Our Post War Gateway Run was considerable shorter than that available to us before The War. We gained access to the multiple-star system of Capella for instance. And what scientists still called 1 Geminorum. Those systems gave us some of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first Gateway Run passed through twelve star systems. Alcyone is approximately three hundred and seventy lightyears from Earth, but we traveled nearly six hundred lightyears on the crisscrossing route we were forced to use. A War Era American warship[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The star systems of Hellespont, Marmara, and Bosphorus are named after the waterways that link old Constantinople to the Mediterranean and Black Seas. It is a fitting name for the stars that link Alcyone to the rest of the Western[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople’s trading firms wanted to colonize Alcyone once we found out The Taurus Gateway was there. But America, and the rest of the Western Alliance, was deeply opposed to that idea. When even the Peloran kindly suggested that they would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hope Mission was a Western Alliance project to colonize three giant stars beyond The Wall on a direct route to The Taurus Gateway in the Alcyone system. Constantinople was already colonizing three systems further out, to act as a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pacifica. Paradisia. Serenity. Haven. These were the first four names we picked when it came time to colonize new Alliance worlds. Every member nation took part in their creation, and every nation voted on what name we would give the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mount Inferno expels ash into the air almost every day on San Lucas. It rumbles and grumbles and threatens to bury the continent of Hankou with ash and lava on a weekly basis. The Chinese maintain permanent installations in orbit,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mount Inferno’s eruption nearly ended life as we know it on San Lucas. Nearly all life was wiped out in Hankou’s lowlands within weeks of the first blow, and the survivors fled into the low mountain ranges. But respite was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mount Inferno eruption brought all number of humans from every major nation to San Lucas. It also brought news coverage that showed the local intelligent cats to the broad scope of humanity for the first time. Aid transports landed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We discovered the cats who lived on San Lucas’ eastern continent not long after the natives of the western continent made Contact with us. We studied the cats of Hankou to find that they were in a decades-long civil and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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