Conquest of the Sky

The **Conquest of the Sky** is a term used to refer to early Espan space exploration, as well as the techno-political situation introduced by the Brezonian ventures into space with the Taistella 1 and the Teonoir 1 in the late 24th and 25th Centuries CC.

The term was invented by Rinn Realtin when he spoke "Let's go conquer the sky" during the launch of the Teonoir 1.

## Taistella Program

The earliest steps into space were made by the New Brezonian Commonwealth during the 2360's using high altitude balloons, on 13 Hannijor 2368 CC they successfully launched the Taistella 1 into low orbit for 17 consecutive days, orbiting Espa a total of 518 times before burning up on the second of Friavor 2368 CC.

From 2369 to 2372 CC 14 Taistella class satellites were launched into orbit, the Taistella 9 reaching 953 km altitude and the Taistella 11 even orbiting for 59 days. The program was finished in 2374 CC with new funding being directed to manned space flight research.

## Eitlyn Program

Taistella was superseded by the Eitlyn program which started in 2374 CC, and on 6 Malinar 2377 succeeded in putting the first animal in orbit, the animal an adult Wolly named Ialtug remained in orbit for 4 hours before dying of oxygen depletion.

Additionally during the 2370’s 2 Brezonian probes were crash landed onto Archentes and another was catapulted out of the Espa system.

Subsequent flights readily improved and on 9 Asterbor 2379 the first animals returned to the surface alive from space flight aboard the Eitlyn 11, These 2 wollies Cara and Nier made history in doing so.

The Eitlyn program concluded with the launch of Teonoir 1 on 9 Ratikor 2381 CC delivering the first Krenn into space, Rinn Realtin the man aboard survived the trip and his iconic words "Let's go conquer the sky" named the new era as krenn became a space faring civilization.

## Race to Archentes

In 2395 CC the Brezonian Prime Minister announced Brezonian plans to put a Krenn on Archentes by 2415, during the late 80’s the Brezonians had experimented with manned flights and interplanetary probes, but were now joined by the Amanians who launched their first man into space in 2389 CC and the Ihanese in 2394 CC.

Amania wished to prove international prestige and chalenge Brezonian space dominance and announced to make it to Archentes by 2408. By 2395 however the Amanian space program was severely lacking behind that of the Brezonians, the Amanians had no experience with Piloted flights, they had not launched interplanetary probes and hadn't even probed Archentes.

While commonwealth attempted to reach Archentes by means of balloons with their Arilach Program, the Amanians were the first to look into rockets with the Seleya Program, rockets had previously never been powerful enough as a reliable way to escape Espan gravity, while the conclusion of the 2390’s was mostly focused on testing the 2400’s proved decisive. Amania had used the 2390’s to risk it all by investing in rockets, and by 2402 CC they successfully achieved the first lunar orbit with the Seleya 6 and put the first artificial satellite in orbit around Achentes the same year.

The Brezonians did not achieve Lunar orbit until 2405 CC, but were once again able to gain on the Amanians by making the first manned flight around the moon aboard the Arilach 4 in 2408 CC. in summer 2409 both nations were neck to neck and neither was really certain who would make it to Archentes first.

The Commonwealth launched the Arilach 16 on 13 Olomar 2410, followed by the Amanian launch of the Seleya 14 on 4 Miramar 2410 CC, both nations planned to land in early Asterbor but neither could be sure who would be the first to arrive on the moon, the Arilach crew reached orbit around Archentes on Asterbor the first and the Seleya followed the next day, both had to decent for multiple days before they could reach the surface, this was the critical part who would determine which lander could be deployed first, On the 4th of Asterbor the Seleya crew came through victorious as their lander was deployed in the early morning, and Kor Manta became the first krenn to set his footprint in the Archentian soil, as the Amanian flag was planted on Archentes the team collected rock samples and returned after 4 hours on the surface.

It took only 8 hours for the Brezonian party to decent, the Brezonians were heartbroken upon arriving second, the Brezonian flag was planted next to the Amanian one but there were no celebrations in the commonwealth as both parties returned home, the Brezonians had lost the race and their space superiority was now in jeopardy.

To make up for their slacking behind the Brezonians launched the Mantonian System Explorer into orbit around the gas giant Manta by the 2429 CC, as well as the Baronian System Explorer into orbit around Barnkattle by 2449 CC.

## End of an Era

During the 2450's plans were made between the Amanian's and Brezonians to establish a series of permanent bases on Archentes, however upon the outbreak of the Eugenics Wars all these projects came to an abrupt end and virtually no more space exploration was conducted till the 26th century CC.