Editing Star Fleet Battles (section)

== General Game Timeline==

A very very brief overview of the timeline of the StarFleet Universe by ADB.

* Y -7,000,000,000 - The universe is created. This is generally thought to be a bad idea by those involved. 
* Y1 - The humans discover warp travel and meet the Vulcans. The galaxy will never be the same.
* Y4 - The Federation is formed by the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians and Tellerites.
* Y36 - The 1st Gorn/Romulan war starts. It ends in Y39 with a Gorn withdrawal and ceasefire.
* Y40 - The 1st Federation Romulan war starts, fought with lasers, rail-guns, armor and limited warp drives. War ends in the Federations favor in Y46
* Y62 - Tactical (modern style) warp drives are developed by all races changing the nature of warfare forever.
* Y68 - The Lyran-Kzinti "war" officially starts and goes on and on and on and on...
* Y71 - The Starfleet is formed by the Federation. After lesson learned in the 1st Romulan war the Federation goes from each planet providing it's own style of ships to a unified design and supra-planetary permanent force.
* Y76 - The Klingons meet the Hydran's and attack but quickly suffer a major defeat and withdrawal from Hydran space. Oddly enough the Klingon High Council doesn't execute the Admiral in charge but instead asks what went wrong. This results in the creation of the D series of warships.
* Y79 - The Tholian refugee's arrive in galaxy after 800 years of inter-galactic travel and settle in space the Klingon consider theirs but go unnoticed and create the Holdfast.
* Y83- The Klingons discover the Tholians and launch an attack but suffer badly due to the Tholain web technology. In return the Tholian's attack and wipe out several Klingon civilian colonies enraging the Klingons who announce a blood vendetta.
*Y84 - The first Andromedian scouts arrive in the Milkyway
* Y85 - The Federation encounters the Klingons and after 3 losses to new cultures the Klingons decide to not attack and rather to send in some ambassadors and diplomats to try to get a better idea on Federation strength. Some trade and treaties are signed but both races start competing for prime colony spots along their shared boarder and tensions start to rise.
* Y87 - The Klingons launch a attack on the Hydran's using the new D4 warships and smash the Hydran forces in days and force a surrender of 90% of the Hydran worlds. The few remaining Hydran warships retreat to the "old kingdom" which lies inside a large nebula and thus goes unseen by Klingon forces.
* Y88 - The Kzinit's attack the Federation over boarder issues and the Klingon's offer tactical knowledge as well as placing Klingon officers onboard Federation ships as advisors in an attempt to better understand Federation capabilities and tactics.
* Y90 - The Gorns and Romulans renew their war which goes on for 5 years. Both side deploy the new Plasma Torpedo to great effect.
* Y92 - The Klingons launch a massive attack on the Tholain Holdfast to wipe the species out but it ends in disaster after 10 years of fighting. Winning no territory but draining away Klingon resources. This is part of the reason for the oddly friendly Federation-Klingon relations. Unknown to the Klingons the Holdfast was on the verge of collapse at the time of the withdrawal.
* Y94 - A Sunsnake life form infests the star of the Pavarian home world, who are the honored ancestors of the Gorn race, it goes nova destroying the solar system and eradicating the Pravarians.  The Gorns are overcome with grief/rage and blame the Romulans and declare that they will repay the Romulans in kind no matter the cost.
* Y110 - Recovered after the disaster of the Tholian war the Klingons decide now is the time to finally attack the Federation and launches a surprise attack on Federation forces on the boarder. History repeats as the new Federation weapon, the Photon Torpedo, proves to be a massive success and the Klingon quickly suing for peace after a series of defeats claiming it was all a "misunderstanding". 
* Y119 - The Orion Cartels are officially formed,  well as official as a group of pirates can be. The galaxy is cut up into zones of control by the Pirate Council to limit internal conflicts. But like all good pirate the rules are treated more as suggestions then rules so if you can get away with it, it's yours. Profit is Profit after all.
* Y123 - The Klingons attack the Kzinti again and place a squadron permanently on harassment patrol on the Tholian boarder.
* Y126 - The famous (or infamous depending on your point of view) Constitution class Heavy Cruiser is introduce by the Federation.
* Y135 - The Hydrans of the Old Kingdom surge out of their protective nebula and launch an assault to retake their world from the Klingons.  Armed with new Fusion technologies and the powerful phaser-G the new Hydran ships overpower the Klingon's forces who fall back to the old boarders in disarray. Tied up with the Kzinti war,the Tholian issue and heavy Federation presence on their boarders the Klingons admit defeat and withdraw all their forces back to their own boarders. The Hydrans reclaim all of their worlds and celebrate independence.
* Y137 - The Lyrans and Klingons sign a mutual aid pact to off set the growing power and size of the Federation.
* Y145 - A Kzinti taskforce attacks a Federation world without permission, slaughters and consumes the 3,000 colonists. The Federation is horrified and a vote is cast for war. The Kzinti Emperor, not wanting war, captures and executes all 1,500 of the individuals involved in the attack and turns their heads over to a Federation diplomat as a peace gesture. Oddly enough this event marks a thawing of Kzinti attitudes towards the Federation which results in a mutual defense treaty.
* Y154 - The Romulans return to the Federation boarder in force and launch an attack on colonies in the neutral zone. War is avoided but the Romulans see this as a weakness on the Federations part.
* Y155 - The Andromedians arrive in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud and begin construction of their Devastator starbase as a base of operations for the conquest of the Milkyway.
* Y156 - The Kzinti and Hydrans sign a mutual defense pact to keep the Klingons at bay.
* Y157 - The Federation and Gorns almost come to war as two captains come to blows but cooler heads prevail and a odd but fruitful alliance is formed.
* Y159 - The Organians disappear without explanation.
* Y160 - Tensions across the spiral arm start to increase as most major empires start a military build up program.
* Y161 to Y171 - many, many small diplomatic incidences across the galaxy happen as military forces start to encounter each other on a regular basis.  War is coming and most races are getting ready for it. All that is needed is the spark to set it off. (main setting of the game)
* Y166 - The first sighting of an Andromedian ship is confirmed by a lone surviving crew member of a Federation Destroyer that it attacked without warning.
* Y171 - The General War kicks off with yet another Lyran Kzinti war which drags in the Hydrans and the Klingons due to mutual defense pacts. Knowing that the Federation will be drawn in the Klingons prepare a full fledged assault. The surprise attack by the Klingons catches the Federation off guard and many Starfleet ships are lost in the lopsided duels as the Klingons drive deep into Federation space. The Gorns honor their agreement and declare war on the Klingons and launch a small series of raids into Klingon space.
* Y172 - A joint Federation Kzinti team develops the first "fighter" from a shuttlecraft using miniaturized warp engines.  Unknown to them the Hydrans have been using  fighters for years. Several heavy cruisers are quickly converted into carriers and launched into the war. The fighters are a surprise to the Klingons whose drive into Federation space is slowed and eventually stopped by the powerful CVA groups. 
* Y173 - The Klingons woo the Romulans into attacking the Federation by delivering them old Klingon D6 ships which are refitted into the powerful plasma armed KR series of ships. The Romulans attack across the full breadth of the boarder once again driving deep into Federation space.
* Y173 to Y186 - The war drags on with every major race involved in massive fighting. Most pre-war ships are lost by now in the fighting and a new War Series of ships are introduced to speed up production by the Empires. Ships designed to be cheap and fast to produce to help offset the immense losses everyone is suffering.  The age of attrition warfare begins.
* Y178 - The Neo-Tholian ships arrive in galaxy just in the nick of time to save the Holdfast from the final Klingon assault. The original Tholian ships were civilian ships repurposed for war but the Neo-Tholians are warships from the old Tholian empire and after some quick refits are more then capable of throwing the Klingons out of the Holdfast territory but due to them being utterly irreplaceable the Tholians refuse to send them to assist in the General War.
* Y181 - The Federation launches Operation Remus and scrapes up a huge coalition force to assault the Romulan homeworld consisting of one of the few remaining Federation CVA's; the USS MacArthur. The assault is successful but the task-force suffers massive losses in the final battle with the MacArthur itself going down above Remus, striking  the planet causing millions of Romulan lives to be lost. The planet is devastated rendered almost uninhabitable. The Romulans are crippled emotionally and economically by this event and while the war isn't over the Federation Romulan conflict peters out. The Federation is horrified over this incident and offers to assist in the rebuilding of Remus after the war, easing Romulan feelings and starting a detente period.
* Y182 - Operation Calvary is launched by the Alliance against the Klingon homeworld but after much fierce fighting the losses on both sides are immense and while all of  the Federation territory is reclaimed the Klingons stop the task-force before it reaches it's goal.
* Y182 - The Lyrans introduce the Fast Patrol craft to combat the fighters of the Alliance bringing the attrition warfare to a whole new level. All races quickly deploy PF's to bolster dwindling military forces. PF's are cheap to produce and train and are capable of taking down ships when in packs but have limited range and very limited survivablity.
* Y184 - The Pleiades Turkey Shoot happens as the Klingons try to destroy the last operational Federation CVA group but fail and suffer the loss of much of their remaining fighting strength on the Federation front. All major powers are pretty much exhausted by this time with combat reduced to PF's raids and small scale battles. No power is willing to risk their few remaining capital ships without urgent and immediate need. 
* Y185 - The Organians return and put and end to the fighting. Most Empires are secretly happy for this enforced peace as they are exhausted by the decade of fighting and are at the limit of their endurance. This Organian Decree allows a "peace with honor". After 10 years of brutal fighting and billions of lives lost no territory is gained by any power. The war has been futile.
* Y186 - The ISC begin their "pacification" of the galaxy by creating no go zones on the boarders of all the galactic powers. The ISC had sat out the war protected by distance but watching the destruction of the General War then decided that the galaxy was insane and had to be protected from itself. For their own reasons the Organians do not interfere and may indeed have aided the ISC.
* Y190 - Out of no where the Andromedians begin appear in great numbers and catch the ISC forces scattered all across the galaxy quickly making short work of the isolated fleets. The Andromedians use technology that is complete foreign to the galactic powers and are almost impossible to stop due to the lasting effects of the General War. For the next 5 years the Andromedians rampage across the galaxy almost at will.
* Y195 - The Federation survey ship "Essex" discovers how the Andromedians are able to move about so quickly and they freely spreads the knowledge to all galactic powers who move to attack the so named Rapid Transit Nodes and start to disrupt the Andromedains combat operations.
* Y196 - X-ships are introduced to help combat the Andromedian menace. These ships feature new technologies and are extremely capable warships but due to high cost and complexity they are available in very limited numbers but are able to finally hand defeat to the invaders on a one on one basis.
* Y199 - All galactic powers come to realize that unless they co-operate the Andromedians will not be defeated so Operation Unity is created. 
* Y201 - Operation Unity launches an assault on the Andromedian Devastator class Starbase in the Lower Magellanic Cloud and after much fighting they succeed in destroying it and the last Andromedian presence in the Milkyway galaxy. Aside from a few scattered survivors the Andromedians cease to be a threat.
* Y202 - End of SFB game timeline.