The First Galactic War
Rear Admiral Isaac Gauss, Commander, Task Group One, Confederate Navy, is overseeing a Fleet exercise near the Confederate world New Albion. The Confederate battle cruiser CSS Orleans, Gauss’ flagship, is under way at sublight speed when several Grugell ships are detected dropping out of subspace. In the ensuing engagement, the Orleans is crippled, and several ships destroyed, in exchange for two Grugell warships. The Confederate Task Group escapes into subspace, fleeing in disarray.
Nearly three years of fighting ensue. Planetary bombardments and invasion forces render the Confederate world of New Albion nearly sterile. Fleets of starships engage in running battles.
Meanwhile, on Tarbos, the Confederate Senate and House of Selectmen debate expanding the role of the Confederate government to strengthen the Navy, while maintaining the sovereignty of the individual planets. The Senator from Forest, Michael Crider Jr., leads the fight to secure funding for a new class of warships, even as his sister Andrea leads her squadron of strike fighters into battle. To further save precious funds, the Confederate Navy Department authorizes the use of privateer ships – armed, privately owned starships that fight in several engagements. One privateer, the Starship Shade Tree, succeeds in destroying a Grugell Occupation ship.
The Shade Tree was also present at the second Battle of Fortune, and recovered data taken from the main computer of a Grugell frigate the alerted the Confederate Navy of the Grugell’s plans to attack Earth directly. The final engagement comes in the Battle of Rally Point Alpha, where the new class of Confederate ships – the Dreadnought class – makes its debut. –
Morris/Handel, “A History of the First Galactic Confederacy,” University Publications, 2804CE
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The story continues!
Once the expenses slow down I really need to get this series. It’s in my Amazon wish list.
Can recommend.
“Dreadnought” is by far the best named class of ship ever. (And the OG, the 1906 HMS Dreadnought.)
On her: “Although designed to engage enemy battleships, her only significant action was the ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29; thus she became the only battleship confirmed to have sunk a submarine.”
That’s a pretty, preetty, preeetty bad damn day for Captain Otto Weddigen, the U-29’s last commander. (U-29 was sunk with all hands on 18 March 1915 in the Pentland Firth, north of Scotland.) Whoops!
Further oddity: “From 1907 to 1911, Dreadnought served as flagship of the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet.[50] In 1910, she attracted the attention of notorious hoaxer Horace de Vere Cole, who 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐛𝐲𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. 𝐈𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐀𝐛𝐲𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 [Ethiopian] 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐬” 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬; it became known as the Dreadnought hoax.”
Bloomsbury Group included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey. Well. I ‘know’ the first two.
Blackface was OK when WE did it!
And sold for scrap only 15 years after commissioning.
I love this series. It’s the only reason that I look forward to Monday.