Early Federation Era-The FSS Patton

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The first warp capable ship-the Phoenix

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Star Trek-The Eugenics War

Chapter 1:

It started as a pseudo-religious movement when a charismatic leader by the name of Khan Noonien Singh inspired people to believe in his vision of the future. He proposed a society that would be transformed by those that had the genetic aggression of humans transformed by genetic manipulation into superior intellects. They would lead the way into a golden age of peace and prosperity with a race of people that transcended the normal human frailties.

It was incredulous that such a message was received with anything but scorn in the decade of 2010-2020 as he rose to power, but it was also a testament to his sheer political genius. The messianic mythos was compelling to hundreds of thousands and soon grew to millions.

With such a large base of followers, many leaders would have lived in excess off of their duped followers, but Singh was truly a visionary, despite how warped that vision became. Instead of taking over a country by force, he proposed a dream of starting a new branch of human society on the moon and later reaching out to colonize other planets.

At any earlier time in world history, Singh would’ve been considered as just another fringe cult leader, but with his millions of followers, along with the companies he built during the 2010’s, he had considerable financial and industrial resources at his command.

 By 2015 there were the beginnings of the first Lunar bases and industrial outposts. Basic mining and construction were beginning or in advanced stages of development. A few wealthy individuals were paying for tourist trips to the moon. The prospect of starting a colony on the moon was not a farfetched idea at this point in time, especially when you had the financial resources to do it.

 Singh owned several companies that were managed by his genetically enhanced followers. These companies were well managed and were critical in founding a start-up lunar colony. One company supplied transport to low-earth orbit, another supplied power systems to space-related devices, and another supplied construction equipment for zero-gravity and lunar construction.

 He methodically built these companies during the decade of 2010 into a crucial infrastructure that laid the groundwork for a lunar colony. By 2019 he finished construction of his first lunar outpost and relocated his operations there. When he succeeded in establishing this outpost, his following grew considerably; many were enticed by the vision of starting a colony on a new world.

 His lunar operations grew and prospered while he wrestled with international impediments due to the poorly thought out UN-brokered Outer Space Treaty. Many nations refused to acknowledge the existence of this new lunar society as a separate and legitimate nation unto itself. The Outer space Treaty was a catalyst for much of this ambivalence. Singh nonetheless continued the expansion of his lunar empire during the 2020 decade. Using his own Earth based companies, he was able to provide low transport fees to those that wished to relocate to the colony from Earth, by 2027 the lunar colony had grown to 250,000 people and was dominant in everything related to commercial activity on the moon. Lunar tourism was booming and he was the sole provider, he raised prices on transporting tourists to the moon to facilitate a mass migration of his followers permanently relocating to the moon.

  By 2029 the problems of the interfering UN could not be ignored and he felt a unique claim to lunar sovereignty could no longer be ignored by the space fairing powers, he declared his colony a separate nation accountable only to the lunar citizens. Singh also provided special favors and bribes to line up the lesser non-space fairing nations that composed the majority in the UN. When he declared lunar independence, he had the votes in the UN to back him. On September 9^th in the year 2032, a new nation was born, officially recognized by the UN.

 The five major space powers voted against Singh, they viewed his power as a threat to all space activity since one man would have final say on all activity on the moon and beyond. Because of the vagaries of the Outer Space Treaty, nations that were signatory to the treaty could not claim sovereignty over anything in space. Since Khan’s new nation was not a signatory to the treaty, it did not have any of these constraints. Even more potentially troubling was the fact that Singh had access and control of space that extended clear to low Earth orbit. Anytime anyone wanted to go beyond Earth’s atmosphere, it became Khan’s defacto domain.

 The five major space powers negotiated a new space treaty, needlessly hostile to Singh’s colony. They tried to get it through the UN, but Singh had too many nations in his corner through the use of bribes and it was rejected.

 Singh was a sympathetic figure up until this point, but something inside him snapped, perhaps caused by all of the hostile international dealings and he began his descent into tyranny. He declared his intent to control all activity on the moon and extended it to encompass everything beyond low-Earth orbit.

Chapter 2:

By this time the lunar city was well established with over one million citizens and a significant industrial and technical base that created an economic powerhouse that rivaled mid-sized earthbound nations. He built a defense force in the 2030’s that could project force anywhere in cislunar space and beyond that utilized advanced nuclear thermal propulsion. No nation could build ships with such capabilities, defensive lasers and mass drivers that were dual-use cargo handlers and projectile devices were numerous on the moon.

As he built his space-based weapons, word began leaking out of atrocities of citizens that did not go along with his vision. Some were tortured, some simply disappeared, others were sent back to Earth. After a few years, the stories of this reached Earth and set in motion the space fairing nation’s plans to deal with him.

The UN was in Singh’s pocket, almost literally, through bribes to the corrupt lesser nations that made up the majority of nations in the UN. The space powers withdrew from the UN en-masse and announced sanctions against any nations that did not do the same, this effectively caused the UN’s collapse.

The five space powers moved in with a replacement for the UN, a Federation of space powers. Lesser nations that were not space fairing were allowed to join as a lower-tier member that did not wield any significant power like they did in the UN. The charter of the Federation of Space Powers was to act in a timely manner to all economic and security threats to the five space fairing powers. It was a military organization that enforced economic freedom and democracy. It would not sit idly by while dictators built their arsenals and crushed the freedoms and rights of their own citizens.

 The groundwork had been laid, and Khan’s day of reckoning was approaching fast. The first interplanetary war was declared a few months after the inception of the Federation, it was just enough time for the space powers to marshal all of their available ships and put them in a coherent command structure to mount an offensive on Singh’s empire.

 The Federation ships moved quickly to secure all of the orbital distribution centers that Singh owned in LEO. Singh responded by calling on all of his followers on Earth to rise up and take over by force. There were millions of earthbound followers at this point and they did as he said. Many cities across the planet were taken by force. Singh’s ships were dispatched to take back the orbital nodes and they beat back the Federation forces and retook some of the nodes. The other nodes remained under Federation control or were destroyed by the Federation forces to deny Singh the use of them. Ground-based laser systems pummeled the remaining nodes and sent them burning to the ground.

 Singh was outraged and launched mass strikes against Terran cities that were not under his control. Using the lunar mass drivers, he sent one ton rocks crashing into cities at a rate of four per day. In the course of one month, 30 million people had died on Earth.

 Under a deadly assault from the lunar mass drivers that lasted months, Earth marshaled its forces in a desperate attempt to reach the moon to assault Singh’s colony. The Federation had extensive ship building facilities and new ships were coming online to replace the ones lost in battle.  Every ship available was thrown into the effort, Singh’s space forces stopped most of them but a few got past his defenses and unleashed a nuclear assault on the colony, destroying Singh’s ability to make war.

 Singh’s body was never recovered; some believe he escaped into deep space onboard a specially prepared ship, others believed he hid himself away on Mars, biding his time when he would someday reappear and vie for control of the solar system.

Chapter 3:

The first interplanetary war was past and now it was time to rebuild on the Earth and throughout the solar system. Earth had suffered over 300 million casualties, Singh’s colony was shattered, but over 100,000 citizens survived the final assault. Under a new agreement with the Federation, the colonies were given recognition and allowed to function with virtual autonomy under an interim leader chosen by the Federation. The Federation helped rebuild the colony and Earth leaders helped write a constitution for the citizens of Luna. A time of peace and prosperity lasted for 70 years, but when mankind ventured forth from our solar system, a new period of conflict would begin again, but it would involve other star systems and other lifeforms.

Chapter 4:

Many historians believe that the primary purpose of creating the Federation of this era was as a legal justification to wage war against Khan Noonien Singh. That may be the case, but the Federation turned into a promoter of peace through military strength and a resolve to ensure economic freedom throughout the solar system. What followed in the 70 years of peace were the first tentative steps outside the solar system along with great strides in the advancement of science and technology. An economically free society is an innovative society, the frontier spirit was ingrained in the people that went forth and colonized the solar system. Most were descendents of the followers of Khan, their superior genetic makeup and yearning to escape from any Federation authority, made them strongly committed to colonizing the far reaches of the solar system. It was part of their heritage from that terrifying era, when it was questionable that we would survive as a civilization.

 As the upheaval of that era faded to a distant memory, a younger generation of Singh followers, or Nooniens, as they were often called, filled the ranks of the Federation. It was the Federation Starfleet that often protected space-bound interests of Nooniens and they often were the ones that provided the force to clarify any impasse. This was a natural draw to the Nooniens as they would never shy away from a fight, which was rather ironic considering that they were supposed to be genetically altered to abstain from such behavior.

Many sociologists believed that aggression was a natural consequence of heightened intelligence combined with strong moral beliefs; that certainly described a Noonien.

As their ranks grew in Starfleet, they would have an indelible impact on the future of the Federation and our relationship with alien races that we encountered among the stars.

The next chapter of the history of the Federation:

Post Eugenic War, the Followers of Khan Ascend to Power

The Federation war eagle swoops in on a planet to break the chains of  bondage from a tyrant.

This is the Federation's charter symbolized.

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