After the failure of Operation "Caesar" and his arrest for attempted treason, Admiral Vaughan Rittenhouses' personal correspondence, personal writings and all other files would be seized by Federation Special Services and Starfleet Security. The absolute treasure trove of information - everything from his diary and planner through to random notes on fiction and his stamp collection - has been a boon to historians ever since it was declassified in 2320.
Amongst the nearly 450 Terrabytes of information was a series of correspondence between Rittenhouse and Admiral Nogura. Nogura, despite vocally disliking Rittenhouse, would exchange letters with him regularly between 2250 and 2270; both to discuss policy and as a semi-private form of venting about events within Starfleet Command. These collated letters detail Rittenhouses's obsessive disapproval of Captain Christopher Pike during his time as C-in-C Klingon Border Operations (2259-2262).
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"No Doors We Open Can Shut For A Thousand Years" - Lines by Helene Margaret, carved above the main steps into the Palais de Concorde
"I dedicate this building - built at the heart of the city that was the nursery of terran democracy, and the mother of her sentient rights - to the future: and to those who will come here to build a better life for all." - Ambassador Soval, July 14 2171. The Acamar Address - delivered on the 20th of July 2262 - was the defining moment of the Acamar Crisis. Ken Wescott's government, brought into power in the midst of the confrontation over the war-torn planet, strove to deliver a clear policy after the fall of Peter Broadhurst, while also struggling with a percieved lack of political legitimacy. There were many who feared that if Wescott was unable to assert his authority, both his government - and the Federation itself - might collapse under the weight of Klingon pressure.
The Federation soldier – whether a Starfleet Marine, an FGF Private, or a trooper in the mechanised cavalry – is, in some respects, the best-equipped and best-trained soldier in the quadrant. In many others, their armaments and equipment are thoroughly lacking. Their small unit tactics are built around counter-insurgency warfare on a small scale; facing the Imperial Army required the re-learning of vital lessons about the concentration of firepower and battalion-level tactical manoeuvre.
The death of Ambassador Dak'Rah, son of Ra’ul in September 2260 represented a significant shift in the diplomatic front of the early Klingon Cold War. Dak'Rah – a General in the Imperial Army from a middling aristocratic family – had led the ground campaign on J’Gal Minor. The eight month siege of the planet and it’s mixed Federation-Klingon settlements killed over 23,000 personnel and 58,000 civilians. Nearly 85% of the planet’s civilian population was killed, evacuated or went missing before Starfleet lifted the siege and evacuated the planet in February 2257. Many died under direct orders from Dak'Rah, though these orders would not be confirmed until the early 2290s.
Political Factions and Parties in the Federation are not “parties” in the organised, structured sense. They are ideological groupings, based upon mutual principles, but without a formal party structure for electioneering or campaigning in the way that most planetary political parties are. They are also not directly connected with planetary political parties; as every federation member chooses their Federation Councilor with methods of their own discretion, such formal connections would be impossible.
While the factions would be disparate and overlapping for much of the first century of the UFP, after T'Kuvma's War and the Th’rhahlat Administration, political groups began to coalesce around the Chartist-Unionist poles. However, neither of these two factions ever possessed enough political power to create a “two-party system” of any kind. Sourced From: Stout Hearts and Broken Chains: Starfleet and the Orion Syndicate, 2250-2280, by Quara Poylon.
Task Force Blackfriar was one of several anti-piracy formations active during the spring and summer of 2259. Blackfriar would replace the overstretched Task Force Qu'Lomu on April 11th and would cover the critical Vota Star Cluster until 2260. The diagram above represents the task force in late August 2259, just before it had many of its cruisers transferred to take part in Operation Singapore. Denise Trennow
Master’s Dissertation (Abstract) University of Alpha III Spring Term, 2352 In this dissertation, we will explore the key role that Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet at the end of James Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, had in creating the cult of personality that has surrounded that ship and her heirs ever since. This will be followed by a discussion of the short but glorious career of the USS Enterprise-C, and will make the case that her captain, Rachel Garrett, would be the greatest hero to captain an Enterprise but for Nogura’s nearly century-long shadow. |