Rockford (ST:BH)

Rockford is a story written about the Starbase Rockford, under the command of of Admiral Jeffery Higdon, which is part of the Star Trek: Black Hawk Fan Fiction Website.

Background
In 2366 the Federation and the Cha'ouw Empire came to the conclusion that an common base was needed to help in a mutual military and economic situation. The Cha'ouw had long had a mutual defense treaty with the Federation and thought that a space station would serve their interest. In 2367 this thought was put on hold after Cha'ouw agents aquired top secret technology about the phase cloak from a covert Starfleet Intellegence facility. How with the revelation of the cloak from the Pegasus by the USS Enterprise-D, the decision to allow the Cha'ouw to work on the cloak (with Starfleet help) was seen a positive step in the relationship between the two powers. The Federation saw the need of a larger station though. At first the station was to be known as Deep Space 021 but some of the construction workers started calling it Starbase Rockford after one of the workers told a tale set in 19th century Illinois.

The tale was that the Northern part of Illinois feom the tip of Lke Mischigan (including the Chicago and Winneford Metroplexs) was not included in the plan for statehood in to the United States until some enterprising you terretory official managed to change the boundries to the present location. Also in the tale told that serveral counties in the mid-1850s tried to seceed from the State of Illinois into Wisconsin due to the over taxing of down staters in the Illinois Legeslature. The name Starbase Rockford stuck and was made official when it was decided that it would be designated as Starbase 021.

During the Dominion War, the partially completed starbase was used a a construction, repair and resupply nbase by the Federation Alliance, especially the Romulan, Klingons, Cha'ouw & Federation.

Rockford