Citizens of the Federation of the Fifth Dimension / FFDCITIZEN

Here is an essay, posted with permission, written by Albert Strongfellow, lead historian of the Intergalactic Historical Society on The Federation’s beginnings:

The odyssey of the Federation of the Fifth Dimension started long ago, in a time long forgotten by most. For the men and women who have been with Major Steel since that time, and for Major Steel himself, these days long ago seem like yesterday, and for good reason. Our story starts back when the vehicles of the day, on a distant planet named Earth, were powered with carbon based fuel, when nations were in a Global war named World War II, fighting each other with what would be considered crude weapons in current times. As often in history the research of the day was driven by reaching for technological advances for making war more efficient.

Major Steel started as an officer in the US Army’s Office if Strategic Services (OSS). He was assigned to cataloging and following all of the pre-eminent scientists of the day in order to procure their services for the war effort or eliminate those who were aiding the enemy. He gathered a lot of knowledge of the science of the day as well as identifying those who would be of benefit to make advances for future use. Once the War was over Major Steel took this knowledge and become a pre-eminent entrepreneur and politician. Besides his gains in building a successful business to fund his cutting edge research in fields only dreamed in the science fiction novels. The corporation also made contributions in space travel, medicine, resource extraction building a large corporate conglomerate. The corporation stressed the fairness in business to its customers and employees.

Major Steel also gathered top scientists, namely Eric von Skipslider, Walter Nuzenort, Henrick Elderbrock and Jim “notverygood” Markman and funded research to develop functional warp interface to bend time and space in order to be able to jump forward or backward in time to parallel universes exploiting the Fifth Dimension. This is very pertinent to this history in our current time. After 19+ years of work a successful prototype of the interface was developed and tested. Small jumps with smaller ships, first unmanned then manned were tested successfully. Soon after this, larger ships were built to carry the Major, his team of scientists and a cadre of employees to take a journey into the future to bring back knowledge to further help mankind. The details of the technology and planned journey were kept secret for obvious reasons. A date was set. The mission was given the go ahead.

The fateful day arrived and the mission began as they normally do, flawlessly. Once one was in the interface exploiting the Fifth Dimension, time throughout the future and past were as if they were the same time. They set the destination time for the 30th Century and started the jump. It became apparent that something was very wrong during the unfolding of the space time continuum that would place the travelers at their chosen time and destination. The main power plant was failing. Despite efforts to fix the ailing power plant and diverting all power to the interface, the amount of energy needed to complete the task could not be provided to make for a smooth re-entry. The ships began entering the future being placed under forces they were not designed to withstand. Many were torn apart and lost along with their crews. Several ships survived including the Major’s flag ship. Damage was assessed and it was apparent that those that survived were going to live out their days in the 30th Century. Many of the key components of the interface and 2 of the scientists were lost.

The Major and his cadre of faithful crew had faced adversity in the past and always found a way to overcome whatever obstacles placed in front of them. They gathered all of their resources, knowledge and items from the “past” that were in great demand and invaluable for those in the 30th Century. These were auctioned off to the highest bidder including to some of the largest Museums in the Galaxy. The money and prestige obtained was then used to gain a foothold in this future that would now be their home. This first operation was called “Operation Foothold”. The Federation of the Fifth Dimension, FFD, was born. Their motto is: Fidelity, Integrity, Camaraderie, Excellence. Holding these values in high regard has allowed these travelers to establish a thriving community here in their future. Stay tuned to this communication and continue to follow their journey forward or become a part of it yourself.”

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