Lore of Yore
Histories of the known universe... and beyond
With the advent of the Cosmic Age, it was inevitable that the Empire of Great Britain would expand not only across the seas but along the breadth of galaxies.
Some of England's finest minds turned towards the notion of space flight; with the Renaissance came the first pioneers to breach the blue skies of Britain and travel outward into the vast indigo beyond. Elsewhere, manned flights were tested by the Chinese, and in Florence a young artist came forth with an idea for a "Cosmic Screw" which could carry cosmonauts far beyond the Sun. In time, this so-called Universal Genius would write his Codex on the Flight of Starcraft years before the Pioneers took to the stars. Others, such as Nicolaus Copernicus, were somewhat late to the party. As England's kingdom and star territories became united under the Great British Space Empire, other nation-states raced to the stars to continue epoch-long feuds and wars. The First French Cosmic Republic built commands and bastilles throughout the Fifteen Galaxies, but could not compete with Britain's imperial expansion. England seeded the stars with boundary buoys to demark its territory—and to ensure the tea routes ran smoothly, even in the black depths of space. These were the high days of Empire, when Britain's morning drumbeat resounded throughout the Realm and Star Territories, circling the very centre of the universe with the unbroken strain of England's martial power. The Empire took what planets it willed, and brought the manifold peoples of the cosmos into the British way. Until Vorgak 3.
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