Dixie and her students saw most of their service around El Paso, Del Rio, Laredo, and the Borderplex. Those border cities had large Texas Tech satellite campuses and she defended them with zeal. Season Two was filmed onsite on and around the Laredo campus and was billed as being based on the real life fighting there. The new co-star and love interest was based on several real Texas Guard liaisons who helped her, though the liaison itself was decidedly fictional.
When the Russian Duma attempted to continue fighting the Germans in hopes of regaining lost territory, Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Provisional Government entirely. The new government signed a peace treaty with Germany, renouncing all Russian claims to the border regions between Western Europe and Russia, the Baltic States, Finland, Ukraine, and Poland. But Russia would never truly accept those regions as lost.
There was a lot of bluffing involved in our Contact mission at Betelgeuse. The birds saw our ship deftly evade almost all of their weapons fire. We never fired back so they didn’t see our weapons in action. Thank God. If they’d seen that scout ship’s weapons in action they might have realized that they actually had a better tech base than we did. They never thought twice about all the “cheap toys” our team picked up on planet. For cultural study of course.
It didn’t take long for Dixie to be noticed outside of her immediate area. The drug cartels of Mexico put a price on her head. It took them a while to realize she didn’t have a head to take. Texas offered her a commission in the Texas Guard. She declined but accepted their next offer to cooperate with them, and sent a Sherman with supporting drones to relieve the defenders of El Paso. Historians still argue over whether she turned the tide there or not.
Over three hundred Alliance warships flew into Epsilon Reticuli. It was our most powerful fleet at the time. My Cowboys helped pull fourteen ships out of that mess. Fourteen. Yeah, I know most people say only one ship made it out. They’re sorta right and sorta wrong. History can be like that you know. It depends greatly on your own point of view too. But I was there and saw as much as anybody alive today. So trust me. Epsilon Reticuli was a real bad day for us.