Alt.Starfleet.Rpg Origins

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Everything had changed. A doorway has opened.

The ships are legendary: Enterprise...Yorktown...Lexington...Constellation...Farragut...

The names are heroic: Pike...Kirk...Decker...Tracey...Garrovik...

A doorway has opened that cannot be closed. What were once legends are again only metal and conduit. Who were once heroes are again only mortals.

A new path has begun. The time to become legends again, to become heroes again, is now.

A new beginning has arrived. Join us.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is an outline for a new ASR-offshoot PBeM group, called "STAR FLEET: Origins." "Origins" will be a writing group specifically designed to explore the alternate timeline opened up in the latest Star Trek movie by J.J. Abrams. That movie and its upcoming sequels will serve as the main inspiration for "Origins."

The Federation of 2260 is closely centered around the core systems of Earth, Andor and Tellar. It is a Federation where Vulcan has been destroyed and the Vulcan race nearly eradicated, its 10,000 survivors now endangered species on a colony planet. It is a Federation of far fewer resources with which to respond to threats.

And it is a Federation of exploration and discovery. There are still large parts of the galaxy unexplored. Though the Klingons and the Romulans are known quantities, little is known about the Gorn, the Tholians, and the Cardassians. The Dalriada, the Borg, the Dominion - they have yet to be discovered. Though these facts may change- the landscape we once knew has been altered.

The Klingons are aggressive, and they do not like us. We're in their way. And they don't miss an opportunity to remind us of this. Of course, they still have to rebuild their fleet after Nero's decimation of it in 2258.

The memories of the Federation-Romulan War are far closer to the surface, the scars far more recent. However, despite Nero's timeline-altering appearance, the Romulans have closed their borders and have kept to themselves for many years. Will they stay that way? Is this a golden opportunity, or a precursor to war? And if it is war they want, then with whom? The Klingons are vulnerable as well...

The Federation is still young, still growing. In 2260, the Federation was a nascent one- growing, searching out new races and species to become members in friendship and mutual benefit. It was less a military organization than a diplomatic or scientific group...though Nero's incursions have given voice to the more "hawkish" elements of Starfleet in recent years...