Earth invades again! But now the planets have formed a new alliance in the form of the Unified Republic of Stars. But will this new government and the Republican Fleet be enough?

This week, three major topics being discussed on the podcast! First, the question of defense. Then, the question of self governance within the colonies. And last, the creation of the most mighty battleship ever built. But will any of it be enough?

Just a short episode in which we discuss a force that has been driving the brewing conflict between Earth and her colonies up until this point and, which, has hardly been mentioned. So we will. And this time, we're talking about economics.

This week, Earth invades the colonies, attempting to take two of the major planets. They don't succeed, this time, but unless the colonies get their act together, they see that it's possible Earth might the next time.

We've been mentioning shippers since the beginning. But, with this supplemental, we'll be explaining some of the terms they use. Also, we'll explain how people navigate in deep space. These things will be important for future episodes when we get deep int

The Authority has already placed troops on Galileo. And, now that the colonies have declared their independence, everyone assumes it's only a matter of time until they try again. So how would they coordinate a response? In this supplemental, we discuss no

Revolution! When the colonies and Earth go from passive aggressive to actually aggressive. This week, we go into the events in which led up to the actual revolution of the former colonies against Earth.

It's not easy to boil down an entire history to a point in time and say, "That. Right there. That's my favorite point in history." And yet... the colonization era really appeals to me for several reasons. Partly because it's the only stateless period with

This week, I discuss the events leading just up to the first real rebellion by Earth's colonies in the Colonial Star Cluster and the human home world. Reasonable people can disagree as to whether these were reasonable causes to engage in rebellion but, at

This week, I base the episode on Chapter 4 of A Short History of the Unified Republic of Stars titled "The Growth Explosion". We go into how the population, between 2106 and 2172 grew from almost nothing to 500 million people many of whom had no allegianc