Early FEDERATION HISTORY

When the first three races, the Pholi, the Trenoc, and the Panatrak, banded together to form the Federation, it would be over a hundred years until the Galen and Humans would complete the Federation as it is known today. However it would be incorrect to say that the recent stunning advances in science and technology were dependent on the newer Federation races.

            In the century after the Federation’s birth, the two technological races had only recently acquired interstellar capability, and their own space infrastructure was essentially minimal. In these early days there was a great focus in by expanding the limited space facilities the nascent Federation possessed. Major advances in engineering were made, changing the relatively small business of construction and manufacture at a solar system scale to the much larger requirements of an interstellar culture. Part of this expansion was to develop reliable and safe hardware components, many of these designs still persist within the Federation today and once these were discovered the more scientific and technological advances made in more recent times could be made.

            In these early times in the Federation we did not see a technological stagnation or halt of scientific progress but rather the rise of more invisible contributions, which have made more recent advances possible. The most important thing that the Federation gained in these early years was experience and a hardheaded competence with this new environment.

            These early years also began a golden age of exobiology, though the quantity of information produced was relatively small to the information being collected from the Federations many systems. These civilizations were the first in the Federation to be able to study life separate from what they had originally known, and many of the concepts and ideas that were formed on these first observations have become essential principles behind the modern subject.

            With an new understanding of how life functions on many different worlds a more holistic view on the basics of how life worked were developed, the new ideas and strategies uncovered would also pave the way for advances in medicine and ecology.

            In short the early years of the Federation set the seeds for the more visible progress of the last few decades. The foundations this first century set allowed the races of modern Federation to pursue more adventurous and exotic technologies, and the experience gained throughout that century of space faring provides the stable platform and infrastructure for modern federation activities.