The first human plasma weapon was made in 1908 after the researchers in Nobel managed to secure enough rifles to test their plan. The first thing they did was to completely rebuild the interior of the guns so that the acceleration capacitor made up the barrel of the gun. Then they attacked the rest of the weapon the cartridge was replaced with the hydrogen need to power the plasma and then the final obstacle was reached inserting the Naquadah and the firing mechanisms so that it actually fired plasma. The Naquadah within each staff weapon was divided into three metal containers that would each power a weapon. The Naquadah was placed towards the end of the barrel just after the acceleration capacitor ended and so the first 15 Lee-Enfield 1907 rifle plasma mark was created.

The British government's reaction to this development was to immediately order the weapons to be put through rigorous testing to make sure that it could be used in combat situations and not just be a large sinkhole that made no actual contributions. The testing was heavily successful with the range, power and accuracy satisfying the military representatives and its hardiness was a definite benefit. Then the British government had to work out what to do with them 15 was hardly enough to outfit any sizable military force and they had no idea how to find more Naquadah and so it seemed that the Empires first plasma weapons would be put in storage and forgotten about until a piece of ancient technology was discovered that propelled the United Kingdom's military capabilities forward massively.

The first discovery of technology within the castle of New Windsor besides the Lantean computer, was when Harold St George Gray stumbled across a strange piece of tech abandoned in a room upstairs in the castle that looked vaguely like a mirror. He would hold it up to see what happened and the device's surface activated with blue light and began to scan the selected material in this case a knife that had been left on the floor of the room by an exploring soldier made out of a good steel. When the device scanned the knife, which took less than a second it stated the Ancient name for steel 'ferrium'. This would shock Harold St George Gray deeply and so he returned to the centre of the castle where one of the Plasma rifles where on display with some of the Naquadah used to power it being put in a jar for public scrutiny. The device would scan the Naquadah and stated the name sending shock throughout the assembled researchers from Nobel.

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

The completion of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906 completely upset the British naval dominance that had propelled the empire to its dominant position on Earth. The revolutionary ship completely overpowered any ship that had come before leading to all ships before 1906 being classed pre-dreadnoughts. Her heavy armament and armour made sure that she could both take and give punches to the enemy in combat. Yet despite all the power she had when launched her successor HMS Lionheart was even more powerful with weapons that no power on earth could match. Despite the changes Dreadnought represented the cutting-edge technology of time that made her was outstripped within a few years and all her power was dwarfed by her successors.

Many theorise that if Kaiser Wilhelm II were still in charge of Germany when Dreadnought was launched that his Anglophobia would lead to him beginning a Naval arms race. Yet his son Kaiser Wilhelm III was wise enough to know that knew that with New Windsor and the resources found on that world the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom could easily outbuild Germany and her few colonies on Earth. So instead he ordered that the Imperial German navy look into developing a small force of Dreadnoughts to form the core of the Hochseeflotte if the need arose to fight against a developed nation with a reasonably powerful navy.

-Extract from Peter G. Tsouras's book Dread nought but the wrath of God: A history of the Dreadnought class warship

The decision in the 1906 Colonial conference to drop tariffs on non-imperial nations proved vital in the survival of Arthur Balfour's government with the election called later that year managing to secure a slim majority. The controversy of the Concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War proving the anchor that brought down the Stargate, New Windsor and the end of Tariffs with the Conservative and Liberal Unionists majority reduced to thirteen seats barley enough to pass bills through and worrying to the government the Irish Parliamentary Party secured almost all of Ireland south of Ulster and the Labour representation committee gaining seats in many working class seats. All in all, the general election of 1906 was called by government looking for any way to hold onto power that crippled the government and would have been better for the Conservatives for the Liberals to win.

-Extract from John Bercow's book Honour, deceit and lies: A history of General elections in the United Kingdom

The first Indian settlement on New Windsor was in early 1909 when a small party from Mumbai reached Balfour and founded the Indian Quarter that is so well known today. Their immigration was frowned on by some of the more conservative colonists, but most welcomed them to humanities first interstellar colony. When word got back to the Raj thousands began to request the ability to immigrate to New Windsor and the British government announced that there would be a weekly transport to the United Kingdom allowing people to head to New Windsor from there. The amount of people that bought tickets to head to New Windsor stunned the British government and soon instead of the tens of ships leaving India that were expected there were thousands of ships sailing from the Subcontinent to a small island off the coast of Europe.

-Extract from Peter FitzSimons book The Tiger that prowls the Stars: India in the Stargate program.

The exploration of New Windsor's oceans by Winston Churchill was a very odd affair with the tides and winds of New Windsor dictating his discoveries. Yet despite his complete lack of knowledge of where he was, he discovered three major islands within the first week New Tasmania, New Ulster and New Ceylon and laid the groundwork for the agricultural powerhouses that they would become by planting the oak that he had decided to acquisition on a whim to show where he had been. As he continued to stumble across more islands that dominate the seas around Nouveau Normandy he began to get a sense of how vast New Windsor truly was.

The first truly vital discovery he made was the discovery of the crashed Tel'tak that had been shot down over the seas of New Windsor and assumed destroyed by the Asgard, Nox and Furlings when they threw Ra off New Windsor. It had been carrying several crates of Staff Weapons and Zat'nik'tels Winston and his associates would mark down the island that the wreck had washed up on for future research. As HMS Marlborough sailed through the heavy waves that came with the storms that so cursed New Windsor Winston Churchill noted in his dairy that things were beginning to get out of his control and knowledge and he began to worry that he was far out of his depth.

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