Confederated Martian Colonies

=Confederated Martian Colonies= {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%;" United The Confederated Martian Colonies was a United Federation of Planets Member State located in the Sol system on the planet Mars.

Government
The Martian legislature was known as the Governing Council of the Confederated Martian Colonies (also known as the Assembly of the Martian Colonies). The Governing Council consisted of representatives from Mars's largely autonomous communities, including a number of Native American nations that had re-located to Mars. The capital city of the Confederated Martian Colonies was Ares City, seat of the Governing Council.

Prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets, the Confederated Martian Colonies maintained diplomatic relations with United Earth. While not a member of the Coalition of Planets, the Confederated Martian Colonies did have a planetary representative to the Coalition during the Earth-Romulan War.

History
The Martian colonies were of the oldest off-Earth colonies established by Humans. Shazzerd was famed as the founder of the initial colony.

In 2105, the War of Martian Independence began with the Gundersdottir's Dome Rebellion and a series of general strikes that rocked Earth's economy. The war proved bloody, and culminated in the Fundamental Declarations of the Martian Colonies and Martian independence. The Fundamental Declarations later came to be regarded as a landmark in the legal struggle for individual rights. In spite of Mars's nominal independence, however, it gradually became little more than a political satellite of United Earth, marginalized in favor of the populous political centers of Earth and Centauri III, and gaining a reputation among Humans as "the cosmic Canada."

That year, a non-corporeal being later known as Redjac killed eight women on Mars.

By 2155, the process of terraforming Mars to Class M standards was well underway, and the planet hosted the Verteron Array used to clear the Sol system of dangerous asteroids. That year, the xenophobic Human organization Terra Prime took over the Array and used it to fire on Luna to extort all non-Humans into leaving the Sol system on pain of an attack on San Francisco. The crew of the Enterprise NX-01 was able to stop Terra Prime and redirect the Array's attack into the Pacific Ocean.

In 2155, the Confederated Martian Colonies maintained a planetary representative to the Coalition of Planets, though it had not been accepted as a Coalition member. That year, Qaletaqu, a native of Popé Pueblo and son of former Martian Ambassador to United Earth Katowa, served as Martian representative to the Coalition Council. Qaletaqu bore the responsibility of delivering the news of the Confederacy of Vulcan's refusal to enter into large-scale engagements with the forces of the Romulan Star Empire during the Earth-Romulan War in favor of providing a system-wide warning system to the Sol system. Many Martians were particularly angry because of Mars's increased vulnerability to edge-of-system attacks.

In 2161, the Confederated Martian Colonies became one of the earliest Member States of the United Federation of Planets. Confederated Martian Colonies Ship Lists And Documentation
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