"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.
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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 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. |