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[RFC] The United Federation of Planets
 
#26
Quiet suggestion:

The Starfleet Corps of Engineers
Responsible for the construction and maintenance of Federation extra-solar bases and colonies. Their ship, the USS Jame Doohan, is the only current starfleet vessel to be named for a cast member of the original series and is, thus far, a unique vessel original built to assist in the construction and transport of Starbase 2. A posting to the Corps of Engineers is a prestigious one for a Starfleet Engineer, many of whom signed entered their current careers because of Montgomery Scott.
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Another suggestion for addition to the Starfleet section:

Starfleet Astrometric Service

While Starfleet likes to emphasize on their exploration and peace keeping aspects, Starfleet also worries about protecting Humanity from outside threats. To be able to see such threats coming, the Starfleet started their Astrometric Service on Starbase 1.

Starfleets Astrometric Service consists of a few control rooms in Federation Starbases which control a large network of interstellar sensors, the NOMAD probes. Starfleet seeded the larger and more 'interesting' stars with these sensor drones, which monitor their systems and report any unusual data back to the Starbases. While the NOMAD probes are just working on a non-aware expert system, they can be given special commands over their bidirectional Interwave links.

The Federation plans to extend the reach and density of their sensor network with time.
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New round for general comment. If you really want to help - I mean help help - then the History section needs
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Quote:The Federation holds a state monopoly on spacecraft construction: all Trekkie yards are subsidiaries of Utopia Planitia Shipyard and most often managed by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
Does this mean the former Soviets are not allowed to build spacecrafts of their own anymore? I think it might be a good idea to "weaken" this rule into a guideline...
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Quote:The Federation holds a state monopoly on spacecraft construction: all Trekkie yards are subsidiaries of Utopia Planitia Shipyard and most often managed by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
Does this mean the former Soviets are not allowed to build spacecrafts of their own anymore? I think it might be a good idea to "weaken" this rule into a guideline...
The way I read that, it means all the UFP shipyards are administratively part of Utopia Planitia. The shipyard at Korolev will have a Starfleet Corps of Engineers administrative staff, but is likely to continue building ships the way they have for the last decade.

(Although if I'm reading it wrong and what Mal means is Starfleet builds only fandom-specific ships, Artemis will happily purchase the rights to the Shuttle plans from the VVS.)
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#31
Comment on History, as I'm sketching out the Warsie document.

The Federation/Warsie Cold War, which isn't really a Cold War as much as it's a Chilly Disagreement.

It begun with the Tomed incident, and has been ongoing since. While both factions have not taken outright hostile action against each other, a rivalry has built up, leading to a number of tit-for-tat 'crisis' as each faction seeks prestigious achievements or successes, or accuses the other of unfair competition. It usually manifests as a marked stinginess from opposing judges, or similar. Both sides diplomats make sure it stays that way, as little more than 'friendly rivalry'.

The closest this rivalry came to growing into something more was the Republican Constitutional crisis of 2019.
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notes on history, could use somebody with skill @ words + brevity to add to & make more sense plz:



* Unofficial foundation date: May 23, 1974 (the day the Texas-based USS Enterprise fan club renamed itself STARFLEET)
* 2006: Handwavium gets out into the wild, STARFLEET regional commanders decide to start pooling resources to “do something really cool” with it.
* 2007: USS Southern Cross club puts their shuttlecraft into orbit ~2 weeks after Katz Schroedinger becomes the first Fen in space.
* July 9, 2007: USS Dejah Thoris club lands on Mars, Cdr {rollname} becomes the first person to set foot on that planet. Construction of Utopia Planitia city begun, using Dejah Thoris’ ship as centerpost.
* 2008: Starbase 1 core launches in segments from .uk, .us.wa, .ca, .nz and .sa. Assembled in high Earth orbit, plan is to use it as staging base for future missions, spacedock.
* 2008: USS Phoenix makes first interstellar transit to Alpha Centauri, discovers Pandora, Chiron
* 2008: Wave panic drives ~85% of STARFLEET members and dependents offworld; many end up congregating at Starbase 1 for lack of better option.
* {date} 2008: STARFLEET (the international Star Trek fanclub) formally disbands, reforms as the United Federation of Planets (meta-nation state), offers citizenship to any Trekkie willing to help build the final frontier.
* 2009ish?: Argument between Trekkie & Warsie workers starts minor riot (Tomed); things finally calm down with a “stop being stupid you fuckers” diplomatic note (T. of Algeron)
* 2009: Anticipation (Islandcon) establishes nature of Fenspace Convention; Federation signs on
* 2010: Paramount endorses Federation use of their IP, partly because it’s good publicity for the upcoming reboot, partly because they honestly can’t do jack about it.
* 2011ish: Reboot premieres, does well @ box office; Trekkie immigration increases worldwide.
* 2012: SOS-Con, beginning of the Boskone War. Trekkies involved in transport escort missions and large fleet actions
* 2014: End of Boskone War.
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Here's one possible take, with a few dates mined from the Fenwiki.


The United Federation of Planets can trace their roots back to May 23, 1974, when the Texas-based USS Enterprise fan club renamed itself STARFLEET. Their presence in space dates back to May 2007, when the USS Southern Cross (with help from other STARFLEET clubs) put a shuttlecraft in orbit two weeks after [[Katz Schrödinger] first went into space.

The faction's next milestone took place on July 9, 2007, when the USS Dejah Thoris club landed on Utopia Planitia and Cdr. Mary Zieger [Since you invoked E.R.Burroughs, I borrowed his wife's maiden name] became the first person to set foot on Mars.

The year 2008 was a watershed for the Trekkies. First, the core of Starbase 1 was assembled in Earth orbit - modules were launched from the UK, Washington state, Canada, New Zealand, and Saudia Arabia. [Did you mean "South Africa" here? Their country code is .za] Second, the USS Phoenix became the first ship to visit another star, discovering the planets Pandora and Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system. Finally, Starbase 1 gained its first crew when the handwavium panics swept the United States; nearly 85% of American STARFLEET members and their families moved into space. This was the trigger for STARFLEET to formally disband, re-form as the United Federation of Planets, and offer citizenship to any dispossessed Star Trek fan, making the UFP Fenspace's first recognized Faction.

August 2009 brought Islandcon (officially "Anticipation"), the first World Science Fiction Convention in space. Fenspace's standing constitution was refined and adopted here, and the Federation's leaders were among the first to sign it. However, the Federation were one of the first two factions to violate the convention, during the [[Tomed Incident] in November 2009. It took a diplomatic note from both Starfleet Command and the 501st Legion to the people involved - the Treaty of Algeron"Stop being dickheads and play nice, already!" - to get things under control.

Official recognition of the Federation by Earthside groups started in 2010, when Paramount endorsed the faction's use of their intellectual property.It was free publicity for the then-upcoming franchise reboot, and they couldn't stop it anyway. The new movies were released the following year; their success brought a new generation of fans off Earth and into the Federation.

The UFP, like all factions, took part in the [[Boskone War]. While they were most visible in large fleet actions against Boskonians, their primary contribution was delivering people and supplies where they needed to be, flying escorts for both smaller factions and their own transports.

Turn the record over to hear the rest of the story ...
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#34
A'ight, next round, almost home. History provided by Rob. Also, I should note that while I picked the names out of a hat the clubs mentioned in the history section are really real STARFLEET chapters out here in the real world, not just me bullshitting.

I swear to the dread lord Xenu I am going to finish this thing this weekend if I have to kill every single one of you in the process.



The United Federation of Planets (abbreviated UFP, also known informally as the Trekkies) is the largest and best-established of the Fen factions, encompassing roughly ¼ the systemwide population and 32% of the Convention’s annual GDP. Founded in 2008 as an amalgamation of worldwide Star Trek fan clubs, the Federation established the first permanent settlement on Mars, the first permanent installation in another solar system and the first orbital spacecraft construction facility in Fenspace.

==History==
The United Federation of Planets traces its roots to 1974, when the Texas-based Star Trek fan club USS EnterpriseNot to be confused with any of the spacecraft bearing that name. renamed itself STARFLEET and joined together with other clubs to form the first large (and eventually, first international) Star Trek fan association. Their presence in space dates to May 24, 2007, when the Waiuku, New Zealand-based USS Southern Cross club launched a makeshift shuttlecraft into orbit two weeks after Katz Schrödinger’s historic flight. STARFLEET followed up this success with the Alabama-based USS Dejah Thoris club’s successful landing on Mars on July 9, 2007. Club science officer Commander Mary Zeiger became the first human being to set foot on the Red Planet shorty thereafter.

2008 saw the assembly of Starbase 1 in high Earth orbit from core modules launched from the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. This station was the staging base for the USS Phoenix mission, which proved handwavium engines could travel faster than light and in the process visited Alpha Centauri for the first time. It also saw the invocation of handwavium panic through much of the first world; nearly 85% of STARFLEET members in the United States and their dependents fled offworld. In response to this potential humanitarian crisis STARFLEET’s board of directors disbanded the fan club and reformed as the United Federation of Planets, offering citizenship to any dispossessed Star Trek fan, making the Federation the first recognized faction in Fenspace.

August 2009 brought Islandcon (officially "Anticipation"), the first World Science Fiction Convention in space. Fenspace's standing constitution was refined and adopted here, and the Federation's leaders were among the first to sign it. However, the Federation were one of the first two factions to violate the convention, during the Tomed Incident in November 2009. It took a diplomatic note from both Starfleet Command and the 501st Legion to the people involved - the Treaty of Algeron"Stop being dickheads and play nice, already!" - to get things under control.

Official recognition of the Federation by Earthside groups started in 2010, when Paramount endorsed the faction's use of their intellectual property.It was free publicity for the then-upcoming franchise reboot, and they couldn't stop it anyway. The new movie was released the following year; its success brought a new generation of fans off Earth and into the Federation.

The UFP, like all factions, took part in the Boskone War. While they were most visible in large fleet actions against Boskonians, their primary contribution was delivering people and supplies where they needed to be, flying escorts for both smaller factions and their own transports.

Post-war the Federation settled into their role as the Convention’s unofficial hegemon, spending most of their time focusing on playing peacemaker among the smaller factions and exploring the nearer stars. On May 2, 2022 the Federation became the first major faction to annex a minor faction, when the Sozvezdie Soviet voted to join the UFP as a member state.

==Politics==
The Federation is a representative republic, with an elected president as both head of state and head of government. The presidential election is held every four years and a president may serve unlimited terms. Legislative power is held in the Federation Council, which is composed of representatives of every member state. Individual Councilors are elected or appointed according to their constituencies’ desires. The Council meets for one nine-month session every year: under special circumstances the President can call for an additional session.

The Federation Council convenes in the Palais de la Concorde in Utopia Planitia. Most civilian executive agencies maintain their central offices in the Palais as well.

===Law and criminal justice===
The Articles of Federation are the supreme law of the faction, and consist of written text and unwritten conventions. It has foundations in the common law traditions of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (where the majority of the faction’s founders originated). The enactment of criminal law is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government, and as such the Federation criminal code is applicable uniformly throughout faction strongholds and applies to UFP citizens throughout Fenspace. Federation common and criminal law maintain the standards held by the Articles of Convention.

Law enforcement duties are most commonly carried out by the Security division of Starfleet. Large settlements like Utopia Planitia, Korolevgrad and others have their own local police forces, which are answerable to the Federation government directly.

The Supreme Court of the Federation is the highest court in the faction, and holds final judicial authority over Federation laws and the interpretation thereof. Superior and inferior court matters are traditionally handled by local magistrates when necessary.

===Starfleet===
Starfleet is the Federation’s main military force. It is composed of the eponymous Starfleet as well as the Starfleet Marine Corps. According to the Starfleet Charter, the organization’s primary purpose is the peaceful exploration of space: some 65% of all Starfleet ships are classified as science vessels, while the remaining 35% all have some scientific instrumentation onboard. Regardless, Starfleet is the largest void navy in the Fenspace Convention, and the Federation ranks second in overall military spending in Fenspace, behind the Galactic Republic.Among factions with functional governments. Counting armies-without-a-country factions like the Roughriders the Federation ranks sixth.

Starfleet is administered by the Board of Admiralty, which is composed of the senior ranking officers of the fleets as well as the commanders of non-fleet divisions like the Marines or the Corps of Engineers. The Board answers directly to the Federation Council, which has final veto on Admiralty appointments and decisions.

Starfleet is organized into 5 separate fleet task groups, each with a specific operational sphere and home base. The First Fleet is based out of Starbase 1, Mars orbit and is tasked with defense and coastal patrol duties in the Mars system out to the nearer Main Belt asteroids. Fifth Fleet is the first Starfleet task group to be based outside of the solar system: the fleet operates from Deep Space Four orbiting Chiron, and is tasked with supporting the colonization and surveys of the Alpha Centauri trisystem.

The Starfleet Marine CorpsSometimes referred to as MACOs by the small number of Enterprise fans. are best known as the “Redshirts” for their distinctive crimson duty tunics, as well as their source material’s penchant for dying in droves. The Redshirts took the implied insult and turned it into a badge of pride, serving with distinction during the Boskone War and in countless small-unit police actions since.

The Starfleet Corps of Engineers is responsible for the construction and maintenance of Starfleet ships, exosolar bases, Federation colonies and nearly everything else the rest of the Federation takes for granted. The Corps command is based on the USS James Doohan, the only Starfleet ship named for an original cast member. Assignment to the Corps of Engineers is a mark of prestige for most Starfleet engineers, many of whom entered their careers because of Montgomery Scott.

The Federation was a signatory to the 2014 Space Arms Limitation Treaty (PEPPER) and the 2020 PEPPER II treaty. Fleet units are rotated through Great Justice service on a biannual basis: most of Starfleet’s operational combat craft either have served or are serving with Great Justice at any given time.
Constitution-class controversy
Since the founding of the Federation, the iconic form of the USS Enterprise has been missing from the fleet. Early efforts to build an appropriate Enterprise fell short of the mark due to lack of resources, or simply proved too quirky to be functional. Starfleet purchased OV-201 USS Enterprise in 2014 just to have a functional Enterprise; the shuttle Enterprise went on to a successful career as a science vessel. Despite this, in 2020 the Federation Council in a rare moment of directly butting into the affairs of Starfleet ordered the Admiralty to draw up plans and begin requisitioning the necessary materials, lab time, etc. to build a functional Constitution class starship (expected to be either NCC-1700 USS Constitution or NCC-1701 USS Enterprise) with a launch date of no later than September 8th, 2030.Ideally, the Council hoped Starfleet would get their act together and have an Enterprise ready to launch on September 8th, 2026, the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: TOS. This may have been overly optimistic.

As of 2022 the Admiralty hasn’t decided which Constitution class vessel will be implemented by the Council’s 2030 deadline. The original Matt Jefferies design is the favorite of the Corps of Engineers,Mostly thanks to the exhaustive Franz Joseph deckplans, which give the engineers a base to develop from. with a strong minority favoring the Andrew Probert redesign and smaller groups agitating for the Ryan Church reboot design or just skipping the Constitution class altogether and going for the Excelsior or even the Galaxy class.Enterprise, who will core transfer to NCC-1701 once one’s built, has remained neutral through this somewhat ridiculous debate.

===Relations with other factions===
As the 800 pound gorilla of Fenspace, most other factions treat the Federation with a certain amount of respect. But only a certain amount; most fen when asked will consider the average Trekkie aloof, self-righteous and a little nosy. This attitude frequently causes friction between the Federation and the other top-tier factions, particularly the more freewheeling Coalition of Independent Moons. This situation wasn’t improved by the Federation habit of putting their more abrasive civil servants into positions of diplomatic authority. The Federation Council corrected this problem around the beginning of the Boskone War, but the stereotype of the “arrogant idiot Federation Ambassador” remains strong in Fen circles into the 2020s.

The Federation and the Galactic Republic have a standing rivalry dating back to the Tomed incident. Neither faction has engaged in outright hostile action against the other, though there have been a number of mini-crises as the two factions seek prestigious achievements or successes, or accuse the other of unfair competition. Diplomats from both side ensure the rivalry remains in ‘chilly disagreement’ mode and doesn’t flash hot.

====Klingon separatism====
Klingons have always been a major Trekkie subgroup since the beginning of the fandom, and the Federation-centric nature of the faction never sat well with the neo-Klingons. The situation remained static during the scramble of the early days, but after the Boskone War the newfound peace allowed the neo-Klingon grumbling to start boiling over.

Klingon separatists built a small outpost and shipyard on the moon Rura PentheFormerly Proteus or Neptune VIII. in preparation for their oft-threatened official break with the rest of the Trekkies. The Klingons plan to use Rura Penthe as their official point of presence in the Sol system while the rest of the separatists move to Qo’noS, an appropriately-dangerous earthlike planet in the Pi 3 Orionis system discovered by Klingon scouts in 2022.

===Future plans===
The Federation’s long term plans as of 2022 are focused mainly on exosolar migration. While the faction has no plans on abandoning Sol outright, analysts predict that mass migration away from Earth will start happening over the next generation as more and more earthlike exosolar worlds are discovered, and whoever has the claims and infrastructure down will win near exosolar space. Starfleet is developing colony shipsSimilar to the Island class used in the Greenwood colonization of the Achird A system, but simpler to manufacture and designed to be broken down into parts for a surface colony at the destination. for extended migration to Pandora, Chiron and Vulcan.The Soviet claims on the Tau Ceti, Delta Pavonis and Zeta 1 Reticuli systems have not officially gone over to the Federation and remain under the subfaction’s jurisdiction. The Soviet is expected to allow open colonization on Yggdrasil, limited colonization on Gallifrey and restricting colonization in the Arda system.

Secondary long term plans involve convincing minor factions to follow the Soviet example and join the Federation as semi-autonomous member states. To date no other factions have expressed public interest; faction leaders and SMOFs are waiting to see how the Soviet experiment works out before joining in. Privately the Lagrange unificationist movement at Central Station is intrigued, but again waiting to see how the Soviets fare as Federation members before making any moves.

==Administrative divisions==
The Federation is - on paper - divided into multiple member states, each one representing the concerns of Federation citizens to the Council. As of 2022 there are 9 member states: Venus, Terra, Luna, Utopia, Jupiter, Pandora, Chiron, Vulcan and the Sozvezdie Soviet. Due to the highly diffuse nature of Fenspace only Utopia, the Soviet and the extrasolar colonies have any distinct regional legislative authority or autonomy. Outside of these areas, the majority of Federation citizens live in the larger non-aligned communities or aboard one of the numerous Starfleet vessels.

===Utopia Planitia===
see main article: Utopia Planitia

The first city on Mars, Utopia Planitia was founded in 2007 near the site of the Viking 2 landing. Initially the settlement existed to a) prove it was possible and b) provide support for the foundation of the Utopia Planitia shipyards. As the Federation grew the city grew alongside it, becoming the official faction capitalTaking over from Starbase 1, the original command outpost the Federation leadership left Earth aboard in 2007. in 2010 with the construction of the Palais de la Concorde. Utopia Planitia faces significant problems in the future, as Martian terraforming threatens to inundate the city; project planners estimate the area Utopia Planitia sits on will be under several dozen meters of water by 2050, with the level gradually increasing as terraforming progresses.

===Pandora===
Pandora (Alpha Centauri A II.12) was the first life-bearing world discovered outside the solar system. Originally charted in 2008, the Federation established Starbase 2 in orbit to support exobiological research on the moon. Pandora’s surface is hostile to human life due to excessive oxygen content, though the Federation opened the Hallelujah Plateau (at an average altitude of 9,000m above sea level, the highest altiplano in known space and the only inhabitable region of Pandora) to limited settlement in 2019. The current population of the plateau is 2,500, mostly concentrated in the town of Ewya.

===Chiron===
Chiron (Alpha Centauri B III) is an Earthlike world surveyed by the Federation in the original 2008-09 exploration of the Alpha Centauri system. The planet is somewhat colder and significantly drier than Earth, but is still more hospitable to Earth based life than any other place in the Alpha Centauri system. Settlement was officially opened in 2014 with the conclusion of the Boskone War. Currently 35,000 people live on the surface, with another 700 living at the Deep Space Four station in high orbit. The largest city on Chiron is the town of Saganville, with an estimated population of 12,500.

===Vulcan===
Vulcan (Keid A II-1) was first surveyed in 2018 by the Federation. The inital survey squadron was hoping to find a high gravity desert world, and instead found a standard gravity world covered in shallow oceans with only a few tectonic rafts, islands and atolls poking above the water. They named the planet Vulcan anyway, which goes to show that Trekkies do have measurable sense of humor, or at least irony. The planet was officially opened for settlement in 2021.

The largest settlement on Vulcan is the Shi’Kar settlement evaluation outpost, which has an estimated population of 7,500.

===Sozvezdie Soviet===
see main article: Sozvezdie Soviet

The Sozvezdie Soviet was the first non-Trekkie group to join the Federation, in 2022. Their primary population base is on Luna, with small outlying colonies in the Main Belt and the Tau Ceti system.

===Protectorates===
The Federation maintains protectorate status over the Lalande 21185, Epsilon Eridani, Epsilon Indi, Delta Pavonis and Zeta 1 Reticuli systems. These systems do not (yet) have permanent colonies set up, though research teams and the occasional tourist roll through. Starfleet maintains Deep Space Stations in orbit, and patrol squadrons rotate through on a regular basis.

==Economy==
Trekkies enjoy the highest per-capita GDP in Fenspace, and the ninth-largest GDP (just behind Sweden) in the world. Standards of living are extremely high for a frontier society: the Federation has been in the top ten countries in the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) since 2017.

The faction likes to present itself as an infant post-scarcity socialist economy: in truth, the Federation operates on a mixed economy, with a free market sector combined with a strong welfare state and state ownership of key industries. Post-scarcity independence is a long term goal for the Federation governmentParticularly after annexing the Soviet. but in the short term the Council has decided that a heavily-regulated mixed economy is less likely to cause difficulty with key export partners in the Convention and on Earth.

The state has partial ownership of key strategic industries such as resource extraction, general construction and telecommunications. The Federation holds a state monopoly on spacecraft construction: all Trekkie yards are subsidiaries of Utopia Planitia Shipyard and most often managed by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.

The Federation was a founding member of the Bank of Sol, and uses it as the factional central bank. The standard Federation currency is the solar credit.

===Utopia Planitia Shipyard===
The largest ship construction facility in Fenspace, {blargle}

===Federation Merchant Marine===
The Federation Merchant Marine is the fleet of civilian-owned ships that operate in and out of Federation space. {blargle}

==Demographics==
The Federation’s population estimate in 2022 was 2,752,191. The largest city in the Federation was Utopia Planitia, with a total population of 215,000. The main driver of the population is immigration; the Federation’s average annual growth rate since founding has been 39.9%, almost all of that being immigration.

===Ethnic groups===
The largest self-reported ethnic origin in the Federation is American (accounting for 27% of the population), followed by English (18.5%), Canadian (10.7%), Brazilian (9.3%), Korean (6.1%), Vietnamese (5.5%), Chinese (4.7%), Senegalese (3.9%), and Tunisian (3.1%). The largest ethnic groups in the Federation are experiencing a slight decline as UFP migration policies shift away from industrialized nations like the United States and United Kingdom towards the smaller nations of Asia, South America and Africa.

====Biomods====
Roughly 1.3% of the Federation’s population (roughly 36,000 people in the 2022 estimate) have undergone handwavium biomodifcation. 45% of Trekkie biomods are one variety of Klingon or another, another 40% are Vulcanoid modificationsVulcans and Romulans being only barely distinguishable physically per canon; Romulans throw better parties. and the remaining 15% are divided between Andorian, Catian, Bajoran and Cardassian biomods.

===Language===
The United Federation of Planets has no official language. The majority of Federation dealings and official documents are written in English, with copies in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Klingon. Multiple designs for universal translators have been proposed and implemented, but so far none have been truly ‘universal’ in nature. The Corps of Engineers is still working on it, though.

==Culture==
The culture of the Federation is derived from the common threads linking the Trekkies together, particualrly their love for the Star Trek series, as well as immigrant influences and new traditions springing from the unique needs of living in space. The Federation tends towards a strong romantic nationalist movement, idealizing the Federation of the source material as a golden-age-to-be that all Federation citizens should strive to attain.

===Psychology and stereotypes===
Federation citizens hold the concept of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (IDIC) as their core ideal. IDIC originated with the Vulcans, as a celebration of the vast array of variables that the Universe has to offer. As a philosophical tenet, Trekkies adopted IDIC as a justification for egalitarianism and a preference for pacifism over confrontation. A popular aphorism among Trekkies regarding this stance is Carl Sagan’s quote: “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

Some people in Fenspace view the Federation as weak, a common stereotype originating from the faction’s overall pacifist and non-confrontational nature. One thing forgotten in this stereotype is the Federation’s large store of indirect power in Fenspace, and that earning the ire of the Council or Starfleet means earning the suspicion of Federation citizens who are quite literally everywhere in the solar system and make up a majority of extrasolar colonists outside Achird.

===Cinema===
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===Music===
{blah, something klingon opera for za lulz}

===Religion===
Officially, the Federation practices state atheism. Religious belief and practice is not officially prohibited due to Federation membership in the Convention, but it is mildly discouraged with a bit of a patronizing attitude. The official state position on religion doesn’t seem to have had much effect, however. In a 2020 survey only 14% of Federation citizens professed as atheist, though another 30% consider themselves generally non-religious. The rest of the population tend to follow the same beliefs they did on Earth: Christianity and Islam make up the majority, followed by Buddhism, Judaism and Vodun. Several attempts to codify Klingon religion have been attempted, but so far none have been successful.

==Notes==
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Hokay, so. Assuming nobody finds something wrong with it, this is the complete draft of the new UFP article. Comment at will, or I come to your houses and rip off your genitals.


{{Infobox Country
|native_name =
|conventional_long_name = United Federation of Planets
|common_name = Trekkies
|image_flag = UFP flag.png
|image_coat = Federation seal.png
|symbol_type = Seal
|national_motto = ''Ad Astra''
(Latin: “To the stars.”)
|national_anthem = ''"Star Trek Theme"'' (Jerry Goldsmith)
|royal_anthem =
|other_symbol_type =
|other_symbol =
|image_map =
|map_caption =
|image_map2 =
|map_caption2 =
|capital = [[Utopia Planitia], [[Mars]
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|largest_city = [[Utopia Planitia], [[Mars]
|largest_settlement =
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|official_languages = None at federal level
|regional_languages =
|languages_type = Common languages
|languages = English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Klingon, Vulcan
|ethnic_groups =
|ethnic_groups_year =
|nicknames = Trekkers, Trekkies, FedFen
|membership = [[Fenspace Convention]
|government_type = Representative democratic constitutional republic
|leader_title1 = President
|leader_name1 = Alexander Mack
|leader_title2 =
|leader_name2 =
|sovereignty_type =
|sovereignty_note =
|established_event1 = Founded (as STARFLEET)
|established_date1 = May 23, 1974
|established_event2 = First orbital flight
|established_date2 = May 24, 2007
|established_event3 = Declaration of Sovereignty
|established_date3 = May 8, 2008
|established_event4 = Signing of Kandor Treaty
|established_date4 = March 28, 2010
|allies =
|population_estimate = 2,752,191
|population_estimate_rank =
|population_estimate_year = 2022
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|influence = Major (largest organized faction)
|achievements =
|stereotype = Nosy and self-righteous scientist/soldiers who never leave their ships.
}}

The '''United Federation of Planets''' (abbreviated '''UFP''', also known informally as the '''Trekkies''') is the largest and best-established of the [[Faction Guide|Fen factions], encompassing roughly ¼ the system-wide population and 32% of the [[Fenspace Convention|Convention’s] annual GDP. Founded in 2008 as an amalgamation of worldwide ''Star Trek'' fan clubs, the Federation established the first permanent settlement on Mars, the first permanent installation in another solar system and the first orbital spacecraft construction facility in Fenspace.

== History ==
The United Federation of Planets traces its roots to 1974, when the Texas-based ''Star Trek'' fan club ''USS Enterprise''Not to be confused with any of the spacecraft bearing that name. renamed itself STARFLEET and joined together with other clubs to form the first large (and eventually, first international) Star Trek fan association. Their presence in space dates to May 24, 2007, when the Waiuku, New Zealand-based ''USS Southern Cross'' club launched a makeshift shuttlecraft''NCC-63550/1 USS Richard Taylor''. into orbit two weeks after [[Katz Schrödinger]’s historic flight. STARFLEET followed up this success with the Alabama-based ''USS Dejah Thoris'' club’s successful landing on [[Mars] on July 9, 2007. Club science officer Commander Mary Zeiger became the first human being to set foot on the Red Planet shorty thereafter.

2008 saw the assembly of [[Starbase 1] in high [[Earth] orbit from core modules launched from the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. This station was the staging base for the ''USS Phoenix'' mission, which proved [[handwavium] engines could travel faster than light and in the process visited [[Alpha Centauri] for the first time. It also saw the invocation of handwavium panic through much of the first world; nearly 85% of STARFLEET members in the United States and their dependents fled offworld. In response to this potential humanitarian crisis STARFLEET’s board of directors disbanded the fan club and reformed as the United Federation of Planets, offering citizenship to any dispossessed ''Star Trek'' fan, making the Federation the first recognized faction in Fenspace.

August 2009 brought Islandcon (officially "Anticipation"), the first World Science Fiction Convention in space. Fenspace's standing constitution was refined and adopted here, and the Federation's leaders were among the first to sign it. However, the Federation were one of the first two factions to violate the convention, during the [[Tomed Incident] in November 2009. It took a diplomatic note from both Starfleet Command and the 501st Legion to the people involved – the Treaty of Algeron"Stop being dickheads and play nice, already!" - to get things under control.

Official recognition of the Federation by Earthside groups started in 2010, when Paramount endorsed the faction's use of their intellectual property.It was free publicity for the then-upcoming franchise reboot, and they couldn't stop it anyway. The new movie was released the following year; its success brought a new generation of fans off Earth and into the Federation.

The UFP, like all factions, took part in the [[Boskone War]. While they were most visible in large fleet actions against Boskonians, their primary contribution was delivering people and supplies where they needed to be, flying escorts for both smaller factions and their own transports.

Post-war the Federation settled into their role as the Convention’s unofficial hegemon, spending most of their time focusing on playing peacemaker among the smaller factions and exploring the nearer stars. On May 2, 2022 the Federation became the first major faction to annex a minor faction, when the [[Sozvezdie Soviet] voted to join the UFP as a member state.

== Politics ==
The Federation is a representative republic, with an elected president as both head of state and head of government. The presidential election is held every four years and a president may serve unlimited terms. Legislative power is held in the Federation Council, which is composed of representatives of every member state. Individual Councilors are elected or appointed according to their constituencies’ desires. The Council meets for one nine-month session every year: under special circumstances the President can call for an additional session.

The Federation Council convenes in the Palais de la Concorde in [[Utopia Planitia]. Most civilian executive agencies maintain their central offices in the Palais as well.

=== Law and criminal justice ===
The Articles of Federation are the supreme law of the faction, and consist of written text and unwritten conventions. It has foundations in the common law traditions of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (where the majority of the faction’s founders originated). The enactment of criminal law is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government, and as such the Federation criminal code is applicable uniformly throughout faction strongholds and applies to UFP citizens throughout Fenspace. Federation common and criminal law maintain the standards held by the Articles of Convention.

Law enforcement duties are most commonly carried out by the Security division of Starfleet. Large settlements like Utopia Planitia, Korolevgrad and others have their own local police forces, which are answerable to the Federation government directly.

The Supreme Court of the Federation is the highest court in the faction, and holds final judicial authority over Federation laws and the interpretation thereof. Superior and inferior court matters are traditionally handled by local magistrates when necessary.

=== Starfleet ===
Starfleet is the Federation’s main military force. It is composed of the eponymous Starfleet as well as the Starfleet Marine Corps. According to the Starfleet Charter, the organization’s primary purpose is the peaceful exploration of space: some 65% of all Starfleet ships are classified as science vessels, while the remaining 35% all have some scientific instrumentation onboard. Regardless, Starfleet is the largest void navy in the Fenspace Convention, and the Federation ranks second in overall military spending in Fenspace, behind the [[Galactic Republic].Among factions with functional governments. Counting armies-without-a-country factions like the [[Roughriders] the Federation ranks sixth.

Starfleet is administered by the Board of Admiralty, which is composed of the senior ranking officers of the fleets as well as the commanders of non-fleet divisions like the Marines or the Corps of Engineers. The Board answers directly to the Federation Council, which has final veto on Admiralty appointments and decisions.

Starfleet is organized into 5 separate fleet task groups, each with a specific operational sphere and home base. The First Fleet is based out of Starbase 1, Mars orbit and is tasked with defense and coastal patrol duties in the Mars system out to the nearer Main Belt asteroids. Fifth Fleet is the first Starfleet task group to be based outside of the solar system: the fleet operates from Deep Space Four orbiting [[Chiron], and is tasked with supporting the colonization and surveys of the Alpha Centauri trisystem.

The Starfleet Marine CorpsSometimes referred to as MACOs by the small number of Enterprise fans. are best known as the “Redshirts” for their distinctive crimson duty tunics, as well as their source material’s penchant for dying in droves. The Redshirts took the implied insult and turned it into a badge of pride, serving with distinction during the Boskone War and in countless small-unit police actions since.

The Starfleet Corps of Engineers is responsible for the construction and maintenance of Starfleet ships, exosolar bases, Federation colonies and nearly everything else the rest of the Federation takes for granted. The Corps command is based on the USS James Doohan, the only Starfleet ship named for an original cast member. Assignment to the Corps of Engineers is a mark of prestige for most Starfleet engineers, many of whom entered their careers because of Montgomery Scott.

The Federation was a signatory to the 2014 Space Arms Limitation Treaty (PEPPER) and the 2020 PEPPER II treaty. Fleet units are rotated through Great Justice service on a biannual basis: most of Starfleet’s operational combat craft either have served or are serving with Great Justice at any given time.

==== Constitution-class controversy ====
Since the founding of the Federation, the iconic form of the ''USS Enterprise'' has been missing from the fleet. Early efforts to build an appropriate ''Enterprise'' fell short of the mark due to lack of resources, or simply proved too quirky to be functional. Starfleet purchased OV-201 ''USS [[Enterprise]'' in 2014 just to have a functional ''Enterprise''; the shuttle ''Enterprise'' went on to a successful career as a science vessel. Despite this, in 2020 the Federation Council in a rare moment of directly butting into the affairs of Starfleet ordered the Admiralty to draw up plans and begin requisitioning the necessary materials, lab time, etc. to build a functional ''Constitution'' class starship (expected to be either NCC-1700 ''USS Constitution'' or NCC-1701 ''USS Enterprise'') with a launch date of no later than September 8th, 2030.Ideally, the Council hoped Starfleet would get their act together and have an ''Enterprise'' ready to launch on September 8th, 2026, the 60th anniversary of ''Star Trek: TOS''. This may have been overly optimistic.

As of 2022 the Admiralty hasn’t decided which ''Constitution'' class vessel will be implemented by the Council’s 2030 deadline. The original Matt Jefferies design is the favorite of the Corps of Engineers,Mostly thanks to the exhaustive Franz Joseph deckplans, which give the engineers a base to develop from. with a strong minority favoring the Andrew Probert redesign and smaller groups agitating for the Ryan Church reboot design or just skipping the Constitution class altogether and going for the ''Excelsior'' or even the ''Galaxy'' class.Enterprise, who will core transfer to NCC-1701 once one’s built, has remained neutral through this somewhat ridiculous debate.

=== Relations with other factions ===
As the 800 pound gorilla of Fenspace, most other factions treat the Federation with a certain amount of respect. But only a certain amount; most fen when asked will consider the average Trekkie aloof, self-righteous and a little nosy. This attitude frequently causes friction between the Federation and the other top-tier factions, particularly the more freewheeling [[Coalition of Independent Moons]. This situation wasn’t improved by the Federation habit of putting their more abrasive civil servants into positions of diplomatic authority. The Federation Council corrected this problem around the beginning of the Boskone War, but the stereotype of the “arrogant idiot Federation Ambassador” remains strong in Fen circles into the 2020s.

The Federation and the [[Galactic Republic] have a standing rivalry dating back to the Tomed incident. Neither faction has engaged in outright hostile action against the other, though there have been a number of mini-crises as the two factions seek prestigious achievements or successes, or accuse the other of unfair competition. Diplomats from both side ensure the rivalry remains in ‘chilly disagreement’ mode and doesn’t flash hot.

==== Klingon separatism ====
Klingons have always been a major Trekkie subgroup since the beginning of the fandom, and the Federation-centric nature of the faction never sat well with the neo-Klingons. The situation remained static during the scramble of the early days, but after the Boskone War the newfound peace allowed the neo-Klingon grumbling to start boiling over.

Klingon separatists built a small outpost and shipyard on the moon Rura PentheFormerly Proteus or [[Neptune] VIII. in preparation for their oft-threatened official break with the rest of the Trekkies. The Klingons plan to use Rura Penthe as their official point of presence in the Sol system while the rest of the separatists move to Qo’noS, an appropriately-dangerous earthlike planet in the [[Pi 3 Orionis] system discovered by Klingon scouts in 2022.

=== Future plans ===
The Federation’s long term plans as of 2022 are focused mainly on exosolar migration. While the faction has no plans on abandoning Sol outright, analysts predict that mass migration away from Earth will start happening over the next generation as more and more earthlike exosolar worlds are discovered, and whoever has the claims and infrastructure down will win near exosolar space. Starfleet is developing colony shipsSimilar to the ''Island'' class used in the [[Greenwood Unlimited|Greenwood] colonization of the [[Achird A] system, but simpler to manufacture and designed to be broken down into parts for a surface colony at the destination. for extended migration to [[Pandora], [[Chiron] and [[Vulcan].The Soviet claims on the [[Tau Ceti], [[Delta Pavonis] and [[Zeta (1) Reticuli] systems have not officially gone over to the Federation and remain under the subfaction’s jurisdiction. The Soviet is expected to allow open colonization on [[Yggdrasil], limited colonization on [[Gallifrey] and restricting colonization in the [[Arda] system.

Secondary long term plans involve convincing minor factions to follow the Soviet example and join the Federation as semi-autonomous member states. To date no other factions have expressed public interest; faction leaders and SMOFs are waiting to see how the Soviet experiment works out before joining in. Privately the Lagrange unificationist movement at [[Central Station] is intrigued, but again waiting to see how the Soviets fare as Federation members before making any moves.

== Administrative divisions ==
The Federation is – on paper – divided into multiple member states, each one representing the concerns of Federation citizens to the Council. As of 2022 there are 9 member states: [[Venus], [[Terra], [[Luna], Utopia, [[Jupiter], Pandora, Chiron, Vulcan and the Sozvezdie Soviet. Due to the highly diffuse nature of Fenspace only Utopia, the Soviet and the extrasolar colonies have any distinct regional legislative authority or autonomy. Outside of these areas, the majority of Federation citizens live in the larger non-aligned communities or aboard one of the numerous Starfleet vessels.

=== Utopia Planitia ===
''See main article: [[Utopia Planitia]''

The first city on Mars, Utopia Planitia was founded in 2007 near the site of the Viking 2 landing. Initially the settlement existed to a) prove it was possible and b) provide support for the foundation of the Utopia Planitia shipyards. As the Federation grew the city grew alongside it, becoming the official faction capitalTaking over from Starbase 1, the original command outpost the Federation leadership left Earth aboard in 2007. in 2010 with the construction of the Palais de la Concorde. Utopia Planitia faces significant problems in the future, as Martian terraforming threatens to inundate the city; project planners estimate the area Utopia Planitia sits on will be under several dozen meters of water by 2050, with the level gradually increasing as terraforming progresses.

=== Pandora ===
Pandora (Alpha Centauri A II.12) was the first life-bearing world discovered outside the solar system. Originally charted in 2008, the Federation established Starbase 2 in orbit to support exobiological research on the moon. Pandora’s surface is hostile to human life due to excessive oxygen content, though the Federation opened the Hallelujah Plateau (at an average altitude of 9,000m above sea level, the highest altiplano in known space and the only inhabitable region of Pandora) to limited settlement in 2019. The current population of the plateau is 2,500, mostly concentrated in the town of Ewya.

=== Chiron ===
Chiron (Alpha Centauri B III) is an Earthlike world surveyed by the Federation in the original 2008-09 exploration of the Alpha Centauri system. The planet is somewhat colder and significantly drier than Earth, but is still more hospitable to Earth based life than any other place in the Alpha Centauri system. Settlement was officially opened in 2014 with the conclusion of the Boskone War. Currently 35,000 people live on the surface, with another 700 living at the Deep Space Four station in high orbit. The largest city on Chiron is the town of Saganville, with an estimated population of 12,500.

=== Vulcan ===
Vulcan (Keid A II-1) was first surveyed in 2018 by the Federation. The inital survey squadron was hoping to find a high gravity desert world, and instead found a standard gravity world covered in shallow oceans with only a few tectonic rafts, islands and atolls poking above the water. They named the planet Vulcan anyway, which goes to show that Trekkies do have measurable sense of humor, or at least irony. The planet was officially opened for settlement in 2021.

The largest settlement on Vulcan is the Shi’Kar settlement evaluation outpost, which has an estimated population of 7,500.

=== Sozvezdie Soviet ===
''See main article: [[Sozvezdie Soviet]''

The Sozvezdie Soviet was the first non-Trekkie group to join the Federation, in 2022. Their primary population base is on Luna, with small outlying colonies in the Main Belt and the Tau Ceti system.

=== Protectorates ===
The Federation maintains protectorate status over the [[Lalande 21185], [[Epsilon Eridani], [[Epsilon Indi], [[Delta Pavonis] and [[Zeta (1) Reticuli] systems. These systems do not (yet) have permanent colonies set up, though research teams and the occasional tourist roll through. Starfleet maintains Deep Space Stations in orbit, and patrol squadrons rotate through on a regular basis.

== Economy ==
Trekkies enjoy the highest per-capita GDP in Fenspace, and the ninth-largest GDP (just behind Sweden) in the world. Standards of living are extremely high for a frontier society: the Federation has been in the top ten countries in the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) since 2017.

The faction likes to present itself as an infant post-scarcity socialist economy: in truth, the Federation operates on a mixed economy, with a free market sector combined with a strong welfare state and state ownership of key industries. Post-scarcity independence is a long term goal for the Federation governmentParticularly after annexing the Soviet. but in the short term the Council has decided that a heavily-regulated mixed economy is less likely to cause difficulty with key export partners in the Convention and on Earth.

The state has partial ownership of key strategic industries such as resource extraction, general construction and telecommunications. The Federation holds a state monopoly on spacecraft construction: all Trekkie yards are subsidiaries of Utopia Planitia Shipyard and most often managed by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.

The Federation was a founding member of the Bank of Sol, and uses it as the factional central bank. The standard Federation currency is the solar credit.

=== Science and technology ===
The Federation is considered a leader in handwavium-related sciences. Most scientific research is done by Starfleet, though the Federation has several civilian research foundations and companies like Yoyodyne Technologies. Federation engineers were the first to create consistently replicable technology using handwavium, including atmosphere containment fields and other forcefield technology. Roughly 85% of Federation citizens consider themselves scientifically literate.The ''actual'' percentage of scientifically literate people in the Federation is slightly lower, but only slightly.

==== Utopia Planitia Shipyard ====
The largest ship construction facility in Fenspace, the Utopia yards are the centerpoint of the Federation’s economy. Nearly 60% of all shipbuilding in Fenspace happens at Utopia itself or at one of its secondary yards. While much of this work is done for Starfleet, the yards also build spacecraft for civilian Federation interests and other clients within Fenspace.

The yards consist of a surface construction facility (used mainly for smallcraft) and larger orbital slipways for large spacecraft. Utopia Planitia is not designed to construct large space stations: the slipways have been used for modular station construction in the past, but not often.

=== Federation Merchant Marine ===
The Federation Merchant Marine is the fleet of civilian-owned ships that operate in and out of Federation space. During peacetime operations, the merchant marine ferries cargo and passengers around the solar system and into interstellar space. During the Boskone War, the merchant marine were called to service as Starfleet auxiliaries and transported military supplies between operating bases.

As of 2022 the merchant marine consisted of 110 spacecraftLarge vehicles only; smallcraft such as flying cars fall under a different category. and approximately 10,000 people.

== Demographics ==
The Federation’s population estimate in 2022 was 2,752,191. The largest city in the Federation was Utopia Planitia, with a total population of 215,000. The main driver of the population is immigration; the Federation’s average annual growth rate since founding has been 39.9%, almost all of that being immigration.

=== Ethnic groups ===
The largest self-reported ethnic origin in the Federation is American (accounting for 27% of the population), followed by English (18.5%), Canadian (10.7%), Brazilian (9.3%), Korean (6.1%), Vietnamese (5.5%), Chinese (4.7%), Senegalese (3.9%), and Tunisian (3.1%). The largest ethnic groups in the Federation are experiencing a slight decline as UFP migration policies shift away from industrialized nations like the United States and United Kingdom towards the smaller nations of Asia, South America and Africa.

==== Biomods ====
Roughly 1.3% of the Federation’s population (roughly 36,000 people in the 2022 estimate) have undergone handwavium biomodifcation. 45% of Trekkie biomods are one variety of Klingon or another, another 40% are Vulcanoid modificationsVulcans and Romulans being only barely distinguishable physically per canon; Romulans throw better parties. and the remaining 15% are divided between Andorian, Catian, Bajoran and Cardassian biomods.

=== Language ===
The United Federation of Planets has no official language. The majority of Federation dealings and official documents are written in English, with copies in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Klingon. Multiple designs for universal translators have been proposed and implemented, but so far none have been truly ‘universal’ in nature. The Corps of Engineers is still working on it, though.

== Culture ==
The culture of the Federation is derived from the common threads linking the Trekkies together, particularly their love for the Star Trek series, as well as immigrant influences and new traditions springing from the unique needs of living in space. The Federation tends towards a strong romantic nationalist movement, idealizing the Federation of the source material as a golden-age-to-be that all Federation citizens should strive to attain.

=== Psychology and stereotypes ===
Federation citizens hold the concept of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (IDIC) as their core ideal. IDIC originated with the Vulcans, as a celebration of the vast array of variables that the Universe has to offer. As a philosophical tenet, Trekkies adopted IDIC as a justification for egalitarianism and a preference for pacifism over confrontation. A popular aphorism among Trekkies regarding this stance is Carl Sagan’s quote: “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

Some people in Fenspace view the Federation as weak, a common stereotype originating from the faction’s overall pacifist and non-confrontational nature. One thing forgotten in this stereotype is the Federation’s large store of indirect power in Fenspace, and that earning the ire of the Council or Starfleet means earning the suspicion of Federation citizens who are quite literally everywhere in the solar system and make up a majority of extrasolar colonists outside Achird.

=== Arts and entertainment ===
Trekkies as a groupGeneralizing, of course. tend to think of themselves as having refined sensibilities above and beyond more common pursuits, and Federation arts and entertainment reflect this belief. Classical music is popular, as is ambient and new age synthetic music. The Federation produces large numbers of edutainment programs: documentaries based on Starfleet expeditions of course, as well as more generic programs about living and working in Fenspace. DIY programs are equally popular, especially among new migrants.

Federation fiction tends to be derivative of established Star Trek fictionThe term “fanfic” has been used in derogatory fashion towards a good chunk of Trekkie mass-market fiction. though in recent years the trend has been pulling away towards something more original and less based in old patterns. “Pacifist adventurer” fiction ? stories where the protagonist gets by on wit and skill rather than violenceSee “MacGyver” as an example. is the fastest-growing genre among Trekkie writers, and has found a home in many Fen and mundane demographics.

Trekkies are also innovators in interactive fiction. While the vaunted holodeck is still some years away, Federation citizens already write expansive “holonovels,” part novel and part RPG similar to Japanese “visual novels,” that can be used from any modern multimedia system.

==== Federation Broadcasting Company ====
The Federation Broadcasting Company (FBC) was established in 2010, initially as a public-access channel broadcasting entertainment and news. FBC programming was available only aboard Starfleet ships and in Utopia Planitia for the first several years of operation, as the network operated off proprietary (and classified) Starfleet communications protocols. In 2013 FBC officially went general access, and is available across Fenspace.

FBC programs include the number-three news program in Fenspace (''FBC News Night''), a large variety of edutainment shows such as ''Scotty’s Corner'' (an engineering-focused children’s program), and repackaged Earthside material.

=== Religion ===
Officially, the Federation practices state atheism. Religious belief and practice is not officially prohibited due to Federation membership in the Convention, but it is mildly discouraged with a bit of a patronizing attitude. The official state position on religion doesn’t seem to have had much effect, however. In a 2020 survey only 14% of Federation citizens professed as atheist, though another 30% consider themselves generally non-religious. The rest of the population tend to follow the same beliefs they did on Earth: Christianity and Islam make up the majority, followed by Buddhism, Judaism and Vodun. Several attempts to codify Klingon religion have been attempted, but so far none have been successful.

== Notes ==


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In order to get that nice, compact Contents box you can see on the Senshi page (rather than filling the top of the screen with links to every header on the page), put "{{TOC limit|2}}" on the line just before "== History ==".

As for the content, I only see one glitch, under "Protectorates." The page for Lalande 21185 says there are a few colonists there, and there's no indication that they're Trekkies. (Yes, they're treating Gatewood as a park, but that could make them Silent Running fen... and the very name "Gatewood" hints they're Vernor Vinge fen.)
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This whole "star grabbing" is a little bit suspect anyways... if the other Fen play nice they may accept it, but I don't think any Fen faction has an exclusive right to a star system. But as long as there are "enough stars for everyone" nobody might worry about it.
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robkelk Wrote:In order to get that nice, compact Contents box you can see on the Senshi page (rather than filling the top of the screen with links to every header on the page), put "{{TOC limit|2}}" on the line just before "== History ==".

I like the full content boxes. Lets me know what's covered in the article.

Quote:As for the content, I only see one glitch, under "Protectorates." The page for Lalande 21185 says there are a few colonists there, and there's no indication that they're Trekkies. (Yes, they're treating Gatewood as a park, but that could make them Silent Running fen... and the very name "Gatewood" hints they're Vernor Vinge fen.)

Well... a) the Lalande page is sufficiently non-specific about when the colonists showed up, so that's a dodge but it works for me, and b) you're getting too narrow in your definitions again.
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M Fnord Wrote:==== Biomods ====
Roughly 1.3% of the Federation’s population (roughly 36,000 people in the 2022 estimate) have undergone handwavium biomodifcation. 45% of Trekkie biomods are one variety of Klingon or another, another 40% are Vulcanoid modificationsVulcans and Romulans being only barely distinguishable physically per canon; Romulans throw better parties. and the remaining 15% are divided between Andorian, Catian, Bajoran and Cardassian biomods.

I would include a "and other" in the list of "remaining Biomods".
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And it's up.

I'm aware there are redlinks. Please don't go messing about with the redlinks because that's content that will be created/shuffled about/otherwise de-redtexting those links soon enough.
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M Fnord Wrote:Well... a) the Lalande page is sufficiently non-specific about when the colonists showed up, so that's a dodge but it works for me, and b) you're getting too narrow in your definitions again.
This is how everybody's always defined factions...
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robkelk Wrote:This is how everybody's always defined factions...

If we defined factions that narrowly then - as an example - you should retcon out all your angels except Yayoi, because as a Stellvia fan you aren't allowed to have anything that doesn't relate to your core fandom. Savvy?
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I Am Not A Fandom, I Am A Free Man!

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robkelk Wrote:This is how everybody's always defined factions...
M Fnord Wrote:If we defined factions that narrowly then - as an example - you should retcon out all your angels except Yayoi, because as a Stellvia fan you aren't allowed to have anything that doesn't relate to your core fandom. Savvy?
Noah's been a Generalist since day one...

Okay - what does it take to become a member of a faction? That's a wide-open question, and there are as many answers as there are factions, but a few guidelines might help.
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Gearheads are simple enough....

Be interested in Mecha/Stuff that goes fast and makes a lot of noise. Stick a Gearheads logo on something you drive. You're in....

A lot of factions are similar really. It's more an attitude than a physical membership. A common binding set of beliefs or ideals. Not all Trekkies join Starfleet.

Then you get more defined groups, or to get more status in other groups, which'll that give rights and priveledges, in return for taking on particular responsibilities or services. For Gearheads, do something cool, found a new mech-unit, introduce a new popular mecha type and sell it, or break a major record in spectacular fashion.

Others will assimilate people they think they can use, or turn them over to their way of thinking and assimilate their technological and cultural distinctiveness. Or small factions insinuating themselves into the larger ones in the hopes of assimilating them from within....

And then there're those like the Panzer Kunst that have some pretty extreme and narrow requirements. (Either to be a high-fraction cyber already, or to enter a 5 year service contract to get the cybernetics done by the Gruppe).

There's nothing that stops a person having multiple alignments and memberships, at different levels.
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robkelk Wrote:Okay - what does it take to become a member of a faction?

Join one?

Too simple? Alright.

1) Fandom - by which I mean the entirety of science fiction and fantasy fandom - is a complex web of identity balanced between the two classic poles: Fandom Is A Way Of Life, and Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby. Because Fenspace is what it is, it steers closer to the FIAWOL pole simply out of necessity. It's a cold, mean universe out there and when your fellow fen are your best shot at surviving in it, you tend to cluster together.

2) That said, a fandom does not automatically equal a faction. Just because somebody likes Property X doesn't mean there's a large or even a small group of people who like Property X and want to bring Property X's tropes out into the real world. This ought to sound familiar, because we've had this discussion before and I have the email archives to prove it.

3) Conversely, a faction doesn't always automatically equal a fandom, either. Let's take Jupiter as an example: the planet and moons are claimed by the Browncoats, but for the most part the population in and around Jupiter is Indonesian. Does this mean there's a subtle but strong underground current of Firefly fandom in Indonesian culture? No, it means the Browncoats offered a lot of work that they couldn't handle on their own and a lot of Indonesians jumped at the chance to find decent pay that didn't involve getting looked down on by Australian racists. Was the Crystal Queendom set up because everybody loved Sailor Moon? Of course not! There are likely Senshi out there who hated Sailor Moon when it first ran. The Senshi run the show on Venus because Tanith Curtis was a scary good organizer and by the time they hit their destination she made it a fait accompli.

4) Most importantly, people can be fans of more than one thing at a time. FIAWOL isn't meant to apply to just Trekkies or just Warsies, etc. It's a generalist statement and we all are, as fans, generalists. So the idea of a Starfleet officer being a Vernor Vinge fan - which isn't that big of a stretch - naming a planet after something in one of his works isn't heresy, it's diversity.

So what does all this hot mess have to do with faction membership? A lot, actually.

You see, new fish from Earth will join whatever faction they think will get them what they want. Being a fan of the property helps, cuts down on culture shock if nothing else, but it's only one factor among dozens of possible considerations. One man joins the Federation because he always wanted to be an engineer on the Enterprise and the merchant marine's hiring. Another man joins the Pulpers because they're offering land grants around Hellas and he always wanted a ranch to retire to. One neckbeard joins the Senshi not out of any love of anime but because he just wants to see scantily-clad women running around everywhere. And so it goes.

To join a big, established faction that isn't just a general-interests club, you go in, sign the local EULA, agree to pay the taxes (sometimes called membership dues or whatnot but let's be real here) and boom, here's your passport, welcome to the club citizen. That's citizenship and nationality in a nutshell. There's no set limit on how many factions you can be a citizen of, so you can in theory catch 'em all. I wouldn't advise it, just because after about the first three the psychological demands would be overwhelming. But that's just me, YMMV.
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And to add to it, some people might hold a factional citizenship, just to make things easier, without actually identifying as that faction. Although how easy this is depends on the faction. Warsies might be a little easier to be an independent ship operator in than the Trekkies, for instance.

As a more concrete example, Jeph Antilles is, at least on paper, part of at least two factions, although he doesn't necessarily toe the party line with either. His "primary" affiliation, such as it is, is with the Browncoats, but that's in part to make it easier to keep JMC's main headquarters in Serenity Valley, although he also somewhat identifies with the faction itself, although he also has enough pull within the faction (because of JMC's relative importance to the local economy) that he can influence decisions and general policy.

Any additional factions he "belongs" to haven't really been determined yet (only because I like to keep that open for potential story needs).
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If you don't mind, I'll take this as the nucleus of a Fenwiki article... but not immediately.

Another thought: Some of the FIJAGH folks are Up, but a supermajority of them are what Fenspace calls "Generalists" (not to say all Generalists are in the FIJAGH crowd). Many of them are what the FIAWOL crowd identify - rightly or wrongly - as "Fendane." They still care about fandom, but their families and careers are more important to them.

(Thus we avoid the extremes: if "everybody's a generalist" in the Fenspace sense of the word, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too small; if everybody who's expressed an interest in one show's fandom is part of the matching faction, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too large.)
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