Note: Combat saucers were an ill-fated attempt to create an agile and intimidating interplanetary policing vehicle to curb the growing piracy problems that arose after the building of Venus Station One. It was felt that a vehicle was needed which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: This part of the story is a bit dramatized. Records show that the Whitehall landed several kilometers away from the Harrison, and that they did their own survey work for several days before Serano and Hardack decided to try[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: The Harrison‘s Mission was to secure the site in the name of the Sol Council, and to report any surface findings, so that an appropriate research team could be sent later. Other than Agent Serano, the only people on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: All stellar bodies larger than Ceres had been photographed and mapped in detail by this time, but that didn’t mean that civilization had come to all corners of every globe. There was still a lot of territory on various[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: In the later years of the interplanetary rocket era of space travel, it would have been very rare for any ship to be ‘faster’ than any other for the simple fact that, for human comfort, ships would typically simply[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: If The GSS Whitehall was equipped with hibernation chambers, it would have been unique among Orbit Guard ships, as they were not intended for long voyages. However, crew manifests and mission reports that survive do seem to show that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: In the age of interplanetary rocket-travel, interactive fiction, especially stories in the ‘exploration genre’ become an increasingly important part of the media landscape. When you’re on a journey with weeks, or even months, of just sitting in a cabin[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The ominous, though nameless, figure here is correct of course: eventually the Orbit Guards do become the most important and numerous military force, outnumbering the SDF even in war-time. After The Exodi, land-based militaries were simply no longer required,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: The SDFS Harrison and the GSS Whitehall were both rocket-ships, as this was the era before SLDs, but were not actually so similar in design as the two ships illustrated here. The Whitehall was a Junk-Class ship, which were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: After training, Lila’s Agency career began with a posting at the relatively quiet Martian office, a posting that ended with her involvement in the QBT disaster (See Recycled Comics Issue #1), which claimed the lives of over a dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…