Future Wars Rules: New Setting of the Solar Union

I've recently been working on another setting for playing my Future Wars modifications to the WWII Rules from Introduction. This one introduces a mish-mash of my experience with counter factual history, Space 1999, Star Force Alpha Centauri and some other appealing themes and ideas in general sci-fi which I've melded together into something I'm comfortable with.

Here is a synopsis of the overall idea. I'm working on the army lists and supplementary rules just now with a view to get these posted into the files section in the Group pages in the near future.

Human history follows a different course following the failed American Revolution and the dominance of the British American Empire culminating in the defeat of the German Empire and the establishment of complete world supremacy in the early 20^th century.

Parallel to this were two revolutionary technological developments. The first was the discovery of White Energy which provided a limitless and highly effective power source to catapult human technology. In turn this led to the discovery of the warp field allowing faster than light travel.

In the area of human civilisation there was a fundamental re-focus of intellectual thought. The New Thinking following the Great War preached tolerance and socio-economic relationships where it was in the individual’s best interests to act for the greater societal good. This had a fundamental impact on the ethos and outlook of the emergent Solar Union government which setup the Colonial Union Defence Force as agents of human expansion and colonisation in the remaining century.

The date is now 1999 and the CUDF administers c50 active colonies. So far the alien worlds they have explored have tended to have mainly non-sentient life-forms, however, the few technological races encountered with star faring ability have been almost universally hostile. Curiously they have similar technological developments in respect of energy and warp fields so planetary conflict is between similar technology levels.

The Alien Conspiracy is a current theory being used by the CUDF to explain and react to the perceived threat to human expansion. This is no longer a paranoid reaction, but a proven viewpoint from recent discoveries. It now transpires that the alien powers ranged against the Solar Union are party to a still unexplained but certainly co-ordinated opposition to human expansion.

The alien forces ranged against the CUDF are formidable opponents and present a real danger to ongoing human expansion and potentially human existence in this region of space. The major opposition are the Andrayadan Collective and Kyrllian Combine. The Grail are a lesser but still potent enemies.

The Geonee Technocracy: this humanoid race is the only advanced species encountered so far that has provided a passive response to the Solarians. The Technocracy has enslaved a number of “low” races in it’s development so far and Geonee rule is generally at odds with Union political philosophy. The resulting alliance that has been established is one of convenience. The Geonee hope they back the eventual winner in the conflict and will be able to benefit from the enslavement of the Andrayadan and Kyrllian races.