Created by Captain Michael Turlogh Kane on Aug 20, 2016 @ 1:45pm

THE FRPG's TIMELINE - THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

FOREWORD
The Federation Role Playing Game presents its History of the Future - a timeline that covers all the significant events in the FRPG universe, from 2371 to the present day, sixty years later.

The FRPG has charted its own course through Star Trek's future history, projecting an exciting series of events into the twenty-fifth century. Twenty-two years of story-telling have seen some enormous changes wrought upon the fabric of the future, stories that are ongoing with new history being made in every post.

If reading long descriptions is not your thing, you can find a short-form notation timeline on the Star Trek: Distant Horizons website. Click on the Starfleet icon below to access it.


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2371

-7th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation
-3rd season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
-1st season of Star Trek: Voyager
-Star Trek: Generations



The Federation becomes aware of the Dominion infiltration threat when first contact is made with the Founders in the Gamma Quadrant. Several months later, a combined Romulan-Cardassian fleet is annihilated by the Dominion after being lured into a trap inside the Omarion Nebula.


A civilian government known as the Detapa Council overthrows the Cardassian military junta. On the heels of the Federation-Cardassia Armistice of 2367, and last year's full treaty between the two powers, Cardassia and Bajor finally sign a treaty of peace, officially ending their fifty-year-old hostilities.


The Borg known as Hugh, who has become separated from the Borg Collective, becomes the leader of a group of drones. Hugh disconnects these drones from the Collective and shows them how to be individuals. In turn, these 'converted' Borg spread the idea of individualism throughout the Borg hive mind, and the Collective begins to unravel.

Hugh, the first Borg to become an individual


An El'Aurian criminal, Doctor Tolian Soran, uses a trilithium weapon to collapse the Amargosa star in the hopes of drawing a extra-dimensional phenomenon known as the Nexus closer to him. The USS Enterprise is destroyed at Veridian III while attempting to stop Dr. Soran from collapsing the Veridian star to accomplish the same goal.

The Nexus


The starship Voyager is thrown 75,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant after coming into contact with a Nacene space station.
Richard Edgerton, future leader of the Neo-Essentialist movement, is born this year.

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2372

-4th season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
-2nd season Star Trek: Voyager
-The Archanis War



The Klingon Empire invades the Cardassian Union after rumours that the new civilian government that ousted Central Command are Dominion Founders. After months of battles with the Cardassians, the Klingons are forced to withdraw, leaving Cardassian space in ruins, but annexing several star systems as Imperial Protectorates. The Klingon Empire officially withdraws from the Khitomer Accords when the Federation protests, ending the alliance and breaking all diplomatic ties with the United Federation of Planets, and sparking war between the two powers when the Klingons attempt to annex the Archanis sector. Skirmishes and border raids between the Federation and the Klingons continue all year.


Following the bombing of the Antwerp Conference and a planet-wide loss of power on Earth, Starfleet Vice-Admiral Leyton attempts to overthrow the Federation government by means of a military coup and martial law. The attempt is defeated when Leyton's plans are exposed to the public, but many of his ideas - that the peoples of the Federation would be safer if civilian government was replaced by Starfleet - are embraced by militarists across the Federation, and a new movement is born. These so-called "Essentialists" see the Federation as having become decadent, that too many different species have joined its ranks, and that most of the work to preserve it is being carried out by only a few.

The Antwerp Conference, seconds before bomb detonation


The first Ferengi enters Starfleet Academy.


The Warp 10 threshold is finally crossed with the flight of an experimental shuttle aboard the USS Voyager. However, crossing the threshold proves detrimental to humanoid DNA and further attempts are abandoned.

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2373

-5th season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
-3rd season Star Trek: Voyager
-Star Trek: First Contact
-Outbreak of the First Dominion War



It is discovered that the Klingon government was being influenced by a Dominion Founder disguised as the Klingons' highest-ranking military official. This revelation prompts the ending of the war between the Klingons and the Federation and the re-signing of the Khitomer Accords.


Meanwhile, the Borg attack Sector 001 for the second time. Defending Starfleet forces are badly hit, including the new USS Enterprise, but the Borg cube is finally defeated.

The Borg attack Earth


As their first political act, the Essentialists attempt to disrupt life on the pleasure planet of Risa. Their attempt is successful, and although the leaders of the movement are arrested, their numbers continue to grow.

The Essentialists bring their message to Risa


No soon has one war ended then another begins. As the Federation stands down from the Klingon conflict, the Dominion fleet enters the Alpha Quadrant through the Bajoran wormhole and invades the Cardassian Union. Traitors within the Cardassian military have already paved the way for a Dominion takeover, and within days a new alliance is declared between Cardassia and the Dominion, which 'liberates' the Klingon Imperial protectorates left over from last year's Klingon-Cardassian conflict. As the other Alpha Quadrant powers watch with growing alarm, a combined Cardassian-Dominion fleet attacks a Starfleet-administered Deep Space 9 space station near the Bajoran wormhole, sparking the beginning of the First Dominion War. Although the Federation is defeated in this battle and driven out of the Bajor sector, Starfleet manages to mine the entrance to the wormhole, thus preventing the Dominion from reinforcing their fleet in the Alpha Quadrant.

The Dominion invades the Alpha Quadrant


Charles Koniki, future Starfleet Admiral and creator of the New Alexandria Project, is born this year.

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2374

-6th season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
-4th season Star Trek: Voyager
-2nd year of the First Dominion War



The First Dominion War continues. Starfleet is sent reeling from several major defeats, including the almost total destruction of the 7th fleet in the Tyra system and conquest of Betazed by the Dominion. Now bolstered by Klingon allies and determined to take back the initiative, a Federation-Klingon fleet attacks and recaptures the Bajor sector. Following this victory, the Romulan Star Empire enters the war on the side of the Federation and Klingons. It is the first time in history that all three powers have joined forces to fight a common enemy.

The Federation and Klingons attack Dominion forces in the Bajor sector


In the Gamma Quadrant, the Dominion makes first contact with a mysterious race of aliens who refuse to be identified, but who possess advanced cloaking and weapons technology. These aliens say that they are the Kem D'Neel, Enforcers of something called the Seventh War of Retribution. They are aggressively hostile and make war upon the Founders themselves, who suffer horrific casualties before the attacks suddenly cease and the Kem D'Neel disappear. Now at their weakest point in their history, the Dominion considers ways to end the war in the Alpha Quadrant, neglecting to inform anyone else of the appearance of these deadly new aliens.

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2375

-7th season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
-5th season Star Trek: Voyager
-Star Trek: Insurrection
-3rd and final year of the First Dominion War



The First Dominion War continues with victories and losses on both sides. Starfleet learns that a morphogenic virus is spreading through the Founders' Great Link.


The Breen Confederacy enters the war, allying itself with the Dominion. A Breen fleet manages to reach Earth, heavily damaging Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. This second direct attack on Earth in three years gives the Essentialist cause much traction, and their numbers begin to swell.

San Francisco following the Breen attack on Earth


Admiral Matthew Dougherty, in collusion with the Son'a, attempt a forced relocation of a peaceful people known as the Ba'ku in order to harvest the metaphasic radiation from the rings around the Ba'ku homeworld. The USS Enterprise, in defiance of Starfleet's orders, stages a rebellion, and convinces the Federation to intervene to allow the Ba'ku to remain on their homeworld.


A rebellion begins on Cardassia Prime in an effort to throw off the Dominion's yoke. The rebellion is brutally crushed, but its defeat inspires the citizens of Cardassia to rise up against the Dominion. The Cardassian military turns on their Dominion allies, and the Breen withdraw from the war. As the Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance sweeps through Cardassian space, carrying all before it, the Founders finally instruct their forces in the Alpha Quadrant to stand down. The Dominion surrenders, ending the First Dominion War.

The Dominion signs the Treaty of Bajor, ending the First Dominion War

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2376

-6th season Star Trek: Voyager



In the aftermath of the First Dominion War, peace talks between the Alpha Quadrant powers and the Dominion are held on Denorious. Borders are drawn up and a limit is placed on the area in which Federation vessels may explore in the Gamma Quadrant, the only gain made by the Dominion after two hard years of war. There is heavy lobbying to collapse the Bajoran Wormhole, but the merits of scientific research and explorations prevails, and the gateway to the Gamma Quadrant remains intact. The Treaty of Denorious stipulates that only Federation science vessels and small exploration expeditions are to be permitted through the wormhole. In return, the Dominion agrees to stay in the Gamma Quadrant. The Founders sign the treaty, then withdraw into seclusion, leaving the Dominion rudderless.


The Bajoran Wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant


The Federation begins rebuilding Starfleet. The Klingons and Romulans withdraw to their own pre-war borders. The Khitomer Accords are still in place, and for now, peace reigns in the Alpha Quadrant.


Bajor is admitted to the United Federation of Planets.

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2377

-6th season Star Trek: Voyager (continued)
-7th season Star Trek: Voyager



A census taken in the Federation to measure the cost of the Dominion war shows 183 member worlds.


The Borg Queen, as the embodiment of the Collective, attempts to destroy the growing individualism movement among the Borg, known as Unimatrix Zero. The individual Borg resist, and civil war between the Borg erupts all across the Delta Quadrant.


The Unicomplex - home of the Borg Queen

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2378

-7th season Star Trek: Voyager (continued)



The USS Voyager finds its way home to Federation space after a breath-taking voyage spanning seven years and 70,000 light years.


Voyager arrives home

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2379

-Star Trek: Nemesis
-Final year of current Star Trek Prime Universe canon
-FRPG canon history begins



A military coup on Romulus overthrows the Praetor and the republican government. Peace overtures are made to the Federation, and the USS Enterprise is dispatched. However, the overtures turn out to be an elaborate ruse, and the Enterprise is attacked by a devastating new Romulan Warbird. Following this incident, and despite the launch of a subsequent diplomatic mission to Romulus, relations between the Federation and the Romulans again begin to decline.

The Enterprise squares off against the Warbird 'Scimitar'


The Soong-type android known as Data, serving on the Enterprise, is killed during the Nemesis incident. He has been in contact with one Dr. Bruce Maddox of Starfleet Science, who has been attempting to duplicate the work of Dr. Noonien Soong and create a new positronic matrix. Following Data's death, Dr. Maddox manages to secure more funding and resources in pursuit of this project.

The Soong-type android known as Data

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2380

Despite its failure in the Nemesis incident last year, the new military government on Romulus is quick to test its strength. Klingon raids along its Triangle border anger the Romulans enough that they begin striking back hard against the Klingons, taking and holding several outlying Klingon systems. Although the Federation offers to mediate the escalating dispute, neither the Klingons nor Romulans are willing to negotiate. As the situation spirals downward into full-scale war, the Federation decides that it cannot support either side and declares its neutrality. The Klingons declare the Federation as oathbreakers, and once again, the Khitomer Accords are abolished.


Shortly afterward, open war is declared between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire.

A Klingon wolfpack, en route to raid Romulan star systems

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2381-2385

-The Romulan-Klingon War



The Romulan-Klingon War rages for four bloody years. A number of devastating battles are fought inside the borders of both empires and in the Triangle, but eventually the Romulans gain the upper hand.


While their two nearest rivals do battle, the Federation enters a period of increased prosperity and wealth. Diplomatic missions are sent to the Ferengi Alliance, hastening closer ties, and Starfleet recovers from the losses of the Dominion War. The fleet is modernised, with many older designs being taken offline and replaced with new ship classes. The Federation becomes a formidable, and arguably the dominant, economic and political Alpha Quadrant power.


As the war continues, it becomes obvious that the Romulans are winning. In 2382, Romulan forces under Admiral Delora Radaik crush a massed Klingon fleet at the Battle of Prygus inside the Triangle. This stunning victory is made possible by Admiral Radaik's clever use of of tachyon fields to give false sensor information to the Klingon fleet. When the Klingons decloak to fire, the Romulans pinpoint their positions and destroy them. Almost a quarter-million Klingon warriors perish and nearly three hundred starships are destroyed in the worst military disaster in Klingon history, surpassing even the Hur'q invasion.


The Federation attempts many times to broker a peace deal, but the Romulans refuse to abandon a winning position, and Klingon pride refuses to allow them to negotiate. By 2385, the Klingon Empire is in disarray. Its fleets are smashed, its prime industrial worlds are reduced to slag, and Qo'noS is under siege.


With their situation desperate, the Klingon High Council casts around for new allies. The Cardassian Union, having spent the last decade recovering from the Dominon War, agrees to ally with the Klingons, ceding the old Klingon Imperial protectorates in exchange for Klingon cloaking technology. The Klingon High Council abandons Qo'noS and flees to New Qo'noS, a planet inside the Cardassian border. Shortly afterward, the Romulans pound the last of the Klingon forces into submission. Qo'noS is occupied, and although a guerilla resistance begins immediately, the Romulans stand as masters of the quadrant. The Romulan victory over the Klingons removes one of the three traditional powers of the Federation-Klingon-Romulan triad and has long-reaching consequences for intergalactic diplomacy. (For more information on this war, read the wiki entry entitled 'War, Klingon-Romulan (2381-2385)'


During this time, Deep Space 9 is destroyed by vessels belonging to the Typhon Pact, and the Cardassian Obsidian Order again rises to become one of the more dangerous intelligence organisations in the quadrant.


Cade Foster and Kassandra Thytos, future crew members of the USS Phoenix, are born in this period.



Klingon starships go to war

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2386

In the aftermath of the Klingon-Romulan War, the dust settles. The last vestiges of the Klingon military join their government-in-exile on New Qo'noS.


The Cardassians, now possessed of Klingon cloaking technology, begin to re-arm their military.


The Romulans make several attempts to crush the guerrilla movement on Qo'noS, to no avail. In increasing desperation, it is proposed by the military government in the Romulan Senate that the Klingon species be exterminated from existence. Despite Federation condemnation, the measure passes. All across the remnants of the former Klingon Empire, any captured Klingons are summarily executed - man, woman, or child.



Captured Klingons await their fate

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2387

Anxious to prevent the Cardassians from re-emerging as a regional power, the Federation sends emissaries to Cardassia Prime in an attempt to negotiate a new peace. These offers are rebuffed as Cardassia, backed up by their Klingon allies, begins to take a more aggressive role in intergalactic politics.


Fearing that a new war with Cardassia is rising, Starfleet sends several task forces to the border with Cardassian space.


Toward the end the year, the Federation's diplomatic team on Cardassia is publically assassinated. Although the Cardassians claim that the assassinations were carried out by rogue elements of its military, tensions between the Federation and the Cardassians sky-rocket.



Cardassian citizens listen to the news of the assassination of Federation diplomats


The Romulans continue their occupation of Klingon space, using great brutality to keep the population in line.

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2388

-Outbreak of the Alliance War



The Orion Syndicate re-emerges from a century-long isolationist period. Determined to prevent the Ferengi from becoming the primary economic power in the quadrant, the Orions open trade negotiations with all the major powers. Although wary, the Federation agrees to tightly-restricted trade with the Syndicate, as long as such trading does not break Federation law.


After three years of negotiations and cultural exchange missions, the Ferengi Alliance and the Federation become economic allies. Both sides agree to continuous close ties. Under the Federation's cultural influence, Ferengi society begins to move away from cut-throat capitalism and toward a form of ethical consumerism that is compatible with Federation ideals. This change is not welcomed unanimously in Ferengi society - there are many who oppose Grand Nagus Rom's efforts.


Following the continuous deterioration of relations that culminated in the assassination of Federation diplomats last year, the Cardassian-Klingon Alliance suddenly attacks Federation forces along their border, overrunning the Bajoran system and annexing Bajor. This invasion sparks what will become known as the Alliance War. This is the third time that the Cardassians have attacked Federation space, now backed up by their Klingon-remnant allies and cloaking technology. Although surprised by the initial attack, Starfleet is ready for combat, having built up its fleet in the area into a number of task forces. Sporadic battles are fought all along the border, with the Cardassian-Klingon Alliance unable to make any headway in their offensive. For now, Starfleet fights defensively, declining to mount any attacks into Cardassian space, and the Bajorans find themselves under protracted Cardassian rule once again.



Cardassian and Federation starships engaged in battle during the Alliance War

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2389

-2nd year of the Alliance War
-The Neo-Essentialists are founded



The Alliance War continues. As the year winds on, the superior industrial capability of the Federation begins to show, as Starfleet is able to replace its losses much faster than its enemies. There are losses, to be sure, but nothing on the scale of the Dominion War fifteen years ago. The war begins to stagnate into a series of raiding attacks by Alliance forces.


The Federation's defensive strategy is winning the Alliance War


On the heels of two major wars inside as many decades, the Essentialist movement dissolves and re-organises itself. Heartened by the success of Starfleet's defensive strategy, public opinion in the Federation begins to shift in favour of the war. People who were of centrist politics now drift into the right wing, and attitudes towards non-Federation species begin to harden. It is said that the same few species - those of the Founding Worlds and some others - are doing all the work in Starfleet, while other species enjoy the Federation's protection in return for contributing nothing. A growing tide of public opinion and debate begins to consider what the Federation is, and what member worlds should be contributing to it.


It is in this political climate that the Neo-Essentialists are born. Led by a Starfleet Admiral named Edmund Dupree, they commit themselves to the overthrow of the Federation's civilian government. As they see it, civilian governance only holds back Starfleet from ensuring the true safety of the Federation. The movement begins to slowly spread throughout Starfleet.



Edmund Dupree, leader of the Neo-Essentialists

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2390

-3rd year of the Alliance War



The Alliance War continues into a third year, but it is now obvious that the Alliance is not making progress. It is not commonly known, but the Federation's advancement in sensor technology has outstripped the older Klingon cloaking technology, and possession of cloaking devices aboard their starships does not lend Alliance forces any advantage at a strategic level. Alliance raids into Federation space are now routinely intercepted and defeated by Starfleet.


At home, the Cardassian civilian population begins to turn against the war. The Federation begins peace overtures. At first they are rebuffed, but by the end of the year, low-level talks are underway between the two governments.


Klingon dissidents, unhappy with what their once-great empire has become, begin a movement to return to their culture's honour system. Starfleet Intelligence assists this movement in the hopes that it will bring a swifter end to the conflict with the Alliance.


Klingons debate the future of their people on New Qo'noS


The Klingon guerrilla resistance on Qo'noS is now causing so much damage to the occupying forces that the Romulan military government considers using fusion weapons to destroy the planet's surface. Dubbed "The Ultimate Solution", the Romulan Navy prepares a plan that would withdraw their military from the surface of Qo'noS, then launch a fusion barrage to burn off the atmosphere and completely and permanently irradiate the planet. The only Klingons left alive would be those inside Cardassian space. Under the Romulan rationale, since the Klingons will not surrender, and since they are and always have been a warlike species given to violence, this will protect future generations of Romulans from having to fight them again. The plan is given tentative approval by the military government.

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2391

-4th and final year of the Alliance War



At Starfleet task force liberates the Bajoran system from the retreating Cardassians.


Following a year of defeats across the war front, the Cardassian-Klingon Alliance declares a ceasefire against the Federation. A peace conference is immediately convened, but it takes several months of negotiations before the war officially ends after four years. Cardassian intergalactic prestige suffers badly due to their inability to invade Federation space, and their alliance with the Klingons dissolves. Their economy is badly damaged after four years of fruitless war, and the Cardassian Union begins to slowly decline as an intergalactic power. The Klingon remnants return to their small domain along the Cardassian border and withdraw into isolation.



The Ambassador-class USS Envoy engages a Cardassian Galor-class cruiser in one of the final actions of the Alliance War


Romulan underground republicans, seeking to damage the military government's reputation, release the military's plans for the Ultimate Solution, drawing widespread condemnation from all across the quadrant. Already under pressure from accusations of war crimes against the Klingons, and facing a domestic revolt as its citizens grow weary of sending its young people to die in the military, Romulan society begins to undergo a sea-change. After large demonstrations in many of its cities, the military voluntarily agrees to step down next year.


Michael Turlogh Kane and Selyara, future crew members of the USS Phoenix, are born this year.

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2392

-Klingon Homecoming
-Borg Great Awakening



Rather than risk civil war across the empire, the Romulan military organises new elections to appoint a new republican government. Before they withdraw from Klingon space, the Romulans do as much damage to Klingon infrastructure as they possibly can, reducing the Klingon people almost back to a pre-warp level of technology. With the appointment of a new Praetor and civilian republican government, the Romulan occupation of Klingon space comes to an end after seven bloody years.


The remaining Klingons depart Cardassian space and return to their capital worlds, finally dissolving their alliance with the Cardassians. This event enters Klingon history as the "juH'chegh chu'bov" - the Homecoming Era. With their return to Qo'noS following a decade's exile and the near-extermination of their species, the Klingons institute a new High Council in the First City and return to their old ways of honour and martial spirit. The Federation offers to make a new alliance with the Klingons, but the offer is turned down, and relations remain tense.

The Klingon High Council is reconstituted in the First City of Qo'noS


Large swathes of planets formerly in the Klingon Empire are now free worlds, and many smaller regional powers take advantage of these rich pickings. The Orion Syndicate in particular is quick to colonise many new planets and expand its influence.


In the Delta Quadrant, the Borg civil war ends after fifteen years, and the Borg undergo a 'Great Awakening' as individualism finally overwhelms the Collective. The Borg Collective is reworked into the Network - a vast information server akin to digital telepathy rather than a control device. The vast majority of the Borg are now individuals, having detached themselves fully from the Collective. They have a homeworld, Borgus, and are creating a democratic society ruled by a Council of Elders, while still striving for the ultimate combination of organic and machine.

Modern Borg are no longer cybernetic zombies

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2393

-First Contact with the Immorians



The Federation marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the First Dominion War.


In an odd twist of fate, Admiral Edmund Dupree, the secret leader of the Neo-Essentialist movement, gives the commencement speech at Starfleet Academy this year. Many of the Academy graduates of the future will be committed Neo-Essentialists.



Admiral Dupree's likeness, taken from the class of 2393's commencement program


A Federation exploration ship encounters the first Imorrian, a race highly skilled at gutting and refurbishing ship hulls. The Immorians prove receptive to diplomatic contact, and good relations are established.


The newly-individual Borg contact the Federation, and through the use of trans-warp conduits, exchange diplomatic and cultural exchange missions, astounding Federation diplomats who once viewed the Borg as a lethal enemy. Individual Borg make personal journeys into Federation space, and some even attempt to contact family and friends still living from before their assimilation. However, the future of the Borg people may be a dark one - now that they are no longer forcibly assimilating members of other races into the Collective, they face the dilemma of how to replenish their numbers when they die and still retain their cultural uniqueness. The Borg ask for a military alliance with the Federation. After short months of negotiations, this is accepted, opening up the Delta Quadrant to Federation shipping and commerce.



The interior of a Borg transwarp conduit

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2394

After a decade of close economic ties, the Ferengi and Federation open negotiations for the full political inclusion of the Ferengi into the Federation. The ageing Grand Nagus Rom, who has spearheaded many changes in Ferengi society, including the rights of females, declares that joining the Federation would be the most profitable venture the Ferengi people have ever undertaken. Although the majority of his people are behind him, there remains a core of Ferengi who stubbornly resist the changes the Nagus attempts to make.



Rom, Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance


A new Deep Space 9, this time of Federation design, is built in orbit of Bajor.


Aerdan Jos and James Barton, future crewmembers of the USS Phoenix, are born this year.

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2395

-The Great Merger



The negotiations between the Federation and the Ferengi are concluded. The Ferengi Alliance dissolves as an independent political entity and re-organises itself into a powerful trading organisation within the United Federation of Planets. The Federation absorbs the small territories of the Alliance, expanding spinward toward the Tholian Assembly and the Breen Confederacy. In return for joining the Federation, the Ferengi gain monopolies and exclusive rights over many trade routes, as well as becoming the administrators of the Federation's Department of the Treasury. This event goes down in Ferengi history as The Great Merger.


As expected, there are many Ferengi who do not accept the unification of their homeworld with the Federation. A significant number of Ferengi depart Ferenginar and settle in a distant star system, christening it New Ferenginar. They adopt the name of the New Ferengi Alliance, and elect their own Nagus. They are considered outcasts by mainstream Ferengi, but fears of civil war are calmed by the successful integration of the majority of Ferengi into the Federation.



Ferengi have become valued members of the Federation


Charles Koniki, future Starfleet Admiral and creator of the New Alexandria project, graduares from Starfleet Academy this year, and is immediately recruited into Starfleet Intelligence.

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2396

The Malmium subspace emitter is invented. This device negates the harmful thoron radiation generated by a starship's warp engines, ending the need for warp speed limits across the Federation.



A subspace rift that has been formed from saturation of thoron radiation


The Tholian Assembly suddenly stops responding to Federation subspace radio messages. There is no explanation offered for the sudden silence.

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2397

Dr. Bruce Maddox retires from Starfleet after a career lasting almost forty years, and is appointed Professor of Robotics at the Daystrom Institute. He begins practical experiments on the creation of a new positronic brain matrix, work that has been over thirty years in the making and accelerated by contact with species like the Cytherians and Immorians.


Dr. Bruce Maddox in 2397

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2398

After five years of close ties with the Federation, the Borg reorganise themselves into a new political entity modelled after the United Federation of Planets. The Borg Federation, as it becomes known, re-signs its military and political alliance with the Federation. Modern Borg are no longer the robotic zombies of a few decades ago - now they are dynamic individuals, a technologically-sophisticated people seeking to take their place in the intergalactic affairs of the Delta Quadrant.


Borgus - the new homeworld of the Borg Federation

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2399

Jake Crichton, future crewmember of the USS Phoenix, is born this year.


Jake Crichton, smouldering


Richard Edgerton, future leader of the Neo-Essentialist movement, graduates from Starfleet Academy this year, performing so well that he receives his officer's commission as a junior grade Lieutenant, rather than an Ensign.

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2400-2409

As the twenty-fifth century dawns, the United Federation of Planets is at its zenith. It encompasses the largest territory of any Alpha Quadrant power, and its economic and industrial output is the envy of all her neighbours. With almost two hundred member worlds, teeming trillions of citizens, and a large budget surplus, the Federation begins to modernise Starfleet. Plans are laid for a new series of starships capable of deep space exploration. With the Romulans quiet and the Klingons slowly rebuilding their homeworld, the Federation looks forward to an era of peace, prosperity, and exploration.




The flag of the United Federation of Planets

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2410

-1st year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition



The Federation launches the Olympus-class series of starships. The lead ship of the class - the USS Olympus - is designated the flagship of the Federation. Several deep space exploratory missions are launched, returning Starfleet to its roots as an exploration agency.


The last Galaxy-class starship, the USS Patriot, is launched from Utopia Planitia. With her launch, the run of the Galaxy-class design comes to an end after fifty years.


On the far side of the Bajoran wormhole, the Federation reaches an agreement with the Andarans, an independent warp-capable people who live in the system the wormhole opens into. The Andarans become Federation allies, and to protect its access into the Gamma Quadrant, the Federation begins construction of a new space station in the Andaran system. The new space station will act as a port and point-of-contact for Federation shipping and diplomacy in the Gamma Quadrant, and this gives the station its name - Gateway. Construction of the space station is slated to last four years.


Following a diplomatic mission from the Federation to the Romulan Star Empire, a treaty of peace is finally signed between the two powers. Putting aside their three-centuries-old enmity, both the Federation and the Romulans pledge themselves to a lasting relationship of mutual benefit and tranquility. Trade links between the two powers are opened for the first time in history and there is even talk of dismantling the Neutral Zone.


A diplomatic mission is sent from the Federation to make contact with the Tholian Assembly, which has been silent for decades. However, as the Federation's diplomatic mission arrives on the Tholian border, it is immediately intercepted by Tholian Webspinners and ordered not to cross the border.


In the Triangle, the renegade Romulan Tella Yavin and her mercenary army, the Black Stars, seize control of the ancient space station known as Limbo.



The USS Olympus is launched from Utopia Planitia

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2411

-2nd year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-First Contact with the Supervisors
-Outbreak of the Seventh War of Retribution
-The USS Olympus is destroyed



The Borg Federation, through the use of its transwarp conduits, has by now expanded into the Gamma Quadrant, coming close to the borders of the Dominion.


The USS Patriot, exploring beyond the boundaries of the Federation, makes first contact with a race of non-corporeal beings who refer to themselves as "the Supervisors". These Supervisors reveal themselves to be one of the oldest races in existence , and tell a tale of the galaxy in its infancy. Hundreds of millions of years ago, before most of the modern races had evolved, two supremely powerful alien species were warring for domination of the galaxy. One of these alien races, whose name was not recorded by the Patriot, consumed organic life for food. These 'Consumers' used two servitor races - one of which was the 'Supervisors', and the other being the 'Enforcers'. The Supervisors warned that the time for the 'Consumers' return to the galaxy was at hand, but that their coming would be presaged by the Enforcers. These Enforcers were described as a 'plague - one cured by the blood of billions'. The Supervisors had recorded all this information in prophecy form, in a document named the Book of Coreb. Their warning delivered, the Supervisors vanish.


The Book of Coreb is later found, and the Federation becomes aware of the full text of the Supervisors' prophecy. When the galaxy was young, two god-like species lived amongst the stars. The first were the Preservers, an organic species, and the other were the Thal, an inorganic species that consumed the Preservers for food. Fearing that the Thal would exterminate them from existence, the Preservers seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds across the galaxy with their DNA in an effort to preserve their genetic code, giving rise to the modern races of Humans, Klingons, Romulans, et al.


The USS Olympus is destroyed with almost all hands in the Denorius Belt after reporting being under attack from unknown aliens. This tragedy is quickly followed by similar incidents all across the quadrant, as a merciless alien fleet suddenly appears and begins random attacks against primarily the Federation and Romulans, but also against the Klingons and Cardassians. It is quickly determined that this alien fleet is the vanguard of the "Enforcers" fleet that the Supervisors warned the USS Patriot of. Although numerous attempts are made to communicate with the aliens, all requests for contact are ignored. They are given the name that the ancient people who wrote the Book of Coreb knew them by - the Kem D' Neel.


The Kem D' Neel surge into the Alpha Quadrant. They attack starships and colonies indiscriminately and take no prisoners. They do one thing only - they kill. Their superior cloaking technology makes their advanced fleet hard to detect, and they never leave their starships. No-one ever sees a Kem D' Neel face to face.




The Kem D'Neel leave death and destruction in their wake


The months drag on and the body count rises. The various task forces that Starfleet sends to sectors under attack are destroyed. Dozens of colonies are ravaged, leaving no survivors. It is later discovered that similar events are occurring across the Romulan Star Empire, and to a lesser extent within the Klingon, Orion and Cardassian territories. No Alpha Quadrant power can escape the scourge of the Enforcers. By the year's end dozens of colony worlds have been scoured of life, and hundreds of starships have been destroyed. The Federation faces the most existential threat in its history - the Kem D'Neel are not here to reach a political settlement, or to conquer territory. They are here to wipe out all life from the quadrant, in keeping with their ancient mission on behalf of the 'Consumers'. Against this terrifying enemy, what hope is there?




The Kem D'Neel have come, and another world dies>

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2412

-3rd year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-The Battle of Coriana III



As the new year dawns, the Kem D'Neel genocide against the peoples of the Alpha Quadrant is at its height. The body count passes one trillion as the Enforces strike at will, decimating entire colony worlds that have been growing for centuries.


In the capital worlds of the Federation, the looming threat of eventual extinction brings desperate changes to external relations. Frantic diplomatic channels are opened with the Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, Orions, and anyone else who will listen. News spreads of the Book of Coreb and this prophesied Seventh War of Retribution. Each foreign government, reeling under its own losses, is quick to agree to the idea of a temporary alliance. The races of the Alpha Quadrant band together in the hope that, by combining their intelligence and fleet operations, they can begin to blunt the onslaught of the Enforcers.


Helped by contact with species like the Cytherians and Imorrians, new starship classes are hastily rushed out of the design stage and into production. One of these, the Odyssey-class, is Starfleet's first dedicated warship in over a century. It combines devastating firepower with durable shields, allowing the ship to stay in combat longer than any previous design. When the USS Odyssey is launched, the Federation finally has a weapon that can fight back against the Kem D' Neel.


The months drag on by, but slowly, the tide begins to shift. Here and there, Kem D'Neel starships are isolated and destroyed by the combined forces of the Alpha Quadrant powers. Slowly, it becomes clear that the Kem D'Neel fleet is much smaller than was previously thought, and they are stretched very thinly across the quadrant.


With the Romulans and the Federation leading the counter-offensive, the Enforcers shift tactics. They cease their lone-wolf attacks and bring their starships together, first into squadrons, then into one single fleet. As they do this, the Alpha Quadrant powers tighten the noose, until finally the Kem D'Neel fleet is cornered in the Coriana system. United for the first time in their history, the forces of the Alpha Quadrant - Federation, Romulan, Klingon and Cardassian - engage the Enforcers in a gigantic fleet battle in orbit of Coriana III.


The Allied fleet prepares to engage the enemy at Coriana III


Legends are made that day. Starfleet, led by the USS Odyssey, comprises the bulk of the allied fleet, but the Romulans are there in numbers, as are the Klingons and Cardassians. Many famous starships and thousands of Starfleet personnel meet their end in the skies over Coriana III, including the USS Pacifica and USS Endeavour. The battle rages for hours, until suddenly the Kem D'Neel open a vox frequency to the allied fleet. It is the first time the aliens have deigned to open communications, and the message they send is incredible. The Kem D'Neel claim that their true mission was what has been achieved at Coriana III - the unification of the races of the Alpha Quadrant. Then, the remains of the alien fleet opens transwarp conduits to parts unknown, and the Enforcers disappear.


The USS Pacifica (NCC-5780) is destroyed at the Battle of Coriana III


In the aftermath of the battle, much speculation arises from what the Kem D'Neel meant, even as the bewildered Alpha Quadrant powers stand down and return to their borders. It emerges that the Cardassians and Klingons have been hit the hardest, with the Cardassians in particular losing over a third of their standing military. The Romulans retreat behind the Neutral Zone to lick their wounds and keep their own counsel. The Klingons return to the scraps of their empire, grimly realising that their place in galactic history may also be coming to an end.


In the Federation, a new peace dawns. It is not a victory that comes easily in face of tens of millions of dead citizens and dozens of shattered colonies, but the pieces begin to be picked up. The rich and populous capital words in the Federation's core have escaped destruction, and the Federation's mighty wheels of industry begin to grind again. A great reorganisation of Starfleet begins - many older ship designs are taken off front-line service and placed in the reserve fleet. New starships like the USS Nova and USS Yorktown are launched, and others like the USS Zeus become command and control vessels for new task forces that spring up in the aftermath of the war. A new generation of Starfleet officers graduates to take the places of those who have fallen.


Life goes on. The dead are mourned, and the Federation breathes again.


Several listening posts along the Tholian border detect erratic movement of starships inside Tholian space. Unsure if the Tholians are militarising their border, Starfleet sends several ships of the line to patrol the area, increasing the risk of a confrontation with the enigmatic aliens. A second diplomatic mission is sent to the border, but is again intercepted and warned off. The Tholians refuse to make their intentions clear, resulting a rise of tensions between the two powers.

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2413

-4th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-The Romulan Incursion
-First Contact with the Locusta Regime



As the Federation begins its recovery from the Seventh War, a new enemy is making itself known inside the Romulan Star Empire. The Locusta Regime, an inter-dimensional power that holds sway over hundreds of parallel universes, has finally penetrated the veil surrounding this universe. The Locusta, a fascistic version of the worst that Humanity might have become, have used their Dimensional-drives to cross over into many universes, seeking raw materials to power their own home universe.


Locusta agents make contact with the elements of the Romulan military and convince the Romulans that a strike against the Federation now, while it is recovering from the Seventh War, would be almost guaranteed success and ensure reunification with Vulcan. In return for their aid, the Locusta are seeking a rare mineral known as letridium, currently being mined by the Federation in the Vega system.



The Vigilance Platform, orbiting Vega IX


Locusta agents, known as Pretenders, infiltrate Vulcan. Pretenders are Locusta who are specially-trained to assume the identities of their doubles in any universe. They are made up of many races - Vulcans, Humans, Andorians, and many more, all under the control of the Locusta Regime. Under the leadership of these Vulcan Locustan Pretenders, who have secretly murdered and assumed the identities of the true leaders of the Vulcan people, the planet of Vulcan suddenly secedes from the Federation and announces imminent reunification with the Romulan Star Empire, throwing the Federation Assembly and Council into chaos as a constitutional crisis is provoked.


Meanwhile, a Romulan fleet decloaks in the Vegan system. Their target is the Vigilance Platform, a space station orbiting Vega IX, homeworld of the Vegan people. When challenged by the USS Odyssey, the Romulans attack and obliterate Starfleet's flagship without warning, also destroying the USS Nova in the process. The Romulans assault and badly damage the Vigilance Platform, seizing vast quantities of raw letridium and killing anyone who gets in their way.


Meanwhile, the USS Zeus, patrolling alone and too far from Vega to be immediately notified of the sudden danger, makes First Contact with a Locusta starship that emerges from a dimensional rift. The Zeus attempts to challenge the Locusta starship, but is fired upon, crippled, and left for dead.


As Starfleet begins to respond to these two new threats, the Romulan fleet, having seized all the letridium it can, cloaks itself and heads back to its own space. The Romulan Incursion of 2413 signals the beginning of a new cold war between the two powers. Starfleet moves to secure the Vulcan system from any Romulan military annexation, and is authorised by the Federation Council to fire without warning on any Romulan starship inside Federation territory. Tensions balance on a knife-edge as the quadrant threatens to slip into a devastating new war.


The Federation Assembly is forced to consider a constitutional question that has never needed to be answered in its 252-year history - does a member world have the right to simply leave the United Federation of Planets?


The USS Farragut, investigating the Locusta ability to pass between dimensions, manages to penetrate a Locustan dimensional rift and emerges into the Locustan home universe. While there, the Farragut makes contact with a resistance movement nicknamed the Phoenix Regime. The Phoenix Regime is attempting to overthrow the government of the Locusta Regime, seeing that the Locusta imperative to dominate the multiverse will eventually lead to its own destruction. The Farragut assists the Phoenix Regime how it can, and eventually manages to penetrate a secret Locusta weapons research facility in orbit of Locustan Earth. While there, a universal doomsday weapon is triggered - all matter in the Locusta home universe begins to collapse inward into one dimensionless singularity. The Farragut escapes the Locusta universe and back to our own even as the Locusta home universe, with all its myriad life, is destroyed.



The death of the Locusta Earth


Following these events, the Vulcan Pretenders are unmasked and arrested. The constitutional crisis sparked by the attempted secession of Vulcan is nullified, and the planet returns to full membership of the Federation.


As a result of this disastrous First Contact with the deadly Locusta Regime, Starfleet begins to devote scientific research into multiversal and cross-dimensional phenomena. While it is hoped that the destruction of their home universe will give the Locusta Regime pause before attempting to enter this universe again, it is grimly realised by Starfleet that the Locusta hold sway over many hundreds of universes, and their ability to wage war will not have been much affected by the loss of their home dimension. Future contact and conflict, it seems, is almost certain.


Starfleet launches the Advanced Command Training (ACT) programme. It is a programme of intensive training for those destined to become department head officers or higher. Competition to secure places in ACT classes for Cadets is fierce.



The ACT logo, worn as a patch on the right shoulder of the Cadet uniform


For the second time in three years, the Federation sends a diplomatic envoy to attempt to make contact with the Tholians. Despite numerous subspace messages to ensure the Tholians of the peaceful nature of the mission, the diplomatic ship is again intercepted. This time, however, the Tholians announce that they are closing their border to all Federation traffic. This change of policy is sudden and mystifies Federation diplomats.


Now with the rank of Captain and commanding the USS Scarab, Charles Koniki is reponsible for the break-up of several foreign intelligence units working inside Federation space. His efforts do not go unnoticed by Starfleet's top brass.

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2414

-5th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-The Borg Civil War



Starfleet's shakeup following the end of the Seventh War continues. Contact with the Cytherians and Immorians has greatly enhanced Starfleet's design and production efforts, and the new series of starships coming online are some of the finest ever produced.


The USS Yorktown is mothballed, and the new Investigator-class comes online. With a focus on Intelligence work, the USS Discovery is launched as part of that design series.



USS Discovery (NCC-12001)


Following on from last year's scientific efforts to learn about cross-dimensional technology, the USS Prophecy is launched. She is an experimental starship equipped with a Dimensional-drive (D-drive), that allows her to shift between this universe and alternate realities in the multiverse. It is the Federation's first attempt to learn what lies beyond the veil that separates this space-time continuum from others.



USS Prophecy (NCC-41599)


Another new series of starships that comes online is the Century-class. The USS Century, lead ship of that design, is equipped with another new piece of experimental technology - ARCUS, the Advanced Reactive Computer User System - succinctly, Arcus is a holographic representation of the ship's main computer, given holographic and fully-interactive form. It is the Federation's next step towards a fully-functional starship-based AI.


USS Century (NCC-10000)


Tragedy strikes Starfleet early in the year when the USS Farragut is destroyed fighting Romulans in the Neutral Zone. Confrontations between the two powers are relatively rare since last year's Incursion, but when they do happen, both sides act as if at war. Although neither side attempts to launch large-scale fleet actions against the other, relations remain violently hostile.


After four years of construction on the far side of the Bajoran wormhole, Gateway Station comes online in the Andaran system. It is the Federation's first presence in the far-off Gamma Quadrant, domain of their old enemies, the Dominion. Gateway's activation begins to open up the Gamma Quadrant to Federation trade and shipping.


Gateway Station (GS-1)


Charles Koniki is promoted to Admiral and is appointed Head of Starfleet Intelligence.


Admiral Charles Koniki


In the Borg Federation, a faction calling itself the Neo-Collective challenges the Borg Council for power. The Neo-Collective, as its name implies, advocates a return to the Borg Collective of the last century, reasoning that individualism has paralysed the development of the organic-mechanical gestalt. The Neo-Collective begins forcibly assimilating individual Borg into its new collective, forcing a military confrontation with the Borg Council. With Federation assistance, the Neo-Collective is defeated, and the future development of the Borg as individuals is assured.



The Borg of the Neo-Collective

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2415

-6th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition



With new starship designs moving from the design to the construction stage as Starfleet is modernised and updated, a new generation of starships begins to take to the stars. The Legend-class, including the USS Avalon, and the Suttner-class, led by the new USS Suttner, are launched into service.


The Federation Council votes to begin preparation for new long-term exploration missions into the galaxy, despite objections that the fleet is still too weak after four years of constant conflict.


The USS Patriot is dispatched to Klingon space to assist the Klingons in putting down the revolt of Sovek, the False Emperor, against the High Council. Upon her return, she docks at Starbase 56. A terrorist attack upon the Starbase severely damages the station's main reactor. In a desperate attempt to save the starbase, the Patriot uses a tractor beam to drag the ejected starbase's warp core to a safe distance. Unfortunately, the severely-damaged core explodes, destroying the USS Patriot. The cause of the terrorist attack remains unknown, but given that Edmund Dupree, the secret leader of the Neo-Essentialist movement, is currently the commanding officer of Starbase 56, it is suspected that the outlawed group is responsible for the tragedy.



Sovek, The False Emperor

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2416

-7th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition



Following the conclusion of her Intelligence role, the USS Discovery returns to McKinley station for an overhaul and refit. Her mission focus is to be changed - she is now slated to be Starfleet's first deep-space exploration mission in almost half-a-century, to be launched next year with a new crew.


To honour the sacrifice of the USS Patriot in saving so many lives at Starbase 56, a new Nova II-class destroyer is given the name USS Patriot-A, launching to much fanfare this year.



USS Patriot (NCC-5781-A)

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2417

-8th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-Launch of USS Discovery



Fully refitted now as an explorer starship, the USS Discovery is launched on a five-year mission of exploration to the Beta Quadrant. It is Starfleet's first deep-space exploration mission in fifty years. The Discovery is assigned to follow the paths of the Torch series of probes, launched into the Beta Quadrant almost a century ago. That part of the galaxy is made of older stars, many of which have entered the final stages of their life cycles. Consequently, the Discovery is fitted with a First Contact focus, and carries a state-of-the-art sensor platform in order to study the ruined civilisations she might encounter.



USS Discovery (NCC-12001)

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2418

-9th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-The Calnarian Conflict begins
-The Cobalt Incident



While exploring the deadworlds of the Beta Quadrant, the USS Discovery makes contact with the aggressive and xenophobic Calnarian Solar Empire. The ship is crippled and the crew taken prisoner, but a mass breakout from their prison cells leads to the Discovery's crew returning home to Federation space, unaware that a Calnarian task force is following their trail.



The hideous maw of a Calnarian Warrior


The USS Cobalt, patrolling near the Tholian border, is badly damaged by a powerful spatial anomaly. Before Starfleet can launch a rescue operation, the crippled Cobalt drifts into Tholian space. Not wishing to provoke a military confrontation by crossing the border, and unable to make contact with the starship, Starfleet lists the USS Cobalt as missing, with all hands presumed lost. However, three months later, a series of Tholian transporter signatures is detected, aimed at Starbase 97 near the Tholian border. To the astonishment of the Starbase personnel, the entire crew of the USS Cobalt reappears, all in good health, but with no memories of their experiences inside Tholian space. The incident continues to add to the uncertainty faced by Federation diplomats - are the Tholians hostile or not?

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2419

-10th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-First Contact with the Interstellar Consortium
-The Siege of Gateway and the Battle of Byss



The USS Prophecy, while exploring Dimension 000-036-000, makes contact with the extra-dimensional Interstellar Consortium. It is the most successful of the first contacts made throughout the multiverse.


More modern starship designs come online in this period of increased production, including the Suttner-class USS Eidolon and the Scarab-class USS Anubis, a dedicated Intelligence platform. Others, such as the USS Avalon and USS Suttner, are mothballed or placed in the reserve fleet.



The Scarab-class USS Anubis


The USS Anubis is launched equipped with an android supplied by Bruce Maddox's team in the Daystrom Institute. Although not a self-aware positronic unit, this android (nicknamed 'Ani') is a fully-functional avatar of the Anubis' main computer, achieving this by remaining in constant contact with the ship's core computer processor through a secured multi-layered quantum-encoded subspace connection. It is constructed using the same high-density poly-carbonate alloy that will serve as the frame for Dr. Maddox's future positronic androids. The 'Ani' android is capable of operating in extreme environments and features limited bio-regenerative capabilities. It is the final step on the road towards a sentient artificial positronic life-form.



The android 'Ani'


The USS Discovery arrives home to Gateway Station, unwittingly leading the trailing Calnarian task force to the space station's location. The Calnarians attack Gateway, but are repulsed after a fierce fight. As their survivors retreat to their home space, Starfleet organises a task force to pursue. In the ensuing Battle of Byss, Starfleet wins a complete victory over the Calnarians. Unable to sustain the conflict, the Calnarians sue for peace and agree on a non-aggression treaty with the Federation.

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2420

-11th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-The End of Days Campaign
-Construction begins on New Alexandria



Starfleet decides to end the Advanced Command Training programme after several years of cut-throat competition among Academy Cadets for places.


The USS Eidolon is ambushed and crippled by Orion pirates in the Hell's Throat region of space.


The USS Discovery pursues a legend across the deadworlds of the Beta Quadrant, seeking to learn more about mythical 'Crystal Tears' that are reputed to hold the secret to eternal life. Over the course of the year, the Discovery makes contact with several new species before finally finding Danus, the homeworld of the creators of the Tears. The Danusian civilisation is in ruins, but the crew of the Discovery learn that the Danusians created the Tears to serve as triggers to active temporal portals through time itself. Perhaps the Danusians have survived, somewhere in the distant past.



Danus V, the home of the ancient Danusian civilisation, masters of Time


The USS Patriot-A goes missing when her commanding officer turns her over to the Orion Syndicate. This disaster compromises the entire Nova-class line of destroyers, forcing Starfleet to mothball all front-line starships of this design.


Admiral Charles Koniki, the Head of Starfleet Intelligence, suddenly resigns his post, but as a private citizen, he does not stop his work in the Intelligence field. Koniki conceives of a dedicated Intelligence task force, one that is able to gather data on any perceived threat to Starfleet or the Federation. Utilising his years of contacts and influence, Koniki manages to arrange the beginning of the construction of a secret space station inside the asteroid field of the Geza Nebula to serve as headquarters for this secret task force. This hollowed-out asteroid is named New Alexandria.

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2421

-12th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition



Following the USS Century's uncovering of a Neo-Essentialist genetic laboratory on the storm-lashed planet of Elcaro, Edmund Dupree is unmasked as the leader of the Neo-Essentialists. Gathering his few loyal followers, Dupree hijacks the Century when she arrives at Starbase 56 and flees into the Beta Quadrant, evading capture.


Several months later, then-Captain Richard Edgerton of the USS Valhalla meets Admiral Dupree in system K-60. At that meeting, Captain Edgerton murders Edmund Dupree and all his followers by venting the Century's atmosphere into space. Edgerton, a committed militant Neo-Essentialist, quickly takes control of the organisation.

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2422

-13th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-Second Dominion War begins
-The Second Siege of Gateway



While exploring the limits of the multiverse, the USS Prophecy is pulled into a dimensional rift and destroyed.


The USS Discovery returns from her five-year mission to the deadworlds of the Beta Quadrant. The mission is hailed as a resounding success, and the starship is taken off front-line duty and placed in the reserve fleet.


Moray, a skilled administrator from Denobula, is elected President of the United Federation of Planets. His running-mate is Jari Langor, a Human-Cardassian hybrid who has been born and raised in the Federation.



President Moray of Denobula


A new Orb emerges from the Bajoran wormhole, but in a change from previous Orbs, it emerges on the far side of the wormhole, in the Gamma Quadrant. As theological speculations fly back and forth, the wormhole suddenly closes, stranding tens of thousands of Federation citizens millions of light-years from home. When the orb is brought aboard Gateway Station and identified as the Orb of Judgement, it causes an end-times hysteria among Bajorans.



The Orb of Judgement aboard Gateway Station


Seizing its chance, the Dominion engineers the destruction of the Federation's alliance with the Andarans and demands the station's surrender. When it is refused, the Dominion attacks Gateway, sparking the Second Dominion War. In the ensuing siege, the USS Eidolon is destroyed before the Dominion is beaten off.


As he continues to supervise the construction of New Alexandria, Admiral Charles Koniki secures the aid of an old comrade, the Joined Trill Jonak Rue.


Richard Edgerton is promoted to Admiral and becomes the new head of Starfleet Intelligence.



Admiral Richard Edgerton, secret leader of the Neo-Essentialist movement

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2423

-14th year of the Federation Role Playing Game
-2nd year of the Second Dominion War



The Siege of Gateway continues, with the Dominion blockading the Andaran system and launching sporadic raids to test the station's defences. Finally, the arrival of a Borg Federation relief force using transwarp conduits breaks the siege, allowing Starfleet to reinforce the area. Following this victory, the wormhole opens once again, seemingly spontaneously.



The Bajoran wormhole reopened


A fully-intact Jem'Hadar ship is captured by Starfleet Marines after a bloody boarding action. The ship is sent back to Earth, where a full study on its design and integrated systems begins. The knowledge gained from examining the battleship's design and technology will eventually result in the construction of the USS Phoenix.


The USS Pendragon and the USS Stonehenge are launched.

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2424

-15th year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-End of the Second Dominion War



As the war enters its third bloody year, the Dominon and the Federation are forced to the armistice table by the ongoing stalemate. After many months, a new peace treaty is hammered out, and the Second Dominion War comes to an end with a white peace.


Shortly after the end of the war, there is pandemonium in the Terran system, when several civilian ships report visual contact with a Tholian Webspinner inside the Mars Defence Perimeter. Starfleet scrambles ships to intercept, but despite repeated sensor sweeps and patrols, no Tholian ship is ever found.



A modern Tholian Webspinner-class starship

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2425

-16th and final year of the Federation Role Playing Game 1st Edition
-New Alexandria comes online



While assisting in an archaeological survey of Nimbus III, the USS Pendragon uncovers a mysterious chronoton artifact from the sands of that world. The power unleashed by the artifact hurls the Pendragon across the universe into a distant galaxy. After taking stock, the crew of the Pendragon decide to become a generational starship, and set off on the centuries-long voyage home.


After five years of construction under the watchful eye of Admiral Koniki, the New Alexandria space station comes online. Its initial task force is small, consisting only of the USS Scarab, but Admiral Koniki is not a man without friends, and soon the project begins to garner more help.



The New Alexandria space station, hidden inside a hollowed-out asteroid

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2426

President Moray and Vice-President Langor are re-elected to a second term of office.


After over half-a-century of work, the Maddox Institute on Mars activates not one but three new positronic matrices. These new androids are protected under a legal ruling during the 2360s and are free beings, able to choose their own paths in life. This enormous breakthrough in robotics gives hope that the creation of more positronic androids is possible in the future.


Byte, the first of the three new positronic androids activated this year

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2427

Admiral Koniki uses his influence to have new starships assigned to his secret Intelligence task force based in New Alexandria. The USS Anubis, USS Horus, and USS Sekhmet - all Scarab-class intelligence cruisers - go on active duty.



Specs of a Scarab-class starship


Tragedy strikes New Alexandria when Jonak Rue, long-time Joined Trill comrade of Admiral Koniki, is mortally wounded in an accident. In order to preserve the life of the Rue symbiont, it is transferred into the body of a new host - the Trill Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Tirina - who gains all of Jonak's memories, including those of his friendship with Admiral Koniki.

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2428

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The USS Horus, operating out of New Alexandria, secretly attempts to cross the Tholian border on an intelligence-gathering mission. However, as the Horus attempts to move into Tholian space, she encounters a powerful force which prevents her moving forward. Despite the Horus' best efforts, the exact nature and generation point of this force - repulsor field, force field, or something else - cannot be determined. The Horus abandons its mission and returns to New Alexandria.


USS Horus

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2429

-1st year of the Federation Role Playing Game (2nd Edition)
-The USS Pendragon changes history
-USS Discovery destroyed
-USS Century publicly decloaks over Paris
-Launch of the USS Phoenix
-The Romulan Invasion



The USS Pendragon, using the power of her on-board chronoton artifact, arrives in this year, seeking to change future-history by warning a select group of people about the Neo-Essentialist takeover of the Federation twenty years into the future.


A mysterious subspace signal is detected inside the Beta Quadrant by one of Starfleet's most isolated listening posts. Immediately recognising it as the badly-garbled subspace transponder code of the USS Century, Admiral Richard Edgerton launches a plan to ensure the destruction of the Century along with any proof that he was responsible for the murder of Edmund Dupree. Under the guise of a new exploration mission, the fifteen-year-old Investigator-class USS Discovery is brought back to front-line service. A veteran command crew is assigned to her, alongside a hand-picked crew of Neo-Essentialists. The Discovery voyages to the Beta Quadrant, finding the vacuum-preserved remains of Edmund Dupree and his followers. When the Discovery's investigation uncovers proof that Richard Edgerton is a Neo-Essentialist, the traitorous Discovery crew launch a mutiny, taking control of the ship, but the loyal command crew manage to escape to the Century and activate her long-dormant power systems. After a desperate battle in which the USS Discovery (and the proof of Admiral Edgerton's true loyalties) is destroyed, the USS Century limps home under cloak.


In order to protect themselves, the crew of the Century decloak the ship in the skies over Paris, an event witnessed by over one million people. The media seizes upon the crew, making them public figures, eliminating any chance Edgerton has to have them assassinated. They are contacted by the crew of the Pendragon and given forewarning of what will happen in the next twenty years. In order to help them, a secret starship project is brought online. In a night of high drama, the Century's crew hijack the USS Phoenix and launch the ship.



The USS Phoenix


The launch of the Phoenix makes all operational starships obsolete. The ship is a monster - a test-bed for reverse-engineering Jem'Hadar weapons technology in the Second Dominion War - and her launch causes diplomatic chaos on Romulus when they learn of its existence.


Richard Edgerton, with no choice now except to make his play for power, sends orders to several Neo-Essentialist starship captains along the Neutral Zone. Banding together, this squadron attacks and destroys several Romulan listening posts inside Romulan space, drawing a massive backlash. The Romulans invade the Federation, their offensive shattering Starfleet's Neutral Zone fleet, and they lay siege to Bolarus, intent on using it as a stepping stone on their way to the Federation's capital worlds.



The Imperial Navy sails to war


Against this backdrop, the Federation Council votes to suspend the Federation Charter and declare martial law throughout the Federation, putting Starfleet in control of the government, and promoting Edgerton to Chief of Staff of Starfleet, in effect making him a dictator.

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2430

-President Moray is assassinated
-The Civil War incident



While on a covert intelligence-gathering mission on board the Risian cruise ship Masquerade Dreams, the senior staff of the USS Anubis stumble upon a Rutian terrorist named Fenix. Although the terrorist's plan had only been to make a political statement to draw attention to his home world without causing any casualties aboard the cruise ship, the undercover team responded and the plan was derailed. Unfortunately, Fenix managed to escape from the Risian authorities shortly after having been turned over. It is suspected that he had help in doing so.


The cruise ship 'Masquerade Dreams'


The Phoenix and her crew flee Earth and set a course for the Triangle, both to escape Edgerton's clutches and in order to gain vital intelligence on the identities of many Neo-Essentialist officers within Starfleet. This intelligence had been obtained by a disgraced Starfleet officer named Selyara, a powerful touch telepath who had escaped a Starfleet stockade and was working as an information broker. The Phoenix docks at an independent space station named Limbo, a place wracked with its own petty rivalries between crime lords and squabbles between various criminal factions. Pursued there by a deadly Neo-Essentialist assassin and getting entangled in Limbo's politics, the Phoenix crew makes contact with an important Romulan admiral and manages to convince her of what is happening on Earth. They also manage to make contact with Selyara and flee the station, with over seven thousand former Federation refugees in tow.


Limbo


Now in control of Earth, Edgerton declares the Phoenix and her crew outlaws and traitors, and engineers the assassinations of the Federation's President Moray and Vice-President Langor, changing the structure of the Federation so that Neo-Essentialist governors are now in control of the various Federation member worlds. As the peoples of the Federation begin to chafe under the rule of Starfleet, the Romulan Senate, aware now that they are being manipulated by the Neo-Essentialists, withdraw from Federation space and back to their Neutral Zone borders.


Meanwhile, the Phoenix sets course for the Elandipole system, where the Pendragon is waiting. To get there, they have to travel through an unexplored region of space called the Hyperion Expanse, that contains a magnascopic storm that has been raging for centuries. On their voyage through the storm, it becomes apparent that the mysterious lights of the Hyperion Expanse are, in fact, subspace aliens who are using the Expanse as their breeding ground. Attracted to the energy of the Phoenix's warp core, the radioactive aliens pose a danger to the ship. Compounded by an attempt by some of the Limbo refugees to seize the ship for themselves, the crew of the Phoenix eventually manage to drive the aliens away while securing the ship.



A manifestation of an Amaterasu


On Earth, the last remnants of the legitimate Federation government band together and assemble a small fleet of starships made up of crews loyal to the pre-Essentialist Federation. Rescuing as many political prisoners as they can, this fleet fled Earth and sets course for Elandipole.


The Phoenix finally arrives at the Elandipole system and makes contact with the Pendragon. The refugees from Limbo colonise the class M world in the system. With the arrival of the fleet from Earth, a government-in-exile is set up under the Andorian President Thoris P'Trell, and discussions as to how to take the fight to the Neo-Essentialists get under way.


Unknown to the loyalist fleet, Edgerton has assembled a Neo-Essentialist fleet of his own. He persuades a long-retired Starfleet Admiral named Dexter Marxx to come out of retirement and lead that Neo-Essentialist fleet, dispatching it with orders to destroy the rebels massing at Elandipole. Marxx has no idea about the Neo-Essentialists - to him, the government on Earth is the legitimate one. During a confrontation between the two fleets at Elandipole, during which President P'Trell is unmasked as a Neo-Essentialist agent, the Phoenix presents proof to Marxx that the Neo-Essentialists are behind everything. The Neo-Essentialist officers in Marxx's fleet are removed when Selyara broadcasts a fleet-wide hail containing the proof before leaving. During the confrontation, the chronoton artifact within the Pendragon again activated, and she fades from existence.

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2431

-Project Promethean is uncovered
-Paris is destroyed by a thaleron weapon



United and under a new President, the Vulcan Sardak, Starfleet sets off on the voyage back to the Earth to force a final battle with Edgerton and restore the Federation, but the voyage is not smooth. A pirate attack on the fleet's hospital ship results in the theft of the medical and transporter records of thousands of personnel. Detaching from the fleet to investigate, the Phoenix pursues the pirates to the ice-world of Lavenza II, finding a secret Neo-Essentialist genetic research lab buried in the permafrost of the planet. The Neo-Essentialists have been tinkering with the Human genome, trying to create a strain of Humans that will be the future master race of the quadrant - they have developed an amazing piece of cloning technology they call the 'Promethean Device' that utilises transporter and medical data to reconstitute clones, and that can combine the DNA information of almost any species into horrific genetic chimeras. The Phoenix's away team manages to penetrate the base, recover the stolen data, and destroy the unnatural project in the process.



The Promethean Device


The Phoenix races to Earth, joining the fleet as it arrives in sector 001. On behalf of the Federation, President Sardak demands the unconditional surrender of the Neo-Essentialists, while Admiral Marxx co-ordinates a planetary blockade. But Edgerton is not finished. He launches a network of atmospheric satellites to cut off access to the surface - each satellite is a thaleron generator, capable of irradiating five thousand square kilometres of earth beneath it, and is connected to the others by means of a tachyon web. This planetary satellite network - the Aegis Shield - forces Starfleet to pause.


While scientific efforts are made to analyse the tachyon web, contact is made with Selyara, who has gone ahead to Earth and teamed up with a bounty hunter named Raxl Drayton. Anxious to provide help to them, an ingenious plan to deliver a man from space to the Earth's surface is conceived and executed - James Barton, the Phoenix's Security Chief, becomes the first humanoid to make a space-to-surface jump. The trio make plans to locate Edgerton's Aegis command bunker by gaining the confidence of his personal assistant.


Meanwhile, the negotiations with Edgerton do not go well. On Stardate 2.160705, in an insane attempt to prove that he is prepared to destroy Humanity rather than return its homeworld to the Federation, Richard Edgerton unleashes his thaleron weapon upon the city of Paris. Twenty-eight million people die in the worst single holocaust in Human history. The seat of the Federation is sundered and a great charred black spot is permanently created on the Earth's surface.



Paris lies in ruins following its destruction by the Neo-Essentialist thaleron weapon


With the future of the Federation hanging in the balance, a desperate mission is launched to the surface using a phase-cloaked shuttle to circumvent the planetary shield. While the on-board strike team directly assaults Edgerton's underwater bunker, the orbiting fleet attacks the Aegis satellite network to prevent any more cities from being destroyed. The Battle for Earth is the final conflict of the two-year campaign to overthrow the Neo-Essentialists. In the planetside struggle, Richard Edgerton is killed and his satellite network shut down. However, one failsafe device still menaces San Francisco, intending to destroy Starfleet just as its predecessor had destroyed Paris. After a furious orbital battle, Starfleet emerges triumphant, although many starships are lost and many thousands of men and women - chief among them Admiral Dexter Marxx - have given their lives to seal the victory.



Starfleet legend Dexter Marxx (2385-2431)


The Neo-Essentialist crisis has finally ended. In a great ceremony in San Francisco's Candlestick Stadium, the site of its original founding, the United Federation of Planets is reconstituted under President Sardak and the Federation Charter reaffirmed. However, amid the rejoicing, serious political divisions begin to appear in the upper echelons of the Federation government. Led by President Sardak, the majority of the Federation Council argues that yet another Human-led domestic threat to the Federation's security cannot go unanswered, that Human political power is too strong, and that Starfleet needs to be untangled from the machinery of government. In a vote that sends shockwaves through the Federation, Earth is stripped of its permanent status on the Council.


It is not the only new reality that asserts itself. The existence of Section 31 is no longer actively denied by the Federation - instead, Section 31 is reformed into an elite arm of Starfleet Intelligence and given legal authority. Elandipole is officially declared a Federation colony, and a massive clean-up operation is begun in the ravaged ruins of Paris. After some deliberation, President Sardak decides that his elevation to the office is not supported by previous precedence or law, and he resigns, leaving the office of President vacant.

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2432

-Delora Radaik elected Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire



Over the first half of 2432, the Federation Council attempts to repair relations between its member worlds, but it proves difficult. The beginning of the Paris clean-up is delayed, and funds that were supposed to be diverted to rebuild Bolarus go missing. Xana Bonviva, former assistant to the rising Human politician Hussein Karimi, attempts to investigate, and uncovers some links between the missing funds and a large Tellarite shipping consortium named Pangeos Pathways. With a power vacuum creating paralysis in the Council, Xana Bonviva and her associates continue their investigations into these dark political waters...


The Phoenix arrives at Stabase 56, its final port of call before picket duty along the Neutral Zone, to amazing news. The government of the Romulan Star Empire has a new Praetor - Delora Radaik, the very woman they made contact with on the space station of Limbo several years ago - and she calls for the appointment of a new Federation Ambassador to negotiate a new peace treaty between the two powers. To pave the way for this ambassador, Starfleet dispatches the starship Phoenix to Romulus on a diplomatic mission, the vessel becoming the first Federation starship to visit the Romulan homeworld since 2379.



Delora Raidaik, Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire


While on Romulus, the Phoenix foils a plot by a powerful faction in the Romulan Senate to trigger a new conflict between the Federation and the Empire. The Praetor emerges from the crisis more empowered, and is currently awaiting the arrival of a plenipotentiary from the Federation.
TO BE CONTINUED...