Recent Federation History

The following events are significantly relevant to the GURPS Star Trek USS Kongo campaign.

2151

• Broken Bow incident marks first human encounter with Klingons.

2152

• NX-01 Enterprise encounters Romulan warbirds but fails to make diplomatic first contact.

2155

• Coalition of Planets formed from Earth-Andorian-Vulcan-Tellarite alliance.

2156

• Earth-Romulan War begins.

2160

• Romulans defeated at Battle of Cheron by Coalition forces. Subspace-negotiated treaty establishes Romulan Neutral Zone.

2161

• United Federation of Planets formed.

2164

• USS Franklin reported missing in Gagarin Radiation Belt.

2202

• Rigel admitted to Federation.

2215

• Starfleet adopts use and development of photon torpedoes.

2243

• Duotronic computer invented by Dr. Richard Daystrom.

2245

• Federation and Klingon forces engage in stalemate battle at Sherman’s Planet.
• USS Kongo launched from San Francisco Fleet Yards.

2246

• Federation begins converting penal colonies into rehabilitation centers to treat inmates for criminal psychopathologies and sociopathic disorders.
• Massacre of Tarsus IV colony ordered by Governor Kodos.

2247

• Eminiar-Vendikar War escalates.

2248

• Starfleet loses contact with Friendship 1 probe. Planet Mantilles admitted to the Federation.

2249

• Planet Risa admitted to the Federation.

2251

• Battle of Axanar.

2255

• Treaty of Armens established between Federation and the Sheliak Corporate.

2257

• Over 200 crew members killed when USS Farragut encounters a dikironium cloud creature at Tycho IV.

2261

• Federation celebrates its first centennial.

2265

• USS Enterprise travels to edge of galaxy.
• Planet Ingraham B attacked by Denevan neural parasites.

2266

• Romulan warships engage in unprovoked attacks on several outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone.
• USS Enterprise establishes first contact with remnant of the First Federation.

2267

• Federation-klingon War. Treaty of Organia between Federation and Klingon Empire results in uneasy peace.
• Federation begins diplomatic intervention in Eminiar-Vendikar War.
• Cestus III colony destroyed by the previously unknown Gorn.
• USS Constellation destroyed by planet-killer.
• Nimbus III established by Federation, Klingon, and Romulan diplomats as “planet of galactic peace.”
• Romulan and Klingon empires engage in technology exchange.

2268

• Babel conference.
• Coridan admitted to Federation.
• USS Intrepid destroyed by “space amoeba.”
• Polaric Test Ban Treaty signed.
• USS Enterprise makes first contact with Kelvins from Andromeda galaxy.
• Starnes expedition lost on planet Triacus.
• Tholian Incident results in the loss of the USS Defiant.
• USS Enterprise makes first contact with Melkotians.
• Federation makes first contact with the Children of Tama, but diplomatic relations fail due to failures in translation leading to impossibilities in communication.
• Starfleet Intelligence acquires Romulan cloaking device.

2269

• Memory Alpha destroyed by Zetarians.
• Beta Niobe supernova destroys planet Sarpeidon.
• Rota Sevrin and his followers hijack USS Enterprise and enter the Romulan Neutral Zone.
• Planet Mantilles attacked by cosmic cloud creature.

2270

• Federation enacts quarantine of Delta Theta III under General Order 1.
• Admiral James Kirk appointed Chief of Starfleet Operations.
• Captain Willard Decker appointed commander of USS Enterprise, which becomes the first Starfleet vessel designated Ship of the Federation, indicating its primary status as representative and diplomatic envoy of the Federation.