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Chapter 1
A Planet At War
In 2014 North Korea fired missiles at the United Kingdom, and China launched against Israel. The United States came to the United Kingdom's aid at the behest of the British Prime Minister. President Barak Obama warned Kim Jong-un to stop firing upon the UK or he would be forced to retaliate on the UK's behalf. Kim Jong-un, ignored the President's warnings and continued his attacks on the UK, and America fired upon North Korea. President Obama, then, sent the USS George Washington Carrier Battle Group to the aide of Israel, and the Washington launched an air strike on Beijing Shahezhen Air Base. Russia joined China and North Korea then Iran, and Iraq joined the three countries, bringing biological weapons into the war, making up what came to be later called AXIS. The United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and Japan formed an alliance, which came to be known as the Allied Forces. At this point, the war was fought with non-nuclear weapons. Japan had made a treaty with the U.S., after the atomic attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of WWII, to never again use nuclear weapons, commonly known as "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," and she stood faithful to that agreement.
Early in 2015 global natural resources began to be on the brink of depletion as the last of earth's oil was drained from under her mantle. After six months, the United Kingdom was conquered, and the US feared that it would be Axis' next target. As the world's economy tumbled into chaos, President Obama launched nuclear missiles at North Korea and Russia. It was at this point that Axis invaded the U.S. with a surprise air and ground attack in Northeastern Virginal. North Korea launched a ground attack upon the state of Washington by which the Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, tried to control the entire west coast. Kim Jong-un underestimated the will of the American people as did the Russians. When they launched their attack upon the city of Spokane they spent several months fighting a group of teens who fought under their high school banner "Wolverines."
After the first month the U.S. began losing ground on the East Coast and had serious problems on the West, especially Oregon and California. After one year Axis occupied all coasts and boarders around the U.S., after two years all of the Western states are lost, Most of the Northern, and New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida belonged to the Axis occupiers. As the U.S. began regaining her land, Axis got angry and Iran launched Nuclear Missiles and took out North Texas, North Oklahoma, most of Colorado, all of Kansas, all of Missouri, most of Iowa, a big portion of Kentucky and Tennessee. To the East D.C. was taken out, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Main were all victims of nuclear devastation. This devastation gave American and UK troops new resolve and new motive. They rose up and began to fight, and to take back what Axis had taken from them.
The countries of the Allied Forces fought side by side against the AXIS, as the rest of the world waited and watched in horror. The war lasted for four years before an armistice was finally reached, but the devastation left a total of two billion dead in its wake. Every major city was damaged beyond belief, leaving no functional government. It looked as if Earth would die a slow and painful death of greed, hatred, and radiation poisoning. The biological agents swept through the rest of the planet spreading disease and death taking another billion. For the next 20 years survivors lived a miserable existence of disease and decay. For many years most pregnancies ended in miscarriages, and those that survived did so with severe birth defects.
By the year 2034 people started working together again trying to form communities and nations. Two great super-powers arose out of this: (A) The Eastern Alliance-which mainly consisted of AXIS, and (B) The Western Alliance-which mainly consisted of the Allied Forces and in the year 2053 the two main super-powers divided up the world and once again men started their quest for power and thirst for blood.
In the years following the third great war men began building military aircraft, the fighters of which were not much more than the fighter jets used in the Korean war in the 50's. By 2060 a cold war threatened to bring humanity back down to ground level. Because of this Zefram Cochrane, a scientist, took a nuclear missile that had failed to launch in WWIII and began turning it into a symbol of hope and peace. He built what he called a "warp engine" using matter-anti-matter technology. He called the ship "The Phoenix." On April 4, 2063 a plane from the Eastern Alliance attacked the Cochrane lab destroying the Phoenix and killing Zefram Cochrane. Lily Sloane, Cochrane's assistant was critically wounded in the attack, but survived. She kept most of Cochrane's plans for his warp drive engine, but a portion of it was destroyed in the fire.
In 2068 after 12 years of cold war, a treaty was finally signed between the two alliances and humanity was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Once again humanity began to rebuild itself. Cities were rebuilt and governments were re-established. The United States of America re-adapted the original constitution and America began to grow again. During this time two sides arose: (1) The Yankees, which consisted of those countries that had been part of the Western Alliance, and the Communists which consisted of the countries which made up the Eastern Alliance.
In the year 2190 WWIV began, and with a Navy and Air force (equivalent to a Pre-WWIII Navy & Air Force), both sides fought with conventional weapons (since the treatise 2018 specifically forbade nuclear weapons), but when the oil, weapons and ammunition ran out they resorted to swords, knives and spears. By the year 2222 the fourth great war (which had been going on for 32 years) had come down to two warring sides, the Yangs and the Comms, fighting each other with sticks and stones which was exactly as Einstein had predicted: " I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but world War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." The Comms was the name for the communists and the Yangs was the name for the Yankees. This time man-kind drove itself into the ground with little to no hope of a better life. All anyone knew was to fight the other side, and by 2252 most couldn't even tell you why they were fighting.
In 2262 one last massive battle was fought, though the Comms had help from an advanced race of humanoids from a starship. Another starship appeared and stopped the first from helping the Comms to win. The Captain of the 2nd starship, a Captain Kirk, seemed to know about the Yangs most cherished word: Freedom, and their most cherished documents: The Constitution of the United States, and he in fact could quote the Preamble from memory, and he knew about their most holy book The Holy Bible. Capt. Kirk told the Yangs that the precious words of the constitution were not just for the Yangs, but for the Comms as well.
Cloud Williams, the tribal chief, promised Capt. Kirk that he would make sure that the holy words of the Constitution were applied to all, both to the Yangs and to the Comms. After the Yang victory the ships left and were never heard from again, but with a Yang victory, the constitution was put back into force and they began rebuilding their society.
The first thing that was done was that the Constitution was reactivated and an election was held. Chief Cloud Williams was elected President of the United States and a congress was re-established. It took five years to rebuild the White House which was done only from drawn pictures and a few photographs which survived the third world war. At the same time work was completed on the Capitol building.
Workers began to rebuild major cities around the country as well as around the world. Of the six billion people who lived on earth just before WWIII only three billion were still extant in 2270 when the rebuilding of San Francisco took place. Archaeologists found all that was needed to start rebuilding technology beneath the rubble from WWIII.
The Military was re-established with an Army, Air Force, Marine Corp, and Navy. In 2310 men started looking to the stars and by the year 2320 they were building ship yards in orbit around the earth. It was at this point that Earth had it's first contact with a race known as the Romulans. They destroyed their ship yards and the keels that had been laid. They abducted 12 people and left. The ship yard was rebuilt and the first ship to be build was a battle ship which was named "USS United States SBBN-01." The second was a star carrier named "USS America SCVAN 01." Over the next 30 years a fleet of ships had been built by the Americans as well as the British and Japanese governments, each bearing its own country's designation. The Comms also had ships, but their ships were smaller star cruisers and torpedo ships. After the fourth world war the Comms never did rebuild their government and most of their allies joined the Yang, leaving the North Koreans to themselves.
The destruction of the ship yards in 2320 marked the beginning of a war with the Romulans that would end up lasting nearly a hundred years. They came back 15 years later claiming that the humans had deliberately infected them with a deadly disease and they needed to be exterminated. The only thing that kept that from happening was the United States and America along with the British and Japanese ships fighting them.
Most of the military ships were built with nuclear reactors and were only capable of light speed. The USS Saratoga was to be the last star carrier with this capability. The USS Forrestal SCVAN 19 was the first United States ship to be built with a faster than light engine. It was built with the Zefram Cochrane style engine, but during her space trials something went horribly wrong during her first warp test and over 300 of her crew died. Scientists and Engineers worked day and night to figure out what had happened, but because only a part of the Cochrane blue prints were saved they were unable to make it work so the Forrestal was taken out of service and was eventually decommissioned.
The Navy Department decided to go back to light speed engines until either the Cochrane engine could be perfected or another alternative could be found. Cochrane's records showed that his engine was based upon the Alcubierre Metric, but his records were incomplete. In 2359 research turned up records on the Alcubierre drive, which was proposed by Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, by which a star ship might achieve faster-than-light travel among the stars. The records were complete, and all tests that were done worked out. Therefore the first FTL drive that was adapted by the United States Navy was the Alcubierre drive, and in 2370 work began on the first star carrier to have an engine that would allow a ship to travel faster than light; the USS Hancock SCVAN 41. The year is now 2407.