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Historical Events

• Earth and her allies begin offensive manuevers versus the Romulans, starting a war of attrition.
• One UESF battle group, consisting of the elderly Earthships Halsey, Gorshkov and Yamamoto and their escort destroyers and frigates, almost accidentally managed to locate a Romulan fleet stocking point at a distant unnamed star system in the Triangulum Australe region. Wreaking havoc on dozens of dormant Romulan ships, the cruisers managed to halt the Romulan offensive before it reached the fringes of Earth colonization zones or the worlds of its neighbors and possible future allies. However, the self-destruction of the Romulan base crippled many of the vessels. Later, the battle group was attacked several times, and only USS Gorshkov managed to limp home, along with one frigate. The war was far from being over. A bitter point had been learned: the Romulans would acknowledge no other form of combat than a fight to death, be it as individuals or as a species.
• After about 400 built and provided for the war effort, the single-pilot escort 'Cochrane' fighters cease production.

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