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Following their hard-earned victory and an extensive rebuilding effort, the Joule 1st Infantry Regiment returns to their hometown to guard it until they are needed again.
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Over the years, the tale of the revolution was told and retold. The story of the heroic rebels who overthrew the witch queen and drove the barbarians out of Say gradually accumulated embellishments and exaggerations, though remaining fairly accurate on a basic level. The Federalist Papers are taught alongside the Founding Documents in every Terran school, its authors held up as heroic martyrs who gave their lives to ignite the revolution. Their combined image in the public consciousness gave rise to a new guardian of the Terran people: Publius, the god of Liberty.
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To preserve law and order while the new government is established, John Locke raises the 2nd Columbian Infantry Regiment in Columbia.
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Publius stirs up the people's patriotic spirit in Say, forming the 1st Say Marines to defend freedom.
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Outstanding GDP growth post-revolution generates enough surplus revenue in Hayek to fund the 2nd Hayek Tank Division.
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Behold, Isaac Newton did look upon the mysterious cold in the north, which did defy all science and reason. So it was that he sayeth "Sod that!", and did promptly restore B1-B2 to its former temperate climate.
Meanwhile, hearing news of their eastern neighbors building a ship that could leave the atmosphere, the Terran president called a news conference in Joule to announce that, with Congress' authorization, he had launched a new space program and was going to offer a reward of one million Sterling to the first team to launch a citizen into space and return him alive. Additionally, the first team to successfully land on the moon, record their landing, and return with a sample to verify their presence would earn a reward of 10 million Sterling plus a contract to supply the new Terran Federal Space Agency with rockets.
" We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nationšs own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of terrans' recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced terrans had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, we emerged from our caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago we learned to write and use a cart with wheels. The Founding Documents were written less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of terran history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if Terra's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Ares, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Joule, this country of the Terran Federation was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.
King Arth, speaking in 1630 of the founding of Ter, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that we, in our quest for knowledge and progress, are determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all people, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on us, and only if the Terran Federation occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that the races have made in extending their writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all terrans, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly around the world? Why does Hayek play Say?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. "
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