NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 17th (Tycho Colony, Luna) – The Council of Ten issues a preliminary statement on the events that took place in the Tau Ceti system, announcing contact with the Hive, Unity, Risantha, Warriors, Xylat, and the Yoitsuni.
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 18th – Following concerns about the Yoitsuni’s claim of already members of its species already on Earth, the Office of the Grand Duchess passes an edict confirming that any Yoitsuni who was born inside the Alliance is indeed an Alliance citizen, and entitled to all the rights that entails. Several cases are filed with the Court of Concept in protest of this action by groups who don’t agree with this.
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 21st (Tycho Colony, Luna) – A group of envoys from the species encountered in the Tau Ceti system return aboard a Warrior, along with some of the crew of the T.A.S.S. Roald Amundsen. The Amundsen crew go into debriefing with Military Intelligence about the battle that had taken place in the Tau Ceti system, while the envoys go into a series of meetings with the Council of Ten. It is later known that these meetings are about how the species that had come to the aid of the Unity had actually been on there way to the Tau Ceti system to extend an invitation to the Proximan Suzerainty, Terran Alliance, and Teuthidoid Peoples to join the assembled galactic powers who trade at a space station in the Sirius system (which the Terran Alliance designates as Trade Hub 01).
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 26th (Gagarin Station, Luna) – [SDS07] T.A.S.S. Nobu Shirase (NVY-609) departs Luna on a diplomatic mission to the Trade Hub 01 in the Sirius system, along with a Teuthidoid envoy they are transporting. The Shirase‘s crew includes the crew of [ATS19] T.A.S.S. Valentina Tereshkova (NVY-197), which had originally been slated to depart with the scout ships in March before the ship had to be put in for an overhaul due to the Phoenix Anomaly. The Shirase was then slated to be dispatched on a Sirius exploration vector, until the May 17th announcement. Following the announcement of the 17th, additions and changes were made to its crew to make it more fit for its new mission as an envoy to Trade Hub 01.
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 30th – The crew of the Nobu Shirase arrive at Proxima Centauri to pick up the Proximan envoy to the Sirius system, and get dragged into a 3-day planetwide celebration before they are able to depart for Sirius on June 3rd.
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: May 31st (Valles Marineris Orbital Shipyards, Mars) – The Andropov-class Fleet Carrier Enterprise launches from the Valles Merineris Orbital Shipyards, its comissioning having been delayed slightly due to the events of the Red Dragons Incident the week prior. The Enterprise is the first capital-scale vessel in the Terran Alliance Armed Forces to have a crew which comprises mainly of staff from the Confederation of America, with the exception of the Iwo Jima in the early days of the Alliance. This signals a step long-awaited forward in the viewpoints of the world towards the former United States, and is a sign that the memories of the War are beginning to become more of history and less of an influence on bias. Launch of the Chairman Mao, the next Andropov-class Fleet Carrier projected to be launched is pushed back until early August to give the Shipyard crew time to repair damage inflicted to the shipyards during the Red Dragons Incident.
NEW TIMELINE ENTRY (TERRAN ALLIANCE HISTORY) [2030]: June 14th (Sirus Vector, grid square -2 by -5) – While performing routine maintenance on their Higgs Drive during a cooldown period, the crew of the Nobu Shirase detect a repeating signal of clear non-natural origin in the 93GHz range. Upon investigating, they find that they had stumbled across an explorer who had departed Trade Hub 01 when it had been announced that contact had been made with the Terran Alliance. The explorer, a member of the species who refers to themselves as the “Deep Ones,” had sought to fight the persistent gravity currents in Flux Space that traditionally had blocked travel from the Sirius system to Sol. However, he had burned out his standard Flux Space drives and was dropped to normal space due to a Flux Space Incursion. He had been in the process of attempting to build a single-use Flux Space portal generator when the Shirase found him, and was happy to accept an offer of transportation back to Sirius.
Did some menu tweaking to increase performance and deal with the fact that apparently wordpress has a limit on the amount of menu items. So I condensed some things down into index pages that link to separate pages. Also, starting to roll out left-hand side menus to help with this.
Renamed basically all the departments in the Terran Alliance Marine Corps to 1) get rid of some terrible acronyms, and 2) make them sound awesome. I’ll probably be doing this with other branches of the armed forces too. I just kind of started with the Marines.