Yogyakarta Baru

Yogyakarta Baru was first an independent Earth, and later a United Federation of Planets colony, that existed from the 22nd to the 24th centuries. It is one of the two colonies in the Wolf 359 system, the other being Stapledon Center.

In the 2120's, a scientific team from the American Continent Institute surveys Wolf-catalogue red dwarf stars within a 5-parsec sphere of the Sol system. The team, led by Esteban Velasco, identifies heretofore undiscovered reserves of topaline and pergium on the fifth planet of Wolf 359.

About 2145, the Yogyakarta Baru colony is established on Wolf-359 V. (Its founders include Victoria Sutomo, Kieran Arismunandar and Esteban Velasco.) Within three years, it is fully self-supporting through mining of topaline and pergium. For about ten years, the colony practices a policy of isolationism (a difficult task, given that Wolf 359 is about eight light years from Earth) with respect to Earth and its allies until an agricultural plague forces it to accept help. During the Earth-Romulan War, the Yogyakarta Baru military vessel Nasution aids in the defense of Tau Ceti.

In 2264-65, there was an abortive coup d'état. The colonial governor, Indra Kartini Sutomo and her husband are assassinated, and colony council members and their families are imprisoned, while their children are exiled to the Hamengkubuwono Plains on the other side of the planet. 17 out of the 25 children survive the weeks-long ordeal. The USS Avenger, commanded by Capt. Melissa Sturdevant, later reunites the surviving children with their parents. The Avenger and other Starfleet vessels (including the USS Thermopylae, commanded by Capt. Nikolai Barstow) aid in relief efforts and restoring the legitimate Yogyakarta Baru government

In the 2340's, geological analysis confirmed that one (perhaps both) of the class-M worlds in the Wolf 359 system will explode due to gravitic stresses by the end of the century. Then-extant Federation technology can do nothing to halt the process. The Yogyakarta Baruans redirect much if not all of their efforts to mass migration to Merdeka in the New Colonies territories. The inhabitants of Stapledon Center debate endlessly among themselves; a sizable portion of the populace, however, elect to migrate to other class M worlds including Earth.