Editing Skorr (section)

===First Contact with the United Federation of Planets===

The Skorr first contact with the federation was not without incident. In 2245, the Federation Starship Olympiad, NCC-0300, A Soyuz class starship, entered the Skorr star system on a standard surveying mission when it was attacked and destroyed by Skorr warships.  The Federation Starship, Grendel, NCC-2033, a Constitution Class starship, was also destroyed after attempting to locate the lost Olympiad.  After the loss of the two starships, Starfleet command suspected the Klingons or the Romulans, and decided to dispatch the USS Laredo, USS Montana, and the USS Johannesburg to investigate the situation. Upon the arrival of the three starships into Skorr space, the Skorr fleet set them upon. After several minutes of intense conflict the three Federation starships withdrew. There was no other contact with the Skorr species until 2269. 

[[Image:Kirk.jpg|thumb|right|Captain, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), James T. Kirk in 2269]]In that year, the USS Enterprise commanded by Captain James T. Kirk was dispatched to Skorr Space, when Starfleet command received an ultimatum to '''''"...Return the Soul of Skorr or face the consequences."''''' Faced with the possibility of a war with an enemy that they did not know or understand, the Enterprise crew eventually unmasked the culprit behind the theft and healed the relations between the Skorr Hierarchy and the UFP. 

Prior to their disastrous encounter with the UFP, the Skorr had developed a warp 9 engine, although they lacked communications and computer technology to utilize it fully.  Skorr government programs managed to retro engineer several of the primary components of the Federation starships destroyed in those critical first encounters and began a serious warp space program of their own, now that they possessed subspace communications and advanced computers. After developing an orbital space-manufacturing shipyard they built their first truly advanced warp vessel. This first vessel, the Moonlight Stalker, was later responsible for the signing of the peace treaty between the Federation and the Skorr Species. This state of War was unknown to the UFP until the establishment of the official contact with the Skorr species in 2269. It was during these historic peace accords that it was discovered that the Skorr starships that had encountered the USS Olympiad and the USS Grendel in 2245 were not equipped with communications technology, and that said technology wasn’t developed by the Skorr Species until after the battle with the USS Laredo Task force. The attack was prompted by the detection of subspace radio waves that were misidentified as an advanced weapon of some sort.  These radio waves were, in fact,  the hails of the Federation starships. 

In 2380, after nearly 111 years of peaceful relations the Skorr Hierarchy joined the UFP in a technology and trade agreement and very limited military alliance.