The newly founded colony of Balfour grew rapidly with the trail that lead to it from the castle being expanded and developed as more and more colonists began to head to the beautiful town. The trail was within three months completely rebuilt as a road allowing even more resources and people to flood to Balfour including seeds for crops, surveyors for mines and fish for the seas. As Balfour's population exploded with people from across the Empire the first sowing was begun when the farmers that had immigrated to the planet begun to work their trade. The Surveyors began to scour the mountains looking for seams that could be mined and found a bounty of that rivalled even the mines of Australia.

When the word of the mineral wealth that New Windsor held returned to the Empire the mining companies and their employees began to move operations to Balfour bringing even more growth to the boom town. While the hills were explored, and developed Balfour turned to the Sea with the import of Timber being used to both build houses and start the construction of a pier to allow the naval exploration of New Windsor. As the pier was extended the settlers found no fish at all no aquatic life, as they grappled with this the cod that had been brought along by one entrepreneurial spirit as released into the waters of New Windsor where they and their descendants prospered.

-Extract from Stephen Brook's book Balfour the Second Imperial Jewel.

The castle that hosted the Stargate on New Windsor while not having a growth rate as large as Balfour still grew and expanded. At first the castle was entirely under military control with the civilians moving through the castle from Leicester and then off the Balfour. However, as the power that the Staff Weapon could release became obvious it was decided to establish a joint control over the castle with a Brigadier and appointed Civilian official commanding the castle. The first act of the new system was to move the Staff Weapon research as far away from the settled regions as possible so that if they all blew up the British position would not be weakened, and thus the settlement of Nobel was born to hold all of the military or explosive research being undertaken by the British on New Windsor.

-Extract from History of Great British castles presented by Dan Jones

As the exploration of the main continent of New Windsor continued few of the colonists looked to the sea content with carving themselves a life in Balfour yet there was one man who wished to explore the mighty seas of New Windsor and he endeavoured to do so. Managing to use his wealth, charisma and parliamentary position he secured a small boat a captain and a man to make his tea he set off from Balfour in the as he called it HMS Marlborough as the population of Balfour called it the Sailing Insanity and so with ample supplies a lack of common sense and the will to explore the exploration of the oceans of New Windsor began. Winston Churchill may have ended up going missing for a year discovering vital technology and learning how to pilot a Death Glider yet as he sailed past the protection of Balfour harbour all he thought of was according to his dairy getting a breath of fresh air.

-Extract from Catherine Merridale's book Winston Churchill: PARLIAMENTYRY ADVENTURER!

Religion in New Windsor at first was completely dominated by Anglicanism which was to be expected from the mother country yet as the restrictions were increased the religious diversity increased and when in 1913 international colonists were allowed the religious diversity exploded most notably the Lutheran population grew massively. The first non-Anglican church was raised in 1915 of the Lutheran faith St George's Lutheran church is still one of the most distinctive landmarks of Balfour with it is beautiful New Windsor Bluestone defining the early period of settlement on Balfour. The second largest faith after the Lutherans is the Roman Catholic Church and their first church of St Augustine's is made from beautifully carved Huon Pine and granite donated by worshipers many have noted similarity to the Norwegian Stave churches in the design.

-Extract from Herman Sasse's book religion among the stars translated to English in 1998 by his son Wolfgang Sasse.

The Huon Pines that dominate the coasts and rivers of New Windsor were in all truth an accident caused by one of the many Tasmanian colonists bringing some seeds on his boot and it is flourishing on humanities interstellar colony. The trees began to spread and the timber companies and carpenters who heard were very happy indeed at the new source of the prized wood while it would not be ready to harvest for years the Flora of Tasmania was set on a very different course in general and this can be seen today. The Tasmanian woodsman who had not bothered to clean his boots has become one of New Windsor's most popular folk characters and continues to be to this day.

-Extract from Gardening Australia special episode on New Windsor's Australian Flora.

Nobel was a small settlement in the most remote part of the mountains with the only access being a small cliff side path to a plateau that was large enough to build several houses and labs for the experiments that founded the town. The Plasma Weaponry testing was done by pushing boulders down the hill and trying to hit them yet the inaccuracy, low range and slow reloading rate began to irk the researchers and so they decided that they could improve the alien design and they were right. The first improvement was to take apart one of the Staff Weapons and firing it and they worked out the major flaw was the acceleration capacitor as it was to short for the length of the Staff Weapon so they cut some of the weapon out and managed to re calibrate it by adding in springs to spin the Acceleration capacitor so that the Plasma was propelled further then they tested it and it yielded up improved range and much better accuracy.

While some of the researchers were happy with the improvements that realigning the acceleration capacitor had yielded a large group wanted to take apart the weapons and discover what they could in the creation of the weapons. They began by splitting the weapon in half and went in headfirst from there. They discovered that the weapon was powered by a strange green liquid which we now know is Naquadah however at the time to them this was an entirely new element that they had never encountered before. As they continued to work on the Staff Weapon, they decided to test how much was used in a shot and found that barely any was used to power the blasts and so with the insanity and carelessness that so characterised Nobel they requested normal guns and lots of small metal containers and the move towards creating the first human plasma weaponry.

-Extract from Tony Robinsons book A history of Imperial Plasma Weaponry.