Earth

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Earth is the home-planet of the Human race in the Star Wreck universe.

Background[edit | edit source]

Earth is a rocky planet. It is the third planet from the Sun, its star, and has a single natural satellite - the Moon. It is apparently the only celestial body in the solar system with a breathable atmosphere.

History[edit | edit source]

In the 1990's humanity made first contact with the Vulgars by attracting them with the sound of rock music during the Woodstock '99 music festival. The Vulgars shared their technology with humanity, who became a space-faring race, and eventually P-Fleet was founded. At a certain point in the future the planet came under attack by the alien race known as the Plingons, but the attack was rebuffed. And years later, it was again attacked by another alien race known as the Korg, who almost succeeded in conquering the planet, but were seemingly thwarted by P-Fleet. As a last-ditch attempt, the Korg launched a probe into Earth's past, in order to prevent humanity from making first contact with the Vulgars and take over the planet.

Alternate timeline[edit | edit source]

The probe was followed by the USS Kickstart. The Kickstart's crew managed to stop the Korg, but were unable to return to the present and were forced to go native. A couple of years later it turned out that history played out differently, creating a new timeline. This forced the surviving members of the Kickstart to establish P-Fleet on their own. Due to Pirk's ambition, the new P-Fleet took over Earth and became a totalitarian, isolationist, and highly xenophobic government. At the same time it only spread as far as the Sun's solar system, which is a far cry from the original timeline's P-Fleet, which spanned across multiple star systems. It was also riddled by incompetence and corruption, and it's subjects were starving and unhappy.

Parallel universe[edit | edit source]

In the alternate timeline, P-Fleet came into contact with a starship from a parallel universe via trans-dimensional portal. The Fleet passed through the portal - it is unknown what happened to Earth afterwards - and found a space-station. Attempting to conquer it, and to later conquer the parallel dimension's Earth, P-Fleet was destroyed in a shockwave caused by the station's destruction. The USS Kickstart managed to cross a trans-dimensional portal and avoid the explosion, but was too badly damaged and crashed into an icy planet, seemingly stuck in the distant past. It was later revealed that the planet was yet another Earth.

Continued adventures[edit | edit source]

On this new Earth history was again different. Here, the Soviet Union was not dissolved in the 1990's, but instead became a planet-wide state. At some point it came under attack by an alien race known as the Grind.

Political information[edit | edit source]

In the 1990's Earth was divided between many states, among which were Russia, Finland and the United States of America. Several locations are also mentioned or featured, such as the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Moscow, Paris, Washington DC, and Reykjavik, among others. Eventually it was unified into a single planet-wide state. In the alternate timeline, Pirk's empire took over the entire planet, establishing a single state. In the other alternate timeline, the planet was united under the banner of the Soviet Union, and Finland was turned into the Finlandskaya Oblast.

In other sources[edit | edit source]

  • In the semi-official Star Wreck 2π: Full Twist Now it is claimed that under Pirk's rule, Suomi was made Earth's official language, much to everyone's disdain. At one point Earth was attacked by an alien race, but its assault was rebuffed by P-Fleet.
  • In the semi-official Star Wreck Roleplaying Game Earth was the capital of P-Republic, the state P-Fleet belonged to. Despite being a capital it was apparently a backwater planet, and housed not only humans, but also immigrant Vulgars, Plingons and others.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • The original timeline's Earth's history is apparently the same as in real-life, at least until 1998, when First Contact took place.
  • The parallel universe's Earth was never featured in any media, but is still clearly the birthplace of humanity.
  • According to Pirk, Earth is a dump. This was later expanded upon in the Star Wreck RPG.

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