In an alternate timeline, the Human Loyalists were a faction of Martian colonists who, in the early 23rd century, opposed the movement to secede from the government of United Earth. They were opposed by the Declarationists, who were defeated in 2205. (Star Trek: Myriad Universes novel: A Less Perfect Union) As few details have been established about the War of Martian Independence as it occurred in the main timeline, it is unclear how different this alternate history is, other than the ultimate outcome.