You know over four thousand American Ageless served during The War. Almost five. Maybe five hundred of us served when the Shang struck. Over two thousand volunteered immediately after that. Another thousand signed up after the Russians got involved. In the end, less than three hundred American Ageless who saw The War start did not serve. We know the name and face of every single one of them. Them. They are not one of us.
New Washington’s Ice Age has frozen most of the planet for decades. We’ve saved or cataloged the native plants and animals, and environmental domes across the planet protect our cities and many wild lands. Outside the domes, only the equatorial zones are habitable, though filter masks are required against the continuing volcanic ash. We are trying to repair the damage, but this is more of a Terraforming project now than a clean up project. Not cheap, not easy.
Contact resulted in tremendous change to the Scout Service. The introduction of Peloran gravitic technology alone would have been enough, but then Scout Service researchers broke the theory of Peloran stealth systems. The resulting radical redesign of Scout Service boats made them the perfect vessels for the Navy Special Forces. And so they are rarely seen landing said forces behind unfriendly lines. Being seen after all would defeat the purpose of being covert.
America built hundreds of warships to fight The War, and they had absolute priority on recruiting the very best Ageless as their pilots. Most of the rest of us were fighter pilots, but there were barely five thousand Ageless in 2305. Two thousand of us died. I know that’s a drop in the bucket to the hundreds of millions of Americans who died, but I knew most of them. Most of them were my friends, and I will always miss them.
The Shang bombarded New Washington during The War, leveling the capital city and driving ash into the air. That alone would have caused a period of global cooling that might have lasted a year or two. But the bombardment caused tremors that stretched out for scores of kilometers in every direction, resulting in the eruption of numerous nearby dormant volcanoes. The ash they spewed into the air started a global Ice Age that continues to this day.
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