San Francisco

San Francisco was a major city in California, a state of the North American Republic, a member nation of United Earth. It was the leading financial and cultural center of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area Francisco was the third most populous city in California and the one of the most populous city in the North American Republic, with a population of 9-million. Following its destruction in the Xindi First Strike, known locally as the August Wave, San Francisco was destroyed and reformed into the San Francisco Islands.

Early History


San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis") was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.

Space Age
In 2062, Oldtown San Francisco was struck by an enormous earthquake, and it took 20 years for the city to be restored. To off-set the economic cost of recovery, the newly established United Earth Starfleet selected San Francisco as its new headquarters and funded massive reconstruction efforts around the metropolis.

Another catastrophic earthquake struck in 2109, but under the leadership of Mayor Lynda Romanova, recovery was much swifter. Throughout metropolitan areas such as Berkeley and Oakland, seismic regulators were put into place.

Destruction
San Francisco, along with much of the California shoreline, sunk into the ocean in 2153 during the Xindi First Strike. Starfleet transferred their center of operations to Singapore following the disaster and San Francisco was now the San Francisco Islands, a chain of volcanos of the western North American coast.