Humans

The **human** race originated on the planet Earth, the third in the Sol system.

## History

Modern humans evolved about 300,000 years ago on Earth, and appear to have developed advanced civilizations several times which fell for various reasons, the most recent of which was the Younger Dryas event about 9600 BC, the source of the flood myths of numerous cultures on Earth, including the myth of Atlantis, whose remains appear to have been found along the Azores Plateau in the Atlantic.

Once civilization restarted, it began advancing again. Empires like the Babylonians, Akkadians, Sumerians, Greeks, Persians, and Romans rose and fell. The British Empire colonized the Americas along with the French and Spanish. In 1776, the American colonies rebelled against the King, resulting in the independence of the 13 colonies by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

The new United States created a new Constitution in 1787, but faced several threats of secession from New England over election results (1794, 1800), Louisiana (1803), economic issues from the embargo and War of 1812 (1815 Hartford Convention). After more than 30 years of northern agitation against the south for having defeated their tariff in 1828. Seven southern states seceded in 1861, and after the threat of 75,000 militia to invade those seven, more states seceded. Unfortunately for the United States, the Confederates emancipated their slaves in 1864 based on General Cleburne's Memorial, giving them the manpower to win their independence in 1865.

The two nations began cooperating a few years after the war, and by the time of World War I (1912) and World War II (1941) they were allies, as they were during the Cold War. With the British and Germans, the two American powers defeated the Roman Entente (France, Italy, Serbia; also Russia, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire) and later the Axis Powers (France, Italy, Turkey, Poland) with the USSR, Britain, and the German resistance. The simultaneous Chinese Civil War resulted in the division of China into North and South, the Korean communists failing without the backing of China and Russia.

After the war, Europe was at peace for longer than in the last several centuries with the development of the European Defence Community and the European Economic Community. The peace was shattered with the economic shock of 2008, and later of 2022 with the release of the MERS bioweapon in 2020. This depression was worldwide and came with a loss of about 1.9 billion people due to the bioweapon, and another 2 billion from economic aftereffects.

In the turmoil, scientists and technocrats advocated the use of genetic engineering, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, called the Great Reset by others, resulting in many nations becoming technocratic and authoritarian, including the UK, Canada, France, Germany, the US, and Australia. These nations faced further turmoil with people advocating freedom, while other established parties advocated lockdowns against those demanding freedom, calling them 'fascists.' The growing unrest was unresolved by the time World War III broke out in Asia, with one of several 'Augments', Khan Noonien Singh having control of a quarter of the world's population before the war ended in 2053 with the collapse of his empire based out of Afghanistan.

Humanity encountered aliens officially for the first time in 2063 when Zefram Cochrane's warp flight out of Arizona's Coconino National Forest attracted the attention of a passing Vulcan scout ship. The Vulcans began helping the humans clean up the massive environmental damage due to radiation, pesticides, microplastics, GMO crops, and water contamination, letting the humans finally begin to rebuild their civilization.

Warp drive was licensed out to Leeding Technologies, and several other companies, and began creating several ships for interstellar travel. Vulcans had let humans know of a large number of planets capable of supporting life, inadvertently setting off a rush of human colonization that worried the Vulcans they would set off an interstellar incident, causing them to massively slow down their sharing of technology with the humans. Humans had claimed and began settling the colonies that would become known as Nova Roma, New Brittania, Galatia (a Celtic colony world), Germania, New India, New China, and several other worlds before the colony rush stopped.

After the initial colony rush, humans began cooperating, placing their colony worlds under a United Earth Space Probe Agency, while interstellar defense became the purview of Starfleet, founded in 2115. Eventually, the Earth scientist named Archer would develop the Warp 5 engine that would be installed on the NX class ship, the first of which was the Enterprise.

## Physical Characteristics

Human males are on average 5'10" and about 175 lb, and females on average 5'8" and 145 lb. Men in Starfleet appear like a man who engages in regular exercise and weightlifting. Women on average appear like women who engage in regular exercise. Due to long-time use of growth hormones in beef and other food stocks, along with cultural selection pressures, men are taller and more masculine and women are also more feminine than otherwise.

Humans are often found to be pretty basic in comparison to other species, though they appear to be quite intuitive and seem to be capable of leaps of logic that other species find confusing.

Humans tend to have skin from pale pink to dark brown and every shade in between. They have straight to curly hair; eyes from gray, blue, green, hazel, brown, and black and shades of each; hair in blonde, red, orange, brown, black and shades of those.

## Variants

* Augments: a result of mid 21st century genetic engineering; as a result of their starting World War III and nearly destroying Earth, genetic engineering was outlawed on Earth.
* Bellringers: a group of 48 humans altered by the Orions at Bellringer Station using outlawed genetic engineering technology. The group of 48 females was intended to be used as infiltration agents (or honeypots) to steal technology and information pr blackmail Starfleet officers, using their existing knowledge of Starfleet to the Orions' advantage. They were given enhanced pheromone emission and control, a subvocal oscillation to enhance their ability to make 'suggestions', and the ability to change hair and eye color to meet different mission profiles. Before they were mentally conditioned, Starfleet rescued them and returned them to Earth. After much therapy, the Bellringers were returned to duty. Since their genetic engineering was not voluntary, they are allowed to return to Starfleet, provided they don't tell the crew at large of their former genders or enhancements, and control their pheromones with suppressants.

## Colony Worlds

* New Britannia - Claimed in 2069 by the United Kingdom, and settled over the course of the next 40 years from England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Channel Islands. This planet currently has a population of about 240 million people. The architecture across the planet appears to be similar to that of the Victorian-Edwardian era in most respects, with most public buildings in a form of Classical (Greco-Roman), and even skyscrapers have classical and Victorian influence. One of the members of the House of Windsor became the monarch on the planet, the Prince of New Britannia, Charles V, but when the planet gained independence in 2176, the then-current Prince declared himself King William VII.
* New Germania - Claimed in 2070 by Germany, but first settled by the Frisians in Germany and the Netherlands, and the Saxons (Low German speakers). In the end, the planet includes German, Frisian, Saxon (Low German), Dutch, and Luxemburgish speakers, with a population of about 359 million by 2360. The planetary government is a loose confederation, resembling that of the Holy Roman Empire several centuries before, with a weak sovereign, but having a strong parliament, and most of the governing done within the various States of the planet.
* New India (नवःसिन्धुः) - Claimed in 2070, the newly recovering Indian government believed that a colony would give them something positive to focus on, after the devastation of their people, land, and culture as a result of the third world war. Idealists from India imposed the requirement to use Sanskrit, as a unifying point, such that today, this planet still uses Sanskrit to read, write, and speak. Now there are over 5 billion people on New India, about 95% of which come from the Indian subcontinent at some point along the way.