Moving right along.
Soviet timeline update 2013 – 2022, beta 2:
1.9.2013: Soviet MARS units infiltrate Boskone One during the opening phases of Fleet Action Attila, capturing much of the asteroid in advance of the main Great Justice fleet.
5.9.2013 – 21.12.2013: The Soviet Air Force Delta Pavonis Expedition discovers a bunch of planets and an alien stargate orbiting Delta Pavonis. Activating the stargate they find another unit orbiting Zeta 1 Reticuli along with another bunch of habitable planets.
1.2014: Soviet Air Force elements participate in the final engagement of the Boskone War.
2.2014: The Soviet leadership agrees – with some acrimonious debate – to begin a limited demobilization of X-COM assets. The small fleet of Tu-22M Backfires acquired by the VVS are either shut down or have their weapons removed. ROU Frank Exchange of Views petitions to have its name changed to VFP Look! I’m A Plowshare. {number} MARS units are demobilized or turned into training commands per Soviet/Senshi agreements.
15.3.2014: The Joint Committee on Extraterrestrial Security subpoenas Mal Fnord as a witness in their ongoing investigation of the Artemis scandal. The staff-lizard sent to deliver the subpoena almost but not quite gets eaten by GLaDOS.
19.3.2014: Mal testifies in Washington to the Joint Committee. He admits most, defends all and personally insults several ranking members to the amusement of bloggers systemwide.
21.3.2014: In a private meeting with President {blank}, Mal and all members of the Soviet Air Force are given the heave-ho, which is backed up with a stack of personae non gratia orders in record time. Mal returns to a hero’s welcome on Luna, particularly from Lieutenant Sora Hasegawa, whose reaction makes the front page of the Illuminator.
22.3.2014: Mal and Sora depart for a “fact-finding mission” to Tau Ceti. Nobody’s particularly fooled; the most common speculation is they left to avoid being chased down by an enraged Noah Scott with a shotgun.
1.4.2014: Stellvia Corporation purchases NASA Human Spaceflight Office assets for fractions of pennies on the dollar. VVS leadership goes ahead with the plan to lease the OV-200 series design to Hephaestus.
1.5.2014: The Soviets officially purchase OV-202 as per their ‘pick of the litter’ agreement with Hephaestus. Production of the first four OV-200 orbiters gets underway.
6.2014: Artemis Foundation purchases the first four OV-200 orbiters to come off the production list. Thanks to a few crossed wires, OV-202 is now owned by Artemis and the VVS, though neither of them know it just yet.
7.2014 – 8.2014: Stellvia and the Soviets bump heads over ownership of the soon-to-be-completed OV-202.
5.11.2014: MCU Columbia (OV-202) launched.
9.3.2015: MCU Uragan (OV-208) launched.
{date}.2015: Mal drops off the grid for several weeks. Rumor has him touring with an Eagles cover band through the southwest United States for at least part of this time; the FBI spends a merry several days hunting through dive bars from Alamogordo to Berdoo to no avail.
11.9.2015: GCU Laika (NCC-104) launched.
{date}.2015: Uragan Expedition establishes a series of automated weather stations on Gallifrey, as well as the semi-permanent Ptichka’s Landing Air Force Weather Station on the west coast of Wild Endeavour on the banks of the River Song.
[Meta note: I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry...]
10.2015 – 1.2016: The Columbia/Laika Expedition investigates Night’s Door, discovers that some of the higher functions of the stargate’s management computer can be accessed remotely. Initial queries produce a limited database of unknown data.
23.10.2015: {name} becomes the first person to set foot on Earendil (Zet1Ret II). {gender} calls it “not an experience I want to do again any time soon.”
10.2015 – 1.2016: The Xenu Express/Uragan Expedition does a simultaneous investigation of Tannhauser Gate. While the initial discoveries are more limited, a lucky micrometeoroid impact breaks off a 5 kg chunk of the stargate’s exterior. Xenu Express captures the debris and returns it to Black Mesa for examination.
1.5.2016: The Soviet Air Force officially dissolves and rebrands itself as the Sozvezdie Soviet, ditching the pretense of paramilitary force in favor of becoming a proper government. The VVS leadership steps down en masse and (for the most part) stands for election to the new Central Committee. The Soviet promptly votes those standing to their new posts in the Central Committee. The Committee then votes Mal in as First Minister.
2.5.2016: Columbia is seconded from the Red Banner Fleet to Film Collective Studio #1, the first time a ship is moved from the main forces to a secondary command.
5.2016: GCU Arbitrary (NCC-105) launched.
4.7.2016: Minerva and Athene Weatheral leave Black Mesa (where they’d been operating as part of the science staff) for Korolevgrad to take on new positions as administrators for the growing bureaucracy. This is the first time any of Dee’s seraphim have left the nest, so to speak, and it’s a big moment for them.
6.7.2016: MCU Groza (OV-216) launched.
8.7.2016: Tina Weatheral begins work as the Committee’s executive secretary. Meets Mal and Sora for the first time, and things get interesting in many ways.
15.9.2016: MCU Typhoon (OV-217) launched.
{date}.2016: The Soviet encourages the movement of people and groups with similar inclinations from Earth to Fenspace. Many of these groups don’t join the Soviet, rather setting up their own colonies in the more distant parts of the solar system with Soviet support.
{date}.2016: Researchers working on the Tannhauser Gate fragment isolate stable isotopes of elements 126 (Unbihexium, later Skuldium) and 130 (Untrinilium, later Elerium). The mystery handwavium matrix the two transuranics were embedded in continues to defy analysis.
{date}.2017: GCU Undocumented Feature (NCC-109) launched.
{date}.2017: The Arbitrary Expedition returns to Night’s Door to conduct further experiments with the stargate’s control systems. No new functions are discovered, though Arbitrary does manage to trigger another data dump.
{date}.2017: LulzSec releases a handful of documents indicating that the Whole Fenspace Catalog was doctored before release. The Central Committee officially condemns Stellvia Corporation; privately, Mal lets Noah know “when you make dumb decisions because you’re afraid of what’ll happen to your bottom line, it will always come back around to bite you in the ass. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.”
Very privately, the Ministry of Science authorizes the Amalthea Engineer District and the Ravenholm Engineer District to begin work on the items found in the redacted sections of the Whole Fenspace Catalog. Ravenholm will focus on manadynamics and other esoteric/supernatural phenomena while Amalthea works on developing and improving Catalog nanotechnology.
{date}.2017: GCU It Was Like That When I Got Here (NCC-110) launched.
{date}.2017: Mal, Sora and Tina’s mutual orbits finally collide properly and the binary becomes a stable trinary, so to speak.
1.4.2017: MCU Iskra (OV-218) launched. Iskra is immediately seconded to Black Mesa and the Ministry of Science as a general utility vehicle.
{date}.2017: The Amalthea Project reverse-engineers Catalog nanotechnology into a primitive assembly system.
{date}.2018: Elessar Air Force Weather Station established on the banks of a large river on the main continent of Arda (Z1 Ret III); in the distant future of the Soviet, this is considered the unofficial founding of the city of Osgiliath.
28.2.2018: MCU Buran (OV-223) launched.
30.3.2018: MCU Borei (OV-224) launched.
{date}.2018: Ptichka, Columbia and Buran are invited along with the Federation’s expedition to the Keid (40 Eridani) trisystem. The Federation discovers a habitable planet 95% covered by shallow ocean in a double-world system with a Mars-like planet orbiting Keid A. Proving that Trekkies do in fact have a sense of irony, the habitable planet Keid A II-1 is named Vulcan.
1.4.2018: Jade Harley-Hasegawa born (constructed, w/e). She’s the first second-generation Scott series android from the Hasegawa line, and incorporates advances in the art by her mother Sora, her ‘uncle’ Eljay and ‘aunts’ Deidre, Dee and Kohran.
28.4.2018: An accident involving an experiment with untrinilium leads to some “creative rearranging” of Black Mesa’s surface layer and a minor panic on Galatea. The Central Committee considers moving Black Mesa out of the main belt and into the Kuiper as a precaution.
{date}.2018: The Ravenholm Project develops primitive manatronic circuitry - a computer that runs on ambient magical energy rather than electricity or light. While the circuits are the size of old-style vacuum tubes and not much more capable, the circuitry is considered a valid proof-of-concept. Research into miniaturization continues.
10.5.2018: MCU Tsiklon (OV-225) launched.
{date}.2019: GCU Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table (NCC-123) launched.
{date}.2019: The Love and Rage Collective, a syndicalist group with ties to the Senshi and the Soviet, petitions the Soviet for permission to begin settlement on Gallifrey. The petition is approved and 700 sailor-suited anarchists leave Venus and Luna for Tau Ceti. The town of Ptichka’s Landing is founded.
{date}.2020: GCU Cultural Imperialism Is Better Than The Other Kind (NCC-126) launched.
{date}.2020: The Soviet begins quietly agitating among left-leaning (and a few right-leaning) libertarian microfactions on Luna, Mars and in the Belt towards the formation of an “Autonomist Alliance” that would stand for four main points:
* Autonomy, self-organization, and self-governance for all sapient beings.
* Direct democracy and forms of organization where sapients collectively decide their own future.
* Mutual aid and reciprocating altruism between sapients.
* The right to engage in self-defense against oppression and coercive authority and stand in solidarity with sapients so attacked.
Initial reaction is neutral to positive, with most of those approached noting that a) most of this is covered by the Articles of Convention anyway, b) no matter how SMOF-heavy the Soviet is they’re still small fish in a big pond and c) so how do you fix that, smart guys?
At this point, the Soviet begins looking at an eclipse phase strategy aimed at the largest faction that could be said to hold autonomist leanings, the Federation.
{date}.2021: GCU Just Passing Through (NCC-136) launched.
1.5.2021: Election Day in the Sozvezdie Soviet. In a surprise twist, Mal refuses to stand for election again, citing a desire to get space under his feet again. Other former VVS leaders follow suit, so a (bare) majority of the new Soviet government are second-generation leftists of one stripe or another. The new Committee elects Minister of Justice and Equality Joseph Lacroix First Minister.
2.2021: Mal, Sora and Tina depart Sol for an extended tour of the Delta Pavonis and Zeta 1 Reticuli systems, ostensibly to start building more permanent bases on Yggdrasil and Valinor. Nobody’s particularly fooled this time either, but then again nobody really cares except the gossip rags, so.
5.2021: Minister Lacroix and the CentCom agree to let several joint-operating agreements with Stellvia Corporation lapse.
1.4.2022: Upon reachng nominal maturity, Jade Harley-Hasegawa becomes a citizen of the Sozvezdie Soviet. After her six-month stint with X-COM (where she spends most of her time learning how to shoot things really good) she will join the Ravenholm Project with her parents’ blessings, focusing on practical heavy manadynamics.
1.5.3022: The Soviet votes to join the United Federation of Planets as a charter member. Mal Fnord is elected to the position of Representative to the Federation Council.
{date}.2023: Black Mesa deciphers the Night’s Door data, reveals it as a database of accessible stargate nodes within a 3,000 light-year radius of the Door. The Science Ministry and the Central Committee classify the knowledge that there are other gates still connected to the Tannhauser-Door line until they figure out what the hell do to with it.
2023 and beyond: The Soviet is a revolutionary government, even if it is a laid-back, manana kind of revolution. Slow and steady wins the race after all, and the new society isn’t built in a day, after all.
Mal Fnord and his family are busy working the polls in the Federation, using their position as a charter member to leverage more government reforms into the nebulous workings of the UFP government. Going 100% anarcho-communist isn’t an end goal (yet), but by the 2050s Mal hopes to have a framework in place for his proposed Autonomist Alliance to thrive without requiring too many compromises with the capitalist system already in place.
The Amalthea and Ravenholm Projects roll on, sucking up much of the Science Ministry’s brainpower and funding. Both projects are expected to return impressive results within the next decade.
What Dee knows and has processed from the Catalog for her own uses, only Dee and the Interesting Times Gang can say. If she’s developing godtech, she’s doing it at far enough a remove from the Soviet that nobody suspects much.
X-COM slowly integrates into the Starfleet and Great Justice. A few of the more famous units like Azu Squadron and VFP Look! I’m A Plowshare remain directly in the service of the Soviet, but for the most part X-COM is just a slightly different badge for Starfleet MACOs or Great Justice patrol forces. New citizens - migrants and next-generation alike - do a six-month minimum stint in the force, learning to work & play nicely with other factions before going off to do something else.
The big question on the CentCom’s mind is what to do with the Night’s Door data. Boldly going where no man has gone before is a big pull for much of the Soviet, not to mention figuring out the gate-builder’s deal. By the end of 2024, CentCom has worked out a plan; early in the following year they’ll quietly release the data to the Federation Council and work out a proper plan for exploration, then they’ll head to Z1 Ret and open up the first of the addresses Night’s Door is connected to. Once they’ve confirmed that the addresses work like they’re supposed to, they’ll officially announce to the rest of the Convention. A completely new era is about to dawn in interstellar travel.
…but all that changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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Soviet timeline update 2013 – 2022, beta 2:
1.9.2013: Soviet MARS units infiltrate Boskone One during the opening phases of Fleet Action Attila, capturing much of the asteroid in advance of the main Great Justice fleet.
5.9.2013 – 21.12.2013: The Soviet Air Force Delta Pavonis Expedition discovers a bunch of planets and an alien stargate orbiting Delta Pavonis. Activating the stargate they find another unit orbiting Zeta 1 Reticuli along with another bunch of habitable planets.
1.2014: Soviet Air Force elements participate in the final engagement of the Boskone War.
2.2014: The Soviet leadership agrees – with some acrimonious debate – to begin a limited demobilization of X-COM assets. The small fleet of Tu-22M Backfires acquired by the VVS are either shut down or have their weapons removed. ROU Frank Exchange of Views petitions to have its name changed to VFP Look! I’m A Plowshare. {number} MARS units are demobilized or turned into training commands per Soviet/Senshi agreements.
15.3.2014: The Joint Committee on Extraterrestrial Security subpoenas Mal Fnord as a witness in their ongoing investigation of the Artemis scandal. The staff-lizard sent to deliver the subpoena almost but not quite gets eaten by GLaDOS.
19.3.2014: Mal testifies in Washington to the Joint Committee. He admits most, defends all and personally insults several ranking members to the amusement of bloggers systemwide.
21.3.2014: In a private meeting with President {blank}, Mal and all members of the Soviet Air Force are given the heave-ho, which is backed up with a stack of personae non gratia orders in record time. Mal returns to a hero’s welcome on Luna, particularly from Lieutenant Sora Hasegawa, whose reaction makes the front page of the Illuminator.
22.3.2014: Mal and Sora depart for a “fact-finding mission” to Tau Ceti. Nobody’s particularly fooled; the most common speculation is they left to avoid being chased down by an enraged Noah Scott with a shotgun.
1.4.2014: Stellvia Corporation purchases NASA Human Spaceflight Office assets for fractions of pennies on the dollar. VVS leadership goes ahead with the plan to lease the OV-200 series design to Hephaestus.
1.5.2014: The Soviets officially purchase OV-202 as per their ‘pick of the litter’ agreement with Hephaestus. Production of the first four OV-200 orbiters gets underway.
6.2014: Artemis Foundation purchases the first four OV-200 orbiters to come off the production list. Thanks to a few crossed wires, OV-202 is now owned by Artemis and the VVS, though neither of them know it just yet.
7.2014 – 8.2014: Stellvia and the Soviets bump heads over ownership of the soon-to-be-completed OV-202.
5.11.2014: MCU Columbia (OV-202) launched.
9.3.2015: MCU Uragan (OV-208) launched.
{date}.2015: Mal drops off the grid for several weeks. Rumor has him touring with an Eagles cover band through the southwest United States for at least part of this time; the FBI spends a merry several days hunting through dive bars from Alamogordo to Berdoo to no avail.
11.9.2015: GCU Laika (NCC-104) launched.
{date}.2015: Uragan Expedition establishes a series of automated weather stations on Gallifrey, as well as the semi-permanent Ptichka’s Landing Air Force Weather Station on the west coast of Wild Endeavour on the banks of the River Song.
[Meta note: I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry...]
10.2015 – 1.2016: The Columbia/Laika Expedition investigates Night’s Door, discovers that some of the higher functions of the stargate’s management computer can be accessed remotely. Initial queries produce a limited database of unknown data.
23.10.2015: {name} becomes the first person to set foot on Earendil (Zet1Ret II). {gender} calls it “not an experience I want to do again any time soon.”
10.2015 – 1.2016: The Xenu Express/Uragan Expedition does a simultaneous investigation of Tannhauser Gate. While the initial discoveries are more limited, a lucky micrometeoroid impact breaks off a 5 kg chunk of the stargate’s exterior. Xenu Express captures the debris and returns it to Black Mesa for examination.
1.5.2016: The Soviet Air Force officially dissolves and rebrands itself as the Sozvezdie Soviet, ditching the pretense of paramilitary force in favor of becoming a proper government. The VVS leadership steps down en masse and (for the most part) stands for election to the new Central Committee. The Soviet promptly votes those standing to their new posts in the Central Committee. The Committee then votes Mal in as First Minister.
2.5.2016: Columbia is seconded from the Red Banner Fleet to Film Collective Studio #1, the first time a ship is moved from the main forces to a secondary command.
5.2016: GCU Arbitrary (NCC-105) launched.
4.7.2016: Minerva and Athene Weatheral leave Black Mesa (where they’d been operating as part of the science staff) for Korolevgrad to take on new positions as administrators for the growing bureaucracy. This is the first time any of Dee’s seraphim have left the nest, so to speak, and it’s a big moment for them.
6.7.2016: MCU Groza (OV-216) launched.
8.7.2016: Tina Weatheral begins work as the Committee’s executive secretary. Meets Mal and Sora for the first time, and things get interesting in many ways.
15.9.2016: MCU Typhoon (OV-217) launched.
{date}.2016: The Soviet encourages the movement of people and groups with similar inclinations from Earth to Fenspace. Many of these groups don’t join the Soviet, rather setting up their own colonies in the more distant parts of the solar system with Soviet support.
{date}.2016: Researchers working on the Tannhauser Gate fragment isolate stable isotopes of elements 126 (Unbihexium, later Skuldium) and 130 (Untrinilium, later Elerium). The mystery handwavium matrix the two transuranics were embedded in continues to defy analysis.
{date}.2017: GCU Undocumented Feature (NCC-109) launched.
{date}.2017: The Arbitrary Expedition returns to Night’s Door to conduct further experiments with the stargate’s control systems. No new functions are discovered, though Arbitrary does manage to trigger another data dump.
{date}.2017: LulzSec releases a handful of documents indicating that the Whole Fenspace Catalog was doctored before release. The Central Committee officially condemns Stellvia Corporation; privately, Mal lets Noah know “when you make dumb decisions because you’re afraid of what’ll happen to your bottom line, it will always come back around to bite you in the ass. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.”
Very privately, the Ministry of Science authorizes the Amalthea Engineer District and the Ravenholm Engineer District to begin work on the items found in the redacted sections of the Whole Fenspace Catalog. Ravenholm will focus on manadynamics and other esoteric/supernatural phenomena while Amalthea works on developing and improving Catalog nanotechnology.
{date}.2017: GCU It Was Like That When I Got Here (NCC-110) launched.
{date}.2017: Mal, Sora and Tina’s mutual orbits finally collide properly and the binary becomes a stable trinary, so to speak.
1.4.2017: MCU Iskra (OV-218) launched. Iskra is immediately seconded to Black Mesa and the Ministry of Science as a general utility vehicle.
{date}.2017: The Amalthea Project reverse-engineers Catalog nanotechnology into a primitive assembly system.
{date}.2018: Elessar Air Force Weather Station established on the banks of a large river on the main continent of Arda (Z1 Ret III); in the distant future of the Soviet, this is considered the unofficial founding of the city of Osgiliath.
28.2.2018: MCU Buran (OV-223) launched.
30.3.2018: MCU Borei (OV-224) launched.
{date}.2018: Ptichka, Columbia and Buran are invited along with the Federation’s expedition to the Keid (40 Eridani) trisystem. The Federation discovers a habitable planet 95% covered by shallow ocean in a double-world system with a Mars-like planet orbiting Keid A. Proving that Trekkies do in fact have a sense of irony, the habitable planet Keid A II-1 is named Vulcan.
1.4.2018: Jade Harley-Hasegawa born (constructed, w/e). She’s the first second-generation Scott series android from the Hasegawa line, and incorporates advances in the art by her mother Sora, her ‘uncle’ Eljay and ‘aunts’ Deidre, Dee and Kohran.
28.4.2018: An accident involving an experiment with untrinilium leads to some “creative rearranging” of Black Mesa’s surface layer and a minor panic on Galatea. The Central Committee considers moving Black Mesa out of the main belt and into the Kuiper as a precaution.
{date}.2018: The Ravenholm Project develops primitive manatronic circuitry - a computer that runs on ambient magical energy rather than electricity or light. While the circuits are the size of old-style vacuum tubes and not much more capable, the circuitry is considered a valid proof-of-concept. Research into miniaturization continues.
10.5.2018: MCU Tsiklon (OV-225) launched.
{date}.2019: GCU Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table (NCC-123) launched.
{date}.2019: The Love and Rage Collective, a syndicalist group with ties to the Senshi and the Soviet, petitions the Soviet for permission to begin settlement on Gallifrey. The petition is approved and 700 sailor-suited anarchists leave Venus and Luna for Tau Ceti. The town of Ptichka’s Landing is founded.
{date}.2020: GCU Cultural Imperialism Is Better Than The Other Kind (NCC-126) launched.
{date}.2020: The Soviet begins quietly agitating among left-leaning (and a few right-leaning) libertarian microfactions on Luna, Mars and in the Belt towards the formation of an “Autonomist Alliance” that would stand for four main points:
* Autonomy, self-organization, and self-governance for all sapient beings.
* Direct democracy and forms of organization where sapients collectively decide their own future.
* Mutual aid and reciprocating altruism between sapients.
* The right to engage in self-defense against oppression and coercive authority and stand in solidarity with sapients so attacked.
Initial reaction is neutral to positive, with most of those approached noting that a) most of this is covered by the Articles of Convention anyway, b) no matter how SMOF-heavy the Soviet is they’re still small fish in a big pond and c) so how do you fix that, smart guys?
At this point, the Soviet begins looking at an eclipse phase strategy aimed at the largest faction that could be said to hold autonomist leanings, the Federation.
{date}.2021: GCU Just Passing Through (NCC-136) launched.
1.5.2021: Election Day in the Sozvezdie Soviet. In a surprise twist, Mal refuses to stand for election again, citing a desire to get space under his feet again. Other former VVS leaders follow suit, so a (bare) majority of the new Soviet government are second-generation leftists of one stripe or another. The new Committee elects Minister of Justice and Equality Joseph Lacroix First Minister.
2.2021: Mal, Sora and Tina depart Sol for an extended tour of the Delta Pavonis and Zeta 1 Reticuli systems, ostensibly to start building more permanent bases on Yggdrasil and Valinor. Nobody’s particularly fooled this time either, but then again nobody really cares except the gossip rags, so.
5.2021: Minister Lacroix and the CentCom agree to let several joint-operating agreements with Stellvia Corporation lapse.
1.4.2022: Upon reachng nominal maturity, Jade Harley-Hasegawa becomes a citizen of the Sozvezdie Soviet. After her six-month stint with X-COM (where she spends most of her time learning how to shoot things really good) she will join the Ravenholm Project with her parents’ blessings, focusing on practical heavy manadynamics.
1.5.3022: The Soviet votes to join the United Federation of Planets as a charter member. Mal Fnord is elected to the position of Representative to the Federation Council.
{date}.2023: Black Mesa deciphers the Night’s Door data, reveals it as a database of accessible stargate nodes within a 3,000 light-year radius of the Door. The Science Ministry and the Central Committee classify the knowledge that there are other gates still connected to the Tannhauser-Door line until they figure out what the hell do to with it.
2023 and beyond: The Soviet is a revolutionary government, even if it is a laid-back, manana kind of revolution. Slow and steady wins the race after all, and the new society isn’t built in a day, after all.
Mal Fnord and his family are busy working the polls in the Federation, using their position as a charter member to leverage more government reforms into the nebulous workings of the UFP government. Going 100% anarcho-communist isn’t an end goal (yet), but by the 2050s Mal hopes to have a framework in place for his proposed Autonomist Alliance to thrive without requiring too many compromises with the capitalist system already in place.
The Amalthea and Ravenholm Projects roll on, sucking up much of the Science Ministry’s brainpower and funding. Both projects are expected to return impressive results within the next decade.
What Dee knows and has processed from the Catalog for her own uses, only Dee and the Interesting Times Gang can say. If she’s developing godtech, she’s doing it at far enough a remove from the Soviet that nobody suspects much.
X-COM slowly integrates into the Starfleet and Great Justice. A few of the more famous units like Azu Squadron and VFP Look! I’m A Plowshare remain directly in the service of the Soviet, but for the most part X-COM is just a slightly different badge for Starfleet MACOs or Great Justice patrol forces. New citizens - migrants and next-generation alike - do a six-month minimum stint in the force, learning to work & play nicely with other factions before going off to do something else.
The big question on the CentCom’s mind is what to do with the Night’s Door data. Boldly going where no man has gone before is a big pull for much of the Soviet, not to mention figuring out the gate-builder’s deal. By the end of 2024, CentCom has worked out a plan; early in the following year they’ll quietly release the data to the Federation Council and work out a proper plan for exploration, then they’ll head to Z1 Ret and open up the first of the addresses Night’s Door is connected to. Once they’ve confirmed that the addresses work like they’re supposed to, they’ll officially announce to the rest of the Convention. A completely new era is about to dawn in interstellar travel.
…but all that changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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