Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1940

January 9th
The third battalion belonging to the 2nd special forces regiment became the first special forces battalion to begin its jungle training in the jungle operations training center in Netherlands Suriname , while many soldiers of the two army special forces regiments and marines special operations battalion have already expired training onboard RNSS Amsterdam holodecks the have not had the change to have a real jungle training.

January 10th
Antony Fokker became the head of Fokker research and development located near Schiphol airport near Amsterdam where he was to supervise several projects that Fokker R&D where working on like the D-23 ore also known as the Fokker meteoor a jet fighter based on a British design and the Fokker F27 transport plane based on it modern version.

February 12th
The first royal Netherlands East Indies army armored car battalion received its last M.35 armored car , the armored car battalion consist of four armored car platoons consisting of thirteen M.35 each , the KNIL also has begun receiving the DAF M.38 armored car of which 24 have already bin delivered.

March 6th
Hitler approved the new plan for the invasion of west Europe during a military conference in Berlin , the plan put forward by Gerd von Rundstedt called for a invasion of Belgium , Luxemburg and France whit the decisive thrust to be mounted through the Ardennes , Adolf Hitler also agreed to Gerd von Rundstedt plan that invading the Netherlands is considered unwise as numerous SD and Gestapo reports indicate that the kingdom of the Netherlands has a larger and better trained armed forces then toughed and that the rumors of strange and mysteries weapons being in the possessions of the Netherlands have convince Hitler that the Netherlands is not to be invaded for the time being.

March 19th
The Netherlands declare a state of siege to extend true out the Netherlands.

April 9th
Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.

May 5th
The royal Netherlands armed forces cancelled all leave for soldiers and officers belonging to the royal Netherlands army , navy and air force.

May 6th
The royal Netherlands air force commissioned 24 D-21 fighters offered by the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force , the D-21 who where ready to be sent to the Netherlands East Indies for use by the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force are now for the period leased by the royal Netherlands air force , the royal Netherlands air force also accepted the pilots needed to fly them , the KNIL-ML pilots where after being told about the Royal Dutch East Indies army Bandung transport station and the signing of a agreement that none would tell anything about what the saw ore heard where beamed to Den Helder and became for the time being part of the royal Netherlands air force.

May 9th
Rear admiral Doorman commander of the royal Netherlands space force ordered yellow alert to be in effect for RNSS Amsterdam for the first time sins the creation of the royal Netherlands space force.

May 10th
The Germans began their invasion of the Belgium and Luxemburg.

May 11th
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg surrendered.

May 12th
German panzer columns pushed out from the Ardennes , heavy uses of German paratroopers reported across Belgium.

May 13th
The third Gerard Callenburgh destroyer HNLMS Isaac Sweers is commissioned.

May 14th
The commander of the royal Netherlands air force reports to the commander in chief of the royal Netherlands armed forces that the Fokker D-21 , D-22 and Fokker G-1 fighters in the first days of the German invasion have intercepted Luftwaffe fighters , bombers and transport more then 100 times , the commander also reports that of all interceptions the D-22 was the superior.

May 15th
The yellow alert onboard RNSS Amsterdam is lifted by order of its captain De Jong and his superior rear admiral Doorman as no German invasion had happen and all indicates showed that the Germans where not planning to invade the Netherlands.

May 16th
The Dutch government bans the national socialist movement who had hoped that the Germans would invaded as the felt prosecuted for more then six years , the party who sins 1934 had a membership of no more then 400 is considered a outcast in Dutch politics.

May 17th
The royal Netherlands army began allowing its divisions to give leave to its soldiers in small numbers , its also announces that the state of siege is lifted except the province of Limburg , Brabant and Zeeland where large numbers of Belgium refuges have escaped to.

May 28th
The kingdom of Belgium surrenders to the Germans.

June 9th
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën the third Tromp class cruisers is commissioned.

June 10th
The kingdom of Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom , also that day the kingdom of Norway surrendered to Germany.

June 25th
The French republic surrendered to Germany.

June 29th
The Netherlands government announced that it would establish full diplomatic relations with the Vichy government and free French.

July 2nd
The Netherlands now surrounded by Germany on two sides and to give the 4,000 personal of the royal Netherlands space force something to celebrate its commander rear admiral Doorman announced that he would give permission for a landing on the Moon and a visit to Mars to take place before the end of 1940.

July 7th
The government of Germany asked the Netherlands , United States of America and other neutrals to withdraw diplomatic missions from Belgium and Luxembourg.

July 9th
The Dutch government decided to aid the British in the battle of Britain whit limit information from the Den Helder and Nieuw-Milligen radar stations , its also decided that the Dutch government should give any prosecuted person escaping Germany ore occupied country’s the Dutch citizenship if the want it.

July 10th
The Luftwaffe from airbases in occupied Belgium and France began raids on channel shipping.

July 11th
The RAF conducted raids on enemy emplacements in Belgium and German munitions factories , several British bombers are forced to land when the stray in Netherlands airspace and their pilots are brought to a interment camp in the province of Utrecht wile Luftwaffe pilots who either are forced to land in the Netherlands ore are forced to land by fighters of the royal Netherlands air force are brought to a interment camp in the province of Friesland.

Augustus 4th
More then 4,000 people , dozen members of the oversight commission and Dutch government watched as the type-7 shuttlepod
RNSS Batavia landed on the Moon surface , whit one crewmember remaining onboard the other warring a extravehicular suit and holding a Dutch flag was beamed outside the shuttlepod ,after having planted the flag the first Dutch person to walk on the moon gathered some moon rocks before being beamed back inside RNSS Batavia , the event had lasted no longer then one hour but was considered a great boost to all personal serving in the royal Netherlands space force.

Augustus 14th
The Dutch east Indies government placed a order for 100 M2 light tanks in the United States for the royal Netherlands East Indies army in order to increase its armored force and to decrease its dependecy on the Netherlands for its military hardware.

Augustus 16th
The battle of Britain continues as the Luftwaffe is hampered by poor aircraft range and extensive use of radar by the British , the royal Netherlands air force using both Den Helder and Nieuw-Milligen radar stations send daily message to their British counterparts true the British embassy in Amsterdam.

Augustus 24th
The Luftwaffe mistakenly bomb Coventry , a day later prime minister Churchill ordered the bombing of Berlin in retaliation of the bombing of Coventry.

Augustus 26th
The city of Berlin was bombed by the RAF , as has happen already a couple of times those RAF bombers who where damaged are forced to land in the Netherlands as the pilots flying them feel its is better to be in the Netherlands then being prisoner in Germany.

September 3rd
The invasion of Britain is canceled by Hitler.

September 9th
The Maas-class runabout RNSS Marowijne becomes the first royal Netherlands space force shuttle to orbit the planet Mars and is another indication that the Netherlands is expanding its presences in space after the first successful moon walk only a couple of weeks ago.

September 17th
The British intercepted decoded messages revealing that Hitler had postponed his invasion of Great Britain until further notice , these messages where also intercepted by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service headquarters in The Hague and where reason for relive in the Dutch government , that Hitler was also not in this time able to invade Great Britain.

September 21st
The Dutch aircraft company Koolhoven announces that from this day on it would focus its production towards producing helicopters and would from now on be known as Koolhoven helikopter industrie , the company which has lost heavily sins 1935 and was on the verge of bankruptcy received from a friendly member of the oversight commission several blue prints for helicopters , the first helicopter named KH-1 Kolibrie which is based on the French Alouette II design has already bin build and negotiations whit the royal Netherlands air force are underway for a number to be produced.

September 27th
The tripartite pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan.

October 31st
The fourth Gerard Callenburgh class destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde was commissioned , whit this only four more destroyers of the Gerard Callenburgh class destroyer where are to be completed.

November 4th
American president Roosevelt won a third term , a telegram from queen Wilhelmina was sent congratulating him the same day.

December 15th
The British forces began to drive the Italians out of Egypt and began invading Libya.

December 21st
In the Netherlands east Indies the first radar station outside the Netherlands comes online when radar station Soerabaja during its first days of operation managed to detect all aircraft the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force on the island of java.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1939

January 23rd
Admiral Canaris of the German military intelligence service leaks misinformation which stats that Germany plans to invade the Netherlands in February with the aim of using Dutch air force bases to launch a strategic bombing offensive against Great Britain, however its Dutch counterpart the military intelligence service knowing that it is misinformation are able to ignore it , the British however who don’t know that it is German misinformation begin a major shift in their policies towards Europe.

march 2nd
The destroyer HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh lead ship of the Gerard Callenburgh-class is commissioned.

March 31st
The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in the House of Commons offering the British guarantee of the independence of Poland.

April 3rd
Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss which is the codename for the invasion of Poland, on the same day the oversight commission who is torn in helping the British advert the war and giving them all the information needed decided to advise the prime minister that the Netherlands is to remain neutral if not attack first and not to give any information to the British.

Augusts 27th
The first German turbojet powered aircraft flies for the first time , however unknown to the Germans , Fokker is already working on a prototype of a yet to be build jet fighter more advance than the can imagine.

September 1st
The Germans begin their invasion of Poland.

September 2nd
The kingdom of the Netherlands declares its neutrality and the chief of staff of the royal Netherlands army navy and air force as planned orders a mobilization of the border battalions and several other measurers to be take place.

September 3rd
The United Kingdom and the French republic declare war on Germany.

September 8th
The Jan van Amstel class minesweeper HNLMS Willem van Ewijck which is modified to detect sea mines using a imaging sonar survives the day having found no sea mines , the crew will never know that in an alternate timeline more than 30 of its crew where meant to die this day.

September 9th
A infantry company belonging to the Royal Netherlands marines special operations battalion (1) is beamed from the transport station at the Royal Dutch East Indies army headquarters in Bandung to the royal Netherlands navy special operations office in Den Helder transport station, the royal Netherlands armed forces are now able to beam forces from any place on earth at a moment notice whit out having to rely on RNSS Amsterdam twenty transporter rooms to much.

September 17th
The Soviet Union invades eastern Poland.

October 8th
Germany annexes western Poland ending the polish campaign.

October 10th
The royal Netherlands army light division begins training whit the DAF M.38 armored car based on the yet to be build American M8 light armored car , several models are being built of this car including a command vehicle and an armored utility car.

October 26th
A German Luftwaffe Dornier-17 reconnaissance plane is detected whit engine troubles by the radar station Den Helder who orders two D-21 fighter of the royal Netherlands air force to intercept, both fighters are not able to reach the Dornier-17 in time and it makes an emergency landing in a field near the town of Usquert in the province of Groningen , all three passengers are arrested by the royal Netherlands marechaussee and are turned over to the military intelligence service for questing.

October 27th
The second Gerard Callenburgh class destroyer HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes enters service , she together whit here sister ship HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh will remain in Netherlands to patrol the territorial waters of the Netherlands as no destroyers are in Netherlands waters at this time.

November 8th
The Belgian government congratulates Adolf Hitler in escaping a failed assassination attempt in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, the Netherlands government under pressure from the oversight commission dos not.

November 9th
Two British agents of the secret intelligence service where driving to a cafe in the Netherlands-German border town of Venlo where the planned to meet three German officers who unknown to them where had orders to arrest them and take them to Germany , however unknown to both the British and Germans the royal Netherlands military intelligence service ( NMID ) where aware of the plan and had taken steps to prevent the British from being taken and to give the Germans a signal that the Netherlands was not a battlefield for their war , when the three German officers wanted to stop the car carrying the British agents the where surrounded by NMID agents and where taken in before they could escape , both the British and Germans agents after being integrated by the NMID where released the same day whit a warning that the Netherlands was not a country to be played whit.

December 4th
Antony Fokker arrives in Amsterdam for treatment of meningitides after being urged by the head of the Fokker Company to come back to the Netherlands for treatment, using medical technology and the knowledge available the royal Netherlands navy medical service (2) begins their treatment of the founder of Fokker.

December 13th
The Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Zeehond begins operating in the north sea , she is the second of four modern Dolfijn-class submarine to be completed and only one of her class operating in European waters as her sister ship HNMS Dolfijn now operates out of the submarine base Soerabaja in the Netherlands East Indies.

December 26th
Prince Bernhard and Vice-admiral Janssen visit Antony Fokker who is resting in villa in Haarlem and is invite to join the oversight commission as its newest member, after thinking about it Antony Fokker accepts the offer to join the oversight commission as its newest member.

(1) The Royal Netherlands marine’s special operations battalion is the elite in the royal Netherlands Marine Corps and is one of the six marine battalions in service whit the royal Netherlands Marine Corps.

(2) The royal Netherlands navy medical service is responsible for the healthcare of all four services of the royal Netherlands armed forces and falls under the control of the royal Netherlands navy in order to allow it to operate in the public eye but uses many resources belonging to the royal Netherlands space force.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1938

In March 1938 the office of the royal Netherlands navy special operations in Den Helder opens its doors to dose who are allowed in, the royal Netherlands navy special operations office is the cover for the headquarters of the royal Netherlands space force and has an entire library, communications centre, a workable transporter station and even a small holodeck available allowing KNRS Amsterdam who is orbiting earth to be relieve somewhat of its duty’s.

The royal Netherlands army 2nd special forces regiment receives its colors on April 1938 , the 2nd special forces regiment like the 1st special forces regiment in public are fitted out whit weapons as the AG-37 assault rifle and the MG-37 based on the yet to be designed German machine gun , but when the special forces regiments and even the royal Netherlands marines operated under the command of the royal Netherlands space force the are equipped whit type 3 phaser rifles , type 2 hand held phasers , several plasma grenades and a combadge.

In May 1938 the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force begins receiving its first batch of the Fokker D-21 fighter as the royal Netherlands air force begins receiving the Fokker D-22 fighter who will be produced jointly whit the Fokker D-21 and Fokker G-1 fighters in the Netherlands , a new branch of Fokker aircraft company called Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies has also been set up and is building a assembly line for both the D-21 and D-22 for use in the Netherlands east Indies.

On august 1938 , the first of four Tromp class cruisers is commissioned as HNLMS Tromp , the lead ship of here class enters in service whit the royal Netherlands navy , HNLMS Tromp is fitted out whit every modern weapon system that could be build whit the current mains available.

As expected by the oversight commission the Munich agreement is signed on September 30th 1938, whit this all events except the changes in the Netherlands are running as recorded in the history files available to oversight commission.

On October 1938 the second Tromp class cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck is commissioned, both Tromp class cruisers will be deployed whit the Netherlands east Indies naval squadron which now includes HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Sumatra.

KNRS Maas (1) a Maas-class runabout on November 17th 1938 lands on the moon , while none of its crew leave the runabout it is a great leap for the royal Netherlands space force who previous only has circled the moon whit its shuttles du rear admiral Doorman orders for the royal Netherlands space force to concentrate its attention in helping strengthen the kingdom defenses , but whit royal Netherlands space force growing rapidly rear admiral Doorman has begun to relax whit that order allowing missions of exploration in the sol system to take place.

At the headquarters of the Royal Dutch East Indies army in Bandung the installing of a transporter station begins in December 1938 who when completed will allow people to be transported from the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands ore back , a transporter station in Paramaribo in the Netherlands Surinam is also in the planning.

(1) The Maas-class runabout is named after rivers running true the Netherlands and Netherlands Suriname.

KNRS Maas
KNRS Marowijne

Type-7 shuttlepod who are named the Netherlands colonial capitols.

KNRS Paramaribo
KNRS Batavia
KNRS Willemstad

Type-15 shuttlepod who are named after famous Dutch explorers.

KNRS Adriaen Block
KNRS Willem Barentsz

Captains yacht named after a famed Dutch astronomer.

KNRS Huygens

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1937

HNLMS De Ruyter the first modified ship belonging to the royal Netherlands navy entered into service on January 1937, HNLMS De Ruyter who is considered the most advance cruiser in the world has many things installed which the yet to be completed Tromp-class cruisers also will carry like advance radar, sonar and AA weapons years ahead of any nation on earth.

On February 1937 the Artillery Inrichtingen began full production of the AG-37 assault rifle based heavily on the AK-47; the Artillery Inrichtingen also has modern machine guns, bazookas and mortars in production based on designs found in the ships library of RNSS Amsterdam.

In April 1937 the army aviation brigade became the royal Netherlands air force and the third independent service in the royal Netherlands armed forces, the newly founded royal Netherlands air force is expanding rapidly whit dozens of Fokker D-21 and Fokker G-1 fighters in service and growing.

Construction of two radar stations began in July 1937 whit the first being built in Den Helder , the other one is being built in Nieuw-Milligen and will act as reserve , the two radar stations will use advance sensor and radar equipment replicated onboard RNSS Amsterdam and will be linked whit RNSS Amsterdam giving them the ability to spot a plane as far as Berlin ore using sensor of RNSS Amsterdam anywhere on earth , the colonies of Netherlands Suriname and Netherlands east Indies also will receive their one radar stations , whit one to be built in the Netherlands Suriname and three to be built in the Netherlands east Indies.

Vice-admiral Janssen who is the chairman of the oversight commission invited prince Bernhard to become a member of the commission on Augustus 1937, prince Bernhard excepted the offer and became the only royal member in the oversight commission, latter prince Bernhard visit the RNSS Amsterdam where he began to spend a lot of time there using the holodecks ore learning to fly one of the eight shuttles.

Whit the M.35 armored car in full production sins end of 1936 and the first two squadrons deployed whit the royal Netherlands army light division, DAF the builder of the M.35 received in the middle of 1937 several orders by the royal Netherlands army for the production of a light tank, an armored transport and a successor to the M.35 armored car.

Fokker began testing the Fokker D-22 fighter whit a real prototype in October 1937 after successful tests on the holodecks of RNSS Amsterdam where completed, the D-22 who is based heavily on the yet to be build American P-51 mustang will be used primarily as a interceptor will the Fokker D-21 will be used as a fighter and ground attack plane,

On November 1937 the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij after two year of building and many challenges overcome presented the royal Netherlands navy the first submarine who is build using design plans found in the ship library onboard RNSS Amsterdam , the submarine which is called HNMS Dolfijn belongs to the new Dolfijn-class submarine who are not build for patrol of the Dutch ore colonial waters only , the Dolfijn-class submarine is based on the German Type XXI U-boats ore also known as Elektroboote.

During one of its test in December 1937 the Fokker D-22 fighter was photographed by a German intelligences officer when the D-22 was parked outside its hanger and during its takeoff despite heavy security around Gilze-Rijen air force base , these pictures where later presented to Adolf Hitler where enough evidence for him to order the SD to increase their intelligence operations in the Netherlands as he wanted to find out what was going and how the Netherlands in lest then three years was building soadvance fighter.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1936

A year after its creation the royal Netherlands space force had expanded to a force of almost 2,000 people who served either on board the RNSS Amsterdam ore on two bases located in the Netherlands.

The royal Netherlands navy first two Tromp-class cruisers who’s construction began both in late 1935 and in early 1936 is progressing as planned whit the last two Tromp-class cruisers construction to begin before the end of 1936 , the six Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyers construction is also underway in several shipyards across the country in order to get them finished before 1940.

The royal Netherlands army in early 1936 created the 1st special forces regiment while the royal Netherlands marines began their one expansions, the 1st special forces regiment is also the regiment slated to complete operations for the royal Netherlands space force when the operated under its command, the royal Netherlands marines can also be used by the royal Netherlands space force if needed.

Rear admiral Doorman commander of the royal Netherlands space force in the middle of 1936 issued an order that all attention for the coming years is to be focus on the Netherlands as he has received many request for diverting pressures resources on projects like sending one of eight shuttles to the moon ore a prope to mars.

The first prototype of the Fokker D-21 and Fokker G-1 successfully took to the skies , the production of both fighters also began in 1936 using a modernized production line to maximize the output , Fokker also has begun work on the next fighter dubbed the D-22 who is based on the yet to be build American P-51 mustang.

DAF completed the first M.35 armored car for the royal Netherlands army after only a year of research mostly done onboard the holodecks of RNSS Amsterdam where DAF designers managed to conduct many field test whit out having to build one first, after the designers where happy whit the final version of the M.35 armored car its production began which production lines is modernized.

In order to keep things secret and collect information the oversight commission who by now is also known as the shadow government managed to convince the prime minister in to creating the military intelligence service/militaire inlichtingen dienst , this agency will use information gathered true the royal Netherlands space force or other methods in order to protect the Kingdom and its colony’s.

In country’s across Europe governments leaders begin to notice the new shift in Dutch politics and increase spending in its military , in Berlin the believe that the Dutch are only reaming themselves and are no treat to them while in London and in Paris rumors are beginning to circulate that the Dutch have something in their possession that helps them expand so fast whit out destroying their economy , none of the country’s now the real truth and all attempts to discover it have so far have failed.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1935

A year has passed sins the appearance of the USS Amsterdam in earth orbit and Commander Doorman being zapped onboard the starship.

In that year both commander Doorman and Vice-admiral Janssen spend a lot of time learning much about the future by reading PADDs and visiting the many holodecks , during one of those visit commander Doorman discovered that he would die in a future naval battle against the Japanese which kind of shock him but also made him more resolved to use the USS Amsterdam for the good of the kingdom.

Vice-admiral Janssen decided early in on that it would be best that no other nation would be involved as the information and technology discovered onboard the ship would result in

So he gathered some people he could trust from the royal Netherlands navy, royal Netherlands army, government officials and people from major companies in the Netherlands like Fokker, Philips, DAF, Schell, Wilton-Fijenoord and the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij.

After many discussions the agreed to form an oversight commission who would guide the Netherlands in the right direction while also forming a new branch of the royal Netherlands armed forces called the royal Netherlands space force/koninklijke nederlandse ruimte dienst.

Whit the oversight commission formed result began to quickly like the USS Amsterdam who would become the flagship of the royal Netherlands space force , commander Doorman would be promoted to rear admiral and become its commander.

The USS Amsterdam would be renamed KNRS Amsterdam and become the flagship of the royal Netherlands space force and the royal Netherlands navy would provide the crew for the starship while the royal Netherlands army would provide its security detail and landings detail.
Also the oversight commission after many long discussions came to the conclusion that war whit Germany or Japan was possible and therefore decided that the Netherlands would begin to rearm as fast as possible and whit all needs available.

Some of the things the Netherlands government decided to order in the first year where.

The building of four Tromp-class cruisers and eight Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyers who will be build whit technology from the RNSS Amsterdam and information from and should be in service before 1940.
The car manufacturer DAF would build for the royal Netherlands army more than 240 heavily modified M.35 armored cars based on the Landsverk M.39 armored car.

Fokker which was the main aircraft manufacturer in the Netherlands would start building the Fokker G-1 fighter-cruiser, Fokker D-21 mono-wing fighter who would be slightly different that the original in great numbers, Fokker also would begin using the information from both the ship library and the holodecks in designing a fighter capable of handling any adversary in the sky.

And the last thing that was decided was that the naval bases of Den Helder, Soerabaja , Tjilatjap and Parera would be modernized and upgraded.