Jack of Harts

The Republic of Texas Navy sat on Earth, defending Texas shores and shipping throughout the early 2100s. Time and again, they attempted to secure funding to expand their operations into space, like most of the other national navies already had, but Texas had a perfectly good Space Force and did not wish to spend more resources on a glorified military passenger service. Colonization of the Dallas system, and the need to defend shipping going back and forth from there, changed everything for the Navy. They had experience in large ships and long patrols, and they were willing to take any excuse to get into space. The Space Force didn’t want that job, so agreed to support the new initiate. On one condition. All Navy ships must carry fighters. The Navy accepted that stipulation, and quickly began assembling the beginnings of a genuine long-endurance space fleet to patrol the New Earth-Dallas Hyperspace Run.