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Benignant Weapon 20
Note: While the mission did not succeed in destroying the base permanently, it did make the site impossible to access for long enough that the NWO never used it again, and even mostly abandoned Sydney. Of course, as the quantum[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 19
Note: Time Travel was thought impossible at the time, and it nearly forever remained that way. It wasn’t until this very base was excavated nearly 500 years later that the physical evidence was discovered that some limited time travel experiments[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 18
Note: While Dr. Juno had hoped her daughter would follow her into Temporal Physics, Clair Jr. was more interested in music, and became an armonica player of little consequence, while Oscar took on the mantle of Temporalism, and became the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 17
Note: Oscar Deke was born in Hungary to parents who were both already renowned Theoretical Physicists. His mother, Clair Juno studied under famous Temporalist Albert Ferenczi in Copenhagen – and co-authored several papers on theoretical time-travel applications with him –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 16
Note: Despite the seeming cavalierness on display here, the deaths of Jana Krizova and Gertrude Branagh is one of the saddest moments of Severin Hawke’s career, as he describes in a later memoir, with his characteristic frankness: “Across my military[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 15
Note: Gertrude Branagh joined the UN Peacekeepers as a medic, and it was in that capacity that she joined the 7th Cavalry battalion. Branagh treated Krizova when he injured his leg in a live-fire exercise, and they became close friends[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 14
Note: The Sydney Spaceport was one of the most advanced and heavily trafficked ports on Earth, rivaled only by the Detroit Spaceport on the other side of the world. It was ostensibly the primary reason for the NWO’s desire to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 13
Note: Holoscramblers are an often pointed to example of what later historians called the ‘military/leisure innovation flip’. This term was used to describe a period in history when leisure technology began to inform military technology, rather than the reverse. For[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Benignant Weapon 12
Note: General Dick Terrin led the forces that assaulted Sydney during the involuntary absorption of Australia, and later was promoted to Field General, and given command of all the military forces deployed on the Australian continent for the NWO. He[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…