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Long Live the Confederation!
John "Bob" McDob asked me to type up the extended portion of the 'Guthrig' timeline. Had WCIV had a manual, it would have included some/all of this material as a way of explaining what happened in WC3 and Privateer. Obviously, a lot of it doesn't fit with the canon as established since then, but it's an interesting look at the WCU as it was treated in a 1995.
2669.221
Dr. Forbin, a prominent scientist aboard the solar shadow ring station La Belle Dame Sans Merci, reports gravitometric disturbances in the Tanhauser Nebula. This radiation is determined to be consistent with that emitted during jump point formation. In the midst of investigating what might have been the first ever observations of a jump point formation, the solar shadow ring station was viciously attack by a raiding party of Kilrathi light attack fighters that were apparently using the nebula as camouflage. Despite its total lack of military value, all aboard the defenseless station were slaughtered; many of them inexplicably tortured to death. This marks the eighteenth such occurrence that has been reported in the last two years. Forbin's discovery leater leads to peacetime TCN task force designed solely for the purpose of observing and analyzing jump points.
2669.233
The Tralfagar Outerworlds report a devastating outbreak of disease that eradicates in excess of four percent of the system's population. The disease vector is proven to be human blood, most commonly found in the world's contaminated blood supply. Trafalgar Disease Control halts the mortality rate at 23 deaths per day and identifies biochemical weaponry as the guilty carrier.
Simultaneously, the Kilrathi mount a constant series of similar bioweapon attacks in Locanda and Delius systems. The presence of the Victory spared all but one of the Locanda worlds, but several colonies in Delius were eliminated before Confed forces could respond to the attacks. The accountable death toll was last reported at 2,867.
Linguistics specialists at the University of Hawaii on Earth make marked progress in deciphering the intricacies of the Kilrathi language and begin publishing their research in leading journals. Civilian research to these discoveries becomes sharply restricted afer this news causes Kilrathi forces to adopt another encryption scheme.
2669.242
Confed forces liberate the enslaved population of Cabrea System. But the TCN Human Relations Agency clamps down on all vid-transmissions from the system, citing "the interests of Confed-security." Report emerge hat horrific conditions exist within the system. A psychological assistance team en route to counsel survivors and deliver supplies is obliterated in a surprise attack as they pass through normally peaceful asteroid belt. Transmissions from the cargo ship indicate that the Kilrathi have developed a new fighter that is nearly indistinguishable from a small asteroid chunk.
TCN headquarters orders a strategic withdrawl from outlying Confederation sectors as part of a larger opration to give up sectors of minor importance. It is hoped that the Kilrathi will spread themselves too thinly across the galaxy. Military strategists recieve great criticism from those who claim that the withdrawals are only an improvied response to the advance of the enemy. The criticism lessens, however, with the advent of the new Excalibur fighter and with successful pushes into Ariel System.
2669.247
Confed Intel tests its new secret weapon, the Behemoth super gun, on a Kilrathi colonial planet. Humanists argue against its use to no avail, and the test run disintegrates an entire planet in just under five seconds. Approximately 1,500 Kilrathi settlers are eradicated, raising critical judgements from the Terran Diplomatic Association. An internal security leak reveals design information to Kilrathi forces, who intercept and eliminate the prize offensive weapon.
Several weeks later, Victory squadrons support a Marine-led effort to liberate Dr. Harold (?) Severin from a Kilrathi prison planet. A key player in TCN detonation technology, he immediately begins research on another weapon, the Temblor bomb. (Details remain classified at this point in time.)
TCN military police fighters squelch a civilian attack on Rampart military station in Enyo System, where organized protesters attempted to damage communication facilities and 27 fighters parked for repairs. The leader of the protest, Alexander Romorin, was killed by one of his own followers during the handto-hand melee as he struggled with minimally armed personnel. Participants are questioned and sent to a minimum security holding moon. This event marks a swelling current of civilian unrest after forty years of the Terran-Kilrathi conflict.
2669.262
Confederation forces break through Kilrathi lines into Freya and Hyperion Sectors, where they meet heavy Kilrathi resistance. Facing an imminent homeworld invasion, the enemy boosts its forces here and eases up attacks on outlying colonial worlds. Construction begins on temporary bases, and Confed transmissions in and out of the area are encoded with the newly discovered UUENSX-17 encryption system. The conflict index reaches 10.2, the highest average posted in the war's history.
Galaxy Red Cross troops run medical supplies, food and fuel dangerously close to the front lines, losing approximately 1/3 of their transports to ambushes. The Civilian Pilot's Assosciation volunteers troop and supply transport runs as the war progresses closer and closer to the Kilrathi sector.
The Temblor test project enters the completion stage and the prototype model is succesfully detonated on a seismographic fault in Hyperion System. Dr. Severin is subseqently named an honorary captain in the Terran Navy and awarded a research bonus of 1.2 million credits.
2669.267
The President and the Scientific Warfare panel approve the use of the Temblor bomb in six instances, including that of attacking the aggressive Kilrathi home planet. Having expected this decision, the Victory pushes into the far region of HYperion sector. Col Christopher Blair, Maj. Todd Marshall, 2nd Lt. Mitchell Lopez and 2nd Lt. Robin Peters launch from the carrier at 0545 hours. With the aid of covert fuel depots, then penetrate Kilrah's atmosphere and launch the Temblor into the V'rakath fault. All but one pilot join K.I.A. ranks, with Col. Blair as the only returning member.
In a devestating tectonic blast, the bomb rips Kilrah along its three major faults, killing millions of inhabitants. Aboard the (insert carrier name here), Kal Shintahr Melek nar Kilra'hra formally surrenders to TCN officials. After decades of loss, 4.2 quadrillion credits' worth of war materials, and a total count of 12,432,187 deaths, the Terran-Kilrathi war is finally over...
2669.322
In the ensuing months, a P.O.W. exchange is implemented, and sectorial dimplomats begin negotiations with Kilrathi colonial settlers. Eight-six new bills are introduced in the 1,234th Confederation Congress, all of which pertain to the rights of Kilrathi survivors. Riots driven by racism among Terran colonies peaks, paralleling the integration of blacks in the early 20th century.
M'ragrakath nar Hhallas is appointed as the main Kilrahti spokesperson, and is assassinated during an international conference on Alliance Rights in Venus. Following his death, an overwhelming percentage fo Kilrathi survivors commit Zu'kara, a popular form of ritual suicide. In an effort to ease tensions, the Terran Diplomatic Assosciation sets up eighteen reservation worlds and fights to incorporate them into the Alliance.
The Terran Navy concentrates peace efforts on outer worlds, where renegate forces stage brutal attacks on the Kilrathi colonial worlds. Many of the rebels are from Sol System, where unemployment has skyrockted to 22.3 percent since three-quarters of the TCN enlistees were decommissioned.
Analysts predict that recovering from half a century of warfare will be long, consuming task that requires at least two decades of economic and social adjustment in every facet of life...
2669 (Righteous Fire: Simultaneous Action)
The Terran Confederation assigns eighteen reserve marine units to civilian trade bases in Gemini Sector, where reports filter in concerning contraband activity. Gemini has long been a problem area for patrolling forces due to the large number of Kilrathi inhabitants and the localized Free Trade Agreement. The move sparks unrest among the Merchant's Guild after over half the trading force relocates across enemy lines.MIlitary officials step up patrols along hte Kilrathi lines as attacks on civilian merchant ships reaches an alltime high.
A team of sociologists and archeologists en route to Gemini Sector are captured, and vid-transmissions of their torture beamed back to Sol. News leaks out to the general public, who becomes outraged and demands reprisal on Kilrathi P.O.W. The four men aboard were undertaking the dangerous trek to investigate rumors of a Steltek alien "rosetta" stone believed to contain valuable information about uncharted sectors.
2670 (Righteous Fire cont.)
Mordacai Jones, leader of the Church of Man temple, is exposed as having headed up an attack on a Terran super-weapon tested in a nearby sector. The church, which vehemently preaches antitechnology measures, denied responsibility for the attack, which was lead by several squadrons of Kilrathi ships. All 25 technical assistance crew members that were working on the weapon's components wer ekilled when three squadrons of Kilrathi fighters ambushed the light fleet.
Six months later, Jones is reported as missing by his Retro church followers, and his temple is bombarded. Following his death, TCN officials inspected the remnants of Base Gaea and find detailed accounts of over 35 attacks on orbital guns and scientific reseach outposts.
2669.221
Dr. Forbin, a prominent scientist aboard the solar shadow ring station La Belle Dame Sans Merci, reports gravitometric disturbances in the Tanhauser Nebula. This radiation is determined to be consistent with that emitted during jump point formation. In the midst of investigating what might have been the first ever observations of a jump point formation, the solar shadow ring station was viciously attack by a raiding party of Kilrathi light attack fighters that were apparently using the nebula as camouflage. Despite its total lack of military value, all aboard the defenseless station were slaughtered; many of them inexplicably tortured to death. This marks the eighteenth such occurrence that has been reported in the last two years. Forbin's discovery leater leads to peacetime TCN task force designed solely for the purpose of observing and analyzing jump points.
2669.233
The Tralfagar Outerworlds report a devastating outbreak of disease that eradicates in excess of four percent of the system's population. The disease vector is proven to be human blood, most commonly found in the world's contaminated blood supply. Trafalgar Disease Control halts the mortality rate at 23 deaths per day and identifies biochemical weaponry as the guilty carrier.
Simultaneously, the Kilrathi mount a constant series of similar bioweapon attacks in Locanda and Delius systems. The presence of the Victory spared all but one of the Locanda worlds, but several colonies in Delius were eliminated before Confed forces could respond to the attacks. The accountable death toll was last reported at 2,867.
Linguistics specialists at the University of Hawaii on Earth make marked progress in deciphering the intricacies of the Kilrathi language and begin publishing their research in leading journals. Civilian research to these discoveries becomes sharply restricted afer this news causes Kilrathi forces to adopt another encryption scheme.
2669.242
Confed forces liberate the enslaved population of Cabrea System. But the TCN Human Relations Agency clamps down on all vid-transmissions from the system, citing "the interests of Confed-security." Report emerge hat horrific conditions exist within the system. A psychological assistance team en route to counsel survivors and deliver supplies is obliterated in a surprise attack as they pass through normally peaceful asteroid belt. Transmissions from the cargo ship indicate that the Kilrathi have developed a new fighter that is nearly indistinguishable from a small asteroid chunk.
TCN headquarters orders a strategic withdrawl from outlying Confederation sectors as part of a larger opration to give up sectors of minor importance. It is hoped that the Kilrathi will spread themselves too thinly across the galaxy. Military strategists recieve great criticism from those who claim that the withdrawals are only an improvied response to the advance of the enemy. The criticism lessens, however, with the advent of the new Excalibur fighter and with successful pushes into Ariel System.
2669.247
Confed Intel tests its new secret weapon, the Behemoth super gun, on a Kilrathi colonial planet. Humanists argue against its use to no avail, and the test run disintegrates an entire planet in just under five seconds. Approximately 1,500 Kilrathi settlers are eradicated, raising critical judgements from the Terran Diplomatic Association. An internal security leak reveals design information to Kilrathi forces, who intercept and eliminate the prize offensive weapon.
Several weeks later, Victory squadrons support a Marine-led effort to liberate Dr. Harold (?) Severin from a Kilrathi prison planet. A key player in TCN detonation technology, he immediately begins research on another weapon, the Temblor bomb. (Details remain classified at this point in time.)
TCN military police fighters squelch a civilian attack on Rampart military station in Enyo System, where organized protesters attempted to damage communication facilities and 27 fighters parked for repairs. The leader of the protest, Alexander Romorin, was killed by one of his own followers during the handto-hand melee as he struggled with minimally armed personnel. Participants are questioned and sent to a minimum security holding moon. This event marks a swelling current of civilian unrest after forty years of the Terran-Kilrathi conflict.
2669.262
Confederation forces break through Kilrathi lines into Freya and Hyperion Sectors, where they meet heavy Kilrathi resistance. Facing an imminent homeworld invasion, the enemy boosts its forces here and eases up attacks on outlying colonial worlds. Construction begins on temporary bases, and Confed transmissions in and out of the area are encoded with the newly discovered UUENSX-17 encryption system. The conflict index reaches 10.2, the highest average posted in the war's history.
Galaxy Red Cross troops run medical supplies, food and fuel dangerously close to the front lines, losing approximately 1/3 of their transports to ambushes. The Civilian Pilot's Assosciation volunteers troop and supply transport runs as the war progresses closer and closer to the Kilrathi sector.
The Temblor test project enters the completion stage and the prototype model is succesfully detonated on a seismographic fault in Hyperion System. Dr. Severin is subseqently named an honorary captain in the Terran Navy and awarded a research bonus of 1.2 million credits.
2669.267
The President and the Scientific Warfare panel approve the use of the Temblor bomb in six instances, including that of attacking the aggressive Kilrathi home planet. Having expected this decision, the Victory pushes into the far region of HYperion sector. Col Christopher Blair, Maj. Todd Marshall, 2nd Lt. Mitchell Lopez and 2nd Lt. Robin Peters launch from the carrier at 0545 hours. With the aid of covert fuel depots, then penetrate Kilrah's atmosphere and launch the Temblor into the V'rakath fault. All but one pilot join K.I.A. ranks, with Col. Blair as the only returning member.
In a devestating tectonic blast, the bomb rips Kilrah along its three major faults, killing millions of inhabitants. Aboard the (insert carrier name here), Kal Shintahr Melek nar Kilra'hra formally surrenders to TCN officials. After decades of loss, 4.2 quadrillion credits' worth of war materials, and a total count of 12,432,187 deaths, the Terran-Kilrathi war is finally over...
2669.322
In the ensuing months, a P.O.W. exchange is implemented, and sectorial dimplomats begin negotiations with Kilrathi colonial settlers. Eight-six new bills are introduced in the 1,234th Confederation Congress, all of which pertain to the rights of Kilrathi survivors. Riots driven by racism among Terran colonies peaks, paralleling the integration of blacks in the early 20th century.
M'ragrakath nar Hhallas is appointed as the main Kilrahti spokesperson, and is assassinated during an international conference on Alliance Rights in Venus. Following his death, an overwhelming percentage fo Kilrathi survivors commit Zu'kara, a popular form of ritual suicide. In an effort to ease tensions, the Terran Diplomatic Assosciation sets up eighteen reservation worlds and fights to incorporate them into the Alliance.
The Terran Navy concentrates peace efforts on outer worlds, where renegate forces stage brutal attacks on the Kilrathi colonial worlds. Many of the rebels are from Sol System, where unemployment has skyrockted to 22.3 percent since three-quarters of the TCN enlistees were decommissioned.
Analysts predict that recovering from half a century of warfare will be long, consuming task that requires at least two decades of economic and social adjustment in every facet of life...
2669 (Righteous Fire: Simultaneous Action)
The Terran Confederation assigns eighteen reserve marine units to civilian trade bases in Gemini Sector, where reports filter in concerning contraband activity. Gemini has long been a problem area for patrolling forces due to the large number of Kilrathi inhabitants and the localized Free Trade Agreement. The move sparks unrest among the Merchant's Guild after over half the trading force relocates across enemy lines.MIlitary officials step up patrols along hte Kilrathi lines as attacks on civilian merchant ships reaches an alltime high.
A team of sociologists and archeologists en route to Gemini Sector are captured, and vid-transmissions of their torture beamed back to Sol. News leaks out to the general public, who becomes outraged and demands reprisal on Kilrathi P.O.W. The four men aboard were undertaking the dangerous trek to investigate rumors of a Steltek alien "rosetta" stone believed to contain valuable information about uncharted sectors.
2670 (Righteous Fire cont.)
Mordacai Jones, leader of the Church of Man temple, is exposed as having headed up an attack on a Terran super-weapon tested in a nearby sector. The church, which vehemently preaches antitechnology measures, denied responsibility for the attack, which was lead by several squadrons of Kilrathi ships. All 25 technical assistance crew members that were working on the weapon's components wer ekilled when three squadrons of Kilrathi fighters ambushed the light fleet.
Six months later, Jones is reported as missing by his Retro church followers, and his temple is bombarded. Following his death, TCN officials inspected the remnants of Base Gaea and find detailed accounts of over 35 attacks on orbital guns and scientific reseach outposts.
