okay, new round. Added some contributions from the thread, plus some sketchy bits where I had ideas but not the pretty words to make 'em pop. Other stuff is being thought up as we speak. Also added heading ranks so you can see how & where things are organized.
Also, the Google Docs spellchecker recognizes "Bajoran" but the Chrome spellchecker does not. WTF.
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 {n}% 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==
{okay, this part needs a lot of work.
Basics: first organized faction upstairs, created out of various official ST fanclubs, built the original Starbase 1 out of scraps (may or may not have done so in a cave) and organized the first large-scale Mars expedition in mid/late 2007. First Person on Mars might’ve been a Trekkie? Discuss. Anyway, are part of the getting-stuff-together scene as early as ‘08, first ones to travel outsystem, first ones to start interfactional riot (Tomed), first (so far only) faction to have 100% backing from their IP overlords. Were a major part of the infrastructure during the Boskone War, shipping things all over the system and escorting shippers through the belt. Post-war has settled into the role of designated 800 lb gorilla.
Or something like that. You people figure it out, but don’t get too wordy.}
==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. Administrative and legislative power is held in the Federation Council, which is composed of every member world or state. Individual Councilors are elected or appointed according to their constituencies’ desires, though as of 2022 this generally involves direct election.
{blah blah political parties in the Fed: The Blue party favors pacific expansion, the Orange party favors stronger integration with the Free Mars movement, the Green party favors stronger defense, the Purple party tries to walk the line between Blue and Green. In 2022 the Greens are on an upswing, with Purple and Orange forming the loyal opposition.}
The Federation Council meets in the Palais de la Concorde in Utopia Planitia.
===Starfleet===
{ZA MILITARY! Starfleet is the combined armed forces of the Federation; there many others but this one is theirs. The fleet is made up of $n different fleets, which makes official Starfleet documents almost indecipherable after too many repetitions of the word ‘fleet’ but anyway. So the fleets, numbered 1 through $n, operate out of Starbases or Deep Space Stations scattered around the solar system & nearer interstellar space. Their job is exploration (lots of things still to discover in the solar system, to say nothing of beyond!) system defense, protect the helpless, rescue space kittens that get stuck in space trees (AND NO GODDAMMIT THAT WAS NOT A CATGIRL REFERENCE I WILL KILL THE FIRST PERSON WHO MAKES THAT JOKE DO YOU HEAR ME?) the usual boy scout drill. The combined fleets are run out of Starbase 1, attached to the orbital bits of Utopia yards.
Blah blah Starfleet’s almost 100% navy with not much in the way of infantry. Most of what they have are the Starfleet Marine Corps - sometimes called MACOs by Enterprise fans, but who care about them? The Marines are also known as “Redshirts” for the distinctive crimson color of their duty uniforms and, well, yeah. They decided to own the implied insult & since the War have become a reasonably elite fighting force.
Starfleet’s the #1 void navy in the system, and #2 overall in terms of military spending (if you adjust for armies-without-a-country factions like the Roughriders, they’re probably closer to #6, but hey). }
====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 Galactic Republic and the Coalition of Independent Moons.
===Future plans===
==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 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.
===Venus===
===Terra===
===Luna===
===Utopia Planitia===
see main article: Utopia Planitia
{speaking of which, do any of our city guys want to take a swing at Utopia?}
The first city on Mars, Utopia Planitia was founded in 2007 near the site of the Viking 2 landing.
Utopia Planitia faces significant problems in the future, as the continuation of the terraforming of Mars 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.
===Jupiter===
===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 generally 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.
===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.
The largest settlement 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 Shir’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.
==Economy==
{The Federation likes to present itself as a post-scarcity socialist economy. And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon. As it works out, so far the Trekkies operate on a mixed economy similar to the Scandinavian countries, the big difference being that at least one major industry - ship construction - is owned by the state outright. Trekkies use the solar credit as the currency du jour - it was their idea in the first place in fact.
For the moment, the economy is focused on shipping and construction. Fenspace is expanding, both in population and in volume, and the Feds are right at the forefront. Utopia is the biggest and busiest shipyard in the system, focused on both Starfleet construction and more general commercial stuff like freighters. The hope is to build a mighty merchant marine that can move entire colonies out to nearby planets.}
===Utopia Planitia Shipyard===
The largest ship construction facility in Fenspace, {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 200,000.
===Ethnic groups===
{tba: Primarily anglophone white nerds to begin with, the Federation’s seen a remarkable increase in operational diversity in the decade-plus since foundation. While anglophone white nerds still hold onto ~51% of the population, their majority is on a decline in favor of migrants from Asia (countries tbd, thinking Korea, Vietnam & Taiwan), (hispanophone & lusophone) South America and (francophone) Africa. Star Trek is universal, after all.}
====Biomods====
{tba: roughly 1.3% of the population (‘bout 36,000 people) are biomodded. Roughly divided between Klingon and Vulcan(oid) mods, handful of Andorian, Bajoran, Cardassian mods, no reports of any other races.}
==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==
{oh god I don’t know what to put here I AM VERY BAD AT THIS}
===Psychology and stereotypes===
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.
===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==
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Also, the Google Docs spellchecker recognizes "Bajoran" but the Chrome spellchecker does not. WTF.
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 {n}% 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==
{okay, this part needs a lot of work.
Basics: first organized faction upstairs, created out of various official ST fanclubs, built the original Starbase 1 out of scraps (may or may not have done so in a cave) and organized the first large-scale Mars expedition in mid/late 2007. First Person on Mars might’ve been a Trekkie? Discuss. Anyway, are part of the getting-stuff-together scene as early as ‘08, first ones to travel outsystem, first ones to start interfactional riot (Tomed), first (so far only) faction to have 100% backing from their IP overlords. Were a major part of the infrastructure during the Boskone War, shipping things all over the system and escorting shippers through the belt. Post-war has settled into the role of designated 800 lb gorilla.
Or something like that. You people figure it out, but don’t get too wordy.}
==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. Administrative and legislative power is held in the Federation Council, which is composed of every member world or state. Individual Councilors are elected or appointed according to their constituencies’ desires, though as of 2022 this generally involves direct election.
{blah blah political parties in the Fed: The Blue party favors pacific expansion, the Orange party favors stronger integration with the Free Mars movement, the Green party favors stronger defense, the Purple party tries to walk the line between Blue and Green. In 2022 the Greens are on an upswing, with Purple and Orange forming the loyal opposition.}
The Federation Council meets in the Palais de la Concorde in Utopia Planitia.
===Starfleet===
{ZA MILITARY! Starfleet is the combined armed forces of the Federation; there many others but this one is theirs. The fleet is made up of $n different fleets, which makes official Starfleet documents almost indecipherable after too many repetitions of the word ‘fleet’ but anyway. So the fleets, numbered 1 through $n, operate out of Starbases or Deep Space Stations scattered around the solar system & nearer interstellar space. Their job is exploration (lots of things still to discover in the solar system, to say nothing of beyond!) system defense, protect the helpless, rescue space kittens that get stuck in space trees (AND NO GODDAMMIT THAT WAS NOT A CATGIRL REFERENCE I WILL KILL THE FIRST PERSON WHO MAKES THAT JOKE DO YOU HEAR ME?) the usual boy scout drill. The combined fleets are run out of Starbase 1, attached to the orbital bits of Utopia yards.
Blah blah Starfleet’s almost 100% navy with not much in the way of infantry. Most of what they have are the Starfleet Marine Corps - sometimes called MACOs by Enterprise fans, but who care about them? The Marines are also known as “Redshirts” for the distinctive crimson color of their duty uniforms and, well, yeah. They decided to own the implied insult & since the War have become a reasonably elite fighting force.
Starfleet’s the #1 void navy in the system, and #2 overall in terms of military spending (if you adjust for armies-without-a-country factions like the Roughriders, they’re probably closer to #6, but hey). }
====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 Galactic Republic and the Coalition of Independent Moons.
===Future plans===
==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 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.
===Venus===
===Terra===
===Luna===
===Utopia Planitia===
see main article: Utopia Planitia
{speaking of which, do any of our city guys want to take a swing at Utopia?}
The first city on Mars, Utopia Planitia was founded in 2007 near the site of the Viking 2 landing.
Utopia Planitia faces significant problems in the future, as the continuation of the terraforming of Mars 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.
===Jupiter===
===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 generally 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.
===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.
The largest settlement 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 Shir’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.
==Economy==
{The Federation likes to present itself as a post-scarcity socialist economy. And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon. As it works out, so far the Trekkies operate on a mixed economy similar to the Scandinavian countries, the big difference being that at least one major industry - ship construction - is owned by the state outright. Trekkies use the solar credit as the currency du jour - it was their idea in the first place in fact.
For the moment, the economy is focused on shipping and construction. Fenspace is expanding, both in population and in volume, and the Feds are right at the forefront. Utopia is the biggest and busiest shipyard in the system, focused on both Starfleet construction and more general commercial stuff like freighters. The hope is to build a mighty merchant marine that can move entire colonies out to nearby planets.}
===Utopia Planitia Shipyard===
The largest ship construction facility in Fenspace, {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 200,000.
===Ethnic groups===
{tba: Primarily anglophone white nerds to begin with, the Federation’s seen a remarkable increase in operational diversity in the decade-plus since foundation. While anglophone white nerds still hold onto ~51% of the population, their majority is on a decline in favor of migrants from Asia (countries tbd, thinking Korea, Vietnam & Taiwan), (hispanophone & lusophone) South America and (francophone) Africa. Star Trek is universal, after all.}
====Biomods====
{tba: roughly 1.3% of the population (‘bout 36,000 people) are biomodded. Roughly divided between Klingon and Vulcan(oid) mods, handful of Andorian, Bajoran, Cardassian mods, no reports of any other races.}
==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==
{oh god I don’t know what to put here I AM VERY BAD AT THIS}
===Psychology and stereotypes===
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.
===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==
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"