Space Race

From Acw

The Moon Landing

• In 1963 the Russians landed the Soyuz III Lunar Module landed on the Moon, and Yuri Gagarin became the first man on the moon.
• In 1972 the Germans constructed a Moon Base on Luna.
• in 1990 the Germans launched a Mars explorer from the Moon, and established a Mars base in 1997.

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.
• In 2006, under the Treaty of Voskhod, Grossdeutschland and the USSR agreed to co-operate on the terraforming of Mars. *In 2011 large scale terraforming begins on Mars
• In 2023 terraforming of Mars completes sufficiently to allow a man to breath the atmosphere unaided for short periods of time.

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 2190 The SS Wissenschaftkorps under the leadership of Generalleutnant-Doktor der Waffen-SS Hans Reichman finally cracked the last few elements of the DNA double helix.
• In 2199 the Treaty of New Iowa was signed banning all custom-built genetic code.
• In 2227 Victoria II dies, succeeded by George VIII.
• IN 2232 the Treaty of Io was revised banning any form of Gene weapon.
• In 2347, the Sixth Republic of France announces its entry into the cosmos, by unveiling the colony of Cousteau, 5,600 meters beneath the waves of Callisto.