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.