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==Detente and Terraforming== | ==Detente and Terraforming== | ||
Revision as of 03:11, 28 June 2006
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The Moon Landing
A Base On Mars
The Russians did not develop their Moon programme, choosing instead to shoot for Mars. They established the small Mars Colony Voskhod, where the Treaty of Voskhod was signed in 2006.
Detente and Terraforming
Extrasolar travel
Extra solar travel is accomplished at faster than light (FTL) speeds by wormholes
- Migration Crises of the 2120s
- In 2127 the UISA sent an Ark Ship to New Iowa in the Griffin system.
- In 2129, after the death of King William IV, a particularly young George VII ascended to the throne.
- In 2132 the new reformed British Empire begin construction of two gigantic Ark Ships, the Boadicea and the Arthur
- In 2134 the Arthur is launched to Hydra, the Boadicea to Griffin.
- In 2142 George VII dies and Victoria II ascends to the throne at the age of 21.
- in 2144 the USSR sent the first armed FTL ship, the Alexander Nevsky, to the Chimera System to claim the planet that would become known as New Ukraine.
- In 2147 the UISA sent the then-largest FTL ship, the USSS Essex, to colonise New Iowa.
- In 2149 the Germans sent a small FTL ship to New Iowa in the Griffin system.
- In 2151 the Alexander Nevsky saw off the German colony ship Seevogel. The Seevogel limped to the second habitable planet in the system, which was to become New Rhineland.
- In 2151, the Battle of New Ukraine cemented the status quo in the Chimera system.
- In 2152 the USSR won the Battle of New Ukraine.
- In 2227 Victoria II dies, succeeded by George VIII.
