The Future

Everything you've ever believed is a lie.

Believe that one simple truth, and you'll have started on the road to wisdom.  Everything you thought you knew about the world at large... is wrong.

There was a grand dream once... a dream of unity, of equality and cooperation among many races.  A vision of peace, made real in the form of an interstellar alliance called the United Federation of Planets.  The founding fathers of the Federation had that dream.  A dream of bridging the gap between different races and cultures... bringing and banding them together under the umbrella of 'stellarization' – a code-word for 'one world, one galaxy... one order' – all under the flag of the Federation.  A grand vision, which expanded, and prospered, stretching across the galaxy.  Its destiny seemed assured.

A dream.  That's all it was.  The truth is a nightmare.  Now, over two centuries later, we're closer to seeing that nightmarish dream become a reality.

A grand dream.  A world of tolerance.  Of diversity.  Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, they called it... 'they' being Vulcans.  When they stood beside us, and the Andorians and the Tellarites and a dozen other races, on that fateful day in the 98th year of the Cochrane Era (what on Earth's old Gregorian calendar was 2161)... and proclaimed 'brotherhood', the same day all our planets signed the Articles of Federation... It was a lie.  A cover for the real truth.

The Federation formed for military reasons – to create a united military front against the Romulan threat.  The Earth-Romulan War happened just a short time before that.  That much was true.

But no one knew the real reasons why.  Why Earth went to war with the Romulans.  How the Vulcans played us... got us to fight their wars for them.  No one except the Vulcans, of course... and the Romulans.  Turns out they were in it together, from the beginning.  They weren't interested in peace and cooperation.  I mean, think about it.  We came together for war.  Not peace.  And who was their common enemy?

In those days, it was the Klingons.  Later, it was the Cardassians.  Then, just recently... the Lavir.

The Lavir.  Hah.  What a hoax that turned out to be.  More evidence of Vulcan deceit.

Would you believe me if I told you the Romulans didn't leave Vulcan because of Surak?  That they weren't kicked out and sentenced to exile?  Nope.  In fact, it was pre-arranged.  Oh yeah.  You won't find that little fact in your history files.  Of course you wouldn't, since the Vulcan masterminds of all this (Romulans are Vulcans, remember) rewrote the history books.  Stuck it in there that they were this benevolent, enlightened people, who weren't out to do anyone harm, they were just looking out for their own... defending themselves when necessary, while they went around the stellar neighborhood for centuries, exploring and learning and discovering, all for its own sake.  Yeah, right.  If only their goal had been so noble.  But what really drives expansion?  What has driven conquerors ever since time began?

The unknown fact is, when the Romulans left Vulcan, all those millennia ago, it wasn't because of a war or clash over ideologies.  The Vulcans set up Romulus as a colony... a colony of the Vulcan empire.  Easy, for people with centuries-long lifespans.  With genetic engineering, the "Romulans" emerged over the centuries, developing a distinctive set of facial features, like that V-shaped forehead ridge.  But originally, they were smooth-headed, like the current aliens call themselves Vulcan.

Now, the enemy is us.  They've turned us against ourselves.  They're destroying the Federation from the inside.  And what makes it worse... they've gotten us to help them do it.  Us.  Humans.  Humans who've turned against their own kind.

The Humanists... They were right.  Aliens were the real threat all along.  They've overrun the Earth... turned humans into a minority on our own planet.  They're killing us.  Victimizing us, raping us, murdering and oppressing us.  And if anyone stands up to them... if we just so much as lift a finger in our own defense... we're called racists, and bigots, and hate-mongers.  They have the nerve to call US traitors, when they're the ones guilty of treason.  It's a war... a war by the government, against its own people.  But don't tell them that.  Don't say it.  Don't breathe a word that they might be wrong, that they've betrayed us, and they're pillaging us, and allowing us to be downtrodden.  Because then you might be called a racist, or a human supremacist, or worse yet, a kook.  You'll get the media spotlight, where they'll ridicule you and humiliate you and crucify your reputation... then perform an L-21 procedure on you.  They'll reprogram you, to make you more socially acceptable.  Got to bring you in line with the establishment, after all.  Just so they can rob you of your heritage afterwards, and breed you with an alien species.  That's right: Your children won't be your own.  They'll be the state's.  And they won't be human.

At current projection rates, humanity will die out in less than two centuries.  Two centuries for the setup, from the founding of the Federation until now... another two for our fall.

But some of us aren't taking it lying down.  We've seen through the lies and the propaganda.  Diversity is a sham.  It doesn't work.  It was just to get everyone in place, so they could enact their real plan: To reduce us to third-class citizens in our own world... to turn us against each other and wipe ourselves out, leaving them on top.

It doesn't end there.  It goes further than that.  Much further.