Memory Gamma: Terra Prime and the Specter of Col. Greene

Though the geopolitics were a complicated web of interconnected parts, certain events before, during and after Earth’s 3rd World War are undisputed. At least, today. 

One of the most infamous figures in Human history is Colonel Phillip Green - a key player in the build-up to war and the literal fallout to follow. He’s viewed - rightfully - as one of the biggest villains ever to walk the Earth.

As World War 3 raged on Allied New United Nations and Eastern Coalition troops alike became disillusioned and deserted their posts to follow a new way they believed would ultimately prevail. 

Sovereign nations, including the United States, essentially ceased to exist following the war, the country falling into barbarism, carved up into fiefdoms controlled by competing warlords, Such as Green. He had slowly amassed a loyal army and began his brutal reign over the pacific northwest of North America. 

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Though the geopolitics were a complicated
web of interconnected parts,certain events before, during
and after Earth's Third WorldWar are undisputed, at least
today.
One of the most infamousfigures in human history is
Colonel Philip Green.
A key player in the build-up towar and the literal fallout to
follow.

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He's viewed rightfully as oneof the greatest villains to ever
walk the Earth.
Earth may be a paradise today,but crime does still exist in
the universe, some mundane, someon a galactic scale.

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This is a journal of the mostmemorable, most important crimes
in the Milky Way galaxy and thecomplex beings who commit them.
Erroneously rumored to haveaided in a few of Khan Singh's
proxy wars, in what would laterbe known as the Eugenics Wars,

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green did have an enthusiasm forthe philosophy of purity for
human advancement.
It took even moreworld-shattering events for him
to refine his own take oneugenics and the conditions
under which to put it in action.
The world had taken a hard turnto the right, villainizing
immigrants and minorities whorallied lower classes behind the

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increasingly wealthy who wereexploiting them, blurring the
lines between information andpropaganda so as to delegitimize
those who could expose thetruth, destabilizing democracies
and institutions establishedafter the Second World War to
prevent exactly what was aboutto become realized, as the
climate worsened and thepopulation swelled.

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The nation-states who guidedthese malevolent actions did so
not out of some sort of hardlineideology, but rather a new form
of Cold War.
Instead of proxy wars, nationssuch as the Russian Federation
and the People's Republic ofChina sought to weaken other
nations' stability so as to gaina stronger position in the race
to stockpile dwindling naturalresources.

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This led to a worsening of theenvironment, as the only
nation-states who had theability to effect actual change
elected populist demagogues andoligarchs with fascist
tendencies, intentionallydenying the glaring crisis in
order to appease the pollutingindustries for which they serve.
And in classic human fashion,this bred even more reactionary

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extremism led by narcissisticstrongmen who simply used such
causes as vehicles to power.
Such is the story of many humanrevolutions.
The Ottoman movement was apolitical ideology that became a
banner under which like-mindedneo-fascists united.
The organization centered onthe belief in the survival of
the human race by removing thoseindividuals who were weak or

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deformed in some way.
Enter Philip Greene, a formermilitary officer with hawkish
views.
Green began to tout himself asa warrior for the optimum
movement and took the mantle ofeco-terrorist to curry favor.
With the throngs of angrycitizens who were suffering from
catastrophic climate changes,he began a campaign of brutal

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attacks against anyone he deemedguilty or in his way.
His group utilizedsuitcase-sized nuclear weapons
and viral attacks to wreak havocas early as 2026, and over the
course of a quarter century hewould be responsible, either
directly or indirectly, for thedeaths of 37 million people.

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As World War III raged on,allied new United Nations and
Eastern Coalition troops alikebecame disillusioned and
deserted their posts to follow anew way they believed would
ultimately prevail.
Sovereign nations, includingthe United States, essentially
ceased to exist following thewar.
The country, falling intobarbarism, carved up into

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fiefdoms controlled by competingwarlords such as Green.
Carved up into fiefdomscontrolled by competing warlords
such as Greene.
He had slowly amassed a loyalarmy and began his brutal reign
over the Pacific Northwest ofNorth America.
Many survivors who followedGreene saw his actions as
necessary.
Many died, but the colonelsecured enough food for his
enclave and security from achaotic world.

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The nuclear exchanges that madeup the war lasted a very brief
time, but the ramificationswould define the rest of human
history.
Over the next decade, nearly600 million would die and eat to
radiation, poisoning, disease,famine and abject cruelty.
The survivors would suffer theconsequences of the atomic
horror as it would be knownCancers, mutations, the literal

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unraveling of one's own DNA.
Most fought to survive, butquietly wished they had died
with their friends and lovedones.
And it was here where ColonelGreen would cement his legacy.
All that he had done to thispoint would give him
justification to fulfill his ownvision of humankind.
The deformed, inutilated, theunfortunate masses who were
riddled with nuclear poison butweren't killed in the initial

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assaults.
They would receive the brunt ofhis new worldview.
Barely three years after hisceasefire into the war, he
ordered the execution ofhundreds of thousands of
radiation-addled survivors sothat the future generations
would not endure the horribledisease Mercy he claimed

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necessary for the survival ofthe species.
Green outlined his rationale ina now-famous speech.

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In the shadow of this incalculable devastation, we
find ourselves facing a colossalchallenge.
There's an entire world torebuild, Not only our cities and
homes, but mankind itself.
Now is not the time fortimidity and second-guessing.
We will pass on the scars ofmutation and decay to future

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generations.
For the sake of our childrenand our children's children, we
must reject the impure and castit out.

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Though the peoples of Earth by and large put aside
such ignorance and bloodlust totruly rebuild their shattered
world, there are truths of thehuman condition that will never
be expunged.
Change can breed fear, and fearcan breed hate.
In the early 2150s, the ZindiCouncil committed an infamous
attack on Earth.
They tested a device thatgashed two hemispheres and

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killed seven million.
This would eventually changethe course of history and
initiate a series of events thathelped establish the United
Earth as a major interstellarpower.
On a much bigger stage, thosewho fostered anger over the
Zindi attack, however, saw theirattempts at creating a peaceful
coalition with other worlds asan assault on Earth's

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sovereignty.
They'd fought to unite humanity, and now some had embraced a
caustic, dangerous type of pride, one of true racism and
xenophobia, the same attitudesthat led to the atomic horror.
One such man was John FrederickPaxton.

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Paxton's father had pioneeredthe Orpheus mining operation on
Luna, earth's first industrialenterprise on another world.
Their family was filled withpride over the fact that they'd
established Earth's firstself-sufficient off-world
facility.
But just like the Europeanimmigrants who established
themselves on the North Americancontinent, their pride was
misguided.
Like the European immigrantswho established themselves on

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the North American continent,their pride was misguided.
In those cases, buildingcommunities plainly ignored the
other ramifications.
People already lived there.
In Paxton's case, he believesEarth's expansion should benefit
only Earth.
They should take whateverworlds they desired inhabitants.
Be damned Colonialism throughand through.

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He idolized Philip Green andeverything he stood for.
And, like Green, his beliefsweren't just taught.
He may not have founded it,just as Green may not have
founded the Optimum Movement,but Paxton led a human supremacy
organization known as TerraPrime.
They had emerged soon afterfirst contact, pushing back
against what some saw asacquiescence to the Vulcans,

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some felt Vulcan sought controlover Earth and actively
repressed its technologicaladvancement.
Some members drew inspirationfrom the policies of Colonel
Green, rightfully regarded as agenocidal madman, with regards
to the ethics of eugenics andgenetic purity the ethics of
eugenics and genetic purity.
For years, the group was apowerful voice in Earth's
rebuilding and reorganization,with members such as later

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famous Prime Minister of UnitedEarth Parliament, nathan Samuels
.
Obviously, his views becamemore enlightened as Samuels
himself proposed the coalitionof planets, the Federation's
early incarnation.
In the following years, terraPrime had lost much of its clout
, barely making waves when theydenounced the launch of the
NX-01 as an exploratory vessel.

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Why should we try and get alongwith the inferior species, they
whined.
Then the Zindi attacked.
Terra Prime was once againthrust into the mainstream as
fear gripped human beings whostill remembered a devastating
war.
But as diplomats of the localgroup of worlds gathered in San
Francisco in 2155, paxton setTerra Prime into action,

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transforming it from a simplefar-right pity party to a
full-fledged terrorist cell.
The last ship named Enterpriseto bear the name without the
call number 1701 was crucial inestablishing the relations that
led to the historic summitDuring what would later be known

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as the Babel Crisis.
The Enterprise helped alignVulcan, tellar, earth and Andor
to fight a plot by the RomulanStar Empire to sow discord
between the powers.
The Romulan Senate launched anofficially sanctioned mission to
construct a series of droneships which would effectively
assume the appearance and weaponsignatures of diverse range of
other planets' vessels.
The moonshot experimentalvessel used a remote location or
telepresence to operate from aremote location on Romulus or

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telepresence to operate from aremote location on Romulus.
The project was likely builtusing a captured Vulcan or other
species with the power tocommunicate telepathically,
however with no living testsubjects.
Romulus would require a newspecimen.
They had purged their abilityto harness telepathy, failing to
reawaken the trait in theRomulan medical trials, and it
was unclear whether they knew ofthe Reman-limited telepathic

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abilities.
Their answer came in the formof an Aenar, a nearly extinct
species from Andoria who shareda common ancestor with those
referred to as Andorians.
In the past, the Andorian andTellarite species had disagreed
over trading arrangements.
To resolve this dispute, aconference was held on the
neutral planet Mabel.
In the months precedingNovember 2154, andorians lost

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six freighters along theAndorian-Tellerite border, which
they believed to be destroyedby Tellarite vessels.
They were in fact Romulandrones.
With the help of the Enterprisecrew, the local group of worlds
came together to uncover theplot and used the help of the
Aenar to destroy the drones byforcing them to fire on each
other.
The Romulans had achieved theopposite of what they intended.

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Rather than destabilize theregion and incite conflict, the
four species were brought closertogether.
The task force of 128 shipsthat formed the sensor grid was
a historic first joint operationbetween Earth, vulcan, andor
and Talar.
It was the first step in endingyears of hostilities between
the four powers and brought themcloser towards forming the

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Coalition of Planets and,eventually, the Federation.
Yet Terra Prime had designs toend humanity's peaceful
alliances.
They had obtained DNA from theEnterprise science officer and
Vulcan liaison T'Pol and itschief engineer, charles Tucker,
and cloned the firstVulcan-human hybrid, their child

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.
Essentially, though, they hadlittle to do with it.
Paxton was betting that therest of humanity simply needed
the shock of such a child'sexistence to stir xenophobia and
rage.
At worst he would be like a dogwhistle to those leaning his
way, at best he would sparkanger and disgust.
Though Paxton knew the childwould be an important symbol in

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history, he didn't grant it thedignity of a living thing.
It was to be disposed of.
When all was said and done, hebroadcast a message to the world
during the gathering ofdiplomats and world leaders,
with a demand and a threat TerraPrime had activated the
propulsion system of the miningfacility a feature little known
to most and moved the entirebase to Mars, specifically near

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the Verteron Array.
The Array was a powerfuldirected energy device based on
the surface, used to redirectcomets and asteroids toward the
ice caps, since terraforming hadyet to create a full protective
atmosphere.
This meant it was a powerfuldevice, much like a starship's
main deflector, and could beused as a devastating weapon, a

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fact that Paxton demonstrated bytargeting and destroying part
of Luna.
An irony, really.
The demand All non-human lifewould have to leave the Sol
system immediately.
The threat Paxton warned thatif any extraterrestrial remained
on the surface when timeexpired, he would fire the
Vertebrata Ray directly atStarfleet Command, the

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institution he believed wasresponsible for putting all
humanity at risk.
Through the viewscreen, paxtonpontificated that Terra Prime
was devoted to the protection oflife in all of its diversity.
So for the following 24 hoursthey would allow aliens safe
passage through the solar system, as long as they agreed to

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leave peacefully.
This magnanimous overture washollow, of course, even if they
had convinced themselves it wastruly their philosophy.
Throughout human history, thepolitics of hate, derision,
racism, nationalism, tribalismhave never been fueled by a
respect for life.
No matter how it's framed orjustified, this mode of thinking

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is at the heart of what torehumanity apart and pushed it to
the brink of extinction.
Sadly, the dog whistle didresonate with some who were
still polarized by the Zindiattack, and demonstrations broke
out at numerous alien embassies.
Tension and unease settled overSan Francisco like a fog.
Samuel's espouse the Virtues.

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Earth had evolved since puttingaside its violent past, but had
humankind actually embracedchange?
The others wondered aloud,unable to interrupt the
broadcast of propaganda byPaxton, the Enterprise's Captain
, john Archer, knew Terror Primemeant to make good on its
threat and they knew he wascoming for him.

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His plan was to draft a cometset to impact the Martian polar
cap Aboard Shuttle Pod 1,hazards befell them.
Within the Martian atmosphere,there was a jarring pocket of
turbulence.
The shuttlepod's engines shutdown and without warning,
leaving them in freefall.
The navigation console lockedup and the polarized hull
plating went offline.
The shuttlepod spiraled out ofcontrol and screamed toward the

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surface of the planet.
They had been sabotaged.
One does not get assigned tothe Enterprise without being
among the best and brightest.
However, as the Valiant crewfound its way to safety at Carl
Sagan Memorial Station justbefore the comet's impact, the
landing party infiltrated thetransplanted mining facility,
sparking a desperate firefight.

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One chamber saw Newport crackand become compromised in the
exchange.
Mars may be changing, but itwas still an untamed wilderness
to use the vernacular of thecolonialists.
Men like Paxton, who gave hisfinal villain motivation speech
to John Archer when pinned downby the Enterprise crew.
Humans should take any planetthey chose and assert their

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dominance over their galacticneighbors.
Hos and assert their dominanceover their galactic neighbors.
His vitriol spilled into therealm of the personal as he
began to disparage CaptainArcher's father, an architect of
the technological exchange withVulcan that led to the creation
of Earth's most advanced engine.
Paxton spoke about Henry Archeras a traitor who had turned his
back against humanity.
In his eyes, henry sold outhumanity in his ambition to

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reach Warp 5.
In his eyes, henry sold outhumanity in his ambition to
reach Warp 5.
But that mode of thinkingproved hollow and
self-destructive once again asPaxton enacted his pointless,
desperate last strike and firedthe array at Starfleet
headquarters, an attack whichmissed badly and simply veered

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into the San Francisco Bay.
It had been sabotaged byCommander Tucker, the man whose
DNA Paxton had used to make apolitical statement of an
innocent child.
Paxton was taken into Starfleetcustody unharmed to face
justice, the only appropriateway for a society to grow out of
its cycle of violence.
Unfortunately, the child ofT'Pol and Tucker died.

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It was never viable to beginwith, but the consequences of
his actions continued to rippleover the planet and throughout
the Quadrant.
Peace had been set back yearsdue to the all-too-human habit
of creating violence out of fear.
Much like Colonel Green, johnPaxton thought himself a great

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man destined to be revered bycountless generations to come.
And, like Green, his realmotive was not a cause or
philosophy.
Such things were merelyvehicles, means to an end.
Not a cause or philosophy.
Such things were merelyvehicles, means to an end.
Paxton's true cause was his ownself-importance, and there is
little more dangerous in ouruniverse than a man with
megalomania sowing fear andexceptionalism among the masses.

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Philip Green was not the firstsuch man in Earth's history, but

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due to John Frederick Paxton,it became clear the possibility
that, under the rightcircumstances, he may not be the
last.
As the human author GeorgeOrwell wrote in Earth's 20th
century, power is not a means,it is an act.
One does not establish adictatorship in order to
safeguard a revolution.

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the dictatorship.
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