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26-561: The central premise is that in 2001, humanity receives greetings from a highly advanced, peaceable Galactic Federation. However, all is not well, for a species of aggressive aliens known as the Posleen are attacking the Galactics. Since the Galactics are almost entirely unable to fight, they are appealing to the proven military abilities of humanity for aid. However, things are rarely as simple as they seem, and humanity soon discovers that

52-616: A common theme in modern science-fiction , and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata . The 2nd century writer of satires, Lucian, in his True History claims to have visited the Moon when his ship was sent up by a fountain, which was peopled and at war with the people of the Sun over colonisation of the Morning Star. The way people have thought about extraterrestrials

78-602: A ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests, or remain as we were: virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch. We chose to fight. After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats human have dealt him, and has his own battle plan. When he squares off against Major Michael O'Neal,

104-477: A scientific explanation for the origin of mankind or its relation with other lifeforms, any hypothetical rational lifeforms had by necessity to be humans. Even in mythology, all deities are mostly humanlike. For example, Voltaire 's Micromégas features people from Saturn , who are simply of higher proportions. This was changed by the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin , which proposed

130-527: Is that Ringo is working on other projects and has no current plans to finish these two books. Two electronic books have been created by a fan and are considered canon by Baen Barflies, but the canonical status of such works is uncertain. The titles are "The Yeomen of England" and "Holy War" set in England and Saudi Arabia respectively written by Christopher Nuttall, currently available for free download at his website. The series premises total mobilization of

156-459: Is tied to the development of actual sciences. One of the first steps in the history of astronomy was to realize that the objects seen in the night sky were not gods or lights, but physical objects like Earth. This notion was followed by the one that celestial objects should be inhabited as well. However, when people thought about such extraterrestrials, they thought of them simply as people, indistinguishable from humans. As people had never considered

182-625: The Social Democratic Party of Germany ) organize riots and protests; the re-integration of the SS officers and the choice of the Parliament and Chancellor to give to those officers control of the training of the young men of Germany. Extraterrestrial life in popular culture An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. The word extraterrestrial means "outside Earth". Extraterrestrials are

208-546: The Social Democrats and Free Democrats . In the 1990 federal election held on 2 December 1990, the first election following the reunification of Germany , 6.1% of voters in the Eastern electoral area (1.2% across Germany) cast their Zweitstimme (the vote for a party, as opposed to for a person) for the group "Alliance 90/Greens – Citizens' Movement" ( Bündnis 90/Grüne – BürgerInnenbewegung ), which entered into

234-454: The theory of evolution . This book caused a revolution in fiction as much as it did in science, as authors began to imagine extraterrestrial races completely different from human beings. With the rationale that evolution in other worlds may take completely different directions than on Earth, aliens began to be described as creepy monsters. Usually, authors used features from other animals, such as insects, crabs, and octopuses. Some such aliens are

260-519: The Galactics are no friends at all. There are plots within plots, some going back to the dawn of humanity and beyond: plots that endanger the very survival of humanity. The first four novels cover the Posleen War in which the Posleen invade Earth . Another novel, Cally's War (and its two sequels), takes up the story a few decades later; The Hero is set nearly a thousand years later. Watch on

286-598: The German Bundestag with eight East German electees: Klaus-Dieter Feige, Ingrid Köppe, Gerd Poppe, Christina Schenk, Werner Schulz, Wolfgang Ullmann, Konrad Weiß and Vera Wollenberger. Werner Schultz took over the function of Speaker of the Bundestag group, which he held for the entirety of the legislative period. Its West German partners, the Greens, fell short of election to the parliament. On 21 September 1991,

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312-668: The Rhine takes place immediately after Gust Front and extends until March 2008, with the very last chapter taking place at some unspecified point far after the end of Hell's Faire but prior to the beginning of The Hero . A role-playing game based on the d20 system and the Legacy of the Aldenata was included on the free CD-ROM included in the first hardcover edition of Hell's Faire . The fourth novel Hell's Faire includes some Sluggy Freelance guest strips by Pete Abrams since

338-663: The West German Green Party in 1993 to form Alliance 90/The Greens . On 7 February 1990, the New Forum , Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights agreed upon the creation of the strategic partnership Alliance 90 ("Bündnis 90") for the 1990 East German general election . On 18 March 1990, in the next and final free election of the former East Germany , the Alliance 90 received 2.9% of

364-460: The aliens made by the Hills, with oversized heads, big eyes, pale grey skin, and small noses captivated the public imagination and was later used by TV shows and films. This started the grey alien archetype. According to Wade Roush, a science and technology writer, "The standard depiction of aliens at that point became the little grey man. So, when Steven Spielberg came along and made probably what are

390-488: The differently-composed electoral alliances made their entry into every Landtag except Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , where the New Forum did not participate in the alliance. In Brandenburg , the three civic groups of the Alliance 90 took office alone. In other states, the Greens also successfully took part in the electoral alliances. In Brandenburg from 1990 until 1994, Alliance 90 participated in a traffic light coalition with

416-558: The human population of Earth. The human forces in the service of the Galactic Federation are divided into the Fleet (the space navy), and Fleet Strike (the ground forces component, combining marines, special forces, and previously airborne units). In the books written thus far, Fleet Strike has had the lion's share of attention. The technology made available includes rejuvenation and life extension . The desperate straits of

442-487: The military. The song, its lyrics, and artist's bio is included in the Baen Free Library. With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price. Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be ... fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against

468-629: The new standard. This is especially noticeable in the Star Trek franchise; this would later be explained in-universe as a result of an ancient spacefaring humanoid civilization “seeding” its DNA across countless planets including Earth. This changed again since the 1990s with the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI), and later on as CGI became more effective and less expensive, as it allows to generate bizarre lifeforms without being constrained to actors with costumes or mechanical effects. Alliance 90 Alliance 90 ( German : Bündnis 90 )

494-641: The octopean Martians from The War of the Worlds (1898), the Selenites from First men in the Moon (1901), the birdlike Tweel from A Martian Odyssey (1934) and even a sentient star in Star Maker (1937). The Barney and Betty Hill incident took place in 1961 when the couple claimed that they were abducted by aliens and subjected to invasive experiments. It was the first recorded claim of an alien abduction , soon followed by others. The description of

520-735: The only winner will be Satan himself... With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry. According to John Ringo's website, two more books in the series are planned, titled Beneath the Avalanche (2015) and Master of the Winds (2020). The latest information regarding last two books in series as at September 2017

546-724: The party Alliance 90 was founded, which brought together parts of the New Forum, Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. On 14 May 1993 came the agreement to create the union of Alliance 90/The Greens with the Greens which had been a cross-German party since the end of 1990. One part of the Brandenburg state alliance advocated against a unification with the Greens, including future Minister-President of Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck , Günter Nooke, Ute Platzeck, Peter Schüler, Manfred Kruczek and Gerd Gebhardt. However, they were unsuccessful in their case and founded

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572-528: The popular internet comic strip is featured somewhat prominently in a way. (A massive armored military vehicle is named after Bun-Bun the mini-lop from the strip.) Some of the strips are samples of the actual comic strip and others are an exclusive alternate timeline setting where the Sluggy characters have to deal with the Posleen invasion. As the Posleen have yellow blood, the war song " March of Cambreadth " ("Let their yellow blood run cold") becomes popular with

598-724: The setting lead to the revival of the Waffen-SS in The Watch on the Rhine . With the rejuvenations in full swing in Germany, many ex-SS officers have become young again. In the novel, the majority of the ex-SS were just soldiers; only a few are hardcore Nazis . This causes a lot of dissent in the German Parliament and citizenry. The "Greens" and the "Reds" (nicknames for the German political parties Alliance 90/The Greens and

624-554: The two most influential movies about aliens – Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and ET the Extra-Terrestrial – the aliens and those movies were both basically variations on the 1950s and 1960s little green or little grey man image". The advent of TV and films, with extraterrestrials played by actors, toned down the fantasy. For budget reasons, humanlike aliens with just some specific non-human body features became

650-675: The vote, thus securing 12 seats. By far the best result for Alliance 90 was in constituency of Berlin with 6.3%. In the remaining constituencies results ranged from 1.6% in Neubrandenburg to 3.8% in Potsdam . Together with the eight elected mandates from the " Green Party in the GDR ", they created the “Alliance ’90/Greens Party” Faction ( Fraktion Bündnis 90/Grüne ). In the East German Landtag elections on 14 October 1990

676-598: Was a political alliance of three non-communist political groups in East Germany . It was formed in February 1990 by the New Forum , Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights . It received 2.9% of the vote in the 1990 Volkskammer elections. For the first all-German federal election it formed a joint list with the East German Green Party . It was this coalition that merged with

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