
The First Scinfaxi War altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, with the Soviet Union, Greater German Reich, United Kingdom, United States, and the Empire of Japan emerging as the last major nations on Earth. Advancing in the wake of the Scinfaxi retreat, the surviving human nations were able to recapture most of their territories with an improvised and informal armistice line established across the globe. At the same time, the Scinfaxi Virus had reached the limit of its growth, as the climates of North America and Central Europe grew unsuitable. The detonation of American atomic bombs in Tennessee however, followed by German and Soviet atomic bombs in Europe, succeeded in halting the Scinfaxi advance. Without any conventional means to defeat the Scinfaxi, “doomsday” settlements in Antarctica were developed in the event of complete defeat. At the height of their advance, the Scinfaxi had reached as far north as Edmonton in North America, and Berlin in Europe. The Southern Hemisphere was lost nearly immediately, having been previously been devastated during the Virus Crisis. The initial landings of the Scinfaxi were centered around the specific areas in which Earth’s climate best suited their terraforming virus, most notably in Australia, Africa, and South America. A war of extermination on the part of the Scinfaxi, every nation entered a state of “total war” in which the entire economic, industrial and scientific capabilities of each country were dedicated to the war effort. It was the most widespread and devastating war in history, with over 650,000,000 casualties, nearly a third of the total human population at that time. It involved the entirety of the world’s nations that had survived the Virus Crisis forming a common front against the extraterrestrial Scinfaxi. Getting from Union to Sanctuary in the Far Frontier could take months or even years.Įventually stronger lanes will be discovered in these developing areas and development will speed up exponentially.The First Scinfaxi War, also known as the Great Scinfaxi War, was a global war that lasted from 1943 to 1947 with sporadic fighting until 1951. But the further away you are, the slower the strings and the longer it’s gonna take, irrespective of the actual distances involved. You could probably get from Leningrad to Liberty within a couple weeks depending on the route you take. Travel within the Solar Sector and the Superpowers is pretty fast. It can take a great deal of effort to discover and chart these pathways so the fastest routes are generally in regions where the local governments or corporations have funded large scale surveying. Map of the Orion Arm in 2289 (2017 Edition) DawnofVictory2289.

Not all strings are equal and the stronger the string, the faster you can go.

"It depends, FTL travel relies on “cosmic strings”, naturally formed pathways of subatomic particles and such that spacecraft can manipulate to bend space around them.

Considering what you said on your Facebook page about FTL travel in the DoVverse:
