HUMANS
	Planet: Earth and Various Others

The homeworld of the human species and model for the Class-M designator, Earth became one of the founders of the United Federation of Planets after the Romulan War in 2161 and today serves as its de facto capital: Starfleet Command, Starfleet Academy, and the Federation Council are all based in San Francisco, while the UFP President's office is in Paris. It features the orbital Starfleet spacedocks, habitats, and satellite network including Federation communications. Earth enjoys the most advanced, peaceful, and materially pleasant culture of any known; there has been no case of terrorist bombing or a State of Emergency, other than the Borg attack of 2366-67, reported in over a century prior to the Antwerp Conference incident and the Changeling scare of 2372. It appears to have no self-government in the Federation, fully subjecting itself to the multi-world direction of the Federation Council and its president, who is authorized to enact a state of emergency. Its worldwide power-relay system is run by the Division of Planetary Operations to run sensors, transporters, surface-based defense installations; Starfleet has its own emergency back-up system.

There are other class-M planets who hold humans as well, some pioneers from Earth, others just genetically similar.