Modern Alshain has a lot going for it. Warm, sandy beaches on the one hand. Cold, snowy mountains on the other. And low gravity on the other hand. Add in a low population density and it is a vacation hotspot. In my circle of friends, the Alshain Martial College is what we think of. Many consider it the best low-grav training center in the Western Alliance. Which of course has sparked numerous bar brawls with those who don’t. Gotta love school rivalries.
Elizabeth came out of the network many years after the British Commonwealth came back to her feet. She never answered any questions about the student who saved her life, but willingly explained her motivations and plans during the Second Great Depression and the Islamic Jihad. She’s come back every few decades since then to remind the people that she is still watching and protecting the British Isles. She’s sorta like a real life Merlin or Arthur.
After the Arab Revolt, British control in the remains of Palestine was no longer contested. But Palestine was not calm, and the fighting between Arabs and Jews continued. The Jewish Agency’s Haganah and various Arab organizations fought a low-level war throughout the Jewish neighborhoods where British troops did not stray. This little war would continue for decades without resolution, until the next War would change everything.
We missed Alshain in our first rush into space. It is one of those comedy of errors where everybody thought somebody else had planted a colony there, and nobody thought to go there. The Pre-Contact rocket ships were too expensive to go someplace we “knew” had a colony after all. After Contact, a routine scout service mission noted the lack of a colony there, and we were quick to send one. And yes. That is the true story of how we colonized Alshain.
Bridget and Victoria are the most famous of the many faces that Elizabeth wore in the British Isles, their names synonymous with the long struggle to pull civilization back from the brink of collapse. To this day, they are some of the most common baby girl names in the British Commonwealth, of course they were named for already common baby names, so the correlation there may be suspect. It doesn’t stop people from correlating them though.
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