Military Base, Star City Sunward Dome The stream was, perhaps, a little too perfectly picturesque to be natural. It tumbled down a short hillside formed from rocky outcroppings to spill into a nicely ornamental pond, and then wandered away across…
Category: The History of the United Colonies
The History of the United Offworld Colonies: Recap
This will be a brief recap of events in the History so far; for the details (if you’re up for a lot of reading), the original blog posts are all still available. The Story So Far: 2182 – 84 In…
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History of the United Offworld Colonies: Background
Hello— As I mentioned at the start of the recent DUTBU archive, I’m going to be getting back to my blog series on the history of the UOC. Since it’s been quite some time since I last posted, I wanted…
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The Opponents
August 2, 2184— Industrial Platform (Low Orbit) 380A/X— continued Commander Jeanette Wheeler, until recently a captain in Warren Armstrong’s Offworld Force and CO of its Sixth Company (assigned to Nova Colony), kept her eyes on her screens as her troops…
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Attack
August 2, 2184: Industrial Platform (Low Orbit) 380A/X [Reg. EarthArc Shipping, Inc.] Ed Wallace kept his eyes on the screens as the Transport made its final approach to docking. It had slowed to an almost imperceptible crawl: final docking would…
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Rumors
August 2, 2184 “I’m telling you, Boss, my brother-in-law says he saw the pictures himself. They are prepping missiles for launch.” “Marty, the Terrans are not going to nuke the Colonies.” Edgar Wallace, senior supervisor of Industrial Platform (Low Orbit)…
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First Strategy
July 21, 2184 Noburo Ishikawa leaned forward, his elbows on the table in front of him, his fingers laced together. He spoke with careful, textbook correctness: Terran was his second language. His colony, New Tokyo, had Japanese as its native…
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Provisional Government
July 21, 2184 Charles Safreth, Interim President of the newborn United Offworld Colonies, watched the agenda items scroll across his handscreen and tried not to let his uneasiness show. It was a terrible disappointment to feel this way. During that…
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Independence
May 12-22, 2184 “We’ve gone to a popular vote to endorse each step, right back to the Continental Referendum two years ago.” Safreth paced his office, too agitated to settle down behind his desk. “I don’t want to break that…
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May 10, 2184
Historians recognize Monday, May 10, 2184 as the beginning of the Independence War between the Offworld Colonies and the Terran Federation. It came at the end of a week of tension and uncertainty following the expiration of President Monroe’s second…