Third Fleet was our last best hope for victory in the early years of The War. It failed. Epsilon Reticuli became a lesson every naval officer studied before graduation, a battle no one wished to repeat. Serenity became a mixed lesson. In some circles it was an example of what all Alliance personnel were expected to do if required. For others it was a lesson that political battles were just as deadly. For me it was an opportunity that I did not ignore.
When Germany finally accepted defeat and surrendered to the Allies, the German-Russian peace treaty was declared void. Russia quickly moved to retake the lost regions, but the locals preferred independence and fought back. Now known as the Russian Civil War, it waged for five years, killed millions of people, and destroyed their economy. It birthed the Soviet Union, and while that nation would not survive the century, its legacy continues to this day.
The “cheap toys” we brought back from Betelgeuse is how we learned the Thunderbird’s secret of course. In examining the tech, we realized it had the same base as the tech the Peloran use. Two thousand years of divergence of course, but that tech is real unique. Once you know what to look for, it’s impossible to hide. The Thunderbirds and the Peloran got their tech from the same source. The Albion. It was easy to figure out the truth after that.
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.
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