Editing Federation Civil War (section)

== Brief Overview ==

The [[Federation]] has entered a dark period in history.

After learning of a secret plot within the very Admiralty of [[Starfleet]] to take over the Federation and remake it after their image, Robert LoDona vowed that he would fight to the end in order to save Starfleet, the Federation and the philosophies which had defined their way of life for centuries. He ordered his fleet; the [[52nd Fleet|52nd Exploratory]], to a new position deep in the Beta Quadrant at a [[Subspace River|Terminus of the Subspace River]] and declared open hostilities against certain Admirals in Starfleet and their ideals.

He did not make the hostilities known to the Federation-at-large, the specter of full scale Civil War was disheartening at best, and he deemed it prudent to save the Federation and her member-worlds the strife as long as Starfleet could handle the matter internally. However, he prepared contingency plans should the Federation learn of the conflict and be plunged into Civil War.

The future is not yet known, the 52nd fleet has much to do, and few resources to use. The area of space to which Admiral LoDona relocated is almost completely unknown, and must be fully explored and secured as their base of operations. The subspace river has a termination point there, reason unknown. And there is plenty of evidence suggesting that there are several highly evolved races of aliens in the local area.

In late 2406, Doenitz began a campaign attacking civillians on key federation words in an attempt to find people loyal to LoDona. LoDona declared war and it now became an actual war.

These are dark times, unpredictable times. There are new areas of space to explore and a civil war to fight with elements of their very own forces. This is the first of many battlegrounds for the future of the Federation. Only the willful will succeed, only the strong will survive.