2155

Historical Events

• January 01: The Star Fleet Corps of Engineers is considered to have been founded on this date, by a team of engineers building Starbase 1.

The date of January 1 is completely symbolic, but the team did self-name prior to the base's destruction.

• The period of (only) clandestine attacks against non-Romulan shipping comes to an end and the great offensive towards the heartspace of Earth and its allies begins. The first punitive missions against the Romulans are mounted.

• Attacks against Earth colonies are generally seen as the beginning of the historic Romulan War.

• The third ship of the Enterprise class is launched.

The assumption of the year is based on there being four in existence by the Romulan War.

• The Hippolyta class corvette enters service with the UESF.

• A seventh ship of the Edison class is ordered.

• The UESS Goddard (Edison class) is lost.

• The Dagger class escort fightercraft enters service.

Year is conjecture, but occurred by "the time the UESF knew it was facing the Romulan Star Empire".

• The sixth ship of the Edison class enters service with the UESF.

• Design work begins on a new Earth-specific corvette.

• SP-36 shuttles embarked onboard Enterprise explorers are equipped with phase cannon armament and augmented combat aerodynamics.

• After almost 100 years in their initial location relatively near Earth (but without any contact with the planet), the spacebound Neyel colony encounter a spatial interphase rift that deposits them a thousand times farther from home--in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 200,000 light years from the Milky Way Galaxy.

• Construction begins on the first of the Redstone subclass transports.

• Early: Earth, Andor, Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri and minor worlds (including Axanar and Kaferia) approve the first draft of an agreement for an alliance to be formed for trade, cultural exchange, and for mutual protection.

• Early: Romulans covertly hijack and capture a number of Vulcan High Command starships.

This occurs after the drafting of the trade alliance. Details in SFC-canon do differ from the original source.

• February 8: Starbase 1 opens for operations.

Dates regarding Starbase 1 occur one year earlier than in Federation: The First 150 Years, due to the other wartime actions that follow (as presented by Timo).

• Early March: To intervene with the Coridanites' apparent intent to form closer ties with the Humans, Vulcans, and other species, and to prevent the development of non-Romulan Warp-7 technology, the Romulans devastate the planetary surface (and a great deal of natural resources) in a suicide attack by starship at high warp speed.

• May 29: ECS Kobayashi Maru is lost to an apparent Klingon attack.

In reality, the Klingon ships have been hijacked by Romulans in order to obfuscate the origin of the attack. The date is SFC-canon, but occurred between 22 May and 22 July.

• July 22: Vulcan High Command starships (crewed by unidentified Romulan hijackers) attack Alpha Centauri.

This attack is part of a deception campaign to deter Vulcan/Centauri diplomacy. SFC-canon details differ from the original source.

• July 25: Romulan forces bombard the Human colony on Tarod IX, leaving few survivors.

The attackers are unknown to the survivors.

• July 29: The Vulcans declare their unwillingness to fight in any conflict, but will supply warp detection sensors to the other trade alliance signatories.

• October 16, 2155: Romulan forces bypass the Vulcan early-warning system, destroy the patrolling ships (including USS Yeager), and massacre all civilians on Deneva in an orbital bombardment.

This postpones the Romulan attack by one year (to fit into the game-canon start of the war), and turns it from an invasion to a bombardment.

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