Ware crisis

The Ware crisis was a series of military engagements spanning the better part of the year 2165 which started after the United Federation of Planets decided to investigate and potentially end the threat of the mysterious automated technology called the Ware.

Most of the opposition the Federation encountered wanted to seize or destroy the Ware. Ultimately, the Klingon Defense Force was able to achieve the latter using technology given to them by Section 31. This lead to the decimation, dissolution and partial annexation of the peaceful Partnership of Civilizations by the Klingon Empire.

First encounters
Earth first encountered the Ware in the form of an automated repair station in 2152 when the United Earth Starfleet starship Enterprise (NX-01) was in dire need of repairs after their incident in the Romulan mine field. The Earth vessel discovered that the station used sentient beings as computer processors following the abduction of Helmsman Travis Mayweather. Captain Jonathan Archer mounted a successful rescue operation and the Enterprise destroyed the station, but they were unable to learn anything about the station's origins or its creators.

Years later, during the Earth-Romulan War Starfleet forces encountered the same technology twice. A task force lead by the USS Yorktown (NCC-108) came across another repair station and fleet commander Captain Ketai Shosetsu ordered its complete dectruction remembering Archer's report. The second encounter was by the starship Eberswalde when it detected wreckage of Ware origin with the signs of Romulan weapons fire.