Fialta Defense Community

The , or FDC, was a mutual defense pact between the Fialta Confederacy and the Second Fialta Imperium established in .
== Background ==
The Fialta Defense Community was formed in response to the "Confederate Crisis" of , when religious tensions between Kirvans and Pentacle worshipers in Confederate space exploded into violence and civil unrest that required intervention from from Imperial troops to put down. The crisis convinced the normally pro-neutrality Congress of Princes of the need for a constitutional amendment and mutual defense pact with the Imperium.
== Amendment Summary ==
*The Confederacy shall, from the date of accession of this amendment, enter into a mutual defense pact with the Fialta Imperium (the "Fialta Defense Community", or FDC).
*Upon activation of this amendment, the Fialta Emperor and his designated representative shall negotiate the terms of the FDC, including an applicable policy framework.
*The framework shall include as its foundational principles:
*#Mutual respect and a preference for peace
*#Mutual recognition of defense needs
*#Freedom of navigation
*#Military cost sharing
*#The respective rights reserved to the Emperor and the Princes on other matters, to be defined
== Response ==
Immediately after the adoption of the amendment, Imperial ships will began patrolling Confederate space, and Imperial troops began assisting in counterinsurgency efforts. In the words of one off-the-record diplomat, "In six months and without firing a shot, the Imperium all but undid forty years of containment that the Coalition spent millions of lives to secure."
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