![]() In 2039, an invasion fleet arrives in the Earth's solar system. ![]() If the fleet did not detect a hyperdrive emanation, they located any habitable planets and invaded them, using their vastly superior technology to overwhelm the primitive inhabitants. The star system consisted of a yellow dwarf star and usually at least one habitable planet. The empire was expanding in its usual manner by sending an invasion fleet of 100-150 warships into a likely star system. They were also one of the most technologically advanced societies in space having discovered gunpowder, casting iron, smelting steel, manufacturing matchlock muskets and spyglasses to steer their starships. The Roxolan Empire had long had the hyperdrive and anti-gravity devices and took pride in having invented them themselves. The story is told by four POV characters: Captain Togram commanding a company of foot on board the Roxolan star warship Indomitable Spec-1 Billy Cox, a draftee in the US Army Buck Herzog, an interplanetary geologist and Hilda Chester, a linguist. This story is a prequel to " Herbig-Haro", expanding on the initial human contact with aliens that was mentioned in that story. Carr, Tor 1985 Kaleidoscope, Del Rey 1990 Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, edited by Orson Scott Card, Ace 2001 3xT, Baen 2004, and Alien Contact, edited by Marty Halpern, Night Shade Books 2011. It has been reprinted in There Will Be War V: Warrior, edited by Jerry Pournelle & John F. It was first published in Analog, November, 1985. "The Road Not Taken" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published under the name Eric G. Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
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