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
- 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.
- Klingon Empire adopts widespread use of cloaking technology on its warships.