TERRA | EARTH
Population: 2.53 billion (2294) Trending,
Diameter: 12,714 km (7900.1 miles)
Orbital Period: 265.24 days
Length of day: 24 hours
Capital: Paris
Astronomical data
Earth is located in the Sol system, Vulcan Sector, (A,3) Beta Quadrant.
History
World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror in the aftermath persisted as late as 2079.
During the 2060s, Zefram Cochrane and his team of engineers began developing the warp drive. The challenge of inventing warp theory took Cochrane an extremely long time. In 2061, he was responsible for Earth's first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete. His primary motivation for commencing warp technology was financial gain in the devastated, poverty-stricken America that existed in the wake of the Third World War.
He finally built Earth's first warp ship, the Phoenix, in the hope its success would prove profitable and allow him to retire to a tropical island filled with naked women. A historical irony was that, contrary to the fact he went on to use the Phoenix to inaugurate an era of peace, Cochrane incorporated a weapon of mass destruction into its design; he constructed the Phoenix in a silo on a missile complex and used a Titan II missile as his launch vehicle.
On April 5, 2063 just after 11:00 a.m., Cochrane broke the warp barrier enough to draw the attention of the T'Plana-Hath, a type of Vulcan survey ship which was passing near Earth. That evening, Cochrane was among many Human spectators who watched the Vulcan ship land in Bozeman, Montana, thereby making first contact with Humans and opening a new era for the whole of mankind.
Planetary Features
A planetary defense system, also called an orbital defense system or planetary defense battery was a network of space-based and/or ground-based defenses intended to protect a planet from attack. The Mars Defense Perimeter was part of the Federation planetary defenses of the Sol system. It was designed to protect the inner planets of the system, and specifically Earth, from intruding hostile starships. The defense perimeter consisted of a series of sentry pods.
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