There was very little fighting in the Core Worlds before The War. Raids and even outright invasions were not uncommon in the Outer Colonies though. Other than a few high profile colonies, they were people who wanted to leave Earth far behind, so most citizens of Earth didn’t worry about them. So there was very little protest of any kind over news of small conflicts out there that took over a year to make it to Earth.
The uplifted cats we recruited for the Wolfenheim Project spent most of the trip prowling around, looking for stowaways. They caught a lot of rats that somehow penetrated all of our screening procedures. We rarely saw the cats, except when they wanted attention or food. It is truly amazing how they can disappear when they don’t want to be bothered, but then be larger than life and impossible to ignore when they decide they want something.
Fearing that another Napoleon could rise and conquer all of Europe, the great powers enacted a series of defensive alliances to maintain the status quo. An attack by any realm would trigger two or three other realms to come to the defender’s aid, and any threat to the monarchies from internal threats would bring aid as well. It was the last, desperate gasp of the great noble families as they tried to maintain their power in a changing world.
We’ve uplifted so many different races since figuring out the gengineering required. Some like cats and dogs go everywhere we go. Others are rare, or stay away from the rest of us. You see, despite what a lot of people say we’re not all the same. You can give an eagle human level intelligence and an ability to speak our words, but he’ll still want to fly away from it all and live on top of a tree, mountain, or tower. We just want different lives.
The Outer Colonies are separate from Earth, with tenuous contact to the Core Worlds of humanity, and many were founded by small groups of people. Historical Reenactors colonized Camelot for instance, though many question the accuracy of their reenacting. In general though, people who went to the Outer Colonies did so because they wanted to leave everything and everyone behind them. They went in search of a new life and they built it. Their worlds reflect that.
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