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Historical Events

• 01 January: A major shift occurs in Earth's global economy, as it achieves Nation Capitol status.

• 18 January: USS Enterprise (NX-01) of Enterprise explorer class is decommissioned (never having served in the UFP Star Fleet) and restored to her original looks internally and externally, and preserved as a museum specimen. The other four surviving members of the class soon follow Enterprise into retirement.

• January: The Imperial Senate of the Romulan Star Empire broadcasts its ratification of the Treaty of Peace on all subspace frequencies. The message is picked up by allied starships along the border, and the treaty terms go into immediate effect. After 29 years of piratical attacks and declared hostilities, the Romulan War is finally over after staggering losses on both sides.

• May 24th: USS Cavalier (ND-626, Cavalry class) is shot to pieces well after the official declaration of ceasefire and limps to a crash landing onto an unexplored, barely M-class world.

• August 12: The Articles of the Federation are signed by United Earth, the Confederacy of Vulcan, the Andorian Empire, Tellar, and Alpha Centauri in San Francisco, officially establishing the existence of the United Federation of Planets.

• The UFP Star Fleet is founded, as well as is the Committee for Star Fleet. All vessels transferred to the organization are re-designated as USS (for United Star Ship).

• The United Earth Starfleet changes it's official organization name to Earth Fleet.

• October: Vulcan indicates that it will not provide any of it's warp 7-capable capital vessels to either the Defense or Exploration Commands, as a means to promote a de-escalation policy. Earth Fleet, in response, agrees to transfer the Columbia class Endeavor to UESPA for exploration purposes.

The month for both events is conjecture, but is presumed to occur after the founding of the UFP Star Fleet.

• December 13: Star Fleet Academy is established in San Francisco.

• The Ganges class destroyers are pressed into patrolling the newly-established Neutral Zone, while a few others patrol intra-Federation spacelanes or provided system defense.

• The role of desperation in Earth’s starflight programs is greatly reduced, and specie-ism is receding as well. The survey cruiser project is back on full speed, and expert opinions are collected.

• The first of the remaining first flight Cavalries is sold to member navies of the UFP.

• Vulcan Ambassador Solkar is replaced by Ambassador T’Jan, marking a transition to an era of openness and equality in Earth-Vulcan relations.

• Fifty-one vessels of the Roanoke class transports remain at the time of the founding of the UFP Star Fleet.

• The light cruiser Piranha and the transport vessel Roy Malcolm are dispatched to the Gamma Hydra system to rescue the stranded USS Kirov and USS Kerry (both Achilles class cruisers), but are unable to locate the vessels nor their crews.

The two rescue vessels are dispatched one year after the two Achilles are left behind by Admiral Larson.

• The war-weary UESS Emden (Helena class cruiser) is decommissioned and scrapped immediately following the war.

• The fourth Poseidon class heavy cruiser clears its box dock, to enter service with the UFP Star Fleet.

• The Tanathooef subclass escorts transferred to Star Fleet service receive a weapons and transporter refit.

• Late: The Vulcan High Command begins pulling back its deep space patrol fleet.

The late year presumption is based on it (most likely) occurring after Vulcan signs the Articles of the Federation in August.

New Technology

• Class F Plasma Injector System

References

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