I also wanted to take this opportunity to brief everyone on an aspect of the future story that's going to be a little bit important as we go along. As you've noticed we've been talking a lot about space satellites among other things. Some of you may have already seen the preview if you were around for when I did the Benedictus X special in the Collage of CAARdinals (you can still find that in our table of contents) where the father of Rodrigo visits an asteroid in orbit around earth to help track the movement of the Timepiece on a global scale. Although that story is not considered canon, it does have hints as to what's coming up ahead.
Especially also since I have authorised English Patriot to use some of the planned future-setting in his bonuses, I thought it would also be good to brief you all on one of the concepts which will be explored in the future installments (far future really but it might make appearances here and there as we go along and will lead up to the fantastic climax in the HOI2 section).
Today I'd like to introduce the audience to the Lagrangian Points.
Lagrange Points or Lagrangian points are those areas of space that are gravitationally stable (meaning the effects of gravity balance each other out) in a three body problem where the first body is large, the second small, and the third tiny. In this case, we will assume the first body to be the Earth, the second to the Moon, and the third to be a space colony or a small asteroid.
As you can see, there are Five Lagrangian points. Why is this important? It is because it is at these coordinates that the space satellites and colonies or asteroids utilised by the Spain of the immediate and very near future are located at. But why is providing a map important at all? Could we not just say that there are satellites out there somewhere or space colonies? Well that's partly true. But for every good war enthusiast they always require one thing to work with: A map. Remember, gentlemen (and ladies), the title is What If Spain Failed to Control the World? it never implied anything about it succeeding in controlling Space colonies.
Does this seem a bit familiar? It should to those enthusiasts who have already been clued in by the various names of some of the satellites and space colonies already. That's right, expect a conflict that will be a homage to the most groundbreaking animated epic of all time. Consider this a preview for the future!
