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Slave Girls IV will be a rewrite, or revisionist history, of the SFB timeline. It will take place just prior to the events that led to the General War and offer a different place in history for the ISC, and the rest of the galaxy, for that matter. If you do not wish to read the storyline and want to proceed to the server setup description, feel free to skip to the 2nd post.
According to info at
http://www.starfleetgames.com/sfb/sfin/general_war.htm , this snipet of the SFB Timeline below precedes and sets up the storyline for
Slave Girls IV.
THE GATHERING STORM
By Y2271, the Klingons and Lyrans were on the verge of victory. The Hydrans were defeated and effectively out of the war, and the Kzintis were barely hanging onto a capital that had been reduced to rubble. The Kzintis were at the point of suing for peace on any terms they could get when the Federation, alarmed at the prospect of a Klingon Empire that could nearly equal its economic power, began taking a serious interest in the war. The Federation began its own arms buildup and was on the verge of providing the Kzintis massive economic support and sending the 4th Fleet into Kzinti space.
The Klingons, who had been watching the Federation "wake up" and build up its forces, became seriously alarmed at the prospect of a widened war. The Empire's strategic plan was originally to wait at least ten years (after conquering the Kzinti capital) before considering a war with the Federation.
The Klingons attempted to defuse the situation diplomatically with a protest to the Organians. They argued that Federation interference was about to prolong a war that should be ending, and noted that the result of that war would be a situation far more stable than the previous three decades had been. The Organians remained silent on the question for reasons that have never been fully understood. The Klingons began extensive probing of the Neutral Zone and found that the decrease in Organian interference was rapidly accelerating. While historians continue to argue whether the Organians were allowing a war consciously or were simply involved in some other matter and not paying attention, the eventual result was the same.
As sporadic conflict along the Federation-Klingon Neutral Zone escalated, the Federation began to mobilize. The Klingons recognized that a mobilized Federation was a very dangerous opponent and were unable to conceive of a defensive mobilization (which some Federation historians continue to insist it was). The Klingons faced a difficult choice. The Federation seemed determined to intervene in the Klingo-Kzinti War, and the Federation buildup was rapidly making any Klingon attack on the Federation a less certain proposition than it had been before.
KLINGON INVASION OF THE FEDERATION, Y2271
When the Organians ultimately disappeared in mid-Y2271, the Klingons decided to be the masters of their own fate, rather than waiting to see what fate the Federation would provide for them. They invaded the Federation on 2 August Y2271, swiftly destroying the border stations and driving the Federation back 2,000 to 3,000 parsecs by the end of Y2272.
SLAVE GIRLS IV, Y171 (Revisionist history) In
Slave Girls IV: Revenge of the Orion Slave Girls, the Klingon invasion of Federation space never happens, or at least not yet. Instead, the disappearance of the Organians coincides with the accidental and mysterious discovery of an alien artifact on Organia by an unsuspecting Orion Slave Girl refuge and the near immediate appearance of the ISC, approximately 15 years prior to their historical SFB introduction. They quickly occupy the entire neutral zone with their massive long range echelon fleets and begin their task of galaxy wide pacification.
Obviously, with the Klingons already prepared for war against the Federation, the incursion by the ISC into the neutral zone only further agitates the Klingon?s war plans and the spread thin ISC fleets are seen as easy prey. A full scale attack is then instigated by the Klingons and their Lyran allies who quickly gobble up large portions of the neutral zone before the ISC are able to recover and mobilize for a counter offensive.
THE START OF THE GENERAL WAR, Y2271-2272 The Federation, meanwhile, sees the alarming advance of Klingons steadily moving closer to Federation space as a failure of the ISC to protect Federation interests. Sitting idly by and hoping the ISC repel the Klingons is something the Federation feels it cannot risk and advance into the neutral zone as a preemptive action to counter the rapidly advancing Klingons.
Watching from afar are the Romulans who were just beginning to benefit from Klingo-Romulan trade until the occupation of the neutral zone by the ISC, are extremely annoyed by this ISC interference. The Romulans realize that with the recent outbreak of hostilities between the Federation and their new enemies that a unique opportunity is presented for them. So they themselves advance into the neutral zone pushing the ISC aside to reestablish Klingo-Romulan trade and this starts a full scale war with the ISC. Further seeing an opportunity to strike decisively at the Federation while they are distracted with both the Klingons and ISC, the Romulan Empire drives forcefully to occupy strategic points along the Romulan Federation borders.
The Gorn, carefully watching recent events, sees the Romulan Empire?s incursion into the neutral zone as a threat to their own security and thus drive though the ISC occupied neutral zone to meet them before any strategic loss occurs.
On the other side of the quadrant, the Hydrans have an opportunity to regain lost ground from the distracted Lyrans and Klingons and begin their attempt to recapture lost space. The Mirak likewise, strike back at them as well in order to do the same.
From the ISC perspective, full scale galactic war has broken out on all fronts with them taking center stage. Vastly outnumbered, and stretched thin over such long occupation zones, the overconfident ISC rise to the challenge and truly believe they will justly restore peace to the warring empires of the galaxy.
And thus,
Slave Girls IV begins?
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