Orion Trade Federation

The Orion Trade Federation is one of the major powers in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way in the Boundless Fantendoverse, their territory encompasses the system of Sol as well as many others including the Beudin, Zeon and Sarbaw systems. They're considered adversaries of the Neo-Terra Community although have not had an active war in roughly 45 years.
==Territory==
Of all the groups in the Perseus Arm, the Orion Trade Federation (OTF) is the largest, it spans from the Wayfarer's Graveyard in the West through the Western half of the Perseus Transit and even extends inwards towards the Orion Spur, which is where the faction derive their name from.
The territory has slowed with the appearance of more prominent opposition to the faction in the form of the Neo-Terra Community to their West and the Central Military Committee to their East.
==Members==
The Orion Trade Federation is one of the largest factions in the Perseus Arm, comprised of several hundred intelligent space-faring species, members are admitted as long as they successfully meet the requirements to join which include several technological feats as well as maintaining the principles of the OTF's rules for five years prior to joining. The original founding members of the federation are were most of the rules originate from as the federation was born from the trade negotiations between them.
Known species that are part of the OTF officially include;
* Beorns
* Catoneans
* Humans (note: Although Humans from Sol do not currently qualify to meet the requirements, other Humans on Settlement Planets have been accepted)
* Orch
* Limhatan
* Antiorfi
* Crivedna
* Toy-Droidella
==History==
The OTF's history stretches back hundreds of years, originally formed from the trading between several species in what is now the heart of the federation, they gradually expanded their influence out through predominantly passive and neutral methods by receiving other species into the alliance through diplomacy or settling on unclaimed systems. The formative years of the OTF did see considerable conflict with some of the larger species present in their local area at the time who had attempted to form monoculture factions to dominate the territory.
These early years proved trying for the OTF although they were eventually capable of managing to use the combined efforts of their members to wrangle larger territories under their control including resource rich planets found in the Vela Molecular Ridge. The Orion Trade Federation had approximately reached its current size around 95 years ago, having used trade agreements with the Order of the Divine Light and people of Magnetized Space to help amplify their presence in the Perseus Transit.
It was around this time that the OTF also encountered its current main adversary in the Neo-Terra Community (NTC), though in many ways similar to the OTF, the NTC were much more dedicated towards terraforming planets to suit their needs resulting in what many in the OTF consider to be crimes against nature. War eventually broke out between both sides with the NTC using their buffer of allied factions in the Chain of Flowers and Sea of Spirits to prevent a direct attack. The conflict which became known as the Orion-Persean Conflict lasted for 15 years, resulting in a decisive victory for the OTF with minor territorial concessions given by the Sea of Spirits. An agreement was reached in 1943 that forced the NTC to restrict their Terraforming activities to only Class-0 Planets (those deemed completely uninhabitable without terraforming) for at least 75 years.
The OTF would later become involved in a more contentious conflict that had arisen on their Eastern border with the Central Military Committee (CMC), due to the harsh conditions many of the CMC's planets had been under a rebellion broke out in the South-East territory, leading to a large number of planets seceding from the CMC. OTF involvement was quickly found and many believed that the OTF were attempting to destabilize the CMC to provide easier expansion rights for the OTF into the Perseus Transit. The result has been a tense relationship between both sides with periodic OTF collusion with the Territory of Free Planets as well as raids on the border worlds of OTF territory by the CMC. Due to the scale of these attacks however, neither side acknowledges the other due to wanting to avoid starting up a major war.
In the present day a new threat, from across the galaxy has emerged threatening the OTF that being the Doomuli, a distant and advanced coalition of cybernetically enhanced species who make use of Wormholes to spread their influence across the galaxy. Their presence in the Perseus Arm has fortunately being fairly restricted however they have become a single uniting force for which many in the Perseus Transit including both the OTF and CMC can ally against.
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