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===Earth=== | ===Earth=== | ||
The home world of humanity, administered by United Earth Government, often referred to as "United Earth". The headquarters of the federal bureaucracy are located in Dakar, Sinegal, African Provinces.<ref group="sidenotes">And this time, it wasn't invaded by Neo Zeon...</ref> | The home world of humanity, administered by United Earth Government, often referred to as "United Earth". The headquarters of the federal bureaucracy are located in Dakar, Sinegal, African Provinces.<ref group="sidenotes">And this time, it wasn't invaded by Neo Zeon...</ref>. | ||
Speaks for approximately 75% of humanity, 89% through the Stellar Friends of Earth<ref>Unofficially, Earth has a controlling voice here, but it claims the formal title of "first among equals".</ref> | Speaks for approximately 75% of humanity, 89% through the Stellar Friends of Earth<ref>Unofficially, Earth has a controlling voice here, but it claims the formal title of "first among equals".</ref> | ||
Revision as of 01:44, 6 June 2022
Humanity is one of the core races of the United Federation of Planets, with several main worlds, and many colony worlds. It can justifiably claim that the United Earth Starfleet was the template for the eventual Federation Starfleet, and it was the actions and leadership of the NX-01 Enterprise, led by Captain Hernandez and then later Captain Sato, in the wake of the revelations of Vulcan High Command, and reform of The Polity of Vulcan from a militaristic command structure to the more democratic form visible in the 23rd century, as well as bringing together the Alpha Quadrent powers, that formed the United Federation of Planets to begin with.
As has been said by a well known Andorian philosopher. "Humans build communities."
However, scars of the Augment Wars, and World War Three, where 35% of the entirety of the human race was destroyed linger. To this day, United Earth, and the Stellar Friends of Earth, remain hostile to genetically modified humans in various ways. In addition, there is increasing calls for humanity to effectively stop dictating so much Federation policy.[1]
As of the 2350 census, the Federation Census Department estimates there are approximately 9.9 billion humans within the Federation.
Important Planets
Earth
The home world of humanity, administered by United Earth Government, often referred to as "United Earth". The headquarters of the federal bureaucracy are located in Dakar, Sinegal, African Provinces.[sidenotes 1].
Speaks for approximately 75% of humanity, 89% through the Stellar Friends of Earth[2]
Current population is 7.65 billion on Earth, with approximately 450 million being non human. With Luna, the population is 7.95 billion, with approximately 550 million being non human. [3]
Mars
Homeworld of the Utopia Planetia Worlds, a formally joint venture between United Earth, Starfleet, and the Polity of Vulcan. Population is approximately 89 million, focused on the formally domed cities and settled region of Mare Deuteronicus to Terra Arabia crescent.[sidenotes 2][4]
Terra Nova
The first colony world of Earth, founded by first-gen warp drive ships in 2078, it is now a prosperous planet focusing on art and science. Located within 20 light years of Earth, this colony world was located in the Eta Cassiopeiae system. Tensions rose between them and Earth, and they went silent in the late 21st century, due to a large asteroid impact on the planet.
It was only the actions of the NX-01 Enterprise some fifty-three Terran years later that resulted in the remaining colonies being saved, and efforts from the Vissian Union and Polity of Vulcan eventually cleaned up the planet.[5]
Terra Nova is an independent world in the Federation, with it's own colonies on a habitable moon of the system's dominant gas giant. It is also not a member of the Friends of Earth, causing some tension, but for a world of it's size, it has an outsized contribution to Starfleet, and contains the Five Moons Starship Yards.
As of 2353, the population is approximately 125 million, making it the third largest Human world.
Cascadia
Founded in 2120, this system later became a haven for most genetically modified humans, especaily after the laws were tightened on them in various political adminstrations in United Earth from 2160 through 2270. While many would emigrate to colony worlds of their own, this system, which lies near the Celarian Reach region, contains a vast majority of most of what are generically considered the 'Cosmetics'.
The population of this planet in 2353 is 1.1 billion, with about 300 million being non humans.
Cascadia is known Federation wide for it's advancements in biotechnology, medicine, and peculiarly, wine, given the climate over the majority of the planet.[6] It is also considered, for good or for ill, the gateway to genetically modified space, and is located coreward of Earth.
GenModified
After the Augument war finished, with the Augmnets losing after a nuclear exchange, there were still many who had been modified, and assisted in the rebuilding of United Earth. When the colony boom of Earth Starfleet occured, often, entire cities of genetically modified people left to form their own colonies. While Earth disavowed them, the formation of the United Federation of Planets in 2162 stopped what would have likely been a war or trade blockade, as they joined the Federation as their own planetary governments.[7]
By 2340, they formed a loose coalition between them, representing a power block pushing for "reasonable, small scale" editing being more permitted, but also abiding by the Federation Parliament directive permitting no more research into more genetic engineering by humanity, which is itself, a result of a condition of Earth letting the colonies loose of it's government.[8] Largely, they lie closer to the galactic core than Earth in the Federation space. Most have a tense relation with humanity, due to long memories of the Augment War, and the occasional terrorist action from the Genetic Liberation Front, and United Earth's consistently suspicious attitude towards them as well as efforts to place itself at the leader of humanity in the Federation. While none of them are as augmented as the Augments, this often does not matter to the average politician or citizen of United Earth.
Nowadays, there are only a few broad categories of Genetically Modified humans:
- Cosmetic Modifications
- Comprising of 60% of genetically modified humanity, these are "optimized" genomes to produce specific appearances, or in some cases, add tails or animal like ears.
- Minor/Major Genenetic Modification Strains
- Comprising about 20-25% of genetically modified humanity, these are often descendants of Augment nationalities who were modified to provide specific tasks under Khan's Destiny Plan. They often have an exception to current laws, in order to allow research into stabilizing the genome and remove some of the crippling defects that shorten their lifespan.[9]
- Transhuman
- Only technically human, these colony worlds form a coalition on the edge of Federation space, are known for only barely cooperating with the Federation laws. These colonies also research into cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. A famous Transhumanist colony world is Omicron Theta.[10]
- The Genetic Liberation Front
- Pro Augment Terrorism; rumoured to be led by an augment pulled out of Cryo Storage. Not much is currently known about this organization.[11]
Footnotes
- ↑ As of 2353, humanity dominated with a 33% share of the Federation bureaucracy, and 65% of Starfleet's Command structure. Starfleet has begun several projects and studies to examine the unbalance, now that the Cardassian Liberation War is over. Results are expected in 2355.
- ↑ Unofficially, Earth has a controlling voice here, but it claims the formal title of "first among equals".
- ↑ The terraforming of Luna, while a dream of humanity, is still not possible in the 24th century, and the most they've managed is a massive mass engineering project to convert a large segment of the surface to provide for domed forests, similar to the forests of Starbase One.
- ↑ Even in 2353, there are still adjustments to the terraforming of Mars, from adjusting the magnetic field generators to the massive orbiting shields and sunlight focusing mechanisms, as they are upgrades as Starfleet Planetary Terraforming science advances. This means, that while the Syrtis Major region is technically habitable, being above the water line, it is not safely habitable outside specialized domes to deal with the radiation and extreme weather.
- ↑ This was under the command of the first captain of the Enterprise, Captain Jonathan Archer, before his later court-martial.
- ↑ Indeed, it was named by the Astral Mayflower leader Dr. Josiah Ziarili, who grew up in the ruins of Seattle after WW3.
- ↑ One of the reasons for this was the Andorian and Vissian unease at what Earth was proposing. The Vulcan Council concurred, and only the Tellarites were on the United Earth's side of this, with the Axanarites abstaning from this discussion.
- ↑ In truth, by 2353, they were losing their ability to maintain this ban, as more of the underhanded mechanics they were using in Starfleet came to light due to the war.
- ↑ Even with modern 24th century medicine, they often live only in their eighties, compared to the average life span of near a hundred and twenty.
- ↑ While there was a laissez-faire attitude prior the Cardassian Liberation War, post War shows signs of the Federation Security Bureau gaining additional powers to enforce federation laws.
- ↑ There has been several incidents but as of now, the organization's cell structure has prevented any knowledge of it's leader, except his psuedoname, Ericsson