The Branan sent their first colonization ships to a trinary star system outside the greater Betelgeuse system at one tenth of lightspeed. The six-lightyear trip took only six decades to complete, starting with a year of acceleration and ending with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first true interstellar rocket ships the Branan built mounted disposable rocket engines that could perform a steady burn at one of their standard gravities for a few of our months. That was enough to accelerate up to nearly five[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan spent centuries fully colonizing all six star systems of the greater Betelgeuse system, but they were looking further out all that time. They sent probes on the long treks to stars five, ten, fifteen, or twenty lightyears away[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan targeted the closest of Betelgeuse’s companion stars with their first interstellar, slower than light, rocket propelled colonization craft. It took decades to cross the relatively tiny interstellar gulf in sleeper ships carrying a few thousand individuals, but their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people describe Betelgeuse as a rogue star barging through the stellar neighborhood on the lookout for stray moons, planets, or even stars to feed its faltering furnace. Most of the stars have managed to escape on their own courses,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first homebuilt Branan spaceships were slow affairs, propelled by rocket boosters and using spin sections to generate gravity as they traveled between the nearby planets. The Albion shuttles had their own gravplating for internal gravity, but the Branan couldn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Betelgeuse is an old red supergiant that has been blowing chunks of itself out into space in successive waves for eons. The star itself would cover our own star system out to the Jovian orbit, and outer shells of water,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan left their homeworld less than a century after the Albion disappeared. Technically, they’d left numerous times in the years before, using the Albion shuttles to place satellites in orbit, and do all of the other things a young[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion left Betelgeuse after erasing all of their computers and initiating self-destruct measures in almost all of their physical facilities in the system. The only facility they failed to destroy was the one facility they could least afford to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion experimentation on Betelgeuse was farther along than most of their other abandoned attempts. The Albion had actually created thousands of Branan in an attempt to find some way past the basic limitations, and they’d been settled in nearby[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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