The Real Eugenics War

[MichaelJCO 0]

I have devoured volumes 1 and 2 of the Eugenics Wars by Greg Cox.While

the story is engrossing and well-written I still have a pet-peeve.The

Eugenics Wars have always before(in the original series episode Space

Seed,Star Trek II :The Wrath of Khan,and other novelizations) been

presented as a world-wide conflict that caused major damage.Khan and

the eugenic supermen were well known figures and their reign was very

public.I realize Cox has tried to blend the OTL history of the 1990's

with Star Trek-but its pretty clear the world of Star Trek has some

major differences from where our world is today(non-withstanding a

future nuclear war in the 2050's).Does anyone have any ideas for a

timeline where the Eugenics Wars are a public event? Heres a brief one

I came up with.

 

The Eugenics Wars-A Brief History

 

April 30th 1991-A young charismatic man named Khan Noonien Singh is

elected to India's parliment.

 

September 7,1992-This is the date that has come to be accepted as the

day the Eugenics Wars began.China ,under the leadership of a eugenic

superman Chairman Hikaru Minsei,attacked Taiwan with the stated goal

of bringing order and evoultion to its most important "lost" province.

 

April 20,1993- On this day 41 African,Asian and Middle Eastern nations

lead by the young eugenic supermen formed the Great Khanate of Nations

with Khan Noonien Singh of India as the titular leader.The experience

of the people of these nations varied wildly from the essentially

peaceful rule of Khan in India to the food rationing and forced

selective breeding in Minsei's China to outright genocidal killings in

General Muhammad Hasan's Iran.

 

September 28,1993 The Great Khanate attacks Australia and New Zealand

with the stated goal of" bringing genetic order to the West".Great

Britian,South Africa and Japan declare war on the Great Khanate the

following day.

 

May 4 ,1994 Shocked by the surrender of Australia and New Zealand the

previous day France , Germany and Italy declare war on the Great

Khanate.

 

June 1 ,1994 President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in

the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply

the anti-Khanate alliance.

 

June 22,1994 San Diego, California-USA,Tel Aviv,Israel and Seoul,

South Korea are hit by nuclear weapons as the Great Khanate declares

war on those 3 nations.Those 3 nations and several others (including

Canada and Mexico) follow suit the next day.

 

May 14-15,1995 The Battle of the Sea of Japan is fought.This battle is

acknowledged as the turning point of the Eugenics Wars as the

resulting allied victory fractures the Great Khanate into waring blocs

of nations.The American aircraft carrrier U.S.S Enterprise-CVN 65 is

destroyed in this battle.

 

October 1 ,1996 The Eugenics Wars end as Khan and his cadre of eugenic

supermen are presumed killed in the battle to liberate

Sydney,Australia- where they had held out in a last stand.Chairman

Minsei signed an unconditional surrender document in Beijing, China.

 

September 27,1997 Chairman Minsei,General Hasan and 59 other surviving

eugenic supermen are put on trial at the International Military

Tribunal in Paris ,France.This is the 1st such trial since the

1945-1948 trials of German and Japansese WWII leaders.Minsei,Hasan and

the rest were convicted and executed for crimes against humanity and

peace the following year.

 

August 11,1999 Historian and author Travis Mitchell claims in his

seminal work- The Eugenics War that there is next to no evidence that

Khan Singh and his clique of eugenic supermen were killed in the

liberation of Sydney on October 1,1996.Mitchell puts forth the widely

unaccepted theory that Khan and his people escaped death and

punishment on a DY-100 vessel launched from a samll Indonesian island

that same day.

 

 

GK-slang for a memeber of the Great Khanate alliance or army.

 

normal-a slur used by the eugenic supermen for non-enginerred humans.

 

 

Below are the 2 major alliances during the Eugenics Wars of 1992-1996

 

 

The Great Khanate of Nations 1993-1996

 

Afghanistan

Algeria

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Burundi

Brunei

Cambodia

Chad

China

Cameroon

Congo

Egypt

Eritrea

Gabon

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

North Korea

Kuwait

Laos

Lebanon

Libya

Malaysia

Mali

Mongolia

Morocco

Myanmar

Nepal

Niger

Oman

Pakistan

Qatar

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Somalia

Sri Lanka

Syria

Tajkistan

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkmenistan

Uganda

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yemen

 

The Democratic Alliance 1993-1996

 

Australia

Angola

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Democratic Republic of Congo

Denmark

Djibouti

Ethiopia

France

Germany

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

South Korea

Liberia

Mauritana

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

Philippines

Russia

Senegal

Singapore

South Africa

Taiwan

Tanzania

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States of America

Venezuela

Zambia

 

 

 

 

 

Li Quan (General) 1961-1995

 

When one thinks of the Eugenics War the name Khan Singh usually

springs to mind.Its becoming more evident that the "power behind the

throne" in the Great Khanate was General Li Quan.Li Quan was first

noticed as the brilliant eugenic Chinese general who lead the

campaign against Taiwan in September-October 1992 at Chairman Minseis

behest.Once the command structure of the Khanate was established in

1993 Li Quan quickly became the leading general.Quan argued

forcefully for an "East then West " military strategy for the

Khanate.The nations conquered first would be South Korea,Japan,the

Philippines,Singapore.Once the Khanate had firmly controlled East

Asia it could then move West striking out at

Australia,Turkey,Israel ,South Africa and eventually Russia, Europe

and the United States.Quan was overruled by Khan Singh who was eager

to bring the "order of the Khanate" to the West.Quan was against the

campaign but he lead the invasion of Australia with vigor.Despite the

huge loss of manpower and resources the Khanate captured the Pacific

superpower in only 7 months.After Australia and New Zealand's

surrender in May 1994 Quan clamored for a focus on South Korea and

Japan but was again overruled by Khan Singh and General Muhammad

Hasan of Iran who both wanted a worldwide front.Quan cringed at the

decision to attack the United States and Israel along with South

Korea in June 1994.He privately said "Khan Singh is determined that

we will win the world,even if were are defeated doing so".Quan threw

himself into the South Korea campaign and that nation was conquered

in less than 3 months.Quan's hoped for invasion of Japan was again

held up when General Hasan fumbled the invasion of Turkey in October

1994.The Great Khanate had to divert nearly half its army to Syria

and Iraq to prevent a total catastrophe.Li Quan always displayed a

balance of thoughtfulness and ruthlessness.He successfully argued

against General Hasans desire for an all out nuclear exchange with

Israel after it nuked Tehran in retaliation for Tel Aviv noting"Once

we conquer the world we will still have to live in it".However his

campaign in South Korea was brutal and civilian causalities were

high.Li Quan had always argued that the Khanate was overextending

itself but the arrogance of Khan Singh,Hasan and others on the

command staff didnt allow them to believe that their superior lot

could ever be defeated by a pack of weakling normals.It's ironic that

Quan ultimately lost his life in the fight he had longed for the

whole time he lead the Khanate forces-the Battle of the Sea of

Japan.That defeat did more that save Japan from invasion but

fractured the Khanate into several warring camps who either wanted to

stop the expansion and consolidate their current holdings or continue

to expand.This infighting created a valuable opening for the

Democratic Alliance and the Khanate was destroyed a year and a half

after that pivotal battle.What if Khan Singh had swallowed his

enormous pride and listened to the sound military advice of General

Li Quan?Scary thought but it would make a good book.

 

Travis Mitchell

The History Journal

April 10,2000

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From: DanielSBen1 (danielsben1@aol.comupdown)

Subject: Re: The Real Eugenics War

 

 

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To: Michael E. Johnson,

 

I apologize for "intruding" into your own (quite fascinating) story about the

"real" eugenics war, but i think i've come up with a few more things that fit

in and could easily be added to the timeline:

 

October 20, 1991: General Muhammed Hassan's Revolutionary Islamic Genesis

Movement overthrows Ayatollah Khatami in Iran. He begins mass genocide of

native Turks, Assyrians, Armenians, Christians, and Zoroastrians in his

country.

 

May 6, 1992: Saddam Hussein's Iraq declares "total union" with Iran. Later

historians would compare this with Anschluss, the union of Nazi Germany and

Austria in 1936.

 

September 7, 1992: When Minsei's China attacks Taiwan, it simultaneously

annexes Hong Kong and Macao.

 

January 15, 1994: The United Nations dissolves following the withdrawl of all

Khanate nations and the assasination of the UN Secretary-General.

 

June 23, 1994: United States detonates nuclear weapons in New Delhi, Beijing,

and

Riyadh in retaliation for the nuclear strike on San Diego.

 

July 5, 1995: Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks lead U.S. forces in

the invasion of the Arabian Peninsula. This ties up General Hassan's troops,

allowing the Israelis to end the bloody Jerusalem siege and win the battle of

Damascus on August 21.

 

November 1996: due to his unwillingness to help the "Democratic Alliance" in

battle until San Diego was an atomic slag pile, Bill Clinton loses the election

to Bob Dole and Colin Powell.

 

-DanielSBen1

 

 

Daniel ,thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about

the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United

Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were

replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of

the Khanate nations

.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San

Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given

the past events I had in mind for this ATL.Suppose in the Star Trek

ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was

worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was

still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist

bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.The

Third world would have been much more neglected as the United States

and Russia wouldnt have struggled for their support as much as in

OTL.Nations in this world would probably have been poorer,less

stable, more isolationist and more violent.This would have been a

fertile ground for the group of scientists who,according to McCoy,

were responsible for creating the eugenic supermen.They felt they were

saving the world by creating superior humans who would bring order.In

this world jumping to defense of other nations,even who had your same

values, wouuldnt have always been the natural thing to do.In this

light Clinton(and Georege HW Bush)keeping the United States out of the

war until the US was attacked would have been the same thing that

Roosevelt did in the 1940's.The idea of attacking another country to

liberate its people or because a country is a danger to the world or

is a threat to its own people is an idea that took hold in United

States (to the horror of many conservatives) when in the aftermath of

WWII we became internationalist by joining the UN and other world

organizations and treaties.If that comittment wasnt the same in this

ATL ,the way the United States and other nations would behave would be

different

 

 

From: DanielSBen1 (danielsben1@aol.comupdown)

Subject: Re: The Real Eugenics War

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Date: 2003-04-11 13:35:28 PST

 

 

 

 

Intresting. I wonder, everyone here started developing this timeline, it would,

eventually, end up as a complete Alternate History! perhaps from 1940 to 2050,

starting with rather minor differences in the 1940's, like a German victory in

Brest-Livotsk prolonging the war on the Eastern Front by 3 months, to gaping

differences by today. something that would still fit in the Star Trek universe

we know and love, but still be different. anyway, here are a handful of

additional events:

 

1950-1960's: Project Chrysalis, a secretive group of scientists (not unlike the

Chrysalis in the "eugenics war" books), develops about 100 genetically

engineered children of all racial and cultural groups, using bases located

largely in third world countries.

 

January 20, 1973: Richard Nixon's second inauguration speech introduces the

Ares Program, a potential manned mission to Mars.

 

October 1979: After Ares I, a test mission that made Martian orbit but did not

land, Congress cancels the program due to a fiscal crisis.

 

October 29, 1993: Russia declares war on the Khanate after they are found to

support a Chechen rebellion.

 

January 12, 1994: Dijibouti is conquered by the Khanate, cutting off all

seaborn access to Ethiopia to attempt to starve the nation into submission.

 

December 26, 1995: in a chilly Christmas battle, the Russian army defeats

Minsei's forces at the battle of Ulaanbataar.

 

February 10, 1996: D-Day for British/Japanese/Filipino/American/Brazillian

forces in the liberation of Taiwan.

 

July 29, 1996: Russian, American, Turkish, and Israeli forces meet to defeat

Hassan's army in the battle of Tabriz.

 

September 2, 1996: Taiwan liberated. plans are drawn up for an invasion of

Mainland China from the sea and through Korea, to assist the southward-moving

Russian army. This plan is never activated after all Khanate forces surrender.

 

April 12, 2030: the daughter of Travis Mitchell, Cynthia Mitchell, marries

Corinth Mayweather. :blink:

 

-DanielSBen1