Trekkist-Jedi Cladewar

Feud between Star Trek and Star Wars lifestyles, lasting since the Atomic Age.

The Trekkist-Jedi conflict extends back to the late Atomic Age, when the film 
Star Wars was released. The Star Wars meme, ostensibly "science fiction" though 
really owing more in construction to the works of Atomic Age fabulists JRR 
Tolkien and Joseph Campbell, took root quickly and firmly in the minds of the 
baseline youth at the time. This put it into direct conflict with the older and 
more established Star Trek meme, which also had a resurgence with feature films 
released at roughly the same time.

By the early Interplanetary Age both Star Trek and Star Wars had developed large 
masses of devoted followers, and the conversion from simple fandom to 
religion/philosophy was proceeding apace. The Trekkist Church had by this time 
been founded, and the Star Wars groups were in the process of coalescing into 
the Jedi clade.

Both groups invested heavily in interplanetary colonization, building habitats 
and planetary colonies whenever possible. At this point, the rivalry between the 
two groups consisted mainly of spoof attacks on "enemy" computer networks, nasty 
insults, and forcible conversion of nonaligned rivals (see Scientology, Church 
of).

During the Nanoswarms in Sol System, the rivalry became an open conflict between 
the two groups. Black-market weapons and specially-designed "superweapons" were 
employed by the Trekkists and the Jedi, each determined that the other would not 
survive the swarms. Eventually, though, the swarms forced the combatants back 
behind their blue goo defenses.

An informal truce was called in the pre-Federation era, as both groups 
recognized a need to aid in the reconstruction of Sol System. The groups were 
also bolstered by the Expulsion; as billions of humans were thrown off Earth by 
GAIA, many were welcomed into the Trekkist and Jedi ranks.  When the Federation 
was founded at Roddenberry Habitat, the Jedi percieved that any chance they had 
at gaining supremacy would not succeed, and decided to find their fortunes in 
interstellar space. The hardliners of the Trekkists also decided to leave the 
workings of the Federation to the willing-to-compromise moderates, and followed 
the Jedi into space.

Both groups founded planets near the edge of the Inner Sphere; the Trekkist 
cladehome of Vulcan, and the Jedi cladehome of Coruscant. From there the clades 
built up numbers and expanded further into the perhiphery, exploring and 
colonizing a number of systems. The rivalry was mostly forgotten during the 
Federation Age due to the general lack of timely communications between the two 
clades. However, the ancient feud became part of both Trekkist and Jedi 
mythology, especially the brief war during the Nanoswarms. It is believed that 
the dissapearance of several Trekkist ships rimwards of Pacifica is due to an 
encounter with Jedi warships, but this has not been verified.

The invention of wormholes and the beginings of the modern Nexus brought the 
clades back into full contact with each other in 4537. The reconnection brought 
back attempts at network attacks, but by the end of the 46th Century the "war" 
had dropped to a steady-state of insults and debates over religious minutae. 
This steady-state was to remain the status quo between the Trekkists and the 
Jedi until the Version War.

The war between the clades flashed hot during the chaos of the Version War, when 
a Trekkist armada made an assault on Coruscant, causing massive damage to the 
world-city and killing billions. The Jedi retaliation sparked a number of 
smaller conflicts as anti-Trekkist factions took the opportunity to strike at 
their enemies, and the war was engaged. Aside from the initial blows, once the 
wormholes were closed casualties were fairly light, consisting primarily of the 
crews of the warships. Still, the Trekkist-Jedi War was one of the last of the 
Version War conflicts to be ended, finally coming to a halt with a Negentropist-
mediated settlement at Roddenberry Habitat some 150 after the Version War itself 
had ended.

Since the War and the reestablishment of the Nexus, the clades have returned to 
their steady-state of mutual dislike. As a sop to relativistic crews who are 
returning to the cladehomes from the war era, special virch environments have 
been constructed to simulate a continuing war between Trekkist and Jedi using 
"proper religious physics" (i.e. the nonstandard physics of the original 
fictions). These virches have, against all odds, become slightly popular in the 
Nexus, and are considered cult classics.