Weltraumgruppen

Weltraumgruppen

Weltraumgruppen der Tanoa Einsatzgruppen
Founded	4 October 1956
Dissolved	30 November 2024
Type	Spaceflight branch
Headquarters	Georgetown, Tanoa
Parent organization	Tanoa Einsatzgruppen
Affiliations	Allgemeine SS Glöbbery
Era	Middenvader Era Vriend Era

The Weltraumgruppen was the spaceflight branch of the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen. It controlled the regime's orbital infrastructure and extraterrestrial installations. Founded in 1956, the branch remained under the Oberkommando der Tanoa Einsatzgruppen until the regime collapsed in 2024.

The organization developed from a postwar rocket office built around German V-2 records and personnel obtained through Operation Sternzug. Argentine aerospace officers later assumed its industrial administration. Recovery of extraterrestrial technology in 1979 allowed the branch to establish permanent off-world industry. By 2014, its Planetarische Verwaltung governed three planets. The Weltraumgruppen also maintained orbital warships and self-contained city-ships, while its Exobiologische Hauptstelle registered organisms and materials recovered during survey missions or planetary occupation.

Origins and formation

Main article: History of the Weltraumgruppen

See also: Operation Sternzug

The Tanoa Einsatzgruppen began its rocket program after the German surrender on 8 May 1945. Allied forces were taking custody of German rocket personnel and technical records at the time. Tanoa could not participate openly in the occupation of Germany, so Jan Paap authorized Operation Sternzug to obtain the same expertise through covert routes. Glöbbery organized false identities and altered prisoner files. Its network also arranged concealed transport from occupied Germany. Argentine contacts received personnel and technical cargo before their transfer to Tanoa. These contacts extended the Patagonian network through which Jan Paap had formed the Argentine Einsatz in 1944.

The first copied V-2 archive reached Tanoan custody in June 1945. A core Peenemünde group led by Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun was moved through the network during the following two months. Technical personnel travelled through northern Italy before the first convoy reached Argentina in August. The group arrived in Tanoa in February 1946. Substitute prisoners and altered custody records concealed the removals, while controlled public appearances preserved the postwar careers attributed to the personnel outside Tanoa.

The Raketenstelle Alt-Georgetown was established in May 1951 to translate the recovered test records and adapt V-2 designs to equipment available in Tanoa. Under Dornberger's military command and von Braun's scientific direction, the German team converted those designs into launch procedures. Guidance and propulsion engineers then adapted the components for production in Tanoa. On 4 October 1956, the Oberkommando absorbed the rocket office into the newly created Weltraumgruppen. Dornberger became its first commander and von Braun became chief scientific architect. The branch retained the Georgetown archive as the technical basis for its first test facilities.

Testing moved from propulsion to complete vehicles during the late 1950s. The branch conducted its first successful static engine test at Prüfstand Tuvanaka-Nord on 18 March 1957, followed by a high-altitude launch from Startplatz Lijnhaven-Ost on 9 August 1958. The A-10 Georgetown placed the first Tanoan payload in orbit on 17 May 1963. A crewed mission followed on 22 November 1968, and Orbitalstation Paap I entered service in June 1974.

Argentine leadership

Argentine contacts supplied transit and procurement before Tanoa took control of Patagonia in 1953. This relationship gave Tanoa access to Argentine aerospace institutions. Argentina was annexed by the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen in 1965. Juan Ignacio San Martín organized industrial procurement for the Weltraumgruppen until 1964. Teófilo Tabanera then used the procurement system to turn individual launches into a permanent orbital program.

Tabanera headed the branch from 1964 until 1981. His successor, Omar Graffigna, redirected investment toward military satellites before funding permanent off-world industry. Teodoro Waldner supervised procurement from 1987 to 1995, and Ernesto Crespo controlled the branch from 1995 until 2010 during the city-ship expansion. The Oberkommando then divided planetary government and fleet command between Eef Paap and Daniel Paap.

Off-world expansion

On 13 September 1979, a Weltraumgruppen survey mission recovered an extraterrestrial propulsion assembly with an intact navigation archive. Engineers reproduced its navigation system before adapting its power equipment. The archive supplied fixed transit routes to extraterrestrial destinations, allowing the branch to move beyond experimental missions around Earth. Außenwerk Aconcagua opened in April 1986 as the first permanent off-world industrial installation. The branch created Planetarisches Bauamt I in September 1993 to construct sealed settlements and power networks beyond Earth. The first city-ship hull was authorized through the Himmelswerft Schwarzhafen program in December 1996. Stadtschiff Eef Paap entered service on 1 May 2003 and supported construction beyond the established settlements. Later hulls were assigned to industrial or command duties.

Mission and organization

The branch was initially responsible for rocket development and launch operations. After 1979, its mandate extended to off-world construction. Orbital transport and planetary occupation became permanent responsibilities as settlements expanded. The Oberkommando approved destinations and occupation campaigns, after which the Weltraumgruppenhauptamt in Georgetown converted those directives into launch schedules and construction programs. The Amtsgruppe Raketenwesen developed launch vehicles and propulsion systems before transferring launched spacecraft to the Orbitalführung. Planetary governors reported through the Planetarische Verwaltung, while the Himmelswerftdirektion managed orbital ship construction. The Exobiologische Hauptstelle controlled biological quarantine and the specimen registry. The Allgemeine SS screened personnel and guarded restricted installations, while technical command remained with the Weltraumgruppenhauptamt.

Facilities

Main article: Facilities of the Weltraumgruppen

Earth-based administration remained in Georgetown, while the Tuvanaka complex handled testing and launches. Its static-test infrastructure was connected to Tuvanaka Airbase, and the coastal range used the sea east of Tanoa as its launch corridor. The Tanoanisches Orbitalzentrum Tuvanaka began controlling orbital missions in May 1963. Ravi-Ta housed leadership and communications offices.

Later construction moved away from Earth. Orbitalstation Paap I handled tracking and crew transfer, while Außenwerk Aconcagua supplied processed metal to Himmelswerft Schwarzhafen. The orbital shipyard assembled hulls too large for Tanoan ports. This arrangement kept administration in Georgetown and placed heavy industry beside the vessels it supported.

Planetary administration

Main articles: Planetary territories of the Weltraumgruppen and Planetarische Verwaltung

The Planetarische Verwaltung assigned fully controlled status after a military governor took command of orbital access and permanent settlements. The same governor controlled extraction corridors and local transport. Planetary command also administered unpopulated survey zones beyond those corridors.

Neutanoa received its first permanent settlement, Siedlung Neutanoa, in February 1991. Georgetown-Neu opened as its administrative capital in July 2006. The military governor assumed control of the planet's orbital approaches on 18 August 2010, making Neutanoa the first fully administered planet.

Eisenwelt received a permanent mining base in April 1994. Its deposits of ferrum nigrum supplied dense armor plate for orbital vessels. Heat-resistant ceramics from the same extraction corridor were used in engine compartments. Military settlements secured the corridor before the planetary governor assumed full authority on 22 March 2012.

Grünmond supported agricultural settlement rather than heavy extraction. Its first enclosed growing complex, Grüngürtel I, began operation in May 1998. Reservoir works supplied the later settlement corridor and city-ship farms. Grünmond entered fully administered status on 14 September 2014 after its orbital approaches and permanent settlements passed to a single governor.

Umbrarheim remained a restricted biological zone under Weltraumgruppen security. Schwarzhafen operated under a shipyard administration, while Aconcagua Prime was governed as a military extraction territory. These commands remained separate from the planetary governments.

Fleet

Main article: Fleet of the Weltraumgruppen

See also: List of Weltraumgruppen launch vehicles, List of spacecraft operated by the Weltraumgruppen, and List of city-ships operated by the Weltraumgruppen

The fleet developed from the branch's V-2-derived launch vehicles. High-altitude testing produced the first orbital launcher, followed by heavy-lift systems for construction payloads and reusable shuttles for crew transfer. These vehicles connected the Tuvanaka launch complex to the orbital infrastructure established during the 1960s and 1970s.

Armed spacecraft protected orbital approaches and escorted construction convoys. Carrier vessels moved survey craft between systems, while landing ships delivered prefabricated settlement sections to planetary surfaces. Interceptor units controlled access to occupied orbital corridors and defended the off-world shipyards.

City-ships contained residential districts supported by enclosed agriculture. Internal reservoirs maintained the water supply, while heavy repair facilities serviced the accompanying fleet. Their closed systems reduced dependence on supply traffic from Tanoa during long deployments. Individual hulls were configured for settlement transport, mining support, communications or fleet command. This allowed the branch to support planetary occupation from mobile infrastructure instead of relying entirely on fixed orbital stations.

Exobiology

Main article: Exobiologische Hauptstelle

See also: List of extraterrestrial organisms recorded by the Weltraumgruppen and List of extraterrestrial materials in Weltraumgruppen records

The Exobiologische Hauptstelle maintained separate registries for organisms and non-living material. Field teams assigned temporary recovery numbers at collection sites, after which quarantine staff issued permanent Weltraumgruppen codes. Biologists used Latinized binomial names for organisms while mission reports retained their common names. The Borvă, classified as Borva umbrensis, carried the registry code WG-BIO-0142 before its transfer to Snubable custody. By the 2010s, the master registry contained hundreds of entries.

The material registry recorded ores separately from biological substances. Reactive compounds received handling records based on their behavior during transport or testing. Each entry identified the recovery site before describing the material's industrial or research use. This kept biological classification separate from the resource records used by planetary administrators and shipyard engineers.

Snubable Enterprise and Project Umbrar

Main articles: Snubable Enterprise and Project Umbrar

On 19 June 2021, Iakob Rambam accompanied a Weltraumgruppen retrieval mission operating under the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen. The mission returned with the living Borvă later transferred to Snubable Enterprise. Snubable registered it as Specimen UB-01 under Project Umbrar. Rambam supported containment transfer and sanitation after the organism entered Snubable custody. He moved contaminated equipment and waste from restricted storage areas.

The project attempted to combine human biological material with tissue taken from UB-01. The trial bodies did not survive reliably, and the program never reached stable production. Snubable halted the Borvă work on 3 November 2022 after its resources declined and external pressure increased. UB-01 was killed during the shutdown.

Dissolution

See also: History of the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen

The Weltraumgruppen lost its political leadership during the collapse of the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen from 24 to 30 November 2024. Its Georgetown headquarters ceased issuing orders on 30 November, when the Tanoan state ended as an organized entity. Orbital and planetary commands continued using their standing emergency instructions after contact with Georgetown ended. Local commanders assumed emergency authority after the central branch ceased functioning. Records held on Earth were divided among abandoned offices and captured storage facilities. The collapse also removed support from Snubable Enterprise and the Bucharest Butchers, whose remaining structures were dismantled in 2025.

See also

• Weltraumgruppen city-ship program
• List of settlements administered by the Weltraumgruppen
• Biota of Neutanoa
• Biota of Eisenwelt
• Biota of Grünmond
• Natural resources of Neutanoa
• Natural resources of Eisenwelt
• Natural resources of Grünmond