The Orleans, sometime later The message caused Admiral Gauss a mild shock when it arrived in his Flag office on the Orleans, brought there by a Signals rating and handed to the Admiral at his desk. Admiral Gauss read the hyperphone message for the fifth time,...
SeventeenApril 2253 Halifax It was fitting that a planet with a heavy surplus of metal ores would become a major shipbuilding center, and that is precisely what had happened on Halifax, admitted into the Confederacy only two years earlier. The massive orbital...
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FourteenJanuary 2253 New Albion Glengarry was now reduced to a smoking ruin; the Grugell had briefly withdrawn from the surface, and three days later bombarded the city with five fission bombs. The guerillas continued to operate in the Crow Ridge mountains,...
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August 2251 The Orleans Combat Information Center “Oh, that’s very clever,” Admiral Gauss pointed at two new images that suddenly appeared in the holographic ‘tank’ displaying the exercise. “Captain Wallace brought his task group out of subspace sixteen hundred...
July 2251 Tarbos, six weeks later “Gawd almighty, would you look at that?” Horace Hamilton gaped at the sight. The Mountain View’s Pilot Lounge offered a good view of space to the starboard side of the ship, and it was there that the newest ship in the Fleet was...
June 2251 The Confederate Star Ship Mountain View, Tarbos high orbit The Mountain View’s hangar bay was truly cavernous, but it wasn’t hard for Lieutenant Commander Andrea Crider to find her personal A-66 attack fighter. Her squadron, VS-66, Hunter Squadron, was...
March 2251 On the Frontier Light years away, on the Grugell frontier, one of the less publicly known bits of Senator Crider’s funding agenda was at work. The Star Ship Shade Tree was a privately owned vessel, but in spite of its small complement – three officers and...
January 2251 "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world are so formidable as the will and moral and courage of free men and women. It is a weapon adversaries in today's world do not have". - Ronald Reagan, President of...
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...
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Fifteen kilometers inland The setting was beautiful. Fifteen kilometers from the outskirts of Mountain View was the tiny community of Rangely, a farming and ranching town of about two thousand. And just outside of that community was the Rangely Retreat, a...