Union Space
A Modern Day Space Campaign
by Steve Jensen
History
In July of 1969, man first set foot on the moon. After that, to the general public, the "space race" against the Soviet Union had been won. Over the following years, interest in space exploration waned, and only the smallest leaps in technology were shown to the public.
In reality, the space race continued for decades. After the moon landings, and the creation of the space shuttles, the United States began spending billions on faster than light research and Technology: These projects were kept completely secret of course, as the cold war continued primarily in an effort to develop this technology and keep it out of the hands of other countries.
Working FTL theories were fully developed by 1972, and a working FTL spacecraft was built in Nevada in 1974, and the exploration of space began. The first star system reached was Alpha Centauri, which took three months of travel to reach. By 1977, six more star systems had been explored and the speed of the new starships being developed was gradually increasing. By this time, the Soviet Union had also built their own secret FTL project and explored some of these same star systems. They also kept this a secret from the United States.
However, in mid-1978 an explorer from the United States detected a Russian spacecraft as it entered our star system. As the U.S. ship watched, the Soviet craft was attacked by an unknown alien craft. Responding to the distress call, the armed U.S. ship . . .
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Article publication date: February 4, 2005
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