The Branan started with a few small spaceships, some people trained to fly them, and very little else. They had to learn to maintain their new ships on their own, with only a few hardcopy manuals to direct them. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan start their history books with the day the Albion left. Not because they hate the Albion, but because the Albion were part of their pre-history. The days of the ancient past when their creators shared the world with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “squirrelly” nature of the Branan is not what made them a failure of Albion gengineering. The Albion could have worked with that. What they couldn’t work with was a far more fundamental flaw. They had been too ambitious when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion were serious little gengineers in their day, and we can see their results all over human space. Some of their experiments worked as planned. Some did not. The Branan of Betelgeuse fell into the second group. They are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I learned much on my trip to Betelgeuse. I made contacts and allies that would be useful in later years, and negotiated trade agreements that helped both our peoples. The Peloran were generous in their own way, but they needed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So here’s the thing. Thunderbirds don’t speak English. They don’t speak any human language. They’re beaks can’t emulate our sounds at all. And it’s the rare human that can speak their words. Parrots can talk both ways, which is real[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people don’t know how many alien species we’ve made Contact with over the years. Partly that is because they are either human like us, or genengineered Albion creations, or both. Partly it is because people in charge of our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I traveled to Betelgeuse shortly after we made Contact with the Branan. The Thunderbirds as most people refer to them. The most important thing to remember about them is that they were never as primitive as some thought them. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I met my first Thunderbird on Sunnydale back when we were assembling the fleets for the big push into the Hyades Cluster. I didn’t know word one about them at the time. I’d been born long after that Contact, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things we learned very soon after Contact was that the long-dead Albion were industrious little gengineers. It was the reason they were dead, after all. The Ennead had taken exception to their perversions against Mother Nature, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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