Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

[lordroel]

Part 38 1971

January 12th
The United States-Netherlands Space Cooperation Group begins meeting at Delft University of Technology and consist of 24 personal from NASA and the CIA Special Space Division and 24 personal from the KNRD and the MID.

January 31st
Apollo 14, carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Center on the fourth lunar landing mission.

February 5th
Apollo 14 lands near Fra Mauro. Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell walk on Moon for four hours.

February 9th
The Apollo 14 command module lands safety in the South Pacific near USS New Orleans.

February 11th
The United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Japanese empire and others sign the Seabed Treaty (1), outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.

February 13th
20,000 United Republic of China troops and 10,000 United States troops cross from United Republic of China, Gansu province to Republic of China-Nanking, Yinchuan province.

February 14th
The KNRD decides to dismantling Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and L3 space yard, located at Sun–Earth’s L3 point, as the logistics and transport cost to those two space yards is too high. They are going to reassemble them in orbit of Alpha Centauri, where they will become part of the Proxima Centauri b spaceyard.

February 15th
NASA decides to cancel the Mariner program.

March 3rd
The 221 kg heavy Ōsumi III satellite equipped with a magnetometer and cosmic-ray/x-ray detectors is launch on top of a Tsukuyomi 1 rocket from the launch site at Uchinoura space center.

March 14th
United Republic of China and United States troops are pushed back into Gansu province by Republic of China-Nanking army and Japanese imperial army forces, suffering a combined death toll of 5,529 killed, 50,483 wounded, 625 missing.

March 16th
Work begins on dismantling Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche spaceyard and L3 spaceyard, a process which will take up to a year, and shipping the pieces to Alpha Centauri where they will be reassembled as part of the Proxima Centauri b space yard.

March 20th
The United States Senate approves the 40 billion dollars asked by President Nixon for NASA.

April 14th
Second Tromp-class cruiser, Hr.Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck is decommissioned, leaving the Royal Netherlands Navy with only two Tromp-class cruisers, two Sumatra-class guided missile cruiser and two Celebes-class helicopter cruisers as their main fleet killers.

April 18th
Former admiral and commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, Isoroku Yamamoto (1939 to 1941) dies at age 87 having outlived Hideki Tōjō, the former Japanese prime minister and his main rival by two years.

April 19th
The Soviet Union launches the first space station of any kind, Salyut 1.

April 20th
Former admiral Yamamoto is posthumously awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum (1st Class) .

April 24th
Soyuz 10 tries to dock with Salyut 1, however the docking with Salyut 1 is not successful and the crew of Soyuz 10 returns to Earth without having entered the station.

April 5th
In the Dominion of Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People’s Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the government in the hopes of creating an independent nation free of British control and launch a series of assaults against public buildings, some of which include the Government House which is the official residence of the Governor General of Ceylon and Prime Minister's House which is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon, while also simultaneous attacking seventy-four police stations around the island and cutting power to major urban areas.

May 6th
The Royal Ceylon Armed Forces backed by the British Army in Ceylon begins fighting the People's Liberation Front who has managed to get control of the Matara District and the city of Ambalangoda in the Galle District 24 hours after they began their uprising against the government.

May 14th
KNRD command decides to halt production of the Zwarte Pijl-class Mark-II strike fighters in favor of producing the Texel-class runabout.

After two weeks of fighting, the royal Ceylon Armed Forces and the British Army in Ceylon have managed to get control of all but a few remote areas still under the control of the People's Liberation Front.

May 15th
Lion Air (front company used by the MID) purchases one Boeing 747-200B and two Boeing 747-200 Freighters which are to be delivered in middle of 1972 for the route Guyana space centre and Midway Naval Test Range and back.

May 21st
The Ceylonese government offers amnesties for all members of the People’s Liberation Front except its top leaders, as the Ceylonese government has regained full control of the country after three weeks of fighting which has cost the lives of more than 7,500 people.

June 6th
Soyuz 11 is launched towards Salyut 1 (2).

June 8th
Soerebaja-class guided missile cruiser Hr.Ms. Borneo is launched

June 30th
After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the three cosmonauts of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.

July 15th
President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the United Republic of China for the second time.

July 19th
The South Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet, making it the second tallest building in the world.

July 26th
Apollo 15 carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Center on their way to the fifth American lunar landing mission.

July 29th
The British Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Frederick Corfield, announces in the House of Commons that the Black Arrow project, United Kingdom own rocket program, will be cancelled for two reasons, the first on economic grounds, as the Ministry of Defence decided that it will be cheaper to use the American Scout rocket and the second that NASA has offered to launch British payloads for free. He finishes the announcement with the message that the upcoming launch of the Black Arrow carrier rocket will be the last.

July 30th
In Japan an Imperial Japanese Airways passenger jet collides with an Imperial Japanese army air service Ki-205 jet fighter, killing 162 people.

July 31
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first Americans to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.

August 7th
The Apollo 15 command module lands safely north of Honolulu, near the USS Nassau.

August 14th
The French republic detonates a 1-megaton nuclear bomb over Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

September 8th
The last three Zwarte Pijl-class Mark-II strike fighters are delivered to the 3rd space fighter squadron at Nieuw Batavia space force base, and with that the focus on building the Texel-class runabouts begins.

September 30th
Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu is briefed by the administrator of the imperial space development agency of Japan, who tells the prime minister that the spacecraft which will bring the first Japanese astronauts into space will follow the design of the two-man American Gemini craft. The program is called project Supēsu 719 (3), the selection of the candidates to begin in November of 1971 and the first mission is being planned for 1975.

October 12th
First flight test of the M-5 3 stage intercontinental ballistic missile (4) is tested with success the launch site at Uchinoura space center.

October 28th
The United Kingdom becomes the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the Prospero X-3 using a Black Arrow carrier rocket, while also becoming the first country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.

November 6th
The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest United States underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

November 15th
The imperial space development agency of Japan begins the first screening process for potential astronauts who have to be 1.59 to 1.74 meters high, 24 to 38 old, weight 55 to 70 kg and have 600 hours of flight time. The canidats will be selected among Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilots.

November 18th
Soerabaja-class guided missile cruiser Hr.Ms. Borneo is commisioned into service by crown Princess Beatrix.

November 27th
The Soviet space program’s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module, but it malfunctions and crashes. Later the crash site is investigated by KNRD personal wearing EV suits who take pictures of the crash site.

December 2nd
Soviet Mars 3 lander (5) lands on Mars. But after only 14.5 seconds stops transmitting data for unknown reasons the and no further signals are received at Earth from the Martian surface.

December 3rd
Pakistan attacks 9 Indian airbases, which results in India declaring war on Pakistan.

December 4th
India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.

December 8th
President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet comprised of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, helicopter landing platform ship USS Tripoli, 3 destroyers, 3 guided-missile escorts and 1 attack submarine to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.

December 9th
British prime minister Edward Heath orders the British Eastern Fleet, based out of naval base Singapore and comprising of aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, helicopter cruiser HMS Blake, 4 destroyers and 2 frigates, to head towards the Bay of Bengal and to join the Royal Ceylon Navy in patrolling the territorial waters of the Dominion of Ceylon.

December 11th
The USS Enterprise is deployed in the Bay of Bengal to intimidate the Indian navy.

December 16th
The Pakistan army surrenders to the Bangladesh liberation army and the Indian Armed Forces, officially ending the Pakistani Civil War and creating the new nation state of Bangladesh.

December 18th
Number one Proxima Centauri b shipyard is completed and with a length of 300 meters it is capable of building spaceships up to cruiser designs.

December 21st
The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as fourth Secretary General.

December 22nd
The United Nations General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General.

December 23rd
Anthony Fokker, founder of the Fokker Aircraft Company and former head of Fokker research and development dies at age 81 in his home in the Netherlands.

December 24th
The Andorian science and research vessel Gilinar enters the Alpha Centauri system and is given a warning by KNRS Friesland when she passes the ship on her way to Proxima Centauri b, that it is to stay away from any Vulcan ship, nor attempt to scan any during its stay as the Dutch don’t want a shootout in the Alpha Centauri system between the Andorians and the Vulcans.

December 29th
Final design work on the Den Helder-class cruiser (6) begins at Deep space 1 (former KNRS Amsterdam), before construction can start at Number one Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

December 30th
After a month of selection, the imperial space development agency of Japan has after screening 918 pilots chosen 230 primary candidates for the Japanese space program. They will now undergo a second phase of screening based on flying techniques, physiological and general medical examination criteria.

December 31st
United States military personnel in the United Republic of China reach 186,800.

(1) This is the first major treaty the Japanese empire has signed regarding testing of nuclear weapons.

(2) The Netherlands oversight commission knows about the upcoming tragedy and decided not to inform the Soviet Union so that their space program can continue to remain a secret. The Dutchmen who care about a few more dead communists are also few and far between.

(3) Project Supēsu 719 vehicle closely resemblance the Gemini spacecraft, however, the project Supēsu 719 vehicle is lighter and smaller to allow it to be launched by the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket, which is also under development and which has a maximum payload of 3200 kilograms. The two crewmembers are seated in a pressurized crew compartment fitted with ejection seats (in case of an abort scenario) and instruments. The aft section of the spacecraft is fitted with orientation engines, propellant tanks and other pieces of hardware. The crew section will separated from the aft section for reentry which will happen in the form of a splashdown as there was no soft-landing system designed for the vehicle.

(4) The M-5 is a 3 stage intercontinental ballistic missile with an estimated range of 12,000 to 15,000 kilometers.

(5) The transmission from the Soviet Mars lander was not jammed or tampered with by KNRD Mars base Hellas or Mars base Utopia Planitia as according to their historical data, the interruption of the transmission happened as planned and therefore no need to jam the transmission was needed.

(6) The two Den Helder-class cruisers are to be used as flagships of the 1st and 2nd space force squadron. Each has a crew of 250 with space to carry 75 Special Forces troops , can carry 5,000 metric tons of cargo, measured 200 meters in length, have the capacity to carry 4 shuttlecraft from the Type A ,B to the Texel class runabout, a cruising speed of warp 8, 4 phaser emitters, in two dual phaser banks, two torpedo banks carrying a total of 112 Mark-3 spatial torpedoes, two transporter rooms, a holo deck and front and aft tractor beams.

[eurowatch]

Roel provided his blessing for me to post a short fact sheet about Proxima Centauri b.
Scientific name: Proxima Centauri b
Common name: Elysium
Primary language: Dutch
Secondary language: English
Population as of 1982: 24,768
Capital city: Nieuw Batavia
Religion: 70% percent Christian, 10% muslim, 15% atheist, 5% other.
Orbital period: 427 days (two months longer than Earth’s)
Natural satellites: 2 (Selene and Luna)
Radius: 6.252 km (slightly smaller the Earth)
Tallest mountain: Mount Hallelujah, part of the Swaanengebergte mountain chain
Largest landmass: Willemsland

Proxima Centauri b is an Earthlike planet with one central landmass and a number of smaller islands. Unlike Earth the slightly higher oxygen content in the air causes unaccustomed humans to feel euphoric and insects to grow to larger sizes. It is currently being debated if the unique ecosystem should be maintained or if Terraforming should begin to make the planet completely Earth-like. Until then, strict controls are in place to prevent an ecological disaster from intruding Earth pests.
Currently there are only three cities on the planet, all located close to each other on Willemsland, as well as Veenhuizen Penal Settlement, located on Veenhuizen island.
While security is not that tight (the fences are more for keeping the local wildlife out then for keeping the prisoners in), Veenhuizen is still considered the most secure in the Netherlands. After all, when the prisoners are 4,3 light years away from the nearest country willing to hide them, there isn’t really anywhere for them to escape too.
Nieuw Batavia is the main administrative center with Nieuw Batavia Spaceport as the only terminal for spaceship on the planet. It also houses the only hospital, high school, university and most of the embassies on the planet. The only important locations on the planet it does not house are the Vulcan embassy and Alpha Centauri Command, which are located at Fort Doorman and beneath Mount Oranje.
Defence of the planet is handled by the Planetiere Verdediging Ring, six space stations named Wijsheid, Eerlikheid, Duurzaam, Hulpzaam, Moed and Lojaaliteit that are kept in geosynchronous orbit around the planet. These stations are armed with two phaser banks, a torpedo battery and are responsible for projecting the planetary shield in case of an attack by a hostile fleet. Supporting them are 96 satellites armed with either phasers or torpedo launchers of their own.

[eurowatch]

Done With editing. I
-Removed a Whole lot of akward sentence structures, unneceserry commas and misspelled Words.
-Gave the Dutch Navy a new aircraft carrier and took away two of their old ones.
- Changed the fate of the Tromp-class guided missile cruisers from scrapped to being mothballed. (it might just happen that the Netherlands find themselves at war and needs some reinforcements as soon as possible.)
-Had the oversight commision warn the CIA over what might happen if they continued bullying a country With a Space fleet.
-Did some more re-designating (the scout vessels are now corvettes, the Zwarte Pijl attack fighters are now strike fighters, the Den Helder-Class light cruisers are now just cruisers)
-Rewrote the USS Pueblo incident to not make the IJN appear as complete idiots willing to start a fight without reason. Also changed the destroyer from a Matsu-class (without the war, there would be no need for the IJN to mass produce destroyers quickly and cheaply) into a Murasama-class.
-wondered if the Den Helder-Class should have their name changed to something like the Eendracht-class.

[lordroel]

Jul 16, 2019 15:51:15 GMT eurowatch said:

Done With editing. I
-Removed a Whole lot of akward sentence structures, unneceserry commas and misspelled Words.
-Gave the Dutch Navy a new aircraft carrier and took away two of their old ones.
- Changed the fate of the Tromp-class guided missile cruisers from scrapped to being mothballed. (it might just happen that the Netherlands find themselves at war and needs some reinforcements as soon as possible.)
-Had the oversight commision warn the CIA over what might happen if they continued bullying a country With a Space fleet.
-Did some more re-designating (the scout vessels are now corvettes, the Zwarte Pijl attack fighters are now strike fighters, the Den Helder-Class light cruisers are now just cruisers)
-Rewrote the USS Pueblo incident to not make the IJN appear as complete idiots willing to start a fight without reason.
-wondered if the Den Helder-Class should have their name changed to something like the Eendracht-class.

Thanks for the edit eurowatch.

Think the Eendracht name is claimed by the wet navy and thus is not to be used by the space force.

[lordroel]

Part 39 1972

January 1st
Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary General of the United Nations.

Andorian science and research vessel Gilinar departs the Alpha Centauri system but not before having visited Alpha Centauri II, a gas giant, Alpha Centauri VI, and Proxima Centauri b, the location of the majority of the Netherlands’ offworld colonies.

January 5th
President Nixon announces that NASA will proceed with the development of a reusable space shuttle system, several space stations in various orbits, nuclear space "tugs" to enable travel to space stations in higher orbits, support of a lunar space station and base, and travel to other planets.

January 7th
President Nixon announces that he will run for re-election in 1972.

January 10th
The third Tromp-class cruiser, Hr.Ms. Eendracht is decommisioned and mothballed.

January 13th
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination.

January 18th
Mao Zedong secretly designates Zhou Enlai to succeed him as Prime Minister of the United Republic of China. Zhou Enlai, who has served as United Republic of China minister of foreign affairs from 1949 to 1958, is now vice-chairmen of the Communist Party of United China, one of two parties in the United Republic of China with the other being the United Chinese Nationalist Party led by president Chiang Kai-shek.

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise joins fellow carrier USS Constellation on Delta Station (1) following her tour in the Indian Ocean in December 1971 where she had shown force and flag in connection with the Indo-Pakistani war.

January 30th
After two months of selection, the imperial space development agency of Japan has 88 candidates remaining.

February 3rd
The 1972 Winter Olympics open in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

February 13th
The 1972 Winter Olympics in Banff, Alberta end. The Soviet Union has won the most medals and most gold medals, followed by East Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United States.

February 21st
United States President Nixon began his 4-day visit to the United Republic of China.

February 22nd
President Nixon met with Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Mao Zedong in Xining.

March 7th
The fourth and final Soerabaja-class guided missile cruiser, Hr.Ms. Eendracht is launched.

March 16th
The imperial space development agency of Japan has chosen 16 astronauts from the 88 candidates, eight belonging to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and eight belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.

March 24th
Dismantling of Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and L3 space yard is completed, and now begins the reassembling of the space yards at Proxima Centauri b, so they can become part of the Proxima Centauri b spaceyard.

April 16th
Apollo 16 carrying astronauts John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Center on the sixth lunar landing mission.

April 21st
Apollo 16 lands near Descartes Highlands.

April 27th
The Apollo 16 command module lands southeast of Christmas Island, near the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga.

April 30th
60,000 Republic of China-Nanking Army and imperial Japanese Army troops, supported by regiments of tanks and artillery, attack across the Sichuan Demilitarized Zone into the United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan.

May 1st
In response to the Japanese offensive, President Nixon authorizes a massive bombing campaign targeting all Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire troops invading the United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan along with B-52 air strikes.

May 2nd
The United States Seventh and Thirteenth Air Force based out of the kingdom of Thailand begins a rapid redeployment of airpower as F-4 Phantoms, F-105s, A-37 Dragonflys and B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers from bases in Thailand and the Philippines to bases in the United Republic of China.

May 3rd
A week after the Apollo 16 mission has departed, a 1,100 kg meteorite crashes on the Moon and creates a crater the size of a football field (2).

May 8th
Joining KNRS Texel and KNRS Aruba, the third Texel-class runabout KNRS Vlieland is commissioned into service.

May 10th
The USAF begins operation Linebacker which involves the sustained bombing of military installations, storage facilities and transportation network located in the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan. The campaign aims to destroy the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire’s ability to sustain what is now the American press being called the Easter Offensive, by cutting off supply routes into the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan and by stopping any enemy reinforcements from entering the United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan. The American bombing offensive meets heavy resistance from Japanese fighters and SAM sites and suffer considerable losses. This is not reported to the press in fear that the US military will lose even more support at home.

May 15th
Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Maryland political rally.

At Number one Proxima Centauri b spaceyard, construction begins on the first KNRD Den Helder-class cruiser starship.

May 16th
At Midway Naval Test Range the CIA Special Space Division and the United States Air Force, with some help from the MID begin work on the S-1 Darkstar space plane that can be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites.

May 17th
According to an United States report, operation Linebacker is damaging the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese Empire ability to supply their troops engaged in the Easter Offensive. This victory comes at a considerable cost, so far the USAF has lost over 128 fighters of all types and 56 bombers, United Republic of China losses are even higher.

May 22nd
President Richard Nixon visits Moscow as he and Henry Kissinger arrived to begin a summit meeting with Soviet first secretary Brezhnev.

President Nixon is given the guarantee by premier Brezhnev that the Soviet Union will not intervene in the China war, as long as it remains confined to the Chinese province of Sichuan and surrounding provinces.

May 24th
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project is created by an agreement signed by President Nixon and premier Kosygin.

May 25th
The light carrier Hr.Ms. Koningin Wilhelmina arrives in Amsterdam to be rebuilt into a helicopter carrier. This involves some modifications to her hangar, upgrading her radar and weapon systems and exchanging her planes for helicopters. 

May 26th
In the United Republic of China, Chiang Ching-kuo is elected President by the national assembly of the United Republic of China. He is replacing his father Chiang Kai-shek, President of the United Republic of China from 1949 to 1972, but due to his age is forced to resign as President both by the national assembly and by his party, the United Chinese Nationalist Party.

Two nuclear arms control agreements are signed at Moscow between President Nixon and First Secretary Brezhnev. The first is the SALT I treaty, which prohibits both sides from building additional offensive nuclear missiles, and the second is the ABM Treaty, which restricts both sides to only two sites for Anti-Ballistic Missiles with 100 missiles each.

May 28th
United Republic of China and United States troops begin a counter-offensive to retake parts of the Sichuan Province occupied by the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire.

The MID reports to the Netherlands oversight commission that operatives working for the Committee to re-elect the president have burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C.

May 29th
President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev conclude their summit conference with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation.

June 6th
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota wins the Democratic primary in California.

June 9th
Number two Proxima Centauri b spaceyard is completed and is already assigned to begin work on the second Den Helder-class cruiser.

June 13th
Captain Nikolay Grigoryevich Petrov, a GRU secret agent stationed at the Soviet consulate located in Batavia asks for political asylum in the Dutch East Indies. Petrov, who had stolen the equivalent of $900 from his supervisor and then panicked, is relocated to the Netherlands by the MID where he begins supplying detailed information about GRU activities in the Netherlands and DEI.

June 16th
The MID beams a micro canister in the home of security guard Frank Wills (3) which releases a gas that has the effect that Frank Wills will comes down with a flu that will last forty-eight hours.

June 17th
The MID reports to the Netherlands oversight commission that another attempt by operatives working for the Republican Party to break into the Democratic Party's national headquarters has succeeded, and that they were not caught due the intervention they made the previous day.

July 28th
The fifth and sixth freighters the Tellarites have built are handed over to KNRD transport and are given the name RS Eris and RS Ceres. They now join RS Phobos, RS Deimos, RS Komeet, RS Meteoor, RS Halve Maen and RS Volle Mean in transporting cargo between the stars. This leaves only two more transport to be built by the Tellarites.

August 10th
The Tsukuyomi 2 rocket, designed to carry the project Supēsu 719 vehicle into space, explodes on the launch pad on its first test launch.

August 18th
KNRS ER-3, now the oldest spaceship in service with the KNRD, test fires a Mark I photon torpedo in the Alpha Centauri system. The Mark I is a warp-capable tactical matter/antimatter weapon with a range fifty times greater than the Mark-3 spatial torpedoes currently in service and is designed to be used onboard the Holland-class destroyers and the Den Helder-class cruiser which are under construction.

August 21st
The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach re-nominates President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.

August 26th
The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.

September 5th
Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after 8 members of an Arab terrorist group invade the Olympic Village.

October 1th
The Soerabaja-class guided missile cruiser Hr.Ms. Eendracht is commisioned into service by Crown Princess Beatrix.

October 22nd
Operation Linebacker ends. United States warplanes have flown 40,000 sorties and dropped over 125,000 tons of bombs during the bombing campaign which effectively disrupted the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire Easter Offensive (4) and allowed United Republic of China and United States forces to push back the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire back across the Demilitarized Zone into the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan. US and Chinese losses were over five hundred fighters (mostly Chinese) and nearly a hundred bombers shot down. President Nixon is advised that with losses like these, a potential Linebacker II is not advisable.

November 7th
Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide.

November 8th
On behalf of the United Republic of China, United States National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger meets with the Japanese Consul-General in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (5) where they discuss a mutually agreeable term for a ceasefire in the 23 year old China war (6).

November 22th
The last Tromp-class cruiser, Hr.Ms. De Seven Provincien is decommisoned and mothballed.

December 7th
Apollo 17 carrying astronauts Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Center on the seventh lunar landing mission.

December 11th
Apollo 17 lands near Taurus-Littrow.

December 14th
National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger gives an ultimatum to the Japanese-China-Nanking delegation taking part in the cease fire talks in Batavia, threatening "grave consequences" if the Republic of China-Nanking doesn’t return to the negotiating table within 72 hours.

December 18th
The United States air force starts operation linebacker II when the ultimatum for the Republic of China-Nanking to rejoin the cease fire talks in Batavia, despite efforts of the empire of Japan to force them to rejoin the talks, fails. The United States air force orders 129 bombers to bomb targets in the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan.

December 19th
The Apollo 17 command module lands in Pacific waters near recovery ship USS Ticonderoga.

December 20th
President Nixon orders that operation linebacker II to be extended until the Japanese and China-Nanking delegations are willing to resume the cease fire talks in Batavia.

December 22nd
Two days before Christmas, United States Strategic Air Command adds SAM sites and airfields to the target list as part of operation linebacker II.

December 24th
A Christmas Day bombing/tactical air attack recess goes into effect during which no sorties by the USAF to hit targets in the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan are flown.

December 26th
The CIA Special Space Division informs the MID that the NASA timetable for space missions for the years 1973 to 1975 is as follows: Skylab 1, the United States’ first space station which will be launch in 1973 consisting of three separate Apollo missions, Apollo 18 which be the eighth lunar landing mission and will be launched in 1974, Apollo 19 which will be launched in 1975 will be the ninth lunar landing mission and then follows another Apollo mission which will take part in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

With the 48 hour Christmas recess almost passed and operation linebacker II about to resume , the Republic of China-Nanking government notifies Washington that it’s willing to resume cease fire talks together with Japan, but only if the bombings are to stop.

Former United States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.

December 29th
In Batavia the cease fire talks resume between the United States, United Republic of China, Republic of China-Nanking and the Japanese empire.

(1) Delta Station is named this way as this is the place where US navy aircraft carriers patrol, it’s located of the coast of the Republic of the Philippines.

(2) The 1,100 kg meteorite was an event as recorded in the historical files known to the KNRD, and they through the MID informed the CIA Special Space Division that they were not the ones to have anything to do with this event.

(3) The MID decided that if security guard Frank Willis would be sick then he would not discover the break-in that will lead to the Watergate scandal and president Nixon can remain president of the United States and the current relation between the United States and the Netherlands can remain as it is. The MID made sure to notify Nixon that they had dirt on him though in case he decided to get uppity.

(5) This meeting was arranged by the Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs, who offered to act as a neutral(-ish) meditator. 

(6) The Third Sino-Japanese War replaced the Second Sino-Japanese War which began in 1937 and ended in 1949 upon the formation of the United Republic of China, which continuous the fight against both the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire in what western media calls for short the China war or officially the Third Sino-Japanese War. Wills would be sick then he would not discover the break-in that would lead to the Watergate scandal and that since Nixon can remain president of the United States the current relation between the United States and the Netherlands will remain as it is.
They made sure to notify Nixon that they had dirt on him in case he tried anything to disrupt the status quo though.

(4) During the failed offensive, Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese empire suffered an estimated 100,000 military killed or wounded, the United Republic of China suffered an estimated 50,000 killed, wounded or missing, with 6000 of them being United States troops.

[lordroel]

Part 40 1973

January 1st
The United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and the Kingdom of Denmark become the 6th, 7th and 8th member of the European Economic Community.

January 5th
The Netherlands recognizes the German Democratic Republic, having previous only had diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany since it was established in 1955. As the diplomatic equivalent of an “up yours” it still refuses to recognize the Soviet Union as the legal successor of the Russian empire.

January 8th
At the ceasefire talks in Batavia, the Republic of China-Nanking rejects a proposal by the United States for discussions concerning treatment of POWs and a possible exchange.

The Soviet Union launches Luna 21 for a Moon landing, carrying the lunar rover Lunokhod 2.

January 16th
In the Alpha Centauri system, KNRS ER-3 test fires a Mark I photon torpedo with a dummy warhead at the destroyer KNRS Zeeland, which is acting as a dummy target and retrieval ship, to test the guidance system of the torpedo.

The Luna 21 spacecraft lands on the Moon, deploying the lunar rover Lunokhod 2 which begins a radio-controlled exploration of the Moon.

January 17th
Amsterdam becomes the sister city of Xining in the United Republic of China.

Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.

January 20th
President Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.

January 23th
Former Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (1961 to 1969) dies at his Texas ranch.

President Richard Nixon announces that the ceasefire talks between the United States of America, United Republic of China, Republic of China-Nanking and Japan have failed.

January 24th
Commander of the KNRD Willem van Rouwer signs an agreement with the foreign minister of the Andorian Empire to allow the establishment of a Dutch embassy on the Andorian homeworld of Andor (1).

February 2nd
President Richard Nixon states there are no "serious indications that the other two sides are ready to resume the talks”, referring to the Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese Empire being unwilling to talk about the ceasefire.

February 13th
President Nixon announces the United States will resume full-scale bombing over the Republic of China-Nanking controlled province of Sichuan.

February 15th
The Soviet Union launches Prognoz 3 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, to study solar flares.

February 28th
At age 84, rear-admiral Doorman, former Chief of Staff at Den Helder naval base (1934 to 1937), founder and first head of the KNRD (1935 to 1950), dies in his sleep.

March 3rd
The Japanese imperial army receives the last prototype of the Type 8 main battle tank. It is the successor of the Type 6 main battle tank which entered into service with the Japanese imperial army in 1961 and later the tank and armor Units of the Japanese special naval landing force as they were still relying on the Type 4 medium tank, a licenses version of the German Panzer V Puma of which the Japanese bought the rights to produce in 1944.

March 11th
Construction begins on the first of four Marlijn-class cruise missile submarines, the Hr.Ms. Marlijn.

March 18th
At Midway Naval Test Range the research and development team consisting of personnel from the CIA Special Space Division and the United States Air Force begins building the prototype of the S-1 Darkstar space plane(2).

April 4th
The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City.

April 5th
NASA launches Pioneer 11, the backup for Pioneer 10, from Cape Canaveral Space Center on an Atlas-Centaur rocket on a trajectory similar to Pioneer 10.

April 10th
The Hr.Ms. Koningin Wilhelmina is re-commisioned as a helicopter carrier, now carrying 24 KH-2 and KH-3 helicopters and being specialised for anti-submarine warfare. Her place in drydock is now taken by her sister ship Hr.Ms. Koningin Juliana.

April 12th
The French republic and the empire of Vietnam agree to establish liaison offices with each other as France under President Georges Pompidou begins to move towards establishing diplomatic contact with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and away from the ‘French Indochina still belongs to them’ policy.

April 17th
The German counter-terrorism force GSG 9 is officially formed with the goal of preventing a second Munich massacre from ever happening again in West Germany.

May 14th
Skylab space station, the United States' first space station, is launched.

May 18th
United States and United Republic of China troops enter the Sichuan Demilitarized Zone for the first time since the end of the ceasefire talks and engage in a series of firefights with Republic of China-Nanking and Japanese Imperial Army troops, with both sides suffering heavy losses.

May 20th
Orbiting the planet Proxima Centauri b, Nieuw Feijenoord-Rotterdamsche spaceyard reassembly is completed and is renamed number three Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

May 25th
Skylab 2, carrying astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weit and Joseph Kerwin, is launched on a mission to repair damage to the meteoroid shield and solar array system which had been damaged during launch.

Another victory for the royal Democratic Party, who manage to remain the largest party in the Dutch House of Representatives; however Prime Minister Piet de Jong, having served for two terms announces he is stepping down as prime minister of the Netherlands in favor of his deputy PM Willem Bakker, who in turn makes Minister for Overseas Affairs (in charge of the DEI, Suriname and Netherlands Antilles) Karl de Hoop his deputy Prime Minister.

May 27th
On the planet Alpha Centauri XI a Mark I photon torpedo is detonated and causes a blast with a power of 32 megatons as the KNRD conducts its first live detonation of the Mark I photon torpedo.

June 3rd
A Soviet supersonic Tupolev 144, nicknamed Concordski, explodes in flight at the Paris Air Show and crashed into a nearby village, killing the six-man crew and seven people on the ground.

June 13th
The CIA estimates that Japan has a modest, but credible nuclear retaliatory capacity consisting of about 130 nuclear delivery vehicles consisting of either missiles or bombers. These systems have the range to hit US forces and bases in Asia as well as targets in the Soviet Union.

June 30th
Lion Air (front company used by the MID) begins flying its small fleet of Boeing 747s on the route Guyana space centre to Midway Naval Test Range and back, carrying personal and material for the S-1 Darkstar project and for the joint MID-CIA Special Space Division project to create a Nuclear Powered Spaceship, a project so secret, not even the United States Air Force is onboard.

July 5th
Population of all three colonies combined on Proxima Centauri b reaches 20,000(3).

July 15th
On board the destroyer KNRS Holland, a delegation consisting of Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites, observe how KNRS ER-3 fires a Mark I photon torpedo from a range of 750,000 kilometers towards the planet Alpha Centauri XI where the Mark I photon torpedo enters the planet’s atmosphere and detonates with a force of 32 megatons. Seeing this event happening the Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites come to the conclusion that the KNRD has defenitly surpassed them in technology, while the KNRD has given them a unofficial warning “don’t mess with us”.

July 20th
France resumes nuclear tests in Mururoa Atoll, ignoring the protests of Australia and New Zealand.

July 21st
The Soviet Union’s Mars 4 Orbiter braking engine malfunctions and it fails to go into orbit around Mars.

July 22nd
Skylab 2 command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 9.6 km from the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga.

July 23rd
Departing from Schiphol International Airport, Imperial Japanese Airways Flight 404 is hijacked shortly after takeoff by 6 Japanese Red Army members, who order it to land at Batavia International Airport and demand that the Japanese imperial government releases all Japanese Red Army members and their families held by the Kempeitai (Imperial Japanese Army military and secret police).

July 24th
The KNIL special forces battalion (4) storm Imperial Japanese Airways Flight 404, which is parked on a runway at Batavia International Airport, and manage to capture all 6 Japanese Red Army hijackers alive and free the hostages onboard the plane. The Japanese imperial government has steadily refused to release all Japanese Red Army members and their families held by the Kempeitai.

July 26th
The Dutch government refuse the Japanese demand to hand over the 6 Japanese Red Army hijackers now held in a maximum security prison located on Kambangan Island (5) , knowing that if they are handed over they will face the death penalty.

July 28th
Skylab 3, carrying astronauts Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma and Alan Bean, is launched to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard the Skylab space station.

August 7th
The destroyer KNRS Friesland visits the Vulcan monastery of P'Jem located on a planet near the Vulcan-Andorian border where the crew is given instruction by their Vulcan liaison officer onboard on the proper protocols before they are allowed to beam down to visit the monastery.

August 9th
The Soviet Union’s Mars 7 Orbiter and lander fails to enter into orbit around Mars, missing the planet and going into a solar orbit.

August 12th
L3 space yard reassembly at Proxima Centauri b is completed and renamed number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard, receiving its third name change since it was completed with its first being Utopia Planitia space yard before it was renamed L3 space yard after the location in which it was moved and now number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard, being the last of the four shipyards to come online, with only the Proxima Centauri b spacedock to be completed.

August 24th
The Royal Netherlands-Alpha Centauri Police (KNACP) is founded, becoming the official law enforcement and peacekeeping authorities on Proxima Centauri b.

September 18th
West and East Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

September 20th
CIA estimates that a total of 43 Soviet combat divisions are deployed in positions which indicate that they will be used in the early stages of any mayor conflict with the Republic of China-Nanking and the Japanese empire.

September 22nd
Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as United States Secretary of State.

September 25th
The Skylab 3 command module splashed down near the recovery ship USS New Orleans about 300 km southwest of San Diego.

September 27th
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 12, the first manned test flight of the newly-redesigned Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft that is intended to provide greater crew safety in the wake of the Soyuz 11 tragedy.

September 29th
The two cosmonauts onboard the Soyuz 12 land safely in the Soviet Union after having spent two days in space testing the new craft.

October 6th
The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.

October 8th
Israel launches its first counterattack against Egypt, which is unsuccessful. Israelis fear this time it might be their defeat and annihilation.

October 10th
Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States.

October 14th
Responding to Syrian requests for military help in the Golan Heights, Iraq and Jordan send troops.

Prime Minister of Thailand and military dictator Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn is warned by Secretary of State Kissinger, that if a coup happens in the kingdom the United States will not use any troops to support him.

October 20th
Arab oil producers impose a total oil embargo on the United States of America.

October 26th
The war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states backing Egypt and Syria ends.

November 11th
Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored ceasefire accord.

November 10th
With number three Proxima Centauri b shipyard fully manned, construction of the Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor (6) begins. As this new class is only 90 meters long and the shipyard is 300 meters long, it will be used to build two spaceships at once.

November 16th
NASA launches Skylab 4, carrying astronauts Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson, from Cape Canaveral.

December 1st
The United Territory of New Guinea gains self-government from Australia, becoming an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations.

December 6th
House minority leader Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as new vice president to President Nixon, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew who was forced to resign.

December 10th
China-Nanking and India established diplomatic ties, making India one of few nations to have relation with both the Republic of China-Nanking and the United Republic of China.

December 18th
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 13, the second test flight of the redesigned Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft, where they are to perform experiments intended for the failed Salyut space stations from the previous year.

December 20th
Construction of the second Christiaan Huygens-class Surveyor begins at Proxima Centauri b shipyard, and is given the name Anthony Fokker.

December 25th
At Skylab 4, astronauts conduct a seven hour walk in space and photographed the comet Kohoutek.

December 26th
The two cosmonauts on board Soyuz 13 land some 200 km southwest of Karaganda in a heavy snowstorm, but are recovered a few minutes later.

(1) Previously the Andorians have refused to allow the Netherlands to establish a Dutch embassy on Andor but the Chancellor of the Andorian Empire has realized that holding the diplomatic relation with the Netherlands back is only strengthen its main rival, the Confederacy of Vulcan who have diplomatic relations with the Netherlands on all levels, including having liaisons officers serving onboard Dutch spaceships and even having visited Earth, something the Andorians have not been able to do until now But with the signing of the agreement, this might change.

(2) The S-1 Darkstar space plane is heavily based on the X-20 Dyna-Soar program which was canceled in December 1963, but with a little help from the MID, is to begin its first glide tests in 1974, followed by powered flights in 1976 and being operational by 1978.

(3) The population number are: Nieuw Batavia has population of 10,000, Fort Doorman has a population of 7,000, Port Wilhelmina has a population of 3,000 and the Veenhuizen penal settlement, which is not considered a colony, has a population of 2,000 prisoners and a 600 member staff.

(4) The KNIL special forces battalion was founded in 1962 and is part of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army but falls under the operational command of the Royal Netherlands Special Operations Command, who are in charge with overseeing the 1st and 2nd KL special forces regiments, the Royal Netherlands Marines special operations regiment and the Royal Netherlands East Indies army special forces battalion. The Royal Netherlands Special Operations Command ,like the Royal Netherlands engineering corps ,is also used by the royal Netherlands space force to fulfill any military functions needed aboard KNRD vessels or as garrison forces on planets in the Alpha Centauri system.

(5) Kambangan Island is also known as the Alcatraz of the DEI. The island has 9 maximum security prisons, and several of the prisons have the reputation of being among the harshest penal institutions in South East Asia.

(6) The US currently has major forces stationed in the kingdom of Thailand, with the most important components of the force including the Eighth United States Army which has the 2nd and 7th infantry, US Air Forces Thailand, which consists of the Seventh and Thirteenth air force, Marine Forces Thailand which controls the 3rd Marine division and the United States Naval Forces Thailand which operates assets belonging to the Seventh Fleet.

(7) The Christiaan Huygens-class Surveyor will be used for scientific surveys and as this class is not designed for combat, it will have to depend on it’s shields and speed when confronted by a threat. It has enhanced sensor capabilities in line with its primary function, is 90 meters long, has a crew of 28, a deflector shield, one transporter room, a maximum speed of warp 8, 2 phaser arrays and a torpedo bank carrying a total of 12 Mark-3 spatial torpedoes.

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Part 41 1974

January 4th
The first wind tunnel test on the S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 1, a full size model of the S-1 Darkstar space plane, happens at Midway Naval Test Range.

January 12th
The KNRD hands over the shuttles KNRS A1, KNRS A2, KNRS A3 and KNRS A4 to the Royal Netherlands-Alpha Centauri Police for patrolling the Alpha Centauri system.

January 16th
Vietnam hands over control of the Paracel Islands (located in the South China Sea) to China-Nanking, who immediately sends the 1st Zhanjiang special naval landing force (1) toward several of the islands to garrison them. In return China-Nanking will back Vietnam in their claim of the Spratly Islands, which are also claimed by the Philippines, Malaya and Brunei.

January 19th
The first Vietnamese naval infantry (2) troops begin to leave the Paracel Islands as three Imperial Vietnamese Navy frigates begin the boarding of the first Vietnamese naval infantry troops while the first troops belonging to the 1st Zhanjiang special naval landing force take control of the first Paracel Islands when they raise the China-Nanking flag.

February 1st
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya, is declared a federal territory to be governed directly by the Malaysian government.

February 4th
Arab oil producers announce that they will increase supplies of oil to nations that have shown a "positive" attitude toward Arab aspirations.

February 8th
The fourth Skylab mission comes to an end when the Skylab 4 command module lands in the Pacific Ocean near the recovery ship USS New Orleans.

February 16th
With support from the imperial space development agency, the University of Tokyo run institute of space and astronautical science launches their first Kappa 1 sounding rocket with a 50 kilogram satellite called Tansei I onboard, which once in orbit will be used for technology experiments.

February 24th
Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard begins construction on the third Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, which will be named Metius (3).

March 12th
The Soviet Union’s Mars 6 transmits data while entering Mars atmosphere before contact is lost after 224 seconds.

March 17th
Arab oil ministers, with the exception of the Libya’s, announce the end of their oil embargo against the United States.

March 14th
Last of the Tellarites build freighter are delivered to the KNRD transport and are given the names RS Nereid and RS Triton. They will be joining RS Eris, RS Ceres, RS Phobos, RS Deimos, RS Komeet, RS Meteoor and the two Halve Maen-class space freighters, RS Halve Maen and RS Volle Maen, as transports ships in the KNRD.

March 29th
Mariner 10, a robotic space probe operated by NASA, flies past Mercury.

April 2nd
French President Georges Pompidou dies in office. Senate President Alain Poher becomes acting President.

April 3rd
Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu informs the supreme council, the de facto inner cabinet of the Empire of Japan, that he will contact United States President Nixon directly and to arrange a ceasefire in the Sichuan incident (4).

April 4th
Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu calls President Nixon and informs him that all Japanese Imperial Army forces and China-Nanking forces will halt offensive actions in the divided province of Sichuan within the next 24 hours.

April 5th
United States President Nixon orders that all B-52 raids on power facilities, war support facilities, transportation lines, military complexes, fuel storage and air defense installations in the China-Nanking-controlled part of the divided province of Sichuan are halted as Japanese and China-Nanking forces have begun halting offensive actions in the divided province of Sichuan.

April 6th
At Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard, the construction on the fourth and last of the Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor to be build begins. The name Olivier van Noort is chosen for the ship, the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.

April 10th
The second attempted to negotiate a ceasefire begins again in the Batavia by the United States, United Republic of China, China-Nanking and Japan.

April 13th
In Batavia the cease fire delegations belonging to the United States, United Republic of China, China-Nanking and Japan agree that beginning on April 17th there will be in-place a ceasefire, with forces deployed in China-Nanking or United Republic of China-controlled province of Sichuan to hold their positions but are permitted to resupply military materials to the extent necessary to replace items consumed and to stop all military activities in the divided province of Sichuan by ground and air forces, wherever they may be based.

April 17th
Along the Sichuan Demilitarized Zone the guns fall silence, as the in-place ceasefire signed by the United States, United Republic of China, China-Nanking and Japan goes into effect.

April 25th
In Portugal, the Caetano regime's war to preserve colonialism in Africa and its failure to institute democratic reforms results in a coup by members of the armed forces.

May 1st
The Hr.Ms. Koningin Juliana is re-commisioned as a helicopter carrier after having rechieved the same modifications as her sister ship.

May 4th
Fort Janssen, Alpha Centauri VI, reaches a milestone as the people living in or around round the colony reaches the 200 mark.

May 11th
The United States and Japan agree to exchange prisoners of war over to each other who were involved in the fighting in the divided province of Sichuan, which was also a major factor in the failure of the first ceasefire talks in 1973.

May 17th
To prevent the Chrysalis Project, a scientific project for the genetic improvement of the human race to continue, the MID, which has monitored the project, decides to act and beams a company size unit of the 2nd Special Forces regiment from Guyana space centre to the main facility used by the Chrysalis Project to take control of the facility. After that they beam out all the augmented children, geneticists, microbiologists, teachers and other scientists to Guyana space centre and using a spatial charge to destroys the facility.

May 18th
Despite suspecting what happen to the Chrysalis Project, the Indian government decides to cover up the existence of the Project and announces that the explosions which happened the previous day was the nation first nuclear weapons test, codenamed Smiling Buddha.

May 19th
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins the French presidential elections.

May 20th
The Royal Netherlands Navy medical service is placed in charge of augmented children, while the MID begins the long task of interrogation the geneticists, microbiologists, teachers and scientists they captured during the Chrysalis raid.

May 30th
After having conducted tests on some of the augmented children, the head of Royal Netherlands Navy medical service informs the director of the MID that it’s possible to modify their genes to remove their aggressive characteristics and to give them lives in which they will not be a threat to humanity.

June 2nd
In China-Nanking several individuals are sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for writing anti-government pamphlets.

June 4th
Australia's Prime Minister, who has developed a close working relationship with the Governor-General of the DEI tells the Governor-General that an independent Portuguese Timor will be 'an unviable state, and a potential threat to the stability of the region' at a meeting in the Javanese town of Wonosobo. While the Prime Minister recognize the need for an act of self-determination, he considered integration with the DEI to be in Portuguese Timor's best interests.

June 10th
The oversight commission (the Dutch shadow government) orders the MID to move all augmented children to Fort Doorman and to treat them so that they can live a normal livewhile making sure that they are kept under constant surveillance in case something bad might happen.

June 12th
Three USAF C-141 transports planes fly to Nanking, China-Nanking to pick up American POWs while one imperial Japanese army air service Kawasaki Ki-220 long range military transport aircraft is sent to Xining, United Republic of China to pick up Japanese POWs.

June 13th
The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany.

June 19th
President Nixon returns from a 9-day visit to the Middle-East, where he met with leaders of Egypt, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

July 7th
Netherlands beats West Germany 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

July 14th
The United States and Japan agree to remove their forces deployed in the China-Nanking and United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan, while making sure that the Republic of China-Nanking and the United Republic of China limit their forces in the divided province to no more than 100,000 in order to prevent a situation arising in which a side is going to try to take advantage of the cease fire which is in place.

July 22nd
Apollo 18, the eighth lunar landing mission, is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center.

July 27th
Apollo 18, the eighth United States manned Moon expedition, lands in the Tsiolkovskiy crater on the far side of the Moon, the first of the eight lunar landing missions to do so. To communicate with Earth, small communications satellites deployed from Apollo 18’s command/service module are used.

July 29th
The fourth Texel-class runabout enters into service with the KNRD and is given the name KNRS Bonaire.

August 1st
The Apollo 18 command module lands near safely near USS New Orleans, which acts as the recovery ship.

August 4th
After several missions flying out of Nanking, a total of 240 American POW have been returned to the United States, while the Japanese empire have only conducted a couple of flights picking up no more than 100 Japanese POW, mostly pilots belonging to the Imperial Japanese army air service who were captured alive.

August 5th
KNRS Bonaire begins her first mission for the KNRD when she takes onboard 4 augmented children including a four year old boy named Khan Noonien Kaur (5) in the middle of the night, when no reconnaissance satellite from the United States or the Soviet Union are over Guyana space centre, and departs for a three day journey to Fort Doorman.

August 8th
After having traveling for more than three days, KNRS Bonaire arrives in orbit of Proxima Centauri b and beams the 4 augmented children down to the surface where they are placed in the custody of Fort Doorman Naval Hospital, the main military hospital in use by the Dutch military on the planet.

August 15th
The first Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine is commissioned by the Japanese imperial navy.

September 1st
A new Dutch law goes into effect, prohibiting pirate radio from broadcasting in Dutch territorial waters.

September 13th
In responds to the Netherlands holding 6 Japanese Red Army members captive, 3 Red Army members seize the Dutch embassy in Paris, taking the ambassador and ten other people hostage.

September 16th
President Nixon announces a conditional amnesty program for approximately 10,000 China War deserters and draft-evaders now that a ceasefire is in place in the Chinese divided province of Sichuan.

September 19th
In exchange for $600,000 and a flight to a place of their choice, the 3 Japanese Red Army members free the hostages they were holding in the Dutch embassy in Paris after lengthy negotiations .

September 30th
In Portugal, marshal de Spinola resigns as head of state in protest against rushed attempts to dismantle the colonial empire. This includes Portuguese Timor which shares the island of Timor with Netherlands Timor, a part of the Dutch East Indies.

October 15th
With the wind tunnel tests being conducted on S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 1, the Darkstar research and development team begins work on S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 2, which will be used for the glide and drop test of the S-1 Darkstar space plane (6).

November 1st
The UN General Assembly unanimously pass a resolution calling on all states to respect the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus.

November 5th
The Supēsu Ichi (7) spacecraft is successfully launched onboard the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket from the launch site at Uchinoura space center.

November 7th
The Nieuw Batavia Wetenschap (science) Institute opens its doors and is the first institute dedicated to technological research, development of warp propulsion, starship design and transporter technology not based at Guyana space centre, which is the main base of operation for the KNRD on Earth. An important field of study at the institute is the field of Amsterdamkunde, the study of all the technology on the space station Deep Space 1.

November 23rd
President Nixon attends a summit in Vladivostok with premier Brezhnev, where they reach a tentative agreement to limit the number of nuclear weapons.

December 2nd
NASA space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the second in the Pioneer program (after its sister probe Pioneer 10) to fly past the planet Jupiter.

December 4th
Flying from Batavia International Airport, a Martinair aircraft carrying 191 passengers and seven crew members flies into the side of a mountain while on landing approach in Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon, killing everybody onboard.

(1) The 1st Zhanjiang Special Naval Landing Force is one of four Zhanjiang Special Naval Landing Forces deployed out of Zhanjiang naval base, the other four China-Nanking Special Naval Landing Forces are deployed from the Qingdao naval base. The China-Nanking Special Naval Landing Forces are modeled after the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces and are named after the naval base where they deploy from. Each of the eight Special Naval Landing Forces is a battalion-sized force.

(2) The imperial Vietnamese naval infantry, like the China-Nanking special naval landing force is modeled after the Japanese special naval landing force.

(3) The name Metius comes from the Dutch word meten (measuring), and is a very fancy way of saying "measurer" or "surveyor”. It is also the surname of an influential 16th century Dutch astronomer. 

(4) The term Sichuan incident is used by the Japanese government and Japanese media, as the conflict is mostly confined to the divided Chinese province of Sichuan, but it’s also goes by the name China Incident, Japan-China Incident or in rare cases as the Japan-China War.

(5) Khan Noonien Kaur is in a different timeline known by his name Khan Noonien Singh.

(6) The S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 2 is part of the second phase in the S-1 Darkstar space plane program.

(7) The Supēsu ichi is built specifically for this mission, lacking life support systems but having ballast instead. Although it features a heat shield, the shield has holes drilled in it to make sure that the spacecraft is destroyed during reentry. In place of the crew couches measuring equipment that relay telemetry measuring, pressure, vibration, acceleration, temperature, and structural loads have been place onboard the spacecraft instead. 

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Part 42 1975
January 1st
The Dominion of Singapore Army forms the Royal Singapore Guards when two infantry battalions belonging to the royal Singapore Infantry regiment are transferred to its control.

January 11th
Apollo 19, the ninth lunar landing mission, is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center.

Soyuz 17 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4.

January 14th
The House Un-American Activities Committee, created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the United States, gets a name change and will now go by the "House Committee on Internal Security".

January 15th
Portugal grants independence to Angola.

January 16th
Apollo 19, the ninth United States manned Moon expedition, lands at Marius Hills.

January 21st
The Apollo 19 command module lands safely near the recovery ship USS Tripoli.

February 4th
An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale hits the city of Haicheng, State of Manchuria, leaving 10,000 dead.

February 6th
President Nixon asks Congress for $1 billion dollar to be used on reconstruction in the United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan.

February 9th
Soyuz 17 cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev return to Earth after spending one month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.

February 19th
The unmanned Supēsu ni (two) is launched on top of a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket from the launch site at Uchinoura space center in order do a suborbital test of various systems of the 719 spacecraft.

February 20th
Having flown for more than 24 hours the unmanned Supēsu ni spacecraft lands in the Sea of Japan, having successfully tested its heat shield and various spacecraft systems. After being located by an Japanese navy reconnaissance plane, it is brought onboard the imperial Japanese navy Hōshō-class aircraft carrier Taihō.

March 3rd
Agents belonging to the MID arrest four communist Indonesian youngsters who wanted to rent a truck and crash into the gate of the Soestdijk Palace where Queen Juliana resides and to kidnap her so they could force the Dutch government to release a large number of their comrades being held on Kambangan Island, also known as the Alcatraz of the Dutch East Indies.

Construction on the second Space Shuttle for NASA, Columbia (OV-102) begins at Rockwell International’s, California, and is slated to be the first space worthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet.

March 11th
The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt.

March 16th
Mariner 10, a robotic space probe operated by NASA, flies past Mercury for the 3rd time.

March 22nd
The Netherlands wins the 20th Eurovision song contest with the song Ding-a-dong.

April 1st
The Dominion of Singapore Air Force, which was founded in 1968, receives its first batch of four English Electric Lightning jet fighters, which will augment the 24 Hawker Hunters already in service.

April 5th
Former United Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek (1949 to 1972) dies at age 87 in his home in the capital of Xining.

The Soyuz 18A’s first and second core stages fail to separate, which results in the flight being aborted and the crew returns on a suborbital trajectory.

April 6th
The national assembly of the United Republic of China announces that a month of mourning is declared.

April 8th
The first of twelve to be build Kortenaer-class frigate for the Royal Netherlands Navy is laid down at de Schelde in Vlissingen. The class is designed to be a general purpose frigate, able to combat all surface, submarine and aircraft targets in the world.

April 9th
8 people in Japanese Korea who are involved in the Soviet-backed Korean volunteer army are hanged.

April 15th
Proxima Centauri b space dock, last of the large orbital construction which is part of the Proxima Centauri b space yard, is completed.

April 19th
India announces that it has launched its 1st satellite called Aryabhatta from the Soviet Union, using a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle.

May 7th
Despite having some delays in the S-1 Darkstar space plane program, a modified United States air force B-52 Bomber drops the S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 2 glide tests model towards Midway Naval Test Range, where it lands successfully (1).

May 12th
The US operated container ship SS Mayaguez is seized by the Royal Cambodian Navy while still in international sea lanes but which are claimed as territorial waters by Cambodia.

May 13th
The White House announces that Cambodia has seized an American merchant ship, the SS Mayaguez, with 39 crew members in international waters.

May 14th
Surveillance by a US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft indicates that the container ship SS Mayaguez has been moved to Koh Tang, an island approximately fifty miles off the southern coast of Cambodia near the border with Vietnam.

May 15th
Cambodia announces that it will release SS Mayaguez and escort it to international waters (2).

May 23rd
The imperial space development agency of Japan launches the Supēsu San (three) spacecraft on top of a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket with two Uchuunauts (3) onboard into Earth orbit from Uchinoura space center. This makes Japan the third official nation after the Soviet Union and the United States to successfully launch persons into space.

After having flown for more than four hours the Supēsu San capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan where the imperial Japanese navy Hōshō-class aircraft carrier Zuihō recovers the capsule and its two Uchuunauts.

May 24th
The first prototype of the Fokker D-25 Tornado II Jet fighter is rolled out to begin test flights (4). It is the successor of the Fokker D-24 tornado Jet fighter in service with the KLm and 
KNILm since 1953.

May 30th
The European launcher development organization and European space research organization merge to become the European Space Agency, with its members being Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

June 3rd
The first test flight of the Mitsubishi Ki-307 jet fighter begins. It is the newest single-seat close air support and ground-attack fighter aircraft to enter into service with the Japanese Army and as anti-ship fighter aircraft for the land based squadrons of the Japanese Navy.

June 5th
The Suez Canal, closed during Egypt's 1967 war with Israel, is reopened.

June 25th
Mozambique becomes an independent state, ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule.

July 5th
Cape Verde gains independence after five centuries of Portuguese rule.

July 8th
Vice President Ford announces he will seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976.

The four communist Indonesian youngsters who were arrested by the MID on March 3rd are tried and sentenced to up to 6 years imprisonment at Kambangan Island for their attempt to kidnap the Queen of the Netherlands.

July 12th
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.

July 15th
Three United States astronauts blast off onboard Apollo 20, several hours after two Soviet cosmonauts on board Soyuz 19 arrived for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.

July 17th
United States Apollo 20 and the Soviet Soyuz 19 spacecraft’s dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 two nations.

The Japanese Navy begins construction of their first I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiroshima, which will be able to carry 12 SM-1 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, have a displacement of 6,500 tons, a length of 120 meters, a crew of about 100 and a top speed of 22 knots.

July 19th
The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separate.

July 24th
Apollo 20 command module splashed down in the Pacific (5), completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.

July 29th
President Nixon visits the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he pays tribute to the camp's victims.

July 31st
The Colombo Agreement is signed, becoming Asia’s 1st trade agreement between developing countries aimed at promoting intra-regional trade through exchange of mutually agreed concessions by member countries.

August 4th
In Malaya, the Japanese Red Army raids a building that houses the United States, Swedish and Canadian embassies and takes 50 hostages.

August 8th
The imperial Japanese government sends the Red Army the cut-off heads of seven of their comrades and the warning that if the Red Army doesn’t releases it’s hostages, it will send them the heads of their family too.

August 9th
Twenty-four hours after the imperial Japanese government sends their warning to the Japanese Red Army, who still holds 50 hostages, the terrorist decides to release their hostages and to give themselves up to the Malaya police.

August 11th
Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese East Timor abandons the capital Dili following a Timorese democratic union coup and the outbreak of civil war between the Timorese democratic union and the revolutionary front for an independent East Timor.

August 16th
More than 40 augmented children (6) have traveled onboard runabouts to Proxima Centauri b since 1974 and have been placed in the custody of the Nieuw Batavia Military Hospital, leaving only 60 augmented children at Guyana Space Centre who are too young to make the trip to their new home and instead are placed in the care of a foster home in Dutch Guyana which is run by the Royal Netherlands Navy medical service and MID.

August 20th
NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.

August 30th
First KNRD Den Helder-class cruiser starship, KNRS Den Helder is commissioned at Number one Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

The Dutch East Indies government gives out a travel warning to East Timor.

September 12th
The KNRS Den Helder begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

September 17th
First space shuttle orbiter Constitution (7) is rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California.

September 30th
The Soviet aircraft carrier/heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Minsk is launched and is the second of four Kiev-class aircraft carriers/heavy aircraft carrying cruisers.

October 6th
President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet with Dutch Prime Minister Willem Bakker, who informs the President and Secretary of State that the Dutch Government is going to intervene in the East Timor civil war as it considers the civil war a threat to the stability of Netherlands Timor and the region.

October 7th
The KNIL headquarters in Bandung activates War Plan Fuchsia Ruler (now renamed to the far more friendly Operation Timor Tulip) and orders the 5th KNIL infantry division, 2nd KNIL mechanised division, the KNIL Airmobile brigade, KNIL marine brigade and the KNIL 4th Special Forces battalion to take up positions to move across the border of East Timor. This will be the first time the Netherlands goes to war in nearly a century.

October 8th
The KNIL and Royal Dutch Navy begin operation Timor Tulip to restore order in East Timor when the KNIL marine brigade and airmobile begins landing in the city of Dili, protected by a continues air strikes from the KNILm and the aircraft carrier Hr.Ms. Oranje-Nassau of the coast of East Timor, while more than 360 soldiers belonging to the KNIL Special Forces battalion jump out of Fokker F27 Military transport planes into the city of Dili. Despite heavy resistance by the local defenders they are completely overwhelmed by the Dutch Military superiority and the city falls into Dutch hands before a couple of hours.

At the same time the 5th KNIL infantry division and 2nd KNIL mechanised division cross the border of East Timor and begin pushing inland to link up with Dutch troops in Dili.

October 10th
Israel and Egypt sign the Sinai Accord, and borders between the two countries are re-established and shipping through the Suez Canal is opened to Israel.

October 11th
The DEI government announces that they have resorted order in East Timor, after four days of fighting and declare Operation Timor Tulip a success. What they don’t announce is that KNIL forces are still fighting in the country and will continue to do so for weeks afterwards as they struggle to pacify the region.

October 13th
The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution according to which, "having heard the statements of the representatives of Portugal, as the administering power, concerning the military intervention of the armed forces of the Netherlands in Portuguese Timor, calls upon the government of the Netherlands to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory...and recommends that the Security Council take urgent action to protect the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor".

October 14th
The Netherlands, which is not a member of the United Nations, issues a statement, in which they regret the United Nations General Assembly resolution regarding the intervention by its armed forces in Portuguese Timor, but that the Netherlands conducted this intervention in order to end the civil war and the prevent the stability of the Netherlands Timor and the region from being effected. Foreign minister Max van der Stoel is less diplomatic when he slams Portugal's complaint, stating that “criticising us for intervening in the East Timor Civil War is the equivalent of setting a house on fire and then complaining when the firefighters arrive to put it out.” and said he was severely disappointed by the UN’s decision to support them.

October 17th
The first Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Mississippi happens.

October 22nd
The United States vetoes United Nations Security Council resolution 384, which wanted to condemn the Dutch intervention in East Timor, as the United States ambassador to United Nations stated that “the resolution does not mention Portugal who failed to discharge its responsibilities as administering power in preventing the civil war from happening, thereby forcing the Netherlands to act”.

October 30th
Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

November 11th
Angola acquires independence from Portugal.

November 20th
Spain's dictator Francisco Franco dies at the age of 83.

November 22nd
Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Dictator Francisco Franco.

November 24th
At Number three Proxima Centauri b shipyard, the first Christiaan Huygens-class Surveyor, KNRS Christiaan Huygens is completed.

November 30th
A Netherlands-sponsored referendum (8) shows an overwhelming approval for East Timorese independence from Portugal.

December 25th
The Netherlands government announces that it will create the Dutch Transitional Administration in East Timor (9) despite protest from the Portuguese Government who still claim East Timor as its own, and the United Nations who claims that the Netherlands intervened in the affair of a sovereign nation.

December 28th
The Kiev-class aircraft carrier/heavy aircraft carrying cruiser, Kiev is completed and commissioned.

December 30th
With the S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 2 air-drop tests going as planned, the first unmanned flight on a Titan 3C booster, which is going to be done by S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3, is underway at Midway Naval Test Range.

(1) S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 2 glide tests model will conduct some 20 drop and test glides before the Darkstar research and development team is going with the third phase, which is launching a full scale model atop a Titan 3C booster.

(2) The release happens under pressure from the Japanese government who are not willing to go to war with the United States over a merchant ship.

(3) While the Japanese empire used the word uchuu hikoushi, which means astronaut in Japanese, the English use Uchuunaut.

(4) The Fokker D-25 Tornado II Jet fighter is a single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter which also uses the concept of the delta wing seen on the Fokker D-24 Tornado Jet fighter.

(5) The Apollo 20 mission is the last Apollo mission to be conducted in the Apollo program.

(6) The 40 augmented children, after having received medical treatments, are placed in care of selected families and will be raised as somewhat normal children.

(7) Space Shuttle Constitution (orbiter vehicle designation OV-101) is named in honor of the United States' bicentennial celebrations.

(8) The Netherlands sponsored referendum is backed by the United States and Australia.

(9) The Netherlands Transitional Administration in East Timor will be responsible for security and creating a structure for sustainable governance and the rule of law, while also assisting in the drafting of a new constitution and conducting elections in East Timor.

[lordroel]

Part 43 1976

January 6th
Japan performs its eighteenth nuclear test in the Gobi desert

January 8th
Vice-chairmen of the Communist Party of United China, Zhou Enlai, and rumored successor to Prime Minister of the United Republic of China Mao Zedong dies at age 78.

January 10th
The KNRS Den Helder ends her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system and is assigned as the flagship of the 1st Ruimte Eskader together with two Holland-class destroyer and two Wolf-Class corvettes.

January 20th
As part of the Netherlands Transitional Administration in East Timor, the Special Representative of the Netherlands for East Timor announces that a National Consultative Council is to be created who will serve as a forum for East Timorese political and community leaders to advise the Transitional Administrator and discuss policy issues.

January 24th
The KNRS Christiaan Huygens begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

January 30th
At Number one Proxima Centauri b shipyard, construction begins on the first Arnhem-class destroyer (1).

January 21st
Air France and British Airways begin commercial flights with the supersonic Concorde aircraft.

January 31st
Space Shuttle Constitution is taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base to begin operational testing.

February 15th
A total of three taxi-tests are performed with space shuttle orbiter Constitution atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards Air Force Base.

February 26th
The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.

Construction of the fourth Kortenaer-class frigate begins.

February 27th
Western Sahara declares independence.

Prime Minister of the United Republic of China Mao Zedong meets with United States President Richard Nixon, with the main topic on their agenda being the ongoing cease fire in the China war.

February 28th
Spain gives up territories in Sahara but retains its enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.

March 15th
The MID-CIA Special Space Division plan to create a nuclear powered spaceship goes into a new phase when the construction of the first NP-100 begins (2) at an undisclosed location in the United States.

April 5th
James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister on March 13th.

April 7th
The second Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine (3) is commissioned by the Japanese imperial navy.

April 15th
USS Hancock, the last of eleven build Essex-class aircraft carriers, is decommissioned by the US Navy after having served her last years as a training carrier for the United States navy.

April 26th
Pan Am begins non-stop flights between New York and Batavia.

May 5th
The Tamil New Tigers, which was founded in 1972, are renamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Tamil Tigers for short want an independent state in the north and east of Ceylon and are fighting the Royal Ceylon Armed Forces and the British Army in Ceylon to achieve that goal.

May 16th
Joining KNRS Texel, KNRS Aruba, KNRS Vlieland and KNRS Bonaire, the fifth Texel-class runabout KNRS Terschelling is commissioned into service with the KNRD.

May 25th
Vice President Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in Republican presidential primaries held in Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.

June 3rd
The second manned Supēsu flight is launched from Uchinoura space center when the Supēsu yon (four) spacecraft on top of a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket with onboard two Uchuunauts are launched into Earth orbit.

June 4th
The Supēsu yon spacecraft conducts the first spacewalk by Japanese, when one of the two Uchuunauts conducts a 5 minute spacewalk.

June 5th
After spending two days in space, with the highlight of the mission being the first Japanese spacewalk, the Supēsu yon (four) capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan where the Japanese Navy recovers the capsule and its two Uchuunauts.

June 20th
The second D-25 tornado II Jet fighter prototype begins its test flights in the Netherlands.

June 25th
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake kills 442 in Netherlands New Guinea.

June 27th
Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew and order it to fly towards Entebbe, Uganda.

July 4th
From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport.

July 6th
Soyuz 21 carries two cosmonauts to the Salyut 5 space station.

July 15th
Jimmy Carter is nominated for President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City, over Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of former President John F. Kennedy.

July 16th
The Singapore Special Air Service regiment (4) receives the Queen's and regimental colours by minister for defence Dr Goh Keng Swee.

July 20th
The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars in an area which is not near the KNRD operated Mars base Hellas or Mars base Utopia Planitia (4).

July 22nd
The membership of the East Timorese National Consultative Council is expanded to 36 members including one representative from each of the 13 districts of East Timor and the body is renamed the National Council.

On the second largest island which is part of the Midway Naval Test Range ( Eastern Island ), construction begins of a launch facility for the Titan 3C booster which will launch the first unmanned flight of the S-1 Dark Star Test Ship 3.

July 28th
An earthquake flattens Tangshan, China-Nanking, killing 242,769 people and injuring 164,851.

August 6th
Thailand and Vietnam establish diplomatic relations.

The Viking 2 orbiter enters into orbit around Mars.

August 14th
At Number three Proxima Centauri b shipyard, the second Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Anthony Fokker is completed.

Space shuttle orbiter Constitution (OV-101) conducts its first free-flight.

The Netherlands Transitional Administration in East Timor creates the Transitional Cabinet of East Timor, which will consist of four Timorese members and four DEI government officials.

August 18th
Two United States soldiers are killed when they cross the Sichuan Demilitarized Zone and enter the United Republic of China controlled province of Sichuan.

August 19th
Vice President Ford wins the Republican Party's nomination for president over Ronald Reagan.

August 26th
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and a member of the oversight commission (The Netherlands shadow government) since 1937, becomes the new chairman of this powerful and secret organization.

September 3rd
The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Amazonis Planitia on Mars.

September 6th
Taking off from an airfield in the Second East Turkestan republic, a Soviet Air Force pilot lands a MiG-25 jet fighter in the United Republic of China and requests political asylum in the United States.

September 9th
Prime Minister of the United Republic of China (1949-1976) and chairmen of the Communist Party of United China, Mao Zedong dies at 82.

September 10th
The national assembly of the United Republic of China announces that a month of mourning is declared, the second in less than a year time, as the last of the two founders of the United Republic of China passes away.

September 17th
Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Anthony Fokker begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

September 18th
The East Timorese Transitional Cabinet approves the establishment of an East Timor Defense Force, which will be trained and supplied by the KNIL.

October 6th
In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, Vice President Gerald Ford declares that "there is no Japanese domination of China and there never will be under a Ford administration".

October 10th
The governor-general of Japanese Formosa is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.

October 12th
The Communist Party of United China announces that Deng Xiaoping has been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairmen of the Communist Party of United China.

October 15th
The first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole, is held in Houston.

November 2nd
Vice President Gerald Ford defeats Jimmy Carter in the United States presidential election, becoming the 37th President of the United States of America.

November 7th
The national assembly of the United Republic of China votes to make Deng Xiaoping the second Prime Minister of the United Republic of China.

November 23rd
Prime Minister of Thailand and military dictator Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn orders the Thai army to begin sending 26 refugees to Cambodia saying that they are threat to the national security (5).

December 1st
The first Normandy-class amphibious assault ship is commissioned into the United States navy with the USS Normandy being the first of five ships in a new class of general-purpose amphibious assault ships order by the US Navy.

December 7th
The United Nation Security Council endorsed Kurt Waldheim for a 2nd 5-year term as Secretary-General.

December 18th
Hr.Ms. Kortenaer, first of twelve Kortenaer-class frigates. is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.

December 23rd
The Japanese Navy launches the IJN Noshiro, the last of the eleven Chikugo-class destroyer.

(1) The Arnhem-class destroyer is based on the Holland-class destroyer in service with the KNRD. She is 210 meters in length, has a crew of 140, a maximum speed of warp eight, shields, two transporter rooms, a holodeck, front and aft tractor beams, 4 twin-mounted phaser banks, two torpedo banks carrying a total of 48 Mark I photon torpedoes and the ability to carry two B class shuttles or one Texel-class runabout.

(2) The NP-100 will be a 100 meter long nuclear powered CIA Special Space Division funded and operated space ship, with the design and the nuclear engine being provided by the MID.

(3) The Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine which is in service with the Japanese Navy is 98 meters long, weighs 5,500-ton, has a top speed of 25 knots and carries 20 Type 105 submarine-launched homing torpedoes.

(4) The Singapore Special Air Service regiment is the Dominion of Singapore Army newest regiment joining the Royal Singapore infantry regiment, Royal Singapore Guards, Royal Singapore armoured regiment, Royal Singapore artillery regiment and the royal Singapore corps of signals.

(5) The Thai government estimates that about 70,000 refugees are living in Thailand who have escaped from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos since 1949, with 10,000 of them being Cambodians.

[eurowatch]

Jul 16, 2019 16:00:37 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 16, 2019 15:51:15 GMT eurowatch said:

Done With editing. I
-Removed a Whole lot of akward sentence structures, unneceserry commas and misspelled Words.
-Gave the Dutch Navy a new aircraft carrier and took away two of their old ones.
- Changed the fate of the Tromp-class guided missile cruisers from scrapped to being mothballed. (it might just happen that the Netherlands find themselves at war and needs some reinforcements as soon as possible.)
-Had the oversight commision warn the CIA over what might happen if they continued bullying a country With a Space fleet.
-Did some more re-designating (the scout vessels are now corvettes, the Zwarte Pijl attack fighters are now strike fighters, the Den Helder-Class light cruisers are now just cruisers)
-Rewrote the USS Pueblo incident to not make the IJN appear as complete idiots willing to start a fight without reason.
-wondered if the Den Helder-Class should have their name changed to something like the Eendracht-class.

Thanks for the edit eurowatch.

Think the Eendracht name is claimed by the wet navy and thus is not to be used by the space force.

Yes, but the cruiser Hr.Ms. Eendracht is slated to be decommissioned and mothballed, after that the name becomes available.

[lordroel]

Part 44 1977

January 19th
Gerald Ford succeeds Richard Nixon as the 37th President of the United States.

January 21st
President Gerald Ford gives a full pardon to those who evaded the draft during the United States involvement in the China War, the pardon does however not extend to those who were in the military and refused to finish their tour of duty or received a dishonorable discharge.

January 29th
President Gerald Ford is debriefed by the director of the CIA George H. W. Bush concerning matters he was not informed about during his time as Vice-President.

February 1st
The first 650 candidates for the East Timor Defense Force are selected for training by the KNIL, to be done at the KNIL garrison located at Dili, East Timor.

February 2nd
The Dominion of Singapore Air Force receives its last batch of eight English Electric Lightning jet fighters and now has 20 English Electric Lightnings, 24 Hawker Hunters and 16 BAC 167 Strikemasters deployed at Tengah air base. Here the British RAF also operates from with a squadron of Handley Page Victors jet bombers.

February 7th
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 with two cosmonauts on board who will dock with the Salyut 5 space station.

February 9th
The Netherlands-Alpha Centauri Bureau of Statistics hands down a report to KNRD command of the number of people living in the colonies of Proxima Centauri b (28,000) and Alpha Centauri VI (600).

February 27th
Soyuz 24 returns safely back to Earth with it’s two cosmonauts.

March 8th
KNRS Anthony Fokker ends her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system an is assigned to observe the largest inhabited planet in the Trill system which according to the Vulcan Science Directorate are ready to launch their first satellite.

March 9th
At Sasebo naval arsenal in Nagasaki, construction of the second I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine for the Japanese navy begins.

March 13th
Space shuttle orbiter Constitution (OV-101) is ferried atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle carrier aircraft to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where it is mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests.

March 18th
The United States of America places restrictions for its citizens to visits Japan, Manchuria, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mengjiang united autonomous region and China-Nanking.

March 20th
KNRS ER-3, the first warp 4 spaceship ever build for the KNRD, is decommissioned after 26 years in service.

March 26th
The second Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Callenburgh is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.

March 29th
Training of the 650 candidates for the East Timor Defense Force begins in Dili under the watchful eye of KNIL instructors.

April 12th
The third Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Metius is commissioned at Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

April 16th
The third Kortenaer-class frigate (1) Hr.Ms. Van Kinsbergen is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.

May 7th
Third G6 Summit is held at London (France, West Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States and Canada).

May 9th
The KNRS Anthony Fokker arrives at the edge of the Trill system where she will remain for the duration of her surveillance of the Trill system.

May 10th
The KNRS Anthony Fokker launches a Class-5 medium-range probe towards the largest M-class planet in the system where the species known as the Trill are living on.

May 11th
The KNRS Christiaan Huygens arrives at the edge of the Trill system where she rendezvous With the KNRS Anthony Fokker and beams four Vulcan Science Directorate staff on board who will assist the crew with studying the upcoming Trill satellite launch.

May 14th
Five days after having arrived at the edge of the Trill system, the Class-5 medium-range probe orbiting the Trill homeworld detects the launch of the satellite which the crew of the KNRS Anthony Fokker where expected to happen any day now.

May 15th
Dutch crown princess Beatrix and her husband prince Claus visit the DEI.

After retrieving the Class-5 medium-range probe and gathering enough information about the Trill system and witnessing the first launch of a satellite by the Trill homeworld, the KNRS Anthony Fokker begins her journey back towards Proxima Centauri b.

May 21st
The first imperial Japanese navy Yamagumo-class frigates, IJN Yamagumo is launched, which together with her sisters-ships will succeed the two Akizuki-class frigates which were built in 1959.

May 24th
Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Metius begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

May 25th
Prime Minister Willem Bakker and his Deputy Prime Minister Karl de Hoop manage to campaign the Royal Democratic Party to another victory, making the Royal Democratic Party party the longest ruling democratic elected party in the free world, having not lost a election since it managed to become the largest party in the Netherlands in 1936.

June 1st
The United States defense department begins deployment of a warhead capable of destroying Soviet or Japanese missiles in their silos.

June 5th
Marlijn-class cruise missile submarine Hr.Ms. Marlijn is launched.

June 9th
China-Nanking hands over missing-in-action soldiers to United States of America who were lost in the China War.

In Sweden, an international research body declares that an arms race between the US, Soviet Union and Japan is increasing the probability of nuclear war.

June 16th
Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun dies at age 65.

June 29th
The East Timor Defense Force 1st battalion is established.

June 30th
The United Republic of China becomes the eight San Francisco Security Treaty (2) member.

United States President Gerald Ford orders that the B-1 bomber being build for the USAF is to be fully operational before 1979.

July 11th
The second Den Helder-class cruiser, KNRS Den Haag is commissioned at Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

July 14th
The first I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at Kure naval arsenal in Hiroshima is launched by the Japanese Navy.

July 22th
At Midway Naval Test Range the construction of the launch facility for the Titan 3C booster, which will launch the first unmanned flight of a S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3, is completed.

July 27th
The Dominion of Singapore Navy receives two former British operated Type 41 Leopard-class frigates (Leopard and Jaguar), which will join the six Seawolf-class missile gunboats already in service.

July 29th
President Gerald Ford and Prime Minister Willem Bakker meet at Camp David where they discuss topics ranging from the Dutch presences in East Timor, to the joint MID-CIA Special Space Division NP-100 nuclear spaceship project.

Augusts 1st
Construction begins on the second Arnhem-class destroyer at Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

August 11th
An USAF Lockheed C-141 Starlifter transport delivers the S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 (3) to Midway Naval Test Range where it will be placed on top of a Titan 3C booster.

Augusts 15th
The USNS Robert H. Goddard, a missile transport ship used by the Military Sealift Command's Special Mission Program delivers the 42 meter long Titan 3C booster to Midway Island where it will be placed at the launch pad located on Eastern Island.

Augusts 21st
Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu pledges in a Greater East Asia Alliance meeting held in Hanoi, Vietnam, that the Japanese Empire will not stand in the way of the other Greater East Asia Alliance members who want to establish diplomatic relations with nations who are member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Augusts 22nd
The KNRS Den Haag begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

During the last day of the Greater East Asia Alliance meeting in Hanoi, president of China-Nanking Wang Mo-kan tries to convince Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu to place the Mengjiang united autonomous region ruled by Prince Dugursulong under its control. However Prime Minister Kadomatsu refuses and reminds President Wang Mo-kan that Japan decides who rules what and not the China-Nanking.

August 30th
In East Timor, elections for an 88 member Constituent Assembly are held who will prepare a constitution for an independent and democratic East Timor.

August 21st
The first Hayabusa-class tracking ship (4) is commission by the Japanese Navy. The Hayabusa is one of six to be build tracking ships which will be used to track satellites, support the Japanese manned space program and communicate with the intercontinental ballistic missiles used by the Japanese army and navy.

September 7th
United States and Panamanian negotiators fail to come to an agreement for handing over the Panama canal.

September 9th
The leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera orders Panamanian national guard commander Manuel Noriega to activate plan Huele a Quemado (It smells like something's burning) (5).

September 10th
After a coded message on a popular radio show, Panamanian military specialists assault the Panama canal with explosives and rocket launchers, leaving more than 23 people death and more then 325 wounded while the Panama canal suffer major damages.

September 11th
The United States sends additional security to United States installations, which were left alone in the Panama canal attack.

The government of Panama, controlled by Omar Torrijos Herrera, declares in a speech on national television that a state of emergency exits in the country and blames the United States for attacking the Panama Canal as in his words: they don’t want the people of Panama to control what is rightfully theirs.

September 12th
President Gerald Ford plans to dispatch about 3,400 soldiers to reinforce troops already in Panama.

September 13th
Troops loyal to Omar Torrijos Herrera crush a coup attempt by CIA backed Panamanian national guard officers.

September 14th
President Gerald Ford calls on the people of Panama and the Panamanian national guard to overthrow Omar Torrijos Herrera, a day after troops loyal to him managed to prevent a coup attempt by CIA backed Panamanian national guard officers.

September 15th
President Gerald Ford orders the United States armed forces to neutralize the Panamanian national guard, secure the canal, restore democracy and arrest the leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera and Panamanian national guard commander Manuel Noriega who are believed to be the masterminds behind the Panama canal attack.

September 16th
S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 is mated with the Titan 3C booster at its launch pad located at Midway Naval Test Range.

September 17th
The third D-25 tornado II Jet fighter prototype begins its test flights in the Netherlands.

September 18th
The Japanese empire performs its nineteenth nuclear test in the Gobi desert.

September 19th
KNRD command approves the plan to build a new Experimentele Ruimteschip (Experimental Spaceship) which will replace the recently decommissioned KNRS ER-3 and which will also be the first Dutch spaceship to be fitted with a cloaking system.

September 20th
The East Timor Constituent Assembly nominates a transitional Council of Ministers who will consist of a 24 strong council of ministers who will represent the Constituent Assembly and who will become the parliament of East Timor following independence (6).

The United States invasion of Panama happens when airborne elements belonging to the 82nd airborne division, 101st airborne division and other special operations forces air drop in and around Panama City, while United States troops deployed at military installations in Panama move to their assigned objectives, some only a few hundred yards away.

September 21st
The third manned Supēsu flight is launched from Uchinoura space center when the Supēsu Go (Five) spacecraft on top of a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket with two Uchuunauts on board enters into Earth orbit.

September 22nd
RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts is arrested by a unit belonging to the Dienst Speciale Interventies (7) in the city of Utrecht.

S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 is successfully launched atop the Titan 3C booster from its launch pad located at Midway Naval Test Range. After reaching sub-orbit S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 completes one orbit around the Earth before gliding back towards Edwards Air Force Base where it lands.

September 23rd
Nieuw Batavia Wetenschap Institute is given its first major project by the KNRD, which is the building of a cloaking system which will be placed on board the Experimental spaceship the KNRD is going to build.

The deposed leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera is arrested by United States forces leaving only former Panamanian national guard commander Manuel Noriega on the run.

September 25th
After spending four days in space, two days longer then the previous Supēsu Yon mission, the Supēsu Go capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan where the Japanese navy recovers the capsule and its two Uchuunauts.

The country of Panama is secured by United States forces in which 22 United States soldiers and 102 Panamanian national guard soldiers were killed.

September 26th
Using information obtained from arrested RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts, the Dienst Speciale Interventies arrest RAF-terrorists Christof Wackernagel and Gert Schneider in the city of Amsterdam.

September 27th
The first Mitsubishi Ki-206 jet fighter enters into service with the Japanese army air service (8).

September 28th
Former Panamanian national guard commander Manuel Noriega in a radio address somewhere in Panama threatens to begin guerrilla warfare against United States forces in Panama, unless they withdraw from the country immediately.

September 29th
The Soviet space station Salyut 6 is launched into Earth orbit.

October 1st
48 United States army rangers surround former Panamanian National Guard commander Manuel Noriega hiding place somewhere in Panama and after a fire fight between Panamanian national guard troops protecting him and the army rangers, Manuel Noriega is taken into custody and transported to Panama City where he and Omar Torrijos Herrera will be flown to the United States to stand trial for the crimes they have committed.

October 9th
Soyuz 25 is launched to Salyut 6 but returns after failing to dock.

October 15th
The second Normandy-class amphibious assault ship is commissioned into the US Navy and is named USS Gettysburg.

December 1st
The East Timor Defense Force 1st battalion reaches full strength.

December 12th
The last Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor is completed at Number four Proxima Centauri b, and is named KNRS Olivier van Noort.

(1) A Kortenaer-class frigate is armed with eight Marine aanvals missile mark III anti-ship/land-attack missiles (Naval strike missile), one twin Bofors 120 mm gun, 1×8-cell SDI SOM-4 anti-aircraft missile launchers, two twin Mark 9 anti-submarine torpedo launchers and an aft helicopter deck able to accommodate one KH-2 Kolibrie II or KH-3 Falcon helicopter.

(2 ) The San Francisco Security Treaty has its headquarters in the United States city of San Francisco where a secretary-general, with a council of representatives from member nations and an international staff, run it.

(3) While the goal of the S-1 Darkstar space plane program was to get it fully operational in 1978, due to delays, the program is now scheduled to perform its first manned space flight in 1979 and to be fully operational in 1980, when the S-1 Darkstar space plane will be used to used for reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites.

(4) Hayabusa is translated into English as peregrine falcon. The Hayabusa-class tracking ships have been order by the Japanese navy, which will operated them together with the imperial space development agency of Japan.

(5) Plan Huele a Quemado calls for Panamanian military specialist who have infiltrated the United States security cordon posing as farmers and fishermen to assault the canal with explosives and rocket launchers upon leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera’s signal, to be broadcast as a coded message on the program of a popular radio show.

(6) The Dienst Speciale Interventies is the joint operations center for counter-terrorism in the Netherlands and it combines special units from the ministry of defense and ministry of Justice, and includes the Royal Netherlands Special Operations Command, the special security unit of the Royal Marechaussee and SWAT-teams of the police.

(7) The Mitsubishi Ki-206 jet fighter, is entering into service with the imperial Japanese army air service as a single-seat close air support fighter and as anti-ship fighter for the land base squadrons of the imperial Japanese navy air service, where it will be armed with the Type 10 air-to-ship missile.

[eurowatch]

On the naval side, what I am considering is changing it from which direction you had it take:
- mothball the remaining two Tromp-class cruisers and give them two more Soerabaja-class guided missile cruisers (Hr.Ms. Borneo and Jakarta)
- Have the two Koningin Wilhelmina-class light carrier either be rebuilt as helicopter carriers or equipped With Harriers.
- Give them four cruise missile submarines (Marlijn-class)
- Increase the number of frigates under construction so that the Dutch Navy can continue to present a strong front against Japan.

[lordroel]

Jul 18, 2019 16:04:24 GMT eurowatch said:

- Have the two Koningin Wilhelmina-class light carrier either be rebuilt as helicopter carriers or equipped With Harriers.

Have them become helicopter carriers, Harriers will come in a future update.

[lordroel]

Part 45 1978

January 8th
Due to a dispute of ownership of several villages near the border between Laos and Thailand, Thai armed forces enter several villages inside Laos which are claimed as being part of Thailand.

January 9th
Still controlling several villages inside Laos, the Thai armed forces fight artillery and small arms duels with the Laos army.

January 10th
The Soviet Union launches two cosmonauts aboard Soyuz capsule 27 for a rendezvous with space station Salyut 6.

January 11th
Vietnam sends the 2nd Vietnamese Infantry division to Laos to assist the Royal Laos Army.

Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule link up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station.

January 12th
United States Forces Thailand are placed on high alert due the border skirmishes between Laos and Thailand.

Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Olivier van Noort begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

January 13th
A Dutch ministry of defense report states that the East Timor Defense Force has the following equipment in service: 875 AG-37 assault rifles, 75 AG-37 assault rifles equipped with the GW-44 grenade launcher, 75 MG-37 machine guns and 16 RW-3 rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

President Gerald Ford orders the United States Forces Thailand, to supply aid to Thailand, after intelligence indicates that both Vietnam and Japan are aiding Laos in the border skirmishes.

January 14th
Laos and Vietnamese army units attack one of the villages occupied by the Thai army, opening fire with rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons and fighting the Thai troops before being pushed back.

January 15th
At least 100 royal Laotian army troops cross into Thailand and fight hand-to-hand with a Thai border patrol, killing five Thai soldiers and wounding eight.

At number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard and number three Proxima Centauri b shipyard, construction begins on the second and third Arnhem-class destroyers.

January 16th
NASA names 35 candidates to fly on the space shuttle.

US Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger meets with Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu and warns him that the United States will defend Thailand, if the Thai–Laotian Border War escalates into an all-out war.

January 17th
Thai border patrol police captures five Royal Laotian army soldiers who were trying to infiltrate into Thailand. After some integration by the internal security operations command (a Thai military unit devoted to national security) they reveal that they are part of the elite Royal Laos paratroop battalion (1) operated by the Royal Laotian Air Force.

January 18th
Thai forces fight 400 Royal Laotian army troops who have crossed into Thailand.

January 19th
Royal Thai Air Force jet fighters and heavy artillery pound royal Laotian army troops while Thai soldiers attack several Laotian positions, in the battle seventy Thai soldiers are killed and at least 166 injured.

January 20th
Laotian and Thai soldiers clash for about eight hours with mortars, anti-tank cannons and machine guns.

January 21st
During a session of the Greater East Asia Alliance in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Kadomatsu demands that Laos and Vietnam halt all attacks against Thailand at once after he was contacted by President Gerald Ford himself, who urged him to end the Thai–Laotian Border War.

January 23rd
The Thai minister of foreign affairs and the Laos minister of foreign affairs meet in Singapore, where they agree to cease any offensive action against each other and to begin talks relating to the 1,810-kilometres long border between them and to settle ownership of the disputed villages.

January 24th
The Thai-Laos border war ends as agreed by the Laos and the Thailand the previous day.

February 3rd
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the Middle East peace process with President Gerald Ford.

March 2nd
Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia becomes the first person launched into space who is not a citizen of the Soviet Union, United States of America or the Japanese Empire when he together with Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Gubarevand are launched aboard Soyuz 28 towards a rendezvous with space station Salyut 6.

March 5th
The KLm is given 22 Mark-3 spatial torpedoes which will be stored at Volkel air force base to be used by 311 and 312 fighter squadrons, who are equipped with special modified Fokker D-24 tornado M.3 jet fighters (2).

March 10th
Soviet space capsule Soyuz 38 touches down safely in Kazakhstan.

March 22nd
East Timor's Constituent Assembly signs East Timor's first Constitution into force. It is heavily based on the Netherlands own Constitution.

March 24th
At Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard, construction begins of the new Experimentele Ruimteschip (Experimental Spaceship) which will also be the first to be fitted with a cloaking system, currently being built at Nieuw Batavia Wetenschap Institute.

March 26th
Neo Tokyo International Airport, home of Imperial Japanese Airways and Greater Japan Airways and used by Imperial Manchuria Airways, Republic of China Airways, Royal Cambodia Airlines and Air Vietnam, opens for business.

April 14th
East Timorese presidential elections are held with Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, leader of the revolutionary front for an independent East Timor and Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, press secretary of the revolutionary front for an independent East Timor standing as the only two candidates.

April 17th
Nicolau dos Reis Lobato is announced as President-elect of East Timor.

April 18th
The United States Senate votes 68–32 to postpone the turning over of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control with the reason being the short conflict between the United States of America and Panama from September 9th to September 28th 1977.

April 22th
The second Marlijn-class guided missile sumarine is commisioned and is named Hr.Ms. Zeewolf.

April 30th
Missile transport ship USNS Robert H. Goddard, used by the Military Sealift Command's Special Mission Program, delivers a 42 meter long Titan 3C booster to Midway Island, where it will be placed at the launch pad located on Eastern Island and used for the second unmanned flight of the S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3.

May 6th
S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 is mated with the Titan 3C booster at its launch pad located at Midway Naval Test Range and prepared for its second unmanned flight.

May 12th
Second launch of S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 happens atop a Titan 3C booster from its launch pad at Midway Naval Test Range. After reaching sub-orbit, S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 begins its four day mission in which many of her system are tested.

May 16th
S-1 Darkstar Test Ship 3 lands safely at Edwards air force base after having completed its four day unmanned mission with success.

May 20th
With Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Karl de Hoop and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Artha Van Mats attending the inauguration of Nicolau dos Reis Lobato as the first president of the Republic of East Timor, the country becomes an independent state.

May 27th
The Netherlands Transitional Administration in East Timor is with the full independence of East Timor turned into the Netherlands Mission of Support in East Timor. Their mission is to provide assistance to the government of East Timor, to provide interim law enforcement and public security and contribute to the maintenance of East Timor external and internal security.

May 30th
Sixth Texel-class runabout, KNRS Saba joins KNRS Texel, KNRS Aruba, KNRS Vlieland, KNRS Bonaire and KNRS Terschelling in service with the KNRD.

June 15th
Soyuz 29 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6.

June 16th
United States President Gerald Ford and Panamanian President Aristides Royo Sánchez (3) meet in Washington DC, where they discuss matters relating to the Panama Canal crisis from last year and the failed vote in the United States Senate to hand the Panama Canal to Panamanian control.

June 25th
The 1978 FIFA world cup is won by the Netherlands, who wins its second world cup when it defeats Argentina 2-1.

June 27th
Soviet space capsule Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.

June 29th
United States Vice President Nelson Rockefeller begins a trip to the Middle-East.

June 30th
With construction of the nuclear powered spaceship NP-100 well underway, the CIA Special Space Division begins work on the second NP-100, which will be named NP-101.

July 5th
Soviet space capsule Soyuz 30 touches down safely in Kazakhstan with its two-member crew, including the first Polish space traveler major Miroslaw Hermaszewski.

July 18th
United States Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger meets with the Egyptian and Israeli Foreign Ministers at Leeds Castle, England.

July 26th
The naval component of the East Timor defense force is establish when the Netherlands transfer two Balder-class patrol boats (4) from the Royal Netherlands Navy to the East Timor Defense Force.

August 6th
Pope Paul VI dies in Rome.

August 12th
The Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire normalize relations when the Japanese Empire signs the Peace and Friendship Treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow, ending nine years of tense relations between the two superpowers which were the result of the Japanese-Soviet border conflict of 1969.

August 26th
Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.

Sigmund Jahn becomes the first German in space when he blast off aboard the Soviet Soyuz 31.

September 1st
The second Hayabusa-class tracking ship is commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Named Hiyō (Flying Hawk), she joins her sister ship Hayabusa in tracking satellites, supporting the Japanese manned space program and communicating with the intercontinental ballistic missiles used by the Japanese army and Japanese navy.

September 4th
After 31 years of producing the AG-37 assault rifle, Artillerie Inrichtingen in the Dutch city of Delft switches production to the new AG-76 assault rifle.

September 5th
Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and United States Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger begin a secret peace conference in Geneva.

September 6th
An unknown space vessel flying at warp 2 enters the Coridan System, home of the People's Republic of Coridan (5), and flies directly towards Coridan III (the capital planet), where the space vessel hits the planet and explodes, which together with Coridan III’s dilithium deposits results in a fireball that spreads across the planet, killing approximately half a billion Coridanites in a matter of hours and plunging the planet into a new ice age.

With Coridan III in flames and its government having narrowly survived, more than 30 ships enter the Coridan System, take control of Coridan III orbital space yards and stations and force the People's Republic of Coridan government to surrender to the unknown invaders.

September 7th
At the governor of Proxima Centauri b residence at Nieuw Batavia, the ambassador of the Confederacy of Vulcan tells the governor of the events which have happen the past day in the Coridan system and that the Vulcans have lost all contact with the People's Republic of Coridan. Therefore the Vulcans ask to Netherlands if they are able to send some ships to assist the Vulcans in finding out what happened to the People's Republic of Coridan.

The KNRD command orders the 1st Ruimte Eskader, consisting of the cruiser (flagship) KNRS Den Helder, the destroyers KNRS Zeeland and KNRS Groningen and the corvettes KNRS Panter and KNRS Jaguar to find out what happen to the People's Republic of Coridan.

September 13th
The KNRD 1st Ruimte Eskader arrives in the Coridan system and almost at once is fired upon by more than 30 space ships, identified by records available as being of Romulan origin. In the battle, the superior fire power available to the five KNRD ships is enough to destroy twenty-seven Romulan bird of preys except for four of them who manage to retreat to safely, with the five Dutch ships suffering no damage at all.

September 14th
Eight Vulcan cruisers belonging to the Vulcan space force arrive in the Coridan system a day after the KNRD won the Battle of the Coridan system.

The director of the MID briefs the members of the oversight commission regarding the battle of the Coridan system and tells them that this attack by the Romulans was never supposed to have happened at this date, as the history records available to the MID state that the Romulans did attack Coridan III in the year 2155, not in 1978. He concludes the meeting with the grim statement that War Plan Jade Saber is now being activated and Earth itself might be at risk.

The People's Republic of Coridan government, which were held captive onboard a space station orbiting Coridan III, are liberated by the KNRD special forces after the 1st Ruimte Eskader confirmed that all Romulan ships had fled. The Coridan government request the Dutch protect the People's Republic of Coridan due the People's Republic of Coridan space force being mostly wiped out during the Romulan invasion and the resources from the rest of their interstellar empire being stretched thin providing aid to the Coridan homeworld.

September 17th
The Geneva Accords are signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, following twelve days of secret negotiations led by United States Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger in Geneva.

September 18th
The first of the Japanese navy’s Shirane-class cruisers is launched, the IJN Shirane, is launched.

The surveyor KNRS Anthony Fokker arrives in the Coridan system and is ordered to study the remains of the twenty-seven destroyed Romulan bird of preys and the effects of the Romulan attack on Coridan III.

September 23th
As it is highly unlikely that the Romulans will launch a new attack against the Coridan system, the joint Netherlands-Vulcan-Coridan taskforce orbiting Coridan III begins focusing all their attention towards relief efforts on Coridan III.

October 9th
The Netherlands oversight commission comes to the conclusion that a Coridan III type of attack can also happen to Earth and that even with the KNRD capabilities, it is unable to protect Earth as it is unable to keep any vessels in the Sol system for any long period as other nations on Earth could detect them. Therefore the oversight commission comes to the conclusion that it needs allies on Earth beside the United States who can be trusted with the Netherlands’ big secret.

October 15th
Dutch Prime Minister Willem Bakker during a phone conversation with United States President Gerald Ford discuss the idea of informing more countries of the Netherlands big secret, consisting of countries the Netherlands can trust. Prime Minister Willem Bakker suggest that those nations at this time could be the United Kingdom and France, with more to be invited at a later time.

October 16th
Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I, who died after only 33 days of papacy.

October 17th
Prime Minister James Callaghan of the United Kingdom and President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France meet with United States President Gerald Ford and Netherlands Prime Minister Willem Bakker at Camp David, United States, where they are informed about the Netherlands big secret. This comes to a shock to both European leaders as they never have imaged that the Netherlands had this kind of capability and that they have gathered at Camp David to discuss on what they will get and not get now they are in on the secret.

October 18th
On the second day of the secret Camp David negations, Prime Minister Willem Bakker makes it clear to all three heads of states that they can agree with what the Netherlands has to offer, which includes gradually getting access to more technology and getting assistance from the Netherlands in reaching space, up to the point of the Netherlands supplying warp technology to them, or not agreeing and risk of losing a favorable positions with the Netherlands.

October 19th
Speaking privately with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister James Callaghan, at Camp David, Prime Minister Willem Bakker offers to help the French and British in developing an European version of the space shuttle, which with Dutch help can be in service before 1985.

October 20th
Prime Minister Bakker tells President Ford the truth about why the Netherlands is finally allowing more nations into its secret, the reason is about an alien attack on an alien world that killed more than a half billion of its citizens (some details not included) and that Netherlands fears that this kind of attack could also happen against Earth and that the Netherlands has finally come to the conclusion that more allies are needed on Earth beside the United States.

October 21st
At Camp David, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, United States of America, United Kingdom and the French Republic sign the Camp David Accord (6) after three days of secret negotiations.

October 23rd
The Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire exchanged treaty ratification documents in Tokyo, formally ending nine years of tense relations.

October 26th
Hr.Ms. Kortenaer, first of twelve to be build Kortenaer-class frigates is commissioned with the Royal Netherlands Navy.

October 27th
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and United States Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger win the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

October 30th
Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor, KNRS Metius ends her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

November 1st
With the United States knowing a little bit more about the Dutch space program, President Gerald Ford creates the semi–secret United States Space Force Command (USSFC), which will become the main operator for all non-civilian space projects previously conducted by the United States armed forces and NASA, while the CIA Space Division will be absorbed into the United States Space Force Command.

November 10th
The first production example of the D-25 Tornado II Jet fighter rolls out the Fokker plant in the Netherlands with a total of 102 aircraft ordered by the KLm and 48 for the KNILm in the first order to replace the Fokker D-24 tornado M.1 and M.2 jet fighters.

November 17th
The USSFC assumes control of the NP-100 and the S-1 Darkstar project.

November 28th
Clear Air Force Station located in Alaska is selected as the headquarters for the USSFC due its remote location.

December 6th
The Imperial space development agency of Japan launches the fourth manned Supēsu flight from Uchinoura space center when the Supēsu Roku (six) spacecraft on top a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket with, two Uchuunauts on board enters into Earth orbit.

December 10th
In Oslo, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and United States Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger accept the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.

After spending four days in space, the Supēsu Roku capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan where the Japanese Navy recovers the capsule and its crew.

December 14th
The Japanese empire performs its twentieth nuclear test in the Gobi desert.

December 17th
The directors of the General Directorate for External Security (France's external intelligence agency) and the Secret Intelligence Service (British foreign intelligence agency) are given their first Don’t Ask How foreign intelligence briefing (7) by the director of the MID.

December 18th
Tromp-class cruiser Hr.Ms. De Zeven Provinciën is decommissioned and mothballed by the Royal Netherlands Navy, leaving the Tromp-class cruiser Hr.Ms. Eendracht, the four Sumatra-class guided missile cruisers and two Celebes-class helicopter cruisers as their largest missile boats.

December 19th
The United States Space Force Command approves the plan to begin construction of the first manned version of the S-1 Darkstar space plane, which is scheduled to be finishes in late 1979.

December 26th
Due the Coridan Crisis, the Royal Netherlands engineering corps begins upgrading the Phobos weapon platform orbiting Mars, as it is the only automated planetary defense system in the Sol system, while the Callisto communication and observation station on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, will get company of the Callisto weapon base, which will be four times the size of the Phobos weapon platform.

December 27th
United States Space Force Command names the still under construction nuclear powered spaceship NP-100, the Independence with NP-101 to be named Freedom.

(1) The Royal Laos paratroop battalion is based on the Teishin Shudan, a division sized Japanese special forces/airborne unit operated by the Imperial Japanese Army air force.

(2) While the 22 Mark-3 spatial torpedoes will be used by the KLm, the KNRD will remain in charge of maintaining and securing the Mark-3 spatial torpedoes.

(3) Panamanian President Aristides Royo Sánchez was elected in the first free election in Panama since 1968 ater former Leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera was arrested when the United States launched the invasion of Panama.

(4) The two Balder-class patrol boats Oecussi and Atauro are each armed with a 40 mm canon, 3 20mm Oerlikon kanons, 2 depth charge racks and 2 anti-submarine mortars and will be based at Hera Harbour a few kilometers east of Dili where the Royal Netherlands Navy also operates from.

(5) The People's Republic of Coridan is a leading space power, possessing one of the largest known dilithium deposits in explored space, and operates one of the largest starship construction yards in existences, which they fund by selling their dilithium to the Vulcans.

(6) The Camp David Accord terms of the agreements are: the Netherlands will not be required to hand over any technology the Netherlands feels the three countries are not ready for and in return the Netherlands will assist the United States of America, United Kingdom and France in reaching outer space. In return the US, United Kingdom and France will promise to keep the knowledge they will receive a secret and to not reveal the existence of alien life to the public in order to prevent a possible public panic which could result a global catastrophe.

(7) The Don’t Ask How foreign intelligence briefing was negotiated as part of the Camp David Accord, but on the condition that neither the British nor French will ask how the Netherlands got the intelligence in question, thereby giving it the name don’t ask how.

[lordroel]

Part 46 1979

January 1st
The United Republic of China and Tibet establish full diplomatic relations, thereby ending the secret agreement of 1950 in which the United Republic of China allowed Tibet's de facto independence it had enjoyed since 1912.

January 4th
The director of the CIA is given his first Don’t Ask How foreign intelligence briefing.

January 8th
Nanking News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the Republic of China-Nanking reports that a Chinese-Nanking officer of the China-Nanking air force is training at the imperial space development agency of Japan at Tanegashima space center.

The United States advises the shah to get out of Iran.

The KNRS Friesland and KNRS Metius visit the Alpha Onias system which in a different timeline and future would be located near the Romulan Star Empire, the visit by the two KNRD ships is to determine how far or if the Romulan Star Empire has expanded.

January 9th
The head of the imperial space development agency of Japan confirms the Nanking News Agency report that the Republic of China-Nanking will be sending one of their people into space onboard the fifth manned Supēsu Nana (seven) flight, which is to take place this year.

KNRS Metius and KNRS Friesland which are still in the Alpha Onias system, launch a class-10 long range stealth probe towards the center of what is believe the Romulan Star Empire as it is less noticeable than sending spaceships in that system as they might be engage by a hostile Romulan force.

January 10th
The runabout KNRS Saba uses her tractor beam to move the Skylab space station into a higher orbit as a friendly gesture towards the United States of America.

KNRS Friesland and KNRS Metius depart the Alpha Onias system after having launched a class-10 long range stealth probe towards the center of what is believe the Romulan Star Empire.

January 16th
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran flees the country with his family, relocating to Egypt following the advice of the United States.

January 17th
Phase I (study) of the British-French project to build a small space plane begins.

January 18th
The class-10 long range stealth probe launched by KNRS Metius begins sending data it is gathering from the planets of Remus and Romulus, considered the home worlds of the Romulan Star Empire with its first data indicated that the Romulan Star Empire is constructing a large number of ships at the shipyards orbiting Remus.

January 21st
The University of Tokyo-run institute of space and astronautical science launches the Empire of Japan's first X-ray astronomy satellite into space onboard a Tsukuyomi 1 rocket (1) from the launch site at Uchinoura space center.

After three days of gather data, the class-10 long range stealth probe is detected by a patrolling Romulan bird of prey and as a result the class-10 long range stealth probe activates its self-destruct to destroy both itself and the ship that found it, thereby ending the surveillance of the home worlds of the Romulan Star Empire by the KNRD.

January 26th
United States Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller dies at age 70.

January 27th
KNRD command considers sending a strike force after studying some of the data gathered by the class-10 long range stealth probe of the home planets of the Romulan Star Empire as they worry that the large amount of Romulan space activity might be an indication of an attack against the Netherlands holdings in space or its allies.

January 29th
NASA contracts Rockwell International to manufacture three additional Space Shuttle (OV-103, OV-104 and OV-105) which will join space shuttle Constitution (OV-101) and space shuttle Columbia (OV-102) that are already built.

February 10th
The United States Space Force Command starts the space capable missile project with the goal of designing a space capable missile that can be used onboard the Independence-class spaceship (previous know as NP-100 project).

February 11th
Commander of the KNRD rear admiral Jan de Vos meets with Netherlands minister of foreign affairs Claus van der Haak, the governor of Netherlands-Alpha Centauri, ambassador of the Confederacy of Vulcan and the ambassador of the Andorian Empire in Nieuw Batavia where the Vulcan refuses the idea suggested by the Netherlands to send an attack force into the heart of the Romulan Star Empire for reasons they are not willing to disclose, while the Andorian ambassador will only be willing to deploy Andorian ships to a joint defends squadron capable of being deployed at any location the Romulans might attack.

February 12th
At the Netherlands embassy located on Vulcan, the ambassador meets with administrator T’Pro, head of Vulcan High Command, and tells the administrator that they know why the Vulcan don’t what to commit forces to a pre-emptive strike against the Romulan Star Empire and that they will keep it a secret as long as the Vulcans support the Netherlands in other upcoming matters. Administrator T’Pro, knowing that exposing the secret of the Vulcans to the outside word is too great to risk, accepts the proposal in the hopes that the Netherlands will keep the promise, and not expose some of Vulcan’s darkest secrets.

February 30th
The KNRD completes the first Arnhem-class destroyer KNRS Arnhem at Number One Proxima Centauri b shipyard.

March 1st
The United Republic of China and Tibet formally established embassies in Xining (United Republic of China) and Lhasa (Tibet).

March 5th
KNRS Anthony Fokker departs the Coridan system after a couple of months of studying the effects of the Romulan attack on Coridan III and the wreckage left by the Romulan birds of prey with her function being taken over by her sister ship KNRS Olivier van Noort.

March 8th
Space shuttle Columbia (OV-102) is transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale.

March 12th
Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives John Jacob Rhodes (Republican Party) is sworn in as new Vice-President to President Gerald Ford, succeeding Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller after he died in office.

March 13th
By order of the oversight commission (Netherlands shadow government) the MID begins an investigation into the possibility that another nation on Earth (the United States being considered most likely) will develop warp capability before the end of the 1990s.

March 25th
Space shuttle Columbia is delivered to the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida to be made ready for its first launch.

March 26th
The Geneva Accord is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.

March 30th
The KNRS Arnhem is moved from Number one Proxima Centauri b shipyard to Proxima Centauri b spacedock so that the shipyard is free to begin making preparations for building the fourth and last Arnhem-class destroyer.

April 1st
Iran is proclaimed an Islamic Republic following the fall of the Shah.

April 10th
The phrase Netherlands-Romulan War is used for the first time at the KNRD command.

May 3rd
In the general elections held in the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher becomes the country’s first female Prime Minister.

May 4th
Margaret Thatcher is sworn in as United Kingdom’s Prime Minister.

May 8th
The United States department of state gives out a travel warning for Iran.

May 9th
The Netherlands, Vulcans, Andorians and even the Tellarites agree to deploy spaceships to a joint space defends squadron, capable of being deployed wherever a possible attack by a hostile force might occur with the Dutch committing one of its four Holland-class destroyers to this squadron.

May 11th
The United States department reduces the diplomatic staff at the US embassy in Tehran from 120 to 30.

June 7th
United States Space Force Command begins construction of an S-1 Darkstar launch base near Clear Space Force Command station in Alaska.

June 8th
Recently elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is briefed by the director of the Secret Intelligence Service, about things ranging from the Camp David Accord to the Dutch space program.

June 9th
The Third Marlijn-class cruise missile submarine is commisioned as Hr.Ms. Alligator.

June 12th
Launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center, Space Shuttle Columbia reaches an orbital altitude of 307 km on the first orbital flight test (OFT-1).

June 14th
After spending 2 days in space, the Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the first space shuttle test flight and the first manned United States space flight since the end of the last Apollo mission in 1975.

June 15th
Construction on the United States Space Force Command nuclear powered Independence-class spaceship (Independence) enters its last year.

June 16th
The Royal Netherlands engineering corps begin work on the Callisto weapon base on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, in responds to the Coridan Crisis of last year.

June 18th
At Sasebo naval arsenal in Nagasaki, construction of the third I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine for the Japanese imperial navy begins (2).

June 28th
The Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida from California atop the shuttle carrier aircraft.

June 18th
President Gerald Ford and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna which sets a ceiling on long-range bombers and missiles and limits development to only one new land-base missile system for the duration of the treaty.

June 28th
The 5th G6 Summit is held in Rome (France, West Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States and Canada).

June 29th
The 5th G6 Summit ends.

The Soviet space shuttle project, which was started in response to the United States space shuttle program, enters a crisis situation. Now that the United States has launched their first space shuttle into space ahead of their own spacecraft project which began in 1974, the the decision is made to accelerate the project so that the Soviet Union can launch their own space shuttle before 1984, ten years to the date of the start of the Soviet space shuttle program.

June 30th
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, United States President Gerald Ford and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Willem Bakker sign the Space Research and Cooperation Treaty and with it create the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization (3), named after the location it was signed.

July 1st
The Vulcan survey and observation group Aarde (a Vulcan semi-embassy located at Guyana Space Centre) prepares to meet with British and French officials for their first contact.

July 4th
On the Netherlands Antilles island of Bonaire, a Vulcan delegation belonging to the Vulcan survey and observation group Aarde meets with British and French officials for their first contact with the Vulcans.

July 26th
The second Kortenaer-class frigate Hr.Ms. Callenburgh is commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy.

August 8th
The keel of the fourth and last Invincible-class light aircraft carrier is laid down in the United Kingdom (4).

August 15th
On his first visit to another country, United States Vice-President John Jacob Rhodes meets with United Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo in Xining, the capital of the United Republic of China.

August 16th
A S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is delivered onboard a USAF, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft to Midway Naval Test Range, where it will be placed on top a Titan 3C booster and used for the first manned mission of the S-1 Darkstar space plane.

August 20th
The missile transport ship USNS Robert H. Goddard delivers the 42 meter long Titan 3C booster to Midway Island, needed to launch the first manned flight of the S-1 Darkstar Mark I.

The Netherlands oversight commission (shadow government) decides to inform the British Secret Intelligence Service about a high possibility that in the upcoming weeks the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Ceylon will be assassinated by the IRA.

August 22nd
Having received the information from the Secret Intelligence Service who got it from the MID, Prime Minister Thatcher decides to ask the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Ceylon to inspect the British Royal Navy presence in Singapore and Hong Kong, thereby keeping him out of Europe for the time period issued by the MID.

August 25th
Lord Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Ceylon, having accepted the personal request by Prime Minister Thatcher, arrives in Singapore where he will spend two days of inspecting both the British forces in Singapore and the Dominion of Singapore armed forces before heading towards Hong Kong.

August 26th
On his second day in Singapore, Lord Louis visits Singapore naval base (HMNB Singapore) where Tiger-class helicopter cruisers HMS Lion (5) and Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal are berthed.

August 27th
Lord Louis arrives in Hong Kong where he begins his inspection of the British forces in Hong Kong.

The IRA attacks a British convoy in Northern Ireland, killing 18 British soldiers.

August 29th
On his third day in Hong Kong, Lord Louis visits the only British navy base (6) operating in the backyard of China-Nanking, a country which is known to lay claim to Hong Kong as one of two legal successors to the Empire of China (7).

September 5th
United States Space Force Command gives LTV Aerospace the contract for building a space capable missile which will be use as the primary weapon onboard the Independence-class spaceships.

September 12th
KNRD command decides that Mars base Utopia Planitia will be closed and Mars base Hellas will be reduced in size. This is the result of the increase US and Soviet space activity around Mars, which is increase the risk of exposing the Dutch presences on the planet.

September 13th
For the first time since entering into service in 1977, an Imperial Japanese army air service Nakajima G11 Fugaku-Ni ultra-long-range heavy bomber drops an atomic bomb during the Japanese empire twenty-first nuclear tests in the Gobi desert.

September 15th
The destroyer KNRS Arnhem completes her fitting-out at Proxima Centauri b spacedock and begins receiving her crew, who will start preparing the ship for her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

September 20th
The second Shirane-class cruiser, IJN Kurama is launched for the Imperial Japanese Navy

September 24th
The S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is mated with the Titan 3C booster at its launch pad located at Midway Naval Test Range.

September 30th

With a space-suited astronaut at the controls, the first manned S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is successfully launched from Midway Naval Test Range. After reaching sub-orbit, it completes two full earth orbits before gliding back towards Edwards air force base, completing the first manned S-1 Darkstar space flight.

October 18th
From Cape Canaveral Space Center, the space shuttle Columbia launches on its second orbital flight test (OFT-2) and has a crew that consist of one commander and one pilot.

October 20th
The Columbia rendezvous with the Skylab space station and release the Skylab reboost module (8), which will dock to Skylab and boost the station. if needed, to a higher orbit.

October 23rd
After 5 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds in space, the Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the second manned test flight of the space shuttle and completing its first mission with the attaching of the Skylab reboost module onto the space station.

October 30th
KNRS Arnhem departs Proxima Centauri b space dock and begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

November 1st
Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate against the United States support of Israel on November 4th .

November 4th
3,000 Iranian students invade and occupy the United States embassy in Tehran, taking 30 Americans hostages and demand that the United States ends its support of Israel and sends the former Shah of Iran back.

November 5th
Space shuttle Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida from California atop the shuttle carrier aircraft.

November 6th
In response to the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran, President Gerald Ford orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.

November 7th
Robert F. Kennedy (former United States attorney general) and brother of former President John F. Kennedy (1961 to 1969) announces that he will run in the United States presidential election of 1980.

November 8th
President Gerald Ford orders the freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and banks in response to the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran.

November 12th
Eight days into the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran, the United States Navy deploys the supercarriers USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the amphibious assault ship USS Guantánamo Bay and their escorts of the coast of Iran in a show of force towards the new Iranian government, who are supporting the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran and the holding of 30 Americans by the Iranian students.

November 13th
Iranian President Bani Sadr urges Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to end his support for the students occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran and reminds him what happened with Panama two years ago when the United States removed the leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera when he went against the United States.

November 15th
After Iranian President Bani Sadr gets the support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian parliament sets the formal condition that to release the hostages, the United States has to pledge “the United States will not commit itself to the reinstating of the former Shah of Iran to power”, which is the main concern of the new Iranian government.

November 20th
The Ford Administration accepts the Iranian condition, knowing that there is little the US can do about removing the new Iranian government except from invasion, and is informed that the 30 American hostages have been released and flown to the Republic of Turkey, where they will board a plane back to the US.

November 21st
In a phone conversation with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Willem Bakker, President Gerald Ford thanks him for the information provided in the don’t ask how foreign intelligence briefing which were used to end the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran in a short period.

November 22nd
The Ford administration decides to keep the supercarriers USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf for the time being.

November 27th
Hayabusa-class tracking ship Hiyō, belonging to the Japanese Imperial Navy, arrives at Japanese South Sea Mandate (Truk Lagoon), where she will be used to monitor and communicate with the upcoming Supēsu Nana (seven) flight to be launch from Uchinoura space center.

December 4th
The Japanese fifth manned spaceflight is launches from Uchinoura space center when Supēsu Nana on top of a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket reaches Earth orbit with one uchuunaut and a Chinese-Nanking taikonaut (meaning space traveler from China) on board.

December 5th
The Moon Treaty is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and established that the Moon and the other bodies within our solar system are to be the common heritage of mankind.

December 6th
The world premiere for Star Explorer: The Movie is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

After spending two days in space, the Supēsu Nana capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan, where the Japanese Navy recovers the capsule and its crew.

December 8th
Phase I (study) of the joint British-French space project ends and with it the design specifications of the space plane are set, which are: to be capable of launching on top of the successor to the Ariane 1, capable of carrying three astronauts to orbits of up to 800 km altitude, to conduct missions of 15 to 30 days in space and to have a 2,500kg payload in its cargo bay.

December 10th
First contact with the Ferengi Alliance is made when a Ferengi Greko-class scout ship (9) enters the Alpha Centauri system, where it is intercepted by the KNRS Jaguar which escorts the Ferengi scout ship to Proxima Centauri b, capital word of the Alpha Centauri system.

December 11th
The captain of the Ferengi ship meets with the governor of Netherlands-Alpha Centauri after his ship spend 24 hours in orbit of Proxima Centauri b. The captain of the Ferengi ship explains that he is paid by the Ferengi Council (the government of the Ferengi Alliance) to find planets to trade with and to purchases better warp technology, which he will bring back to Ferenginar and receive a large amount of gold-pressed latinum for.

December 23rd
In the aftermath of the hostage crisis in Iran, the Ford Doctrine is proclaimed by President Gerald Ford, which states that because of its oil fields, the Persian Gulf area is of vital interest to the United States, and that any outside attempt to gain control in the area will be "repelled by use of any means necessary, including military force”.

December 24th
The European Space Agency’s first successful launch of its Ariane 1 orbital launch vehicle happens from French Guiana Space Centre.

The Soviet leadership in the Soviet Union, believing that if the United States can send their aircraft carriers thousands of kilometers from its territory to defend its interests, why should the Soviet Union not be able to defend its positions in neighboring Afghanistan and begins sending troops into Afghanistan.

December 25th
Large numbers of Soviet airborne forces joinstationed ground troops and began to land in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

After two weeks of discussions the Netherlands government decides to send KNRS Den Haag to Ferenginar, homeworld of the Ferengi and the seat of government for the Ferengi Alliance. There it will establish formal relations with the Ferengi Alliance on behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
As the Ferengi Greko-class scout ship can only reach a warp speed of two compared to a Den Helder-Class cruiser warp speed of eight, the captain of the Ferengi Greko-class scout ship will accomplish the Dutch delegation to Ferenginar.

December 26th
President Gerald Ford is briefed by the director of the CIA, George H. W. Bush, concerning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and if the CIA must warn Afghan President Amin, as according to information provided in the don’t ask how foreign intelligence briefings held by the MID, President Amin’s life is in danger. However President Gerald Ford has other plans and wants to use the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a way to draw them into their own version of the China War.

December 27th
Soviet KGB agents in Afghan uniforms storm the Afghan presidential palace and kill Afghan President Amin and around 200 of his guards.

December 28th
KNRS Den Haag begins her journey towards Ferenginar, which will take no more than eight days compared to the 3 months the Ferengi ship took to reach the Alpha Centauri system.

December 29th
Work on phase II (pre-development) of the British-French space project begins.

(1) While the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket is used for the manned Japanese space program, the smaller Tsukuyomi 1 rocket is used for satellite delivery.

(2) The third I-600-class submarine will join the already in service I-600 and the still under construction I-601 as the main ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarines for the Japanese Imperial Navy and are armed with 12 SM-1 submarine-launched ballistic missiles will be mostly used to patrol in attacking range of the US.

(3) The Space Research and Cooperation Treaty was negotiated after the signing of Camp David Accord by the four nations and sees them collaborating in programs including enhancement and production of space rocket systems, joint research, scientific and technological programs and forms the agreement of the creation of the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization which is based on the United States-Netherlands Space Cooperation Group founded in 1970, and will see all four nations benefit from the Netherlands space program, without the Netherlands having to hand over warp or advanced military technology to them.

(4) The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom operates two aircraft carriers of the Audacious-class (HMS Ark Royal and HMS Eagle), Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carriers (HMS Bulwark, HMS Elephant, HMS Hermes and HMS Arrogant) which are going to be replace by the four Invincible-class light aircraft carriers, with the two Audacious-class aircraft carriers, which are still capable of another 10 years of service thanks to refits in the late 1960s, to be replaced by a yet to be designed light aircraft carrier.

(4) The Royal Navy operates three Tiger-class helicopter cruisers, which are HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Blake.

(5) Hong Kong is the home of the British Forces in Hong Kong which is made up of the Royal Navy which consist of the Hong Kong frigate squadron, 6th patrol craft squadron and the 6th mine countermeasure squadron, the British army which is made up of four infantry battalions and the Royal Air Force which has one fighter squadron and one helicopter squadron operating from the two RAF airfields located in the colony.

(7) The other claiming to own Hong Kong is the United Republic of China which unlike the Republic of China-Nanking ,which is considered a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, doesn’t make much noise about it due it being a landlocked country and an ally of both the US and United Kingdom.

(8) The Skylab reboost module will be attached to the Skylab space station and if needed can boost the space station into a higher orbit and with it NASA can keep the Skylab space station a higher orbit for more than five years without having to rely on the KNRD to do it again.

(9) The Greko-class scout ship are named after Greko, a male Ferengi who bought a warp drive from the Breen and brought it home to Ferenginar, thereby allowing the Ferengi Alliance to begin building spaceships. They named the first warp capable spaceship after Greko after he bribed the Ferengi official in charge to do so.