United Federation of Planets

The United Federation of Planets is an organization that was set up by Humans in around 2300 PLF to co-exist better with aliens. It operates mostly around their sect of the Trek Galaxy but has spread out to incorporate races from as far out as Klingon Space, which is on the outer rim of the Trek Galaxy.

The Federation lives in harmony with the League, despite the wars it has taken part in. There was also a strange incident where the Federation Fleet found itself taking orders from the Galactic Council, but thats a different story.

The Federation is essentially a peaceful organization, but it will not hesitate to use its powerful weapons on any that oppose it and threaten the peace. For example, the Human-Klingon War was spearheaded by the Federation but did eventually lead to a lasting peace. Other races that the Federation have fought but subsequently made peace with are the Cardassians, the Romulans and the Ferengi. The Federation also has a lasting War with the Borg, as does most intelligent life in the Universe. However, the Federation will never cause a war, and will only fight in one to secure peace.

The Federation holds stewardship of nearly 10,000 planets, with over 1,000,000 species in the alliance. Of these races, however, only a handful have any kind of military prescence - in fact most species in the Federation join the alliance due to the benefits of military protection in the event of a Borg attack, and before the GTS became prominent in the Trek Galaxy, the beneficial trade that the Federation could bring to otherwise barren or infertile planets.

The Federation technology is greatly in advance of their Human counterparts of the Milky Way, but that is simply due to the fact that those in the Trek Galaxy were out of range of the Halo Array when it fired in the Milky Way - and what few Human scout ships and patrol outposts existed in the Trek Galaxy simply continued their existence, unaware of the catastrophe that has affected their species. This is why technologies like Warp Drive, Phasers and Beaming were available to the Humans of the Trek Galaxy from as early as 2200, when such technology would be denied to the Humans of the Milky Way until the Human-Covenant War of the 2500s, the aftermath of which saw both factions of humans meet up and swap technologies.

Notable Starships:

 * USS Enterprise
 * USS Voyager
 * USS Excelsior
 * USS Phoenix
 * USS Prometheus
 * USS Defiant
 * USS Quazar
 * USS Kelvin

Former Starships

 * USS Hood