The Albion did a lot of gengineering back in their day, leaving behind a lot of species as their legacy. You’ve heard of the Arnam and Peloran. Most of you haven’t heard of the others. Most have full human intelligence, which makes them awful interesting to work with. They don’t live close to Earth at all, so aren’t really part of our sphere of influence. That’s the reason people give for not teaching about them. Me, I think they have other reasons.
By the end of the Drug Wars, Dixie and her people had become famous enough that military producers asked her to advertise their products. They hired her to provide the voices of their onboard computers, and even licensed the use of limited versions of her core programming. Her voice became the standard voice of almost all military hardware built in Texas. Dixie performs that service to this day, providing Texas a link to their pre-space past.
The Great War was not limited to a conflict between European powers alone. Japan and China vied for power in the East in a prelude to future conflicts for instance. Japan attacked first, capturing many German bases and demanding steep concessions from China. Heavily divided and still recovering from the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, China had no alternative but to agree with the onerous demands. They would not soon forget.
The cheap little toys we brought home from Betelgeuse showed us that the Thunderbirds had the same tech base as the Peloran. That brought up all kinds of interesting questions. “How did they get it?” was one of the big ones. We had to study the Thunderbirds themselves before we got a clue to that. You see, the things they don’t teach in “Alien Lifeforms 101” is that they are gengineered, just like the Peloran. The Albion were real busy little beavers.
Dixie and her Texas Tech students and faculty truly were integral to the defense of Texas during the height of the Drug Wars that waged during the Second Great Depression. And once the Texas Guard finished mobilizing and marched south to deal with the cartels on Mexican soil, Dixie’s drones rolled out with them. And while holographic technology was still young at the time, she still had a lot of fun cheerleading the military advances against the bad guys.
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