Miri

History

According to the history of the inhabitants which has taken extensive research and investigation to confirm, the original settlers were a mix of genetically enhanced and normal humans. Refugees from the Eugenic Wars. No documentation remains with information on the numbers of settlers or the transport ships used but it is believed that this occured dureing Earth's first colonization wave into outer space.

These colonists were isolationists who violently repulsed the first attempt to contact them by a later expedition from Earth, and so no further contact was attempted. As it turned out, the Ophiucus system was in a "backwater" part of the galaxy that subsequent years of Earth-based space exploration passed by, and so the belligerent colony was easily ignored and almost forgotten.

Around 300 years before the events shown in the Miri File, scientists on Ophiucus IV developed the experimental life-prolongation project that resulted in the deaths of every adult on the planet. It is believed that this project was a continuation of one started on Earth. This would explain why they traveled so far from Earth before establishing the colony and why they violently repulsed Earth's first attempt at contact years later.

Over the following 300 years most of the records were either destroyed by the children who survived or allowed to deteriorate.

With the arrival of the USS Enteprise and her crew a cure was found. See Federation Intelligence Files for more information on this meeting.

A survey of the population, planet wide at this time found that only 23,986 children still survived. With the assistance of a Federation team of experts the children were educated. The skills they learned would allow them to meet the daily survival needs of their colony.

Since then they have grown slowly, both in population and in recovery. The survivors have attempted to creat a new society. In 2341 after 75 years their population had only grown to just under 100,000. The last of the Federation teachers and advisers left that year. A meeting of the elected council decided at this time to open up Ophiucus IV to settlement by off worlders. This lead to further debate and a final agreement that any federation citizen would be automatically accepted. All other would be colonists would be considered, then voted on.

In 2366 the colony applied to become a member of the Federation. They are still awaiting final approval.

Settlers

The original settlers were a mix of genetically enhanced super humans along with a fairly large number of normal human workers. A testing and examination of the children who survived show that only 11 showed any sign of genetic tampering.

Since then a number of other races have settled on the smaller 2 continents.

Religion

Due to the enormity of the disaster that threatened to wipe them out as a people over the 300 years while they suffered under the curse of the life prolonging drug, their is currently no organized religion of any type on this world.

Environment

Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enteprise describes this planet as an uncanny replica of Earth. In many ways this is even truer than he knew. Ophiucus has climate zones, polar ice caps, temperatures and weather identical to Earth in the 1900's.

Population

They currently have a total population of just over 500,000 with only 200,000 of that being decendents of the original settlers. The other 300,000 are immigrants. These immigrants have settled mostly on the 2 smaller continents. These other settlements are as follows. 75,000 Andorians, 60,000 Denoblians, 50,000 Humans, 40,000 Tellerites, 30,000 Deltans, 25,000 Caitians and 20,000 Cath'hen.

Federation Intelligence Files

Extensive search of Earth records from the Eugenics War period, plus the following recovery years has resulted in the recovery of a few documents that support the belief that the colony on Ophiucus IV was founded by colonists from earth during the first wave of space colonization. (1990 to 2030)

This is further supported by the isolationist attitude taken by the governing body during early contact with space explorers from Earth. As a result no further contact was established until Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enteprise answered a distress call in 2266.

See Starfleet records File 2266-28473, Miri for a complete record of the USS Enteprise actions on the surface of the planet.

To understand why Ophiucus IV looks so much like Earth see Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.