Dr. Anthony Horvat, Minister of Science for Trans-Coalsack Sector.
Dr. Jacob Buckman, Astrophysicist.
Father David Hardy, Chaplain-Captain, Imperial Space Navy Reserve.
Admiral Lavrenty Kutuzov, Vice Admiral Commanding His Majesty’s Expedition Beyond Murcheson’s Eye.
Senator Benjamin Bright Fowler, Majority Leader and Member of Privy Council.
Dr. Sigmund Horowitz, Proffessor of Xenobiology, University pf New Scotland.
Herbert Colvin, onetime Captain of Space Forces of the Republic of Union, and onetime master of Union cruiser Defiant.
Chronology
1969—Neil Armstrong sets foot on Earth’s moon.
1990—Series of treaties between United States and Soviet Union creates the CoDominium.
2008—First successful interstellar drive tested. Alderson Drive perfected.
2020—First interstellar colonies. Beginning of Great Exodus.
2040—CoDominium Bureau of Relocation begins mass out-system shipment of convicts. Colonization of Sparta and St. Ekaterina.
2079—Sergei Lermontov becomes Grand Admiral of CoDominium Space Navy.
2103—Great Patriotic Wars. End of the CoDominium. Exodus of the Fleet.
2110—Coronation of Lysander I of Sparta. Fleet swears loyalty to the Spartan throne. Marriage of dynasties produces union between Sparta and St. Ekaterina.
2111—Formation Wars begin.
2250—Leonidas I proclaims Empire of Man.
2250–2600—Empire of Man enforces interstellar peace.
2450—Jasper Murcheson explores region beyond the Coal Sack. Terraforming of New Scotland.
2603—Secession Wars begin. Growth of Sauron supermen. St. Ekaterina nearly destroyed.