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.
Muh magic hat!
One reason for the large scale of the project is President Donald Trump’s isolationist agenda: aluminum is critical for war.
Mimi Sheller, dean at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of “Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity.” 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.
“It doesn’t make a lot of economic sense,” said Sheller. “It doesn’t 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.”
The need for domestic aluminum is heightened by Iran’s March bombing of two large smelters in the Middle East, and by Trump’s 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! 😃
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.
I’m pretty good with splitting everything west of the cascades and the Deschutes River off from the U.S. let them have their utopia.
So fluoride is poisoned to deer but not people…
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?
Nobody wants an aluminum smelter next door, but they sure do like those aluminum F150s.
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.
Held out against the dog longer than I would have expected.
Attempted murder of a police officer!
They’ll 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.