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, Gaussโ 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 โ 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 Grugellโs plans to attack Earth directly.ย The final engagement comes in the Battle of Rally Point Alpha, where the new class of Confederate ships โ the Dreadnought class โ makes its debut.ย –
Morris/Handel, โA History of the First Galactic Confederacy,โ University Publications, 2804CE
To see more of Animalโs writing, visit his page atย Crimson Dragon Publishingย orย Amazon.
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 ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐๐ง ๐ซ๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ. ๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ “๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐๐ง [Ethiopian] ๐ซ๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ” ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐’๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐, ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฌ; 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.
EM Forster wrote Passage to India, Howards End, Room With a View, and assorted other books turned into costume drama films in the 80s and 90s.
The other two are notable only for being forgettable.
Not just costume drama, but by Merchant Ivory. Possibly the best British filmmaking duo since Powell pressburger.
I love this series. It’s the only reason that I look forward to Monday.
Muh magic hat!
One reason for the large scale of the project is President Donald Trumpโs isolationist agenda: aluminum is critical for war.
Mimi Sheller, dean at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of โAluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity.โ She said the smelter, which would be the first facility of its kind to be stood up domestically in about 45 years, only has one obvious advantage.
โIt doesnโt make a lot of economic sense,โ said Sheller. โIt doesnโt make a lot of environmental sense. It only makes sense within a military strategic national security context where you have alienated all of your allies.โ
The need for domestic aluminum is heightened by Iranโs March bombing of two large smelters in the Middle East, and by Trumpโs tariffs, which are as high as 50%, even though aluminum is produced more cheaply in Canada.
Do the icky dirty stuff somewhere else. Let the Morlocks make it and sell it to us at a discount.
Annex western Canada. Let the rest wither and die.
Agreed
Annex Oak Island too! ๐
Do we really want the western half of BC?
I don’t.
Do we really want the western half of BC?
Well, we have our own west coast problem to deal with. Might as well handle it all at the same time.
One final solution to the problem.
Kinnith, the ol get them all in one place and build a wall around them.
Iโm pretty good with splitting everything west of the cascades and the Deschutes River off from the U.S. let them have their utopia.
We should poison Oak Island.
Views from utopia while taking the dog for a walk today
https://ibb.co/9m43W5Vh
So fluoride is poisoned to deer but not peopleโฆ
It makes economic sense if someone is willing to build it. But then the last admin propped it up. And are they subsidies or simply lower taxes? These two are not the same.
Oklahoma is a RTW state.
Washington is a forced unionization state. How did that work out for Kaiser in Spokane?
Why would an isolationist be ramping up war production?
You can vote socialism in, but only shoot your way out?
Nobody wants an aluminum smelter next door, but they sure do like those aluminum F150s.
There’s no steel body choice.
How to defend yourself from a pointy stick.\
WTF?
Held out against the dog longer than I would have expected.
He should have just thrown a smaller stick.
Was he speaking softly?
More proof that we need to reopen the damn insane asylums.
Bring back the scaffold in the town square.
Guillotine. Erect a guillotine in the town square.
That’s an erection that could win an election!
Held out against the dog longer than I would have expected.
Attempted murder of a police officer!
Theyโll charge him for assault in a cop over the dog.
In the army they give the cop dogs the rank of sergeant so if you kick one they get you on the charge of assault on an NCO.
Manic pixie dream gun girl buys* her first shotgun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3-8aVZ8dV8
*Because she always had sponsors giving her shotguns before.
Blocked by the corporate firewall. I will have to check it out later.
You know what I don’t need? Slow motion arm jiggle.
Thatโs not a manic pixie dream anything.
Meant to add: Sure looks like she knows her way around a boomstick, though.
Quad loading is hawt.
Benelli? Sad.
Should get something cool, like a Purdy.
I found it hilarious that she, like a normal person, chose based on what was most popular. When you’ve never had a real choice, you wouldn’t learn how to shop/choose.
Headline: Experts are Skeptical.
BELIEVE ALL EXPERTS
All OUR experts, that is.
Bless his heart
โWe as an LGBTQ community celebrate the legal climb-down by the gutless Trump Administration on their contemptuous attempt to erase queer people from American history at Stonewall, the birthplace of the worldwide LGBTQ human rights movement,โ said Hoylman-Sigal, who is the first openly gay person elected to his job.
Just like when you run the Nazis off at Bunker Hill.
Somebody help me. In a photo of the flag pole in that article about the Stonewall gay banner, there is a statue of what appears to be a civil war general(?!) in the foreground. Who is it? I doubt it’s Stonewall Jackson, but who knows?
The photo
LMGTFY
https://maps.app.goo.gl/cqht4vP7eCp5j76V6
General Philip Henry Sheridan
Found it!
General Philip Henry Sheridan; hardly a hero of Quiltbag Nation, but he was there first.
Aren’t we adding something like MIMIC to the front of QUILTBAG now.
I thought that was just the Canukistani grifters
good point
Statue dedicated in 1936.
Sheridan, credited with the phrase, “The only good indian is a dead indian.”
I mean, the online scammers aren’t _that_ bad.
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are. And I shouldn’t inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.” Theodore Roosevelt, January 1886 speech in New York.