USSR
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History
Early successes and the terraforming of Mars
- In 1963 the Russians landed the Soyuz III Lunar Module landed on the Moon,a nd Yuri Gagarin became the first man on the moon.
- 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.
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 woudl become known as New Ukreaine.
- In 2151 the Alexander Nevsky saw off the German colony ship Seevogel.
- In 2152 they won the Battle of New Ukraine.
