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===Early successes and the terraforming of Mars=== | ===Early successes and the terraforming of Mars=== | ||
*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 [[1963]] the Russians landed the Soyuz III Lunar Module landed on the [[Moon]], and [[Yuri Gagarin]] became the first man on the moon. | ||
| - | *The Russians did not develop their Moon programme, choosing instead to shoot for [[Mars]]. | + | *The Russians did not develop their Moon programme, choosing instead to shoot for [[Mars]]. In [[1989]], they established the small Mars Colony '''Voskhod''', where the [[Treaty of Voskhod]] was signed in [[2006]]. |
===Conflict with the Germans in the [[Chimera]] system=== | ===Conflict with the Germans in the [[Chimera]] system=== | ||
Current revision as of 01:09, 4 October 2007
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History
Science
The threat of the German N2 during and after the Second World War gave the Soviet scientific establishment significant impetus, specifically for hard sciences with military applications. With massive resources being poured into acquiring an effective (and subsequently superior) nuclear missile system, ideological challenges by scientists like Lysenko were disregarded or suppressed. Rocketry experts and physicists languishing in taiga gulags were rapidly 'rehabilitated', or organised into NKVD research and development camps.
Nuclear race
- Second successful nuclear test in 1948, aided by information supplied by spies inside the German and American nuclear research efforts.
Rocketry program
Early successes and the terraforming of Mars
- In 1963 the Russians landed the Soyuz III Lunar Module landed on the Moon, and Yuri Gagarin became the first man on the moon.
- The Russians did not develop their Moon programme, choosing instead to shoot for Mars. In 1989, they established the small Mars Colony Voskhod, where the Treaty of Voskhod was signed in 2006.
Conflict with the Germans in the Chimera system
- in 2144 they 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 2151 the Alexander Nevsky saw off the German colony ship Seevogel.
- In 2152 they won the Battle of New Ukraine.
The Soviet Union today
Soviet Political organisations
- The Supreme Soviet
- The Communist Party
- The KGB
- The GRU
The Russian Military
- The New Red Fleet
- The Red Army
- The First, Second and Third Extrasolar Fleets
Russian Persons of Note
- General Secretary Acheiko Goreyvich Bazhenov
- Defence Secretary Reynia Simanova Baguta
Russian Territories
- Mars
- New Ukraine and its moon Tolstoy.
Current Russian Characters
- Admiral Natasha Ivanova Petrova, Russian Third Extrasolar Fleet
- Political Officer Andre Petrovich Antonov, Russian Third Extrasolar Fleet
- General Sergei Grigoriyevich Brusilov, 1st Russian Interplanetary Corps
- Political Officer Svetlana Baialynova Chemerkova, 1st Russian Interplanetary Corps
- General Tarakh Garonovich Samsonov, 2nd Russian Interplanetary Corps
- Political Officer Yevgeniy Romanovich Subikoff, 2nd Russian Interplanetary Corps
- Special Commissar Konstantin Sovietyevich Andropov, Commissariat of the Exterior
