Federation Civil War

"It is a foul time indeed when the same uniform and oath hides both traitors, and patriots. Such a time has come upon us, a time we must choose who is our friend; those that would help us preserve the Federation, from those that would simply remake it into a twisted shell of its previous glory. I have spent my life defending our borders, and protecting the enduring philosophy that has become our way of life. In good conscience, I can no longer stand idly by as forces of evil and ambition rip apart the very foundation of the Federation. We no longer have anywhere to hide; we cannot turn blindly away and pray for the best any longer, we must stand our ground once and for all time. We are the Front lines, on the first of many battlegrounds, and we are the last line of defense. If we fail, we will be left with naught but oblivion."

— Admiral LoDona

The Federation Civil War is a conflict between forces loyal to Admiral LoDona and forces loyal to Admiral Doenitz. The 52nd Fleet is the primary group of ships fighting for LoDona.

Brief Overview

The Federation has entered a dark period in history.

After learning of a secret plot within the very Admiralty of Starfleet to take over the Federation and remake it after their image, Robert LoDona vowed that he would fight to the end in order to save Starfleet, the Federation and the philosophies which had defined their way of life for centuries. He ordered his fleet; the 52nd Exploratory, to a new position deep in the Beta Quadrant at a Terminus of the Subspace River and declared open hostilities against certain Admirals in Starfleet and their ideals.

He did not make the hostilities known to the Federation-at-large, the specter of full scale Civil War was disheartening at best, and he deemed it prudent to save the Federation and her member-worlds the strife as long as Starfleet could handle the matter internally. However, he prepared contingency plans should the Federation learn of the conflict and be plunged into Civil War.

The future is not yet known, the 52nd fleet has much to do, and few resources to use. The area of space to which Admiral LoDona relocated is almost completely unknown, and must be fully explored and secured as their base of operations. The subspace river has a termination point there, reason unknown. And there is plenty of evidence suggesting that there are several highly evolved races of aliens in the local area.

Then, there is the issue of the coming quasi-war with various elements of Starfleet. Large Fleet actions are unlikely, only one ship at a time can exit the subspace river, making defense of it simple. Any fleet traveling the four month journey at high-warp would be seen by sensor outposts, debasing the element of surprise. Robert refuses to make this a larger public issue, and it was deemed highly unlikely that Admiral Doenitz and his cadre would choose to publicly discredit LoDona and his Captains as Traitors, as such public scrutiny would have the effect of casting the Admiralties philosophy and actions into the lime-light as well as casting the Federation itself into Civil War.

It is the opinion of many that Civil War must be avoided at all manageable costs.

These are dark times, unpredictable times. There are new areas of space to explore and a quasi-civil war to fight with elements of their very own forces. This is the first of many battlegrounds for the future of the Federation. Only the willful will succeed, only the strong will survive.

Time Line of Events

Pre-Conflict

• Station Geneva, USS Nimitz, USS Wraith, USS Freedom, USS Boudicca and the Cochrane Research Facility are assigned to the 52nd Fleet.

• An unstable wormhole opens, staying open only long enough for a Sovereign class ship to come through. The ship is the USS Paladin, commanded by Captain Straton, from an Alternate universe just after the 'Dominion Wars' and running many years behind. The ship is scrapped and the crew reassigned after debriefing.

• Starbase Geneva is completed and commissioned by SCADO 12, Station Geneva is abandoned.

• Admiral Robert LoDona takes command of Star Trek : Freedom when Admiral Greeley is sent to Earth for reassignment.

• The USS Nimitz is chosen for a secret archeological mission, and disappears from all official channels for a month, before reappearing at Earth for debriefing and to challenge Admiral Doenitz, who tried to have her destroyed.

• The USS Mithrandir is attacked during a diplomatic mission and her crew offloaded. The crew later regains control and make way back to Geneva with many casualties.

• Admiral Robert LoDona becomes commander of the 52nd exploratory fleet; he later orders the entire fleet further into Beta Quadrant and launches a Quasi- Civil War with select members of the Starfleet Admiralty

Before War Declaration

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• Doenitz begins a campaign of war against Andoria, Betazed, Vulcan, Tellar. See Battle of Andoria for more information and the result of these battles.

After War Declaration

• War was declared when Doenitz forces bombed Tellar. The forces under LoDona began an active war, and all Starfleet officers were ordered to carry phasers with them at all times.

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Politics of War

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