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FEDERATION HISTORY: OVERVIEW

DATES ARE TRANSLATED TO EARTH’S TIME SYSTEM

YEAR/DAY/HOUR/MINUTES (AS ACCURACY DICTATES, BASED ON EARTH UT)/LOCATION

 

1898/178/13//CORTEN SYSTEM

Pholi broadcast contact message to Trenoc home system

Contact signal to Trenoc home world, sent by Pholi, transmission was a narrow beam Gravitational transmission, which was later to be adapted as a contact signal to the Panatrak, signal stressed a meeting at the Corten system. This is the only time that the Pholi have been observed to broadcast a complex intelligent interstellar message.

 

1898/190///TRENORET, TRENOC HOME WORLD

Pholi message had been fully deciphered, though much advancement would have to be made till a contact craft could be constructed

 

1910/005/// TRENORET, TRENOC HOME SYSTEM

Design development on Trenoc contact ship complete, construction and testing would require five more years.

 

1915/201/09// TRENORET, TRENOC HOME SYSTEM

Trenoc contact ship launched

The Trenoc contact ship would be launched from construction facilities around Trenoret itself, and although not the fastest contact ship, it would prove to be the most advanced. The Trenoc had invested much research into drive physics in the previous three decades, and the contact ship emerging from this, the Valen (lit. trans. Divine), could handle even steep gravitational wells. It also produced a craft that could attempt a land surface, though this feature would not be used.

 

1915/231/09// CORTEN SYSTEM

Trenoc contact ship arrives in Corten system

 

1915/231/23/50ORBIT AROUND CORTEN

Pholi contact Trenoc

The Valen began to receive microwave communications from Corten’s surface, on a pre-specified channel that was encoded on the Pholi contact message.

 

1915/232/03/12/ ORBIT AROUND CORTEN

The Valen dispatches a craft to the planet’s surface. craft carries the leading dignitaries of the Valen’s crew.

 

1915/232/03/31/ CORTEN'S SURFACE

Physical contact between Pholi and Trenoc. This would be one of the few times when the Trenoc would take on their native form, and one of the few times where they would show there advanced technology.

 

1951/350/16/13/OORT CLOUD AROUND PATINAR, PANATRAK HOME SYSTEM

Trenoc contacts Pantrak system

Trenoc ship, Luran, (lit. trans. Light) arrives at the border of the Patinar system, and broadcasts by spatial distortion, message received by monitoring mass sensors. Message content rich in spatial position, and some detail about the Trenoc race, also includes formal contact location in the Corten system. Panatrak triangulate message source, but by the time they manage to send an investigative probe, the Luran has left.

 

1954/353/22/30/OORT CLOUD AROUND PATINAR, PANATRAK HOME SYSTEM

Panatrak contact ship launched

Panatrak complete adjustments to drive physics, and the ship Hiurhea, (lit. trans. No direct translations as mythology, embodiment of truth), set out to contact positions in the Corten system, flight speeds of approximately 700c, this ship would prove to be the fastest of all race contact ships.

 

1954/020/09/00/CORTEN SYSTEM PERIPHERY

Hiurhea reduces system flight speed, as Corten’s gravitational well disrupts rapid propulsion. Trenoc contact vehicle Luran awaits around Corten

 

1954/021/02/11/CORTEN SYSTEM

FEDERATION FORMED

The federation is officially founded, with the union of the older Trenoc race with the newly star faring Panatrak, formal contact and rendezvous is around the Pholi colony world in the Corten system, Pholi bless this new age.

 

2061/204/13/48/ GADARREN SYSTEM

A joint Panatrak/Trenoc craft, Sinistris (lit trans, Concorde), was deigned to be the vessel to contact the Galen homeworld. This vessel also represented the pinnacle of space faring technology from the first century of the Federation’s existence. The Sinistris Broadcast a spatial distortion message towards Gadarren over the North Pole of the system’s star, the Galen’s outreach into space was a fairly recent event, and there were few vessels that could be dispatched to investigate, though many space borne observatories received the message, as well as many gravity wave instruments on Gadarren’s surface.

 

2061/250/// GADARREN SYSTEM

The Galen had fully deciphered the message, and a decision to construct a contact vehicle had been made, though the Galen at this time had the least complete knowledge and experience of space flight, their advances would be rapid, practically creating whole new industries to build their contact vehicle out in deep space.

 

2065/302/02/03/ GADARREN SYSTEM

LAUNCH OF THE GALEN CONTACT VEHICLE

The Galen contact vehicle, named Espeia (lit trans. Advance) set out under own power from the asteroid construction facility that created it. This contact vehicle would be the last to travel to Corten, Humans would not be brought here as the distance was too great. The Galen craft had been the first of its kind, a prototype in many respects, though its performance was almost flawless as it was designed with a great deal of redundancy and adaptability.

 

2065/320/14/12/  CORTEN SYSTEM

GALEN PEOPLE JOIN THE FEDERATION

The Galen contact vessel, and the Sinistris meet above Maenor, the contact made between the two ships would establish the Galen as a new member to the Federation. Later the four Federation races would formally meet on Corten.

 

2105/331/11/10/EARTH SYSTEM

FEDERATION CONTACT MESSAGE TO SOL SYSTEM

The protocol for initiating a race into the federation had been well practiced by Trenoc and Panatrak, the first message to Earth followed in the tradition, and used in honour to the Pholi, a similar message that they had sent the Trenoc which first founded the federation. This contact message was also going to be the federation’s last of this kind, as no races would join the federation in this manner again. The message was sent as spatial distortion which was rapidly triangulated, a ship was sent to investigate almost immediately after the message was broadcast, but these early human drives could only manage a few multiples of c and the closest trans-c ship took several hours to arrive at broadcast point, by which time the Federation ship the Jararet (lit trans. Light bringer, a Panatrak honorage of the Trenoc craft to their own system). Message included some federation information, and even some of the Galen’s art as they themselves had only recently joined the federation and this was part of their contribution, along with the star system that true first contact would occur at.

 

2106/021///EARTH SYSTEM

NAUTILUS PROJECT INITIATED

The Nautilus would be Earth’s contact vessel and first constructed starship, the project would take over six years before it set out to the contact star system, and would be the largest contact ship designed. Humans had to make huge advancements in drive physics to create large scale craft, and these problems would hamper the project for its entire duration.

 

2113/355/03/21 SOL SYSTEM PERIPHERY

EARTH CONTACT SHIP LAUNCHED

The finally constructed Nautilus craft was released from support facilities at the edge of the solar system, and prepared for its flight to the contact system, a system that would later be one of Earth’s colony systems, that would be called Athene. The Flight to Athene would be troubled with the drive problems that had plagued the craft, so much so that stealthed Panatrak vessels escorted the craft without their knowledge and would sprung to help if the situation had turned critical, fortunately Earth’s technology was remarkably robust despite its transient functionality.

 

2114/015/04/30 EARTH FIRST CONTACT SYSTEM, ORBIT AROUND ATHENE

EARTH’S FIRST CONTACT AND JOINING WITH THE FEDERATION

The contact craft Nautilus met with the message broadcasting ship the Jararet, which aboard had representatives of all the Federation races including the Pholi who had taken up the offer of a place aboard the contact ship. This meeting would result in Earth’s joining the federation. The Nautilus would return to Earth with federation craft from each of Federation races, though this would push Earthly tensions.

 

2116/015/04/30 EARTH SYSTEM

FEDERATION ARCHIVES OPEN TO HUMAN RACE

With diplomatic channels well established with the new federation race, the humans, on this second anniversary of contact the elder federation races would encourage an age of technological enrichment, along with the dispatch of human diplomats to establish embassies on Federation worlds. This age where the Federation was complete and set about strengthening the bonds between in each other and maturing together as a new star faring civilization.

2135//// FEDERATION

Construction of a large-scale wormhole network throughout the federation, this would provide the basis for later networks, and would be core to travel inside federation space. Although existing gates provided quick routes between worlds, these links were individual, and were not part of a more integrated system. By the 2150’s a dense network of wormhole gates between federation colony words had been established, and the first orbital gates were is use to provide routing for spacecraft.

 

2142/162/// ORBITAL FACILITY IN SOL’S ASTEROID BELT

LAUNCH OF THE MERLIN CLASS

Launch of the first craft of the Merlin design. The basic structure of this craft would be adapted continuously for the next thirty years to provide a swift response vehicle for the federation, serving as one of the backbone craft of the early fleet. Though this class would be later superceded by the smaller craft of the Orca Range, and the Fenrir design craft.

 

2150////FEDERATION

A proposition for the creation of a dedicated fighter ship range made in federation ship concept conference, this ambitious proposal would finally emerge in the creation of the Orca Range, which would include the very finest of known technology to produce small strike craft up to huge support carriers.  

 

2154//// FEDERATION FLEET FOUNDRIES

PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST ORCA CRAFT

Production of the first craft in the Orca range (Protector and Defender classes), though the craft produced before the age of armament would be later refitted, to bring them inline with craft produced from 2160 onwards.   

2159/167/23// SECTION OF PATINAR AND TRENORET SPACECRAFT ROUTE

ARTEMIS ANOMALY FIRST DETECTED

The cartography vessel Star Magnifier confirmed an earlier reported anomaly found by patrolling hawk craft. This anomaly was the lure to ensure that the ‘Artemis’ craft would find ships to communicate with.

 

2159/302/14// SECTION OF PATINAR AND TRENORET SPACECRAFT ROUTE

‘ARTEMIS’ CRAFT ENTERS FEDERATION SPACE

The ‘Artemis’ anomaly that had been present for many months, changed to form the wormhole conduit, which ‘Artemis’ traveled through, the anomaly had been ‘deciphered’ prior to the arrival of the ship to reveal a great amount of detail, but most of the information the Federation would receive on the Mawa-rei threat would be gleaned with communications from the Artemis. This ship would also act as the first communications between the Federation and the Magellanic council.

 

2159/306/22// SECTION OF PATINAR AND TRENORET SPACECRAFT ROUTE

‘ARTEMIS’ LEAVES FEDERATION SPACE

Communications with the Artemis would provide nearly all of the details about the Mawa-rei situation prior to actual contact in later years, the ship left federation space by the same ‘moving wormhole’ that it had used to enter federation space, no further communication with this craft would be made until the intercession at the end of the Mawa-rei wars, where it would once again appear in Federation space although without its warning, to confirm the news reported from the Magellanic clouds to population of federation space.

 

2160-2172//// FEDERATION

‘AGE OF ARMAMENT’

After the Artemis’ message it was apparent that the Federation would be facing a huge military force, and would need to vastly increase its existing fleet. This ‘age’ which would last until the first conflict would see the Federation greatly increasing its fleet and also training new crew members for a next generation of fighter craft.  

 

2164//// FEDERATION FLEET FOUNDRIES

PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST FENRIR CLASS CRAFT

This class of ship is considered by many to be an improvement on the small Orca range craft, including new ideas gathered from Orca performance. This craft would also be the most powerful and advanced craft in its class and would form the core of small craft attack groups, and serve for most of covert operations run in the Mawa-rei wars.

 

2164//// MALOR SYSTEM, FLIGHT RESEARCH BASE IN ASTEROID BELT

FIRST INFINITE MATTER DEVICE STARTS OPERATION

Though this device was purely experimental it would however pave the way for the federation to expand its fleet prior to the Mawa-rei wars. These devices practically removed the hold up on the production of antimatter and massless neutronium, whose difficulty in manufacture had been the major brake on starship construction and operation. Within five years IMD’s would be providing most of the neutronium and antimatter of the federation, replacing existing dedicated manufactories, and although few of these machines were built, and all were confined to their flight systems, a robust wormhole network would supply these materials to demanding shipyards across the federation.  

 

2165//// FEDERATION

RESEARCH INTO FERRANTI/YAUR-MARANN DRIVES

Amidst the age of armament the Federation set about developing technologies that would be essential for full-scale war, certainly one of the most important concerns is the flight capability of the fleet, and importantly its top speed. The Yaur-Marann effect was a well known effect amongst flight designers, and had been seen as a way forward in drive design, but had never been developed successfully. Development of ‘Jump-drive’ technology, based on the Yaur-Marann effect became a top priority and its development provided ever more powerful jump-drives that are still being developed in the 2200’s, however no truly useful drives were developed before 2185, though many prototype craft were built before than, and played an important part in the prelude to war.

 

2165//// MALOR SYSTEM, ADVANCED FLIGHT FACILITY

ONE-GATE PROJECT PROPOSED

It had long been recognized that the ability to form new wormholes without anchor devices would be an essential technology for the coming wars, and the one-gate project would hope to solve this problem. However as the project progressed it was realized that the vast amount of machinery and raw power would be needed to create new wormholes, and prospects for ship installed devices seemed impossible with current technology, however a mammoth machine could be constructed to do this task, and this machine and its testing would finally become the one-gate device.

 

2170/215/// MALOR SYSTEM, FLIGHT RESEARCH FACILITY

FIRST ONE-GATE WORMHOLE CREATED

Although the one-gate project had hoped to produce a simple and small machine that could be installed on ships, the only way possible to achieve the required power with current technology was to build a colossal multi-kilometre machine. After fifteen years of development, the great machine finally created the first ‘one-gated’ wormhole, where both termini were created separately to an anchor gate, this first wormhole created to un-anchored wormhole termini 87 metres apart. Although a technological triumph, this value fell far short of any useful distances, and far shorter than the 150,000 ly goal, t6his would take another decade of refinement, and dispatch of an anchoring craft.

 

2172/081/16/26/ SYSTEM OUT OF MAIN FEDERATION SPACE

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH MAWA-REI

A regular Orca scouting party discovers the first Mawa-rei craft in local space, this would prove to be the first conflict with a Mawa-rei craft. The Orca craft managed to capture the small reconnaissance vehicle, however it’s three-person crew suicided in a futile attack attempt before the Orca crew could intervene, this would prove to be the first poignant insight into Mawa-rei psychology. Although the craft was badly damaged in its futile assault, it provided invaluable information about technological ability and manufacturing capability.  

2174/023/// MALOR ONE-GATE FACILITY

LAUNCH OF ‘ANCHOR CRAFT’ MARANN-HASEYEI

It was realized that an anchor would be needed at the end of any one-gate generated wormhole, to provide a permanent usable gate, and the designers also thought that it could well be impossible to ferry gate components through the nascent wormhole, so a ship would have to fly out to the Magellanic Clouds with a suitable anchor device and support equipment. At the time there were no conventional craft that could make a multi-year continuous high propulsion trip to the clouds, and a new concept craft had to be designed on cutting edge jump-drive physics. The craft was intended as a one-off project, though many sister craft would be made, each with improvements on the first, though its drives could not work continuously, it could travel at about 98 ly a day in a series of jumps about 5 light years long. It would arrive at its destination early of the project and would remain stealthed for many years in waiting.

2181/006/17// MALOR SYSTEM, FLIGHT RESEARCH FACILITY

CREATION OF WORMHOLE TO MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

After many years of failed attempts, this project finally offered the ability to form extremely long distance wormholes, which would give the federation the tactical advantage of pushing the wars back into the Mawa-rei’s home territory. It would be the establishment of a successful beachhead in the Magellanic clouds that would finally mark the turn of the war.

 

2181/006/17// MALOR SYSTEM, FLIGHT RESEARCH FACILITY

CREATION OF A PERMANENT WORMHOLE LINK TO MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

The initial wormholes made by the one-gate devices were very small and unstable, their simply was not enough power to generate large termini over such great distances (~150,000 ly), so it was impossible to send through this nascent and transient terminus the material to make a suitable wormhole anchor gate. Several years before hand, a craft had been sent via conventional drives towards the clouds, and aboard a suitable anchor device had been stored, the new small termini were intercepted by this craft, and anchored. With a stable wormhole link between one-gate and the cloud periphery, this two gated system could be open and closed with only the small amount of power required by conventional anchored wormholes, from this larger gates could be constructed to allow the passage of large craft into the Clouds without having to travel the intervening distance.

 

2192/219/01/56 SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD, MAWA-REI OUTPOST WORLD

END OF THE MAWA-REI WARS

The long and bloody Mawa-rei war is finally drawn to a close, the last fighting Mawa-rei cell launches a kamikaze attack on the federation fleet, refusing surrender. Though the Mawa-rei have been decimated there are many Mawa-rei remaining, those who could not join the fight, and those that had been put into stasis by the federation.

 

2192/219/01/59 SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD

INTERCESSION OF MAGELLANIC COUNCIL

The federation knew that they would have to commit xenocide to ensure that the Mawa-rei would not build up there forces again, and re-establish itself as a threat, or that they would have to keep a permanent peace keeping force until the Mawa-rei could be made to change. However the elusive Magellanic council chose to intercede, and took the task of looking after the remaining Mawa-rei. The federation was asked to leave their space, and not to establish any colonies, though they would be permitted a permanent wormhole link between the cloud and federation space.

 
 

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