Saturday, November 26, 2011

1952

1952

January 4th
Mars base Utopia Planitia is completed , the second Netherlands Mars which construction began in 1950 can house more then 200 royal Netherlands space force personal , and will act as the communications and support base for the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and the yet to be build space station/yard.

February 6th
Elizabeth II becomes queen upon the death of her father George VI.

February 13th
Royal Netherlands space force flagship KNRS Amsterdam (1) , enters its 18 year of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.

February 18th

The republic of Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

February 26th
Prime minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has its own atomic bomb , and that it will begin conducting test.

March 8th
Koolhoven helikopter industrie , the Netherlands main helicopter builder and famous for building the KH-1 Kolibrie I and KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopters , is again denied permission by the Netherlands government to sell its helicopters to West Germany , France and Belgium , as the Netherlands government states that all Netherlands produced weapons , may only be used for the defense of the Netherlands and its colony’s (2).

March 22nd
Wernher von Braun publishes a article entitled man will conquer space soon, which includes ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

March 29th
United States president Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

April 15th
The United States air force flies the B-52 Stratofortress for the first time.

April 30th
The republic of the Philippines joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.

May 21st

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.

June 10th
Two CIA agents (3) are picked up by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service as the try to investigate gas-fuel power plant Dodewaard in the Netherlands , power plant Dodewaard which is the cover for one of the three fusion power plants in the Netherlands , has already got heavy security surrounding it , but as the two agents who are arrested are from a friendly country , its decided that the security must be increased to compensate for it.

July 21st
A royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe suffers a malfunction and enters earth atmosphere , during its descent its spotted by several United states air force radars stations located on the East Coast , in responds United States air force jets are scramble , but are unable to intercept the object , as the probe has already used its self-destruct , in order to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.

October 1st
The United Kingdom , conducts its first nuclear test , between the Montebello Islands, Western Australia , the blast is observed by one of the three remaining royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe orbiting earth.

October 14th
Entering its first year in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , KNRS ER-3 , has conducted many test , including flying at warp 3 and its maximum warp 4 , using it spatial torpedoes and its phasers against targets set up at the Amazonis Planitia test and weapons range and testing other systems its has onboard , whit these data the royal Netherlands space force has gathered , the can begin building upgraded versions of the KNRS ER-3 at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.

November 1st

The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii , the hydrogen bomb exploding whit a yield of 10.4 megatons , is the largest explosion monitored by the a royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe to date by any of three nations who tested a atomic bomb.

November 4th
Dwight Eisenhower is elected 34th US President.

December 27th
Former general of the royal Netherlands army Henri G Winkelman (4) , dies at the age of 76.

(1) the royal Netherlands space force has concluded that as long as there is no starship whit the capacity of KNRS Amsterdam , it despite it being 18 years old is to remain in service until more royal Netherlands space force starships of sufficient quality have entered in service whit the royal Netherlands space force.

(2) this none foreign weapons sale rule is also in force for the other major weapons manufactures like DAF and Fokker.

(3) the two CIA agents where interrogated by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service before the where escorted and sent on a plane back to the United States , it was found out true the interrogation that the CIA believes that the gas-fuel power plant Dodewaard is a cover for something but du the heavy security and the fact that nobody will speak about it who works there , the have bin unable to find out what is really going on at power plant Dodewaard.

(4) general Winkelman was the supreme commander of the royal Netherlands army from 1940 to 1945.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

1951

January 9th
The new United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.

January 27th
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins by the United States.

February 1st
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 (1) is passed in which is written , that the political independence and territorial integrity of the United Republic of China most be respected by the Japanese empire.

March 20th
After three years of assembling at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , KNRS ER-3 (2) , the first warp 4 spaceship build by the Netherlands , leaves the space yard on it on , beginning a long period of testing its systems , many who have never bin put together in one spaceship.

April 7th
United States performs a atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii , the atmospheric nuclear test is observed by a orbiting class-5 probe who send the pictures and date its has gathered to the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder as it is programmed to do , this test is the fourth nuclear test a orbiting class-5 probe has observed sins January of this year , and the first atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.

April 18th
The Treaty of Paris is adopted, between France, West Germany, Italy , Belgium and Luxembourg , establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

June 3rd
Whit KNRS ER-3 , now in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , is towed by Maas-class runabouts KNRS Maas and KNRS Moraine , using their tractor beams , to its new orbit above Mars.

June 5th
New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard after a two day slow journey , arrives at its new home , whit this the only large present of the royal Netherlands space force near earth is at the Moon , whit moon base Eisinga and moon base New Amsterdam , both who now house each more then 300 royal Netherlands space force personal.

September 1st
The United States, Canada ,Great Britain , Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact , called the San Francisco Security Treaty (3) , named after the city where it is signed.

September 20th
NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.

October 10th
First flight of the Fokker D-24 tornado Jet fighter (4) happens from RNLAF air force base Gilze-Rijen , the Fokker D-24 Jet fighter is the second jet fighter build and designed by Fokker and is slated to replace the meteoor jet fighter in service whit the royal Netherlands air force and royal Netherlands East Indies air force.

October 14th
KNRS ER-3 orbiting above Mars begins test its torpedo bank , when it fires a spatial torpedo (5) towards Amazonis Planitia , the official test and weapons range of the royal Netherlands space force in the solar system.

October 26th
Winston Churchill is re-elected prime minister of the United Kingdom.

December 17th
The Netherlands government announces that the all Netherlands communist party members are forbidden to be civil servants , the Netherlands government has however decided not to ban the Netherlands communist party.

December 20th
Wile in the state of Idaho, United States , the world's first experimental nuclear power plant opens , in the Netherlands , three fusion power plants (6) , located in the towns of Dodewaard , Borssele and Groningen already supply the Netherlands whit the majority of electricity it needs.

(1) United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 , is a clear signal to the empire of Japan , that it has to respect the United Republic of China independence and borders.

(2) KNRS ER-3 which construction and assembly began in November 1948 , is a warp 4 capable spaceship , equipped whit two phase banks and one torpedo bank , as it is a classed by the royal Netherlands space force as a Experimental spaceship , it will be mostly be used to test out the many systems who in the future will be fitted to royal Netherlands space force space ships.

(3) the San Francisco Security Treaty is a military alliance which binds the United States, Canada , Great Britain , Australia and New Zealand in cooperating on defense matters in the Pacific Ocean area, wile also stating that , the vive signatories recognize that a armed attack in the Pacific area on any of them endangers the peace and safety of the others.

(4) the Fokker D-24 tornado jet fighter is based heavily on the French Mirage III designs.

(5) the spatial torpedo of which KNRS ER-3 carries twelve , are smaller then the photon torpedoes , KNRS Amsterdam uses , much lees powerful , but easer to build , and therefore KNRS ER-3 is equipped whit the spatial torpedo instead of the photon torpedoes.

(6) the three fusion power plants are disguised as gas-fuel power plants in order to prevent anybody to find out that the use nuclear fusion instead.