Binary star system linked to another system by a stable
wormhole. It is 14.1
light-years from Sol. Its
scientific name is Wolf 424. Like many colonists living in systems with one
habitable world the inhabitants call both their system and the planet they live on Wolf. They call themselves
Wolves. Wolf is a
first wave colony.
Wolf was colonised sometime between 114 and 146 AI (2330 and 2360 AD) and discovered
its wormhole sometime between 128 and 150
AI (2342 and 2366 AD).
After Wolf developed wormhole technology and built
starships, they coerced or conquered 2 dozen nearby worlds and absorbed
them into the Wolf Dictatorship. In 168
AI (2382 AD) they began subjugation of the
Centaur System. In 172 AI (2386 AD) The
Centaur Rebellion began. Because of their previous easy
victories and their early success against the Centaurs the Wolf government
had become over confident. The worlds they were attacking did not have
wormdrive technology, so they only had a small force defending the
Wolf Wormhole. Centaur
scientists secretly duplicated the wormdrive and built a fleet of ships
that would take the war to enemy, turning the conflict into the
First Interstellar War. The
Centaur Attack Fleet evaded the
Centaur System blockade and used the
Wolf Wormhole to sneak into the Wolf system and take up position
in orbit above the Wolf homeworld. Over the next two hours they dropped 48
fusion bombs on the planet, winning the war and driving the
Wolves to the brink of extinction. Wolf was the homeworld of the
Wolf Dictatorship but is now part of the
Centaur Federation.
[Source: A Short History of Mankind]
Wolf Dictatorship (WD) ([circa 146] to 175 AI = [circa 2360] to 2389 AD)
Former Military dictatorship (also known as Wolf Tyranny). After
Wolf developed
wormhole technology and built
starships, they coerced or conquered two dozen nearby worlds and absorbed
them into the Wolf Dictatorship. In 168 AI (2382 AD) they began subjugation of the
Centaur System. However the Centaurs proved less easy to defeat than previous
targets and by 172 AI (2386 AD) the Centaur Rebellion had
begun. The rebellion turned into the
First Interstellar War when
Centaur scientists secretly duplicated
wormdrive technology and built the
Centaur Attack Fleet. The fleet evaded the
Wolf ships and used the
Wolf Wormhole to sneak into the
Wolf system and take up position in orbit above the
Wolf homeworld. Over the next two hours they dropped 48
fusion bombs on the planet, winning the war and driving the
Wolves to the brink of extinction. The
Dictatorship was one of the
power blocs but all of its former planets, including
Wolf itself, have now been absorbed into the
Centaur Federation.
[Source: A Short History of Mankind]
One of the three developments of
wormhole technology. A wormdrive creates an artificial
wormhole, which connects a nearby point in space with a distant point in
space. This allows a starship to travel instantaneously to the distant
point. Opening and controlling the wormhole requires a large amount of
energy. This limits the distance a wormdrive can move a ship in one jump and also results in a delay between jumps. Local
gravity fields increase the energy required exponentially, effectively preventing a wormdrive from being used close to a
star, planet or other large mass. The mass of the starship relative to the
wormdrive is also an issue and a small ship, which is mostly wormdrive, can outperform a large ship with less wormdrive
per cubic tonne. Wormdrives are also known as star-drives or
jump-drives.
[Source: A Layman's Guide to Wormhole Technology]
Theoretical device that uses gravity manipulation
principles to artificially amplify the gravity field generated by a
starship. In theory this could prevent another nearby
starship from using a
wormdrives to escape during combat. In practice, however, the mass needed
to prevent a wormdrive working is about the same as a small moon. This is much larger than the sort of mass today's
gravity manipulation technology can generate.
Natural connection between two distant points in space that allows instant travel between the two points. From 128 to 150
AI (2342 to 2366 AD) wormholes were discovered in six
star system. The wormholes, and the systems where they were
discovered, are:
Technological advances that were made as a direct result of the scientific research on stable
wormholes. There are 3 types of wormhole technology. The first,
wormdrives, has allowed interstellar commerce to be established. The
other two types are more closely related to each other and have made many changes to the way we live.
Gravity manipulation is applied in both
contra-grav thrusters &
inertial dampers. These two devices have enabled spaceships
to travel faster & and all sorts of vehicles to safely accelerate and decelerate with high G forces.
Forcefields can be set up to block or divert any type of particle or
wave. While they have been embraced as a defensive technology they also have non-military applications.
[Source: A Layman's Guide to Wormhole Technology]
