This doesn't directly tie into the universe that I'm creating right now with Beginnings and Ends, Peace Breaks Out, and Vicissitudes, but it does seek to explain those little, ultra-nerdy things that you find in the personnel files and wonder about in the Gallian universe. What microorganism did Juno Coren name, and what war hero did she name it after? How does the genetic inheritance of a Valkyria work? What was the international reaction to Gallia's use of child soldiers? What were the circumstances behind the formation of the Evans shelter?
To these questions and more, we turn to the Vasel Archives, the largest repository of materials from the EWI, intrawar, EWII, and post-war periods (EC 1914-1940). In its vast complex, comprised of the Vasel Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Gallian History, and the Archives, thousands of artifacts, newspaper and magazine articles, diaries, books, government documents, and specimens provide the answer.
An Excerpt from The Gallian Journal of Microbiology, Volume 4, Issue 7 (July 1940)
On the Antibacterial Action of a New Species of Microorganism, Cillipenium welkinii.
Coren, J.
While working with samples of Staphylincus cereus, a number of culture plates that had been set aside were found to be contaminated by a previously unknown species of microscopic fungi that formed small white patches in the sample. It was observed that in a large radius (5 cm) around the fungal patches, there were no S. cereus colonies to be found. Those colonies that remained were transparent, signaling that significant cell death had taken place.
The fungus was taken from the original plates, cultured, and used in experiments investigating its antimicrobial properties. From these, it is evident that it synthesizes and secretes a powerfully antibiotic chemical. In an age where microbes are starting to become resistant to sulfamilimine antibiotics, this may provide the key to a new, more powerful antibiotic. The mold, which was previously undiscovered, is described in this paper and given the name Cillipenium welkinii, after the great Gallian hero of EWII.