeda. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Western Alliance colonized the fifth joint system in 2155, naming it Haven due to roving interstellar dust clouds that made it difficult to approach unless following carefully charted routes. By the time I was born, hyperdrives could survive the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before we even traveled into space, our radio signals had traveled over fifty lightyears away from Earth at the speed of light. Those signals are still traveling now, spreading out throughout the stars. Our own colonies outside The Wall are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m three quarters Scandinavian, so when the Swedes sent a squadron to support Aneerin, I jumped at the chance to fly off their flagship. Her Swedish Majesty’s Ship Gustav Adolf is named after one of the greatest kings in Swedish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Alliance established new colonies, they chose peaceful, optimistic names. Serenity is one example, and became one of the Core Worlds of the Western Alliance. And like many of the Core Worlds, it became a priority target during The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During the twentieth century, we used massive, brute force transmitters for our radio and television signals. We proclaimed our existence and our technological sophistication for anybody to see, without any encryption or security of any kind. We did not transmit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Spanish Armada used to be the scariest navy in the world. It certainly wasn’t anything like that when The War started, but when the greatest Alliance fleets failed to bring victory, the Armada was there. Their battleships held the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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