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TerranEmpire

The Terran Empire was the repressive interstellar government dominated by the Terrans from Nuyi'zu Earth in the Nuyi'zu universe. The Empire ruled by terror, with its Imperial Starfleet acting as its iron fist. In Starfleet, officers promoted themselves by killing superiors that did not follow the rules of the Empire. Torture was a common form of interrogation. The Empire was the counterpart of the Duyi’zu universe’s United Earth and the United Federation of Planets governments. They became a member state to the Axis of Empires, although they were in-fact conquered by the Axis later on) during the war and eventually succeeded by a new government after the Terran Rebellion.

History[]

The Terrans discovered life on other worlds when they established first contact with the Vulcans after they detected Zefram Cochrane's warp signature in 2063 (1210 NE), much like the prime' counterparts from the Duyi'zu universe. The Vulcan scout ship T'Plana-Hath landed in Bozeman, Montana, to make first contact with the Terrans. Instead of welcoming the Vulcans in a spirit of friendship and understanding, the Nuyi'zu version of Cochrane killed the first Vulcan to set foot on Terran soil with a shotgun, as the he and his fellow Terrans boarded and ransacked the Vulcan ship after killing the first officer also. Providing the Humans rapid technological advancement leading the early expansion of the Empire and the prelude to the invasion of Vulcan.

Instead of the Vulcans gradually releasing technology to Terra over time, the Terran Empire applied the stolen Vulcan technology to a policy of aggressive interstellar expansion. Because of this, the Empire was able to engage in technological research and development considerably earlier than its United Earth counterpart in the prime universe.

Imperial Expansion[]

The Terran Empire began their expansion across their solar system, one of the Empire's early conquests was a landing on Terra's moon, Luna, where it planted its flag.

By 2155 (1302 NE), the Terran Empire, armed with its newly acquired Vulcan technology, went on to conquer not only the Vulcans themselves, but the Andorians, Tellarites, Denobulans and Orions as well. The Terran Empire also launched aggressive attacks on the Xindi and Klingons during its initial expansion. Due to the rapid initial expansion made possible by the captured Vulcan technology, the Terran Empire's hold on its territories was initially weak. By 2155, some of the worlds conquered by the Terrans were beginning to rebel against Terran rule, leading to a long-running conflict, and after a disastrous defeat at Tau Ceti, the Empire came to the brink of collapse. Propaganda, however, conveyed the message that things were going in the Empire's favor and that the war would be over soon. In the same year, the USS Defiant, a Federation ship launched in the 23rd century (15th century NE) of a parallel universe, was reported in Tholian space. The first officer of the ISS Enterprise, Commander Archer, reviewed this report and proposed a bold surgical strike at an asteroid base at which the Tholians were keeping the Defiant. Archer's proposal was quickly rejected by Forrest, causing Archer to mutiny against his captain and take control of Enterprise to retrieve the Defiant so its technology could be utilized against the rebellion. Enterprise traveled to the base and dispatched a boarding party to gain all information they could about the ship, and destroy it to prevent the Tholians from being able to use it. Unfortunately, during the retrieval operation, the Tholians attacked the Enterprise and destroyed it, stranding the boarding party aboard the Defiant.

By the (mid-23rd century), the Terran Empire had conquered much of known space. However, it continued to be resisted by an alliance of non-Human species, including Vulcans, Andorians, and Klingons. Furthermore Gabriel Lorca of the ISS Buran attempted a failed coup against Emperor Philippa Georgiou. By 2256 (1403 NE) or 2257 (1404 NE) Starfleet engaged a rebel fleet at Porathia.

The same year, the Imperial Intelligence located the headquarters of the resistance on Harlak, which was destroyed by the ISS Charon.

In 2257, Lorca was able to resume his coup against Georgiou, having escaped the mirror universe and manipulated his way back with a Federation starship, the USS Discovery. For a while, the coup was successful, but Discovery had been informed that Lorca was Terran by the prime Michael Burnham, who Lorca had become obsessed with due to his relationship with the mirror Burnham, and Discovery defeated Lorca. However, although Lorca was killed, not only was Georgiou deposed, but the Charon had been destroyed, and she had been brought to the prime universe, resulting in a power vacuum.

Not long after this, the symbol was changed yet again, returning to its delta-less version and, this time, depicting only the continents of Terra's western hemisphere.

Crossover with the Prime Universe[]

By 2267 (1414 NE), the Empire was the dominant force in the Alpha-Beta quadrant border region of their galaxy. The Terran Empire encountered a Gorlan uprising, to which the ISS Enterprise, captained by James T. Kirk, responded with the destruction of the rebels' home planet. Other feats of Captain Kirk by 2264 (1411 NE) included the execution of five thousand colonists on Vega IX and the annihilation of all remaining inhabitants of Talos IV. In 2267 (1414 NE), the Empire coveted the dilithium reserves of the Halkan homeworld and Kirk interceded to demand mining rights on behalf of the Terran Empire.

In that year, crewmembers of the ISS Enterprise, including Captain Kirk, accidentally switched places with their prime universe counterparts of the USS Enterprise, who in the same time were transported aboard the mirror version of the Enterprise. Kirk believed that the alternate version of Spock would one day become captain of the ISS Enterprise, and before returning to his own reality, he planted a seed of doubt about the inevitability of the Empire and whether violence was the only logical answer. Spock promised to consider Kirk's words, after realizing the Empire would only last about 240 years before being overthrown.

As Kirk predicted, the Nui'zu Spock later became the captain of the ISS Enterprise and eventually rose to become Commander-in-Chief of the Empire. He began instituting major reforms that were very popular, turning the Empire into a more peaceful and less aggressive power. However, Spock's reforms left the Empire unprepared to defend itself against the emerging threat of a united Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, which managed to conquer most of the Terran Empire until the intervention of the Empire of the Combine Race, saving what little of the Terran Empire and offered them an alliance, Spock had no other choice but to accept their offer while weary fo their intentions and brokered a treaty with the Klingons and Cardassians to end the conflict, joining the Axis of Empires.

The Multiverse War[]

In 2285 (1433 NE), the Terran Empire participated in the launched an invasion of the United Federation of Planets by sending the crew of the ISS Enterprise to replace their primary universe counterparts, but their plans were throated by the Alliance.

For the next several decades, Terrans and associated races were starting to see the Terran Empire as nothing more than a conquered state under the Combine, allowing their territories claimed by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance subjugate and enslave them, turning the Terrans under their rule into a slave race. The Bajorans, one of the associated races conquered by the Terrans, came to be a powerful voice in the KCA.

Inspired by the visit of Major Kira and Dr. Julian Bashir from the Duyi'zu Universe to Terok Nor in 2370 (1517 NE), a Terran Rebellion arose first under the leadership of Benjamin Sisko and, after Sisko's death in 2371 (1518 NE), under that of Miles "Smiley" O'Brien.

Revival[]

Terran Civil War[]

Government[]

Military[]

Society and Culture[]

The culture of the Terran Empire was fascistic, described by many as oppressive, racist and xenophobic, predicated on an unconditional hatred and rejection of anything and everything "other". Michael Burnham summarized this information by identifying the Empire as the antithesis of the United Federation of Planets in every way.

Humans in many universes could be violent, but violence was so ingrained in Terran culture that it self-propagated as an evolutionary survival mechanism, resulting in a strength that Michael Burnham described as "painted rust" – a facade hiding mutual fear between target and potential killer. From what she had heard of the Terran Empire, Katrina Cornwell came to the conclusion that, on the basis that prime universe Humans would be unaccustomed to the barbarism commonplace on Terran starships, the Duyi’zu's Gabriel Lorca could not have survived his trip to the mirror universe. Philippa Georgiou claimed that the only motivation Terrans had for any given action was revenge.

Religion[]

During a debrief at Starfleet Headquarters in the 32nd century, the former Terran emperor, Philippa Georgiou, revealed that an alternate First Contact Day was celebrated in the Terran Empire as a Holy Day, commemorating their version of Zefram Cochrane's successful repulse of the first wave of a Vulcan invasion and the acquisition of Vulcan technology which was used to establish the Empire as a space-faring power. She also claimed that an emperor's victims became their servants in the afterlife.

Territory[]

Subjugated Races[]

Trivia[]

  • Source of info of the Terran Empire: Memories Alpha and Beta.

Notes[]

  • It became noted by many how the Terrans of their universe could not stand so much
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