Timeline Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars

From: Jay and Ruth (MarinerJRMB@mchsi.com)
Subject: Timeline Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars


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I have a challenge for those of us primarily interested in the "historicity"
of Star Trek.

I am primarily interested in the individual fan's interpretation of various
key or turning points in Star Trek's fictional history.

Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars-

We know from the episode "Space Seed" and Star Trek The Wrath of Khan that
Eugenics Wars were fought between 1992 and 1996. Key figures in this
conflict were possibly quite numerous, but only one figure has a resounding
"choke-hold" on the historicity of this subject, Khan Noonien Singh.

We have prescious few on-screen statements regarding this global conflict.
We know that from 1992-1996, Singh ruled one-quarter of planet Earth from
Asia to the Middle East, and the he was the most powerful and influential of
an unknown number of eugenically engineered supermen. We know from The
Animated Series that a Stavos Keneclius played some part during this
conflict but what exactly is open for speculation. We know that sometime
during 1993, eugenics supermen siezed power seemingly at once on Earth in
some forty nations. It was at this point, that what has become known as the
Eugenics Wars began, and according to Spock's own words on the subject this
was "the era of the last of your so-called world wars" with "whole
populations being bombed out of existence" with Earth "on the verge of
another Dark Ages"

Technologically, we know that during this period, the DY-100 Class spaceship
was the most advanced space vessel of the time. We know that following the
ceasation of hostilities during the war, Khan Singh either escaped aboard
S.S. Botany Bay or was forcibly exiled from Earth orbit at least and
recovered at least two centuries later by Enterprise (NCC-1701).

Onto the challenge. Come up with a speculative timeline detailing the events
leading up the Eugenics Wars and their conclusion. You may use any reference
materials at your disposal, but I would strongly urge you to limit these
resources to Original Series-Era materials, as we have all clearly seen, the
relevance of this fictional conflict has been virtually ignored by TNG-Era
materials and beyond even into Enterprise. Also, any professionally
published materials such as the The Rise of Khan Noonien Singh by Greg Cox
would be considered an exhaustive treatise on this subject and should NOT be
considered a reference for this discussion. I simply want more of a fandom
(you and I) speculation on this subject.

You may as be "long-winded" as you can possibly be or as exhaustive as you
can get within a speculative timeline. My conditions are such that I am not
overly concered with canonical issues. I simply want to the fan's
interpretation of these events. Also, feel free to use my email provided
here with any and all comments, arguments, orspeculations best covered
outside of this forum.

That being said, let the timelines begin!

From: Michael E Johnson (eddiejohn74@hotmail.com)
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The Eugenics Wars-A Brief History

April 30th 1991-A young charismatic man named Khan Noonien Singh is
elected to India's parliment.

September 7,1992-This is the date that has come to be accepted as the
day the Eugenics Wars began.China ,under the leadership of a eugenic
superman Chairman Hikaru Minsei,attacked Taiwan with the stated goal
of bringing order and evoultion to its most important "lost" province.

April 20,1993- On this day 41 African,Asian and Middle Eastern nations
lead by the young eugenic supermen formed the Great Khanate of Nations
with Khan Noonien Singh of India as the titular leader.The experience
of the people of these nations varied wildly from the essentially
peaceful rule of Khan in India to the food rationing and forced
selective breeding in Minsei's China to outright genocidal killings in
General Muhammad Hasan's Iran.

September 28,1993 The Great Khanate attacks Australia and New Zealand
with the stated goal of" bringing genetic order to the West".Great
Britian,South Africa and Japan declare war on the Great Khanate the
following day.

May 4 ,1994 Shocked by the surrender of Australia and New Zealand the
previous day France , Germany and Italy declare war on the Great
Khanate.

June 1 ,1994 President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in
the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply
the anti-Khanate alliance.

June 22,1994 San Diego, California-USA,Tel Aviv,Israel and Seoul,
South Korea are hit by nuclear weapons as the Great Khanate declares
war on those 3 nations.Those 3 nations and several others (including
Canada and Mexico) follow suit the next day.

May 14-15,1995 The Battle of the Sea of Japan is fought.This battle is
acknowledged as the turning point of the Eugenics Wars as the
resulting allied victory fractures the Great Khanate into waring blocs
of nations.The American aircraft carrrier U.S.S Enterprise-CVN 65 is
destroyed in this battle.

October 1 ,1996 The Eugenics Wars end as Khan and his cadre of eugenic
supermen are presumed killed in the battle to liberate
Sydney,Australia- where they had held out in a last stand.Chairman
Minsei signed an unconditional surrender document in Beijing, China.

September 27,1997 Chairman Minsei,General Hasan and 59 other surviving
eugenic supermen are put on trial at the International Military
Tribunal in Paris ,France.This is the 1st such trial since the
1945-1948 trials of German and Japansese WWII leaders.Minsei,Hasan and
the rest were convicted and executed for crimes against humanity and
peace the following year.

August 11,1999 Historian and author Travis Mitchell claims in his
seminal work- The Eugenics War that there is next to no evidence that
Khan Singh and his clique of eugenic supermen were killed in the
liberation of Sydney on October 1,1996.Mitchell puts forth the widely
unaccepted theory that Khan and his people escaped death and
punishment on a DY-100 vessel launched from a samll Indonesian island
that same day.


GK-slang for a memeber of the Great Khanate alliance or army.

normal-a slur used by the eugenic supermen for non-enginerred humans.


Below are the 2 major alliances during the Eugenics Wars of 1992-1996 **** Can someone do a map ?*****


The Great Khanate of Nations 1993-1996

Afghanistan
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burundi
Brunei
Cambodia
Chad
China
Cameroon
Congo
Egypt
Eritrea
Gabon
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
North Korea
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Mali
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajkistan
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

The Democratic Alliance 1993-1996

Australia
Angola
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
South Korea
Liberia
Mauritana
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Philippines
Russia
Senegal
Singapore
South Africa
Taiwan
Tanzania
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America
Venezuela
Zambia


Li Quan (General) 1961-1995

When one thinks of the Eugenics War the name Khan Singh usually
springs to mind.Its becoming more evident that the "power behind the
throne" in the Great Khanate was General Li Quan.Li Quan was first
noticed as the brilliant eugenic Chinese general who lead the
campaign against Taiwan in September-October 1992 at Chairman Minseis
behest.Once the command structure of the Khanate was established in
1993 Li Quan quickly became the leading general.Quan argued
forcefully for an "East then West " military strategy for the
Khanate.The nations conquered first would be South Korea,Japan,the
Philippines,Singapore.Once the Khanate had firmly controlled East
Asia it could then move West striking out at
Australia,Turkey,Israel ,South Africa and eventually Russia, Europe
and the United States.Quan was overruled by Khan Singh who was eager
to bring the "order of the Khanate" to the West.Quan was against the
campaign but he lead the invasion of Australia with vigor.Despite the
huge loss of manpower and resources the Khanate captured the Pacific
superpower in only 7 months.After Australia and New Zealand's
surrender in May 1994 Quan clamored for a focus on South Korea and
Japan but was again overruled by Khan Singh and General Muhammad
Hasan of Iran who both wanted a worldwide front.Quan cringed at the
decision to attack the United States and Israel along with South
Korea in June 1994.He privately said "Khan Singh is determined that
we will win the world,even if were are defeated doing so".Quan threw
himself into the South Korea campaign and that nation was conquered
in less than 3 months.Quan's hoped for invasion of Japan was again
held up when General Hasan fumbled the invasion of Turkey in October
1994.The Great Khanate had to divert nearly half its army to Syria
and Iraq to prevent a total catastrophe.Li Quan always displayed a
balance of thoughtfulness and ruthlessness.He successfully argued
against General Hasans desire for an all out nuclear exchange with
Israel after it nuked Tehran in retaliation for Tel Aviv noting"Once
we conquer the world we will still have to live in it".However his
campaign in South Korea was brutal and civilian causalities were
high.Li Quan had always argued that the Khanate was overextending
itself but the arrogance of Khan Singh,Hasan and others on the
command staff didnt allow them to believe that their superior lot
could ever be defeated by a pack of weakling normals.It's ironic that
Quan ultimately lost his life in the fight he had longed for the
whole time he lead the Khanate forces-the Battle of the Sea of
Japan.That defeat did more that save Japan from invasion but
fractured the Khanate into several warring camps who either wanted to
stop the expansion and consolidate their current holdings or continue
to expand.This infighting created a valuable opening for the
Democratic Alliance and the Khanate was destroyed a year and a half
after that pivotal battle.What if Khan Singh had swallowed his
enormous pride and listened to the sound military advice of General
Li Quan?Scary thought but it would make a good book.

Travis Mitchell
The History Journal
April 10,2000

Very good TL. Maybe I'll take a shot later on....

One thing: I think maybe Clinton would've gotten more pro-war once China invaded Taiwan. After all, didn't tensions flare up there in 1996 in OTL?

For any Star Trek fans who have had thier intereset rekindled in the Eugenics Wars-heres a timeline challenge again.

Is there? Where is it?

Hmm...this seems like a good idea. I guess it is best to think of the Star Trek TL as an ATL going well into the future. Greg Cox's attempt to put it into our TL was a pretty good job, though, making it into a clandestine war.

Here's a map...I inluded the Sudan in the Khanate because frankly, I don't really see the point in taking over Somalia and Eritrea on their own. I also fail to see why such US-friendly eastern European states as Poland (alliance of the willing, remember?) would not join in on the democratic side once the US got in...I may do a modified "at the time of the invasion of Japan" map later on.

Pretty cool map

B_Munro said:

Here's a map...I inluded the Sudan in the Khanate because frankly, I don't really see the point in taking over Somalia and Eritrea on their own. I also fail to see why such US-friendly eastern European states as Poland (alliance of the willing, remember?) would not join in on the democratic side once the US got in...I may do a modified "at the time of the invasion of Japan" map later on.

Click to expand...

A thousand thanks!!! Although I was hoping for blue for the DA and red for the GK this still works very well.A map at the time of the GK's greatest power (showing thier conquests) would be cool as well .I hope you get around to it.I'm okay with the change in Africa-but you have one or more of the former Soviet central asian states as neutral.I have them all part of the Khanate to explain Russia membership in the DA. As to Eastern European absence in the DA-thats deliberate.My idea for the AH of the Star Trek universe is an axis that runs from WW2 to the Eugenics Wars to WW3.In this AH WW2 was longer in Europe weakening the Soviet Union and giving Nazi ideas about Eugenics more currency in Eastern Europe.I envision the main "Western" element of the cabal of scientists that created the supermen (Augments) in the 1950's and 1960's -still under Soviet domination but working for ideas established by the Nazis in WW2-actually developing a truly genetic superrace.

From: DanielSBen1 (danielsben1@aol.comupdown)
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To: Michael E. Johnson,

I apologize for "intruding" into your own (quite fascinating) story about the
"real" eugenics war, but i think i've come up with a few more things that fit
in and could easily be added to the timeline:

October 20, 1991: General Muhammed Hassan's Revolutionary Islamic Genesis
Movement overthrows Ayatollah Khatami in Iran. He begins mass genocide of
native Turks, Assyrians, Armenians, Christians, and Zoroastrians in his
country.

May 6, 1992: Saddam Hussein's Iraq declares "total union" with Iran. Later
historians would compare this with Anschluss, the union of Nazi Germany and
Austria in 1936.

September 7, 1992: When Minsei's China attacks Taiwan, it simultaneously
annexes Hong Kong and Macao.

January 15, 1994: The United Nations dissolves following the withdrawl of all
Khanate nations and the assasination of the UN Secretary-General.

June 23, 1994: United States detonates nuclear weapons in New Delhi, Beijing,
and
Riyadh in retaliation for the nuclear strike on San Diego.

July 5, 1995: Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks lead U.S. forces in
the invasion of the Arabian Peninsula. This ties up General Hassan's troops,
allowing the Israelis to end the bloody Jerusalem siege and win the battle of
Damascus on August 21.

November 1996: due to his unwillingness to help the "Democratic Alliance" in
battle until San Diego was an atomic slag pile, Bill Clinton loses the election
to Bob Dole and Colin Powell.

-DanielSBen1
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From: Michael E Johnson (eddiejohn74@hotmail.com)
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Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
the Khanate nations
.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
the past events I had in mind for this ATL.Suppose in the Star Trek
ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.The
Third world would have been much more neglected as the United States
and Russia wouldnt have struggled for their support as much as in
OTL.Nations in this world would probably have been poorer,less
stable, more isolationist and more violent.This would have been a
fertile ground for the group of scientists who,according to McCoy,
were responsible for creating the eugenic supermen.They felt they were
saving the world by creating superior humans who would bring order.In
this world jumping to defense of other nations,even who had your same
values, wouuldnt have always been the natural thing to do.In this
light Clinton(and Georege HW Bush)keeping the United States out of the
war until the US was attacked would have been the same thing that
Roosevelt did in the 1940's.The idea of attacking another country to
liberate its people or because a country is a danger to the world or
is a threat to its own people is an idea that took hold in United
States (to the horror of many conservatives) when in the aftermath of
WWII we became internationalist by joining the UN and other world
organizations and treaties.If that comittment wasnt the same in this
ATL ,the way the United States and other nations would behave would be
different.
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eddiejohn74@hotmail.com (Michael E Johnson) writes:

-- Uh, but first. Michael, I don't want to discourage your
creativity, but if you do not begin placing spaces -- preferably two,
but I will accept one -- after the end of sentences I will come over
there and break your arms. Just some friendly advice in ways to make
your writing a few iso-quintillion times easier to read. A space
before an open parenthesis, and one after the close parenthesis, is
similarly recommended. That said:


>Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
>the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
>Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
>replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
>the Khanate nations

The trouble with supposing that such a "rump United Nations"
would be unable to organize because a bunch of hostile countries at
war with everybody else had taken themselves out of it is, the mass
withdrawals leave behind the countries that have a big, compelling
interest to stick together. The alliance against the Khanates needs
some cross-national organization anyway; and having the patina of the
United Nations on the Austral-Anglo-Ruso-Israeli-Americo-Singaporean
alliance will serve nicely in the propaganda war as well.


>.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
>Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
>the past events I had in mind for this ATL.

Well, more, victorious wartime presidents don't lose elections.
It takes a year or so for the luster to wear off (if one can take the
1946 Congressional Races as a rebuking of Truman -- and he came back
from that anyway -- and the 1992 defeat of Bush the Elder as examples).
It's only presidents in the middle of a horrible muddle that are in
danger, and even there the example is mixed: Truman bowed out in 1952
and Johnson in 1968 before they could be defeated, and Madison was
reelected even though he was in the War of 1812. So if the Khanate is
beaten, or close to beaten, on November 4, 1996 then whoever's in office,
if he is constitutionally eligible, wins reelection.


>Suppose in the Star Trek
>ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
>worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
>still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
>bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.

Well, there have to be some pre-1990s divergences from the real
world to the Star Trek world, if nothing else to explain the military
model of Saturn V launched from the McKinley Air Force Base. Back in
"A Private Little War" there's a mention of bloody Asian land wars,
although my memory fails me about whether they make it clearly the war
of 1960s Vietnam or if it could be elsewhere on the continent.

From: DanielSBen1 (danielsben1@aol.comupdown)
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Michael E. Johnson wrote the quote:
>Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
>the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
>Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
>replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
>the Khanate nations
>.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
>Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
>the past events I had in mind for this ATL.Suppose in the Star Trek
>ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
>worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
>still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
>bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.The
>Third world would have been much more neglected as the United States
>and Russia wouldnt have struggled for their support as much as in
>OTL.Nations in this world would probably have been poorer,less
>stable, more isolationist and more violent.This would have been a
>fertile ground for the group of scientists who,according to McCoy,
>were responsible for creating the eugenic supermen.They felt they were
>saving the world by creating superior humans who would bring order.In
>this world jumping to defense of other nations,even who had your same
>values, wouuldnt have always been the natural thing to do.In this
>light Clinton(and Georege HW Bush)keeping the United States out of the
>war until the US was attacked would have been the same thing that
>Roosevelt did in the 1940's.The idea of attacking another country to
>liberate its people or because a country is a danger to the world or
>is a threat to its own people is an idea that took hold in United
>States (to the horror of many conservatives) when in the aftermath of
>WWII we became internationalist by joining the UN and other world
>organizations and treaties.If that comittment wasnt the same in this
>ATL ,the way the United States and other nations would behave would be
>different.
>
>
>
>

Intresting. I wonder, everyone here started developing this timeline, it would,
eventually, end up as a complete Alternate History! perhaps from 1940 to 2050,
starting with rather minor differences in the 1940's, like a German victory in
Brest-Livotsk prolonging the war on the Eastern Front by 3 months, to gaping
differences by today. something that would still fit in the Star Trek universe
we know and love, but still be different. anyway, here are a handful of
additional events:

1950-1960's: Project Chrysalis, a secretive group of scientists (not unlike the
Chrysalis in the "eugenics war" books), develops about 100 genetically
engineered children of all racial and cultural groups, using bases located
largely in third world countries.

January 20, 1973: Richard Nixon's second inauguration speech introduces the
Ares Program, a potential manned mission to Mars.

October 1979: After Ares I, a test mission that made Martian orbit but did not
land, Congress cancels the program due to a fiscal crisis.

October 29, 1993: Russia declares war on the Khanate after they are found to
support a Chechen rebellion.

January 12, 1994: Dijibouti is conquered by the Khanate, cutting off all
seaborn access to Ethiopia to attempt to starve the nation into submission.

December 26, 1995: in a chilly Christmas battle, the Russian army defeats
Minsei's forces at the battle of Ulaanbataar.

February 10, 1996: D-Day for British/Japanese/Filipino/American/Brazillian
forces in the liberation of Taiwan.

July 29, 1996: Russian, American, Turkish, and Israeli forces meet to defeat
Hassan's army in the battle of Tabriz.

September 2, 1996: Taiwan liberated. plans are drawn up for an invasion of
Mainland China from the sea and through Korea, to assist the southward-moving
Russian army. This plan is never activated after all Khanate forces surrender.

April 12, 2030: the daughter of Travis Mitchell, Cynthia Mitchell, marries
Corinth Mayweather.

-DanielSBen1

Not sure that the USSR is weaker in the Star Trek (original series, anyway) TL: I'm pretty sure Chevok mentions Leningrad at least once, and his frequent absurd boasts about Russian achievements were meant as a humorous dig at Soviet propaganda. Besides, in the "Gary 7" episode, it appears the USSR is wealthy enough some time in 1968's "near future" to put orbiting nuclear battestations in orbit (although I suppose that could be interpreted as an act of desperation rather than confidence...see the explanation for the doomsday device in Dr. Strangelove)


Anyhoo, here's an updated "Eugenics wars" map with the Khanate at it's maximum expansion...

...although if WWII ended differently, the borders in Eastern/Central Europe should be different. Perhaps the borders in SE Asia, too if that business about wars in Asia is to be expanded on - and what was the default assumption for the future of the area in 1968? (surviving S. Vietnam? Unified Commie SE Asia?)

From what I get, this is the "story" of the Eugenics Wars as presented in the two books by Greg Cox along with canon info and some "best guesses" I've come up with...

EUGENICS WARS - ROEDECKER'S THEORY

Unlike the world wars of the past, the Eugenics Wars were shadowy conflicts fought behind the scenes of current events, against elusive and conspiratorial enemies whose genetically engineered origins remained largely unknown to the general public. Although the existence of the Eugenics Wars was well known by the twenty-second century most citizens of the late twentieth century were not even aware of the global struggle against Khan and his fellow supermen, seeing only scattered brush fire wars and random acts of terrorism.

Genetic engineering in the 1960s led to the Chrysalis Project, an ambitious eugenics program conducted by a group of scientists trying to create a new, artificially improved breed of men and women: smarter, faster, stronger than ordinary human beings, a super-race to take command of the entire planet.

Designed and facilitated by a group of world renown geneticists, the top-secret Chrysalis Project involved manipulating chromosomes of human embryos using techinques that appeared to be far beyond what humans were capable of at the time. Essentially its goal was to improve the human race artificially by editing out "bad" influences in genetic structures and adding in "improvements" which would maximize the potential mental and physical development of the subject embryos, which would create a race of superhumans. The designers focused on increasing intelligence, strength, endurance, respiratory capacity and the cardiovascular system. The Chrysalis Project endeavored to give their genetically enhanced creations full rein of the planet. To do so, the engineers of this project also genetically enhanced the bacteria streptococcus, making it a volatile flesh eating entity. In order to infect the worlds populous, Russian ICBMs were procured as implementation vehicles.

Free from any governments authority, Chrysalis was a private consortium that answered to no one, having complete autonomy. Chrysalis had its headquarters located in the Great Thar desert, thanks to its remote location, the Chrysalis endeavor was completely isolated. The main complex was hidden beneath the ruins of an ancient Rajput fort.

The genetically engineered "Augments" of the Chrysalis Project were mentally and physically superior to ordinary men and women. They were five times stronger than the average person, their lung efficiency was 50 percent better than normal, and their intelligence was double that of normal humans.

The problem was that as one of the Chrysalis scientist wrote before he was murdered by an Augment, "Superior ability creates superior ambition": the so called supermen felt that their superior physical and intellectual abilities gave them the right to rule over the rest of humanity. To that end, they conspired throughout the 1980s to seize power through the use of behind-the-scenes manipulation, brute force and "puppet leaders" who answered only to them.

Of all the genetically enhanced manipulators who rose to power during this period, none were as ambitious or as ruthless as the man known as Khan Noonien Singh. The son of the original director of Chrysalis, Dr. Sarina Kaur, Khan Singh's presence was felt throughout the world, perhaps most discreetly. He fought against Soviet soldiers outside Lenin's tomb, where he stopped a coup, and maintained the safety of President Mikhail Gorbachev while he was attending the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was rumored to be all over the Asian and Indian subcontinent, inciting the 1987 pro-democracy uprising in South Korea, fighting alongside the Afghan rebels in their guerilla war against the Soviet Union, personally arranging the 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia ul-Haq, leader of the Pakistan's military government, returning democracy to India's nearest neighbor and rival. Khan was also credited with the so called "natural" death of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Aided and abetted by power-hungry individuals in various governments, business organizations, and independent agencies who allowed themselves to fall under his domination, Khan attempted to gain control of the entire planet. In 1992 Khan quietly seized power over much of Southeast Asia and the Middle East through blackmail and strong-arm tactics. Dozens of "figurehead rulers" either answered to Khan or in some fashion allied themselves with him.

He ruled his dominion from what he called the Great Khanate in the remote parts of India. His fellow "supermen" took over key positions of power in South America, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, remote parts of the South Pacific and in sections of North Africa. Khan's Great Khanate was centered in Chandigarh, India and had a secondary command center on Muroroa atoll, "Chrysalis Island", of the Tuamoto islands in the French Polynesia. On June 14, 1992 from Muroroa atoll, a former French Nuclear testing area (Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique), Khan launched the Morning Star satellite into orbit, giving him the ability to damage the Earth's ozone layer. On July 10, 1992 Singh held an assembly with delegates from nations in Southern Asia and the Middle East, where he demonstrated Morning Star's abilities and issued an ultimatum, "if I fall, the world falls with me". The satellite would later cause an increase in the hole in the ozone layer that was publicly blamed on the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

Various incidents of violence around the world were spurred by Khan and his fellow Augments throughout 1992, such as civil wars in Liberia, Peru, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere; race riots in Los Angeles and food riots in Albania.

On June 14, 1993 Khan held a summit with 6 of his most powerful Chrysalis siblings, where he attempted to unify them to create a new world order with him as the prevailing voice. The summit was a failure as Khan’s dream of unity collapsed when the Augments' enhanced ambition caused them to turn on one another, spawing what would later be called the "Eugenics Wars." Carried out through mostly covert operations, the war did result in massive casualities that the legitimate Earth governments publicly said were rogue terrorist incidents or natural disasters.

During this time, in their eagerness to assert their self-proclaimed destinies as rulers of the Earth, the Augments sparked civil wars and unrest all over the globe, in Eastern Europe, Liberia, Somalia, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere. Though the public-at-large was aware of the majority of such events - most never knew that the events were in fact all related to one another. Indeed, the public was kept entirely ignorant of many of the related "battles" of the so-called Eugenics Wars and even Khan himself was not known to the majority of the planet's inhabitants.

One notably incident of the war occured on September 30, 1993, when Khan was lured to the Ajorra caves in central India by Vasily Hunyadi, the Augment force behind the Serbian government, who attempted to assassinate Khan by triggering an earthquake caused by an underwater concussive charge place by Hunyadi. This earthquake was in the previously-considered aseismatic region of Maharashtra. The death toll from this quake was over 10,000 and entire villages were destroyed.

Khan attempted to retaliate on February 7 of 1994 during a submarine battle under the Meditteranean Sea between Khan forces and Hunyadi's. However, his effort was thwarted when the ballistic missile submarine S.G.K. Kaur was attacked because of the no-fly zone imposed by NATO.

A couple of months later, on April 21 Dr. Donald Williams of the Chrysalis Project gave to Khan the genetic sequence for the flesh eating strain of streptococcus-A developed by Sarina Kaur. Khan would begin human testing of this carnivorous bacteria on October 2 of that year.

On August 29, 1994 Hunyadi addressed the United Nations in defiance against the economic sanctions and the NATO peacekeeping presence to declare that Serbia had nothing to apologize for. During his speech, members of the Army of Eternal Vigilance (AEV) released sarin gas, a nerve toxin, into the council chambers, suffocating to death many ambassadors and tourists and also Vasily Hunyadi.

The AEV was an antigovernment militia based in Cochise, Arizona. It was commanded by an Augment named Hawkeye Morrison. Morrison had teamed up with Khan to eliminate Hunyadi. Morrison's ambition with nerve gas was notorious, the AEV attempted to release Sarin gas at both ends of the Eurotunnel at its opening to the public. When this strike was stopped paranoia consumed Morrison. He attempted to kill all his followers but they escaped and Morrison committed suicide.

On March 17 of 1995 Khan acquired over 200 bio-warheads from the former Soviet Union. Eventually, after learning the secrets of the Chrysalis Project, Khan redeveloped the flesh eating streptococcus that his mother developed and prepared to devastate the planet with its presence. On September 5, 1995 Chrysalis Island was attacked by a joint Russian-American strike, a ten-kiloton nuclear device destroying Khan's biological warfare lab and his doomsday weapon. The cover story was that France had privately resumed nuclear testing in the area of the old Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique.

With his weakened arsenal and with the major superpowers of the world now aware of Khan's plans of genocide, air strikes from American B-52 bombers and a ground assualt from the Russian Spetsnaz eliminated Khan's henchmen and palace. On January 10, 1996 U.S. forces bombed Khan's "terrorist base" in Chandigarh as well as several other Augment bases in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan. Facing certain defeat at the hands of combined forces from multiple nations, the very next day Khan and 83 of his Augment followers secretly escaped Earth aboard a stolen protoype vessel of the DY-100 sleeper ship christened the "S.S. Botany Bay". This ship was developed using technology reverse-engineered from the Ferengi ship that crashed at Roswell, and launched from the secret American facility nicknamed "Area 51." The sleeper ship was set to go to an uninhabited solar system about one hundred light-years from Earth. Khan headed for outer space with the dream of someday ruling a world of his own making. On board the ship, the crew were cryogenically frozen to allow them to remain in suspended animation.

All remaining Augments were either killed or imprisoned and all the existing Augment embryos were placed in cryogenic suspension and quarantined. In the 22nd century, these embryos were placed in a secret space station run by the Interspecies Medical Exchange known as Cold Station 12.

Because of the Eugenics Wars, Earth would eventually outlaw genetic engineering except for cases of repairing serious birth defects. Despite this, certain groups would pass on the forbidden knowledge of genetic enhancement and it would remain available via the black-market.

Michael E Johnson said:

June 1 ,1994 President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in
the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply
the anti-Khanate alliance.

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Now I am in no way a fan of Bill Clinton, but there's no way I can imagine the him or any other modern Prersident (not even Jimmy Carter) trying to keep America nuetral under these circumstance. Any President who tried would have been swiftly impeached and the Congress would have declared war on it's own authority.

I don't think Clinton becomes President in the Eugenics War timeline, especially if the crisis begins in 1992, the election year in which in our time line he did become President. The crisis would have become the number one issue (replacing the economy, etc) of the election and such things always advantage Republicans.

Also, where the heck is NATO?

MarkWhittington said:

I don't think Clinton becomes President in the Eugenics War timeline, especially if the crisis begins in 1992, the election year in which in our time line he did become President. The crisis would have become the number one issue (replacing the economy, etc) of the election and such things always advantage Republicans.

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Well the Republicans were able to overlook the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Somalian Humanitarian Disaster, the Sudan Civil War, teh Iraqi slaughter of Kurdish rebels, not to mention major atrocities by the People's Republic of China during the 1992 election. Maybe in the ATL, the Republicans in the ATL see the takeover, merely as a another Third World humanitarian disaster caused by the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as they don't get their hands on nuclear weapons or any major strategic natural resources, the basic American concensus is ,"Who cares?"

Timmy811- As for NATO and the EU, just consider the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Sudanese Civil War, the Somalian Human Relief Disaster, et.al....

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Well the Republicans were able to overlook the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Somalian Humanitarian Disaster, the Sudan Civil War, teh Iraqi slaughter of Kurdish rebels, not to mention major atrocities by the People's Republic of China during the 1992 election. Maybe in the ATL, the Republicans in the ATL see the takeover, merely as a another Third World humanitarian disaster caused by the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as they don't get their hands on nuclear weapons or any major strategic natural resources, the basic American concensus is ,"Who cares?"

Timmy811- As for NATO and the EU, just consider the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Sudanese Civil War, the Somalian Human Relief Disaster, et.al....

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The attack on Taiwan would have almost certainly have dragged the US and Japan into war with China. The US because of it's treaty obligations and balance of power considerations and JApan because it gets it's oil shipped to it from the middle east through the Taiwan straight. Australia would almost certainly get involved as well.

Roedecker said:

From what I get, this is the "story" of the Eugenics Wars as presented in the two books by Greg Cox along with canon info and some "best guesses" I've come up with...

EUGENICS WARS - ROEDECKER'S THEORY

Unlike the world wars of the past, the Eugenics Wars were shadowy conflicts fought behind the scenes of current events, against elusive and conspiratorial enemies whose genetically engineered origins remained largely unknown to the general public. Although the existence of the Eugenics Wars was well known by the twenty-second century most citizens of the late twentieth century were not even aware of the global struggle against Khan and his fellow supermen, seeing only scattered brush fire wars and random acts of terrorism.

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This is clearly the intepretation of Cox's books but almost all canon info (ie Space Seed and The Augments episode on Enterprise) indicates that the Eugenics Wars (War) were public,overt conflicts that had millions of widely known casualties.I'm starting to think that there are 2 schools of Star Trek fandom-those who want to make the Star Trek Tl fit OTL history and those who understand that the Star Trek universe by defintion is an ATL.An overt Eugenics Wars in the 1990's to me is probably the best aspect of the ATL-I'm hoping we somehow get even more canon confirmation that the Eugenics Wars were ovret.

I always felt that Star Trek, at least the original series, had an identical timeline up to the point the series was produced (I am sure that in one episode there is a reference to WW2 ending in 1945-perhaps the one involving the time portal?).

In my own little mind I always saw the world carrying on much as it happened in OTL in the ST timeline, with a few modifications (extra development of spacecraft and eugenics) up to 1992 when Khan and Co seize control. The USSR is gone, the idea of the new world order is there (everyone getting on) and the first Gulf War happens. I always thought the Eugenics were said to have seized nations in Europe-I wondered if Eire would be a good target for them; limited military but great strategic location allowing them to interfer with links between America and Europe, and would tie us Brits up from doing too much elsewhere until we could force them out.

In another episode, one where an alien kidnaps Spock and Kirk to fight in a battle between 'good' and 'evil', we meet a Colonel Green (?) who is said to have taken control of some part of America-possibly the west coast of (I assumed) the USA? Ok, a bit vague but was he an Eugenic or is he WW3? I am pretty sure that WW3 and the Eugenics War are supposed to be seperate. Can anyone clarify this.