USSR

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Contents 1 History 1.1 Science 1.2 Nuclear race 1.3 Rocketry program 1.4 Early successes and the terraforming of Mars 1.5 Conflict with the Germans in the Chimera system 2 The Soviet Union today 2.1 Soviet Political organisations 2.2 The Russian Military 2.3 Russian Persons of Note 2.4 Russian Territories 2.5 Current Russian Characters

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. 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

Russian Territories

• Mars
• New Ukraine and its moons Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

Current Russian Characters

• Admiral Natasha Ivanova Petrov, Russian Third Extrasolar Fleet
• Political Officer Andre Petrovich Antonov, Russian Third Extrasolar Fleet
• General Sergei Grigoriyevich Brusilov, 1st Russian Interplanetary Corps
• Political Officer Yevgeniy Romanovich Subikoff, 1st Russian Interplanetary Corps
• Special Commissar Konstantin Sovietyevich Andropov, Commissariat of the Exterior
• General Emilia Alexandrova Roslov