Our first starships were spindly, fragile things. They were a slender needle nearly five hundred meters long designed to pierce the wall between normalspace and hyperspace. Fuel tanks and crew quarters surrounded the central spindle with little room for anything else. Even the engines were weak things barely strong enough to push them through hyperspace. And so the early starships never left the gravitic rivers that linked our stars together. They simply did not have enough power to try another route.
What happens when you humble an enemy? What happens when you beat them? What happens when you break them so badly that the only thing worse than surrendering is fighting on? What happens when the man that signs the surrender finds living with the shame harder than eating a bullet? What happens? I don’t know yet. I hope whoever reads this doesn’t know either. Because I’m very much afraid that the Chinese will never forget that we won and they lost. And I don’t think they’re going to forgive any of us for that.
Twilight’s season two spent most of its time in Texas and the surrounding States, fighting against human terrorists that absolutely did not belong to any of the known real life terrorist organizations. There was one major recurring Rogue AI that showed up from time to time, but the producers chose to downplay that element for most of the season. Twilight’s rebellious side was focused on much more instead in what many considered one of the best character arcs of any of those original shows.
Third Fleet was our best hope to defeat the Shang once and for all. To send them running back home with their tails between their legs. Third Fleet failed. We became those who ran, though we learned something important before we did. The Shang had a secret weapon you see. A weapon we had gotten close enough to blow up. And to get good solid readings on. So we went back to Serenity with another mission. Bring news of what we were fighting against. But Serenity had some bad news of her own when we arrived. The Chinese had traveled a long ways to bring it in person.
The Chinese changed everything when they made their first hole into hyperspace. Scientists had still been arguing over whether it was even possible to do so up to the second it happened, and some hours later due to how long it took the reports to arrive on Earth. We still have not mastered the speed of light after all. For the Chinese did not go faster than light. They merely found a place where the speed of light was faster than ours. And that changed everything.
Forge of War on Amazon
Angel Flight on Amazon
Angel Strike on Amazon
Angel War on Amazon
Wolfenheim Rising on Amazon
Wolfenheim Emergent on Amazon