We spent the first decade of our exploration to the stars moving around the Alpha Centauri double star system. Between the Alliance, the Russians, and the Chinese, we started five major colonies on four habitable worlds, in addition to over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2012
I flew off a lot of ships during The War. Some were older than The War, some where newly built for it. One wasn’t even a warship at all when it all started. After Hyades, I the cybers built me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Contact, Peloran technologies let us go faster, farther, and cheaper. And we did. The Greeks had sent a colony mission out to a system on the inner edge of The Wall a year before. With Peloran help, they sent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War forged our partnerships as nothing else could have. It was horrible, and we lost so many friends, but those of us who came out of it knew whom we could trust with our lives. We have stayed in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first hyperspace engines were painfully slow by modern standards, achieving barely over four times the speed of light. The trip from Earth to Alpha Centauri took a year. While short compared to the later Pre-Contact Colonization Missions, let alone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyades Campaign was long, destructive, and bloody. We spent thirteen years digging the Chinese and their allies out of the Hyades Cluster. It really was Hell. The USS Minnesota was my ride for most of the last year, thank[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ethiopia is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, trading partners with ancient Rome, Persia, Egypt, India, and China. When they went to space with us, they named their first colony Aksum, after their capital during the time of Christ. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the dawn of the twenty second century, we had a bustling interplanetary economy. Colonies on Luna, Mars, Venus, the Asteroid Belt, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn had spread our race throughout the Terran System. We planted colonies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South Africans seriously know how to fight, as the Brits, the Muslims, and any other foes can really relate. I’m talking nightmare material here. When they joined The War, they made a serious impact, sending several squadrons into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The eleventh Alliance-wide referendum occurred during a time of growing tensions between the Alliance, the Russians, and the Chinese and the colossal failure of the first Reach Colony Mission. In that time, we voted to show our solidarity in time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…