Terran League

The **Terran League**, officially known as the **League of Terran Nations**, is a league of the four terran superpower nations that have united in the hopes of finding a new life in a strange new galaxy. They all combine their resources, knowledge and traditions from the old nations of Earth. The reason for establishing this nation is no there won't be any more wars between humans ever again as they explore and expand this new galaxy they found themselves in. The Sol Region, as they call it, is the only safe place in the galaxy that isn't effected by the miasma of stellar phenomenons in the Poseidon Galaxy. They hope that they would find their missing flotillas in a galaxy full of nebulae, stellar storms, the Shroud and a multitude of unidentified cosmic substances that have unknown effects on the human body. But what was found was not what they were expecting.

## History

### War of Alliances

#### Beginning of the End

During the later half of the 21st century, Earth and humanity were doomed. Almost every single nation was suffering from famine and poverty that was followed by widespread riots. Even worse when many ecosystems were failing due to overpopulation, deforestation, pollution, resources running low, strip mining and the extinction of many fauna that has disrupt the natural life cycles. The United Nations tried to come up with solutions to resolve these growing crisis, but many nations have declared their succession in order to keep whatever resources they had left. This ultimately caused the United Nations to be disbanded and rise of new alliances.

In the American continents, all countries have banded together and formed the United American Alliance to preserve all the resources there was left under the leadership of President Irina de Lima. At the Arctic Circle in Greenland, the UAA have found enough oil to sustain themselves for a few more decades while searching for oil in the deserts of the USA, Uruguay, and Peru. Over at the east, almost all the countries in Europe and Asia have decided to cooperate with each other and formed the Eurasian Alliance led by, Prime Minister Spiros Kontelis. Russia provided the oil and agriculture since the majority of the country is vacant, China provided the industry, Japan provided the technology, and all of Europe provided the military forces. India made an alliance with Australia and every island nation in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean and founded the Indian-Oceania Cooperative under the leadership of, Chancellor Andrew Cox. Despite the hardships, the people endured as India nationalized all their forests to preserve the ecosystem, Australia turned many parts of the outbacks into suitable farmlands and the many island nations patrol the coral reefs to protect them and provide some fish after having found a way to have fish spawn more eggs and grow faster. All three of these international alliances managed to stop most of the rioting and ended the civil wars.

But in Africa and the Middle-East, that's a different story.

#### Rise of the Jihad & A Mad Sultan

Much of the world's nations have fallen to civil war, especially in the Middle-East and many African countries. This gives rise to a new power that took advantage of the chaos under the leadership of Supreme Sultan Shafeeq el-Amin. This power was known as, the New World Jihad. It was a zealous ultranationalistic regime that wants to spread the Islam faith while destroying all other religions, control all the resources in the world, and create a new world order. They managed to conquer all of Africa in a span of a year thanks to a network of spies, black market trade, raiding supplies left behind by the UN relief aids and national storehouses and armories, and uniting different terrorists organizations that are fellow followers of the Islamic faith.

Once they've conquered Africa and the Middle-East, they seized every single natural resources there is left and to keep foreigners out. They even went as far as destroying other forms of faith such as Christianity and Judaism along with any other religion there was. Not to mention having access to planes so they can bomb any resistance that were still out there. Everyone lived in fear with the Jihad serving the will of the tyrannical Mad Sultan.

Not long after uniting, Supreme Sultan (also known as the Mad Sultan) started to wage war on the Eurasian Alliance and the Indian-Oceania Cooperative for resources, spreading the Islamic faith and destroy the cultures of foreigners by attacking them. The United American Alliance avoided the conflict and the New World Jihad never bothered them...yet.

#### End of Earth, But Not for Humanity

In 2091, the alliances have reformed into new superpowers. The United American Alliance was reformed into the Great American Federation, the Eurasian Alliance became the Eurasian Commonwealth and the Indian-Oceania Cooperative became the Hindu-Polystralian Union. There was later a secret meeting between the three nations being held by the Eurasian Commonwealth. The meeting was about combining their remaining resources in order to find a new home in a different solar system. Take what they've learned and make sure that they won't make the same mistakes again in the new world. This was known as the Emergency Evacuation of Earth Project, but was commonly called, "The Great Exodus". All three agreed since everything is going down the toilet and no way to restore the environment.

Yet halfway through the year, Mad Sultan Shafeeq lost it completely and tried to launch nuclear weapons across the Earth. The anti-nuclear missile satellites made by the GAF and EC managed to stop the majority of the missiles, but many went off in the north pole. This causes the Earth's magnetosphere to be disrupted and causes the planet to head straight towards the sun. The three superpowers immediately went to work on creating space ships in order to save everyone. But Shafeeq el-Amin sent out his army to destroy the ships. In his word's, "If we're gonna die, we shall all burn in the inferno."

The New World Jihad later turned on Shafeeq by burning his palace down, killing his family and killed all that were still loyal. The New World Jihad later became the Arab-African League that made peace with the other superpowers and helped out with the construction of the forty-two fleets, or flotillas, that went out into space by August 13, 2093. As the fleets take off, the last video of Earth was taken as everyone went into cryostasis for the long journey. The ships don't have any hyper drives, warp drives or any other means of traveling faster than light but a few experimental drives that allows them to go up to 20% of the speed of light. They also use generators meant to suck in every trace of hydrogen in space while using a special filter to scoop up any non-gaseous particles.

But en route to their new world, something unexpected happened. A massive wormhole appeared after 100 years of traveling that sucked up every ship and sends them all to different locations and time periods in an entirely new galaxy. The Poseidon Galaxy.

### A Whole New Galaxy

#### Arrival & Reunification (2191 AD - 2308 AD)

After getting absorbed into the mysterious wormhole, six fleets were flung into the Poseidon Galaxy. The galaxy they found themselves in is full of strange anomalies. The majority of it is covered in nebulous gases, the Shroud, stellar storms, and many unidentified stellar substances that create a galaxy-size storm. However, only one region of the galaxy remained untouched by all these stellar hurricanes: the Sol Region. The six fleets made it to an entirely new star system at long last in a two star system with only five habitable planets. Unfortunately, two of the six crashed landed on the third habitable planet orbiting the second star and all contact was lost. As a precaution, the four remaining fleets sent in probes on the planets they want to settle in to check and recheck if they are safe for human habitability. They check for atmospheric toxins, seeing if the water is drinkable, and whatever else that would make them unsuitable for life. Sadly, each of the ships only has enough supplies for three months. Yet after only one month in a continent, all the fleets headed to wherever they headed that was safe.

The settlers used the time to establish new settlements with the new planets they have landed. All communications between the new colonies and the worlds were cut off for a time due to damages done after landing by unknown means. Around 2300, the first communications satellites went up and contact was re-established across the system. Another eight years to rebuild and have starships from all four nations meet on Mundus. While there, they discovered the remains of the Gandhi Flotilla and the de Laroche Flotilla on the meeting place. No survivors were ever found in the ship graveyard as multiple skeletons and mummies were found. The resources of the ships were later used to create a new capital for the Terran League along with a massive memorial in the form of an obelisk that list the names of every passenger and crew member of the two fleets. The flag they now use has the four yellow stars that represents the surviving flotillas that made it while the white stars represent the fallen flotillas as well as the two stars in their system, the blue half represents the perseverance of humanity as a whole while the black half represents the determination of the human spirit.

## Government

During the early years, the four superpower nations never really formally united when they made the fleets. It is only after they colonized and re-establish contact with each other in the Terran System. The Terran League follows a doctrine similar to the United Nations but prefer to make it more of a parliamentary federation in order to unite all humans permanently. The authority of the government is mostly focus on interstellar discoveries and development, foreign and internal affairs, and defense. The League has a limited ability to interfere with the affairs of the four superpowers that vaguely address the general welfare in the constitution.

### Executive Branch

The Secretary-General has unlimited power while also serve as the head of state, a representative of the League, and serves as the head of the Terran Cabinet of Ministers. The Cabinet acts as the federal executive governing body of the League that have the same authority as the Secretary-General. The Secretary-General only have a ten-year term. Shorter if deem necessary pending on the welfare of the Secretary-General or had been vetoed by the Chamber of Political Representatives.

### Legislative Branch

The legislative branch is the Terran Parliament, which is the main body that hold political power within the League. It is divided into two branches: The League Senate and the Chamber of Political Representatives.

The Chamber of Political Representatives is made up of five members of each political parties in all four nations. Each of the five have been selected based on their experience and expertise in politics. The Chamber is the most dominant within the League and to whom the Secretary-General is solely responsible. It is largely democratically elected body. Based on the amount of political parties from each nation, there is a total of 110 members in the Cabinet.

The League Senate is composed of four senators from each nation as a total sixteen and is appointed by the Secretary-General. There are a few qualifications of becoming a senator. The senators are meant to be the voice of the nation that they represent as a whole and not in favor of any political party, corporate lobbyists, religious organizations, a single community or for their own benefit. The nation as a whole.

Legislation requires the approval of both the Senate and the Cabinet before it can proceed as law. Lobbying of any kind is completely against the law and is punishable by death. Any form of backhand deals of any form, both officially and unofficially, is also punishable by death. Despite the different values of each party, they do understand that creating any sort of chaotic meeting would spell doom for humanity in general. Shouting matches are very rare because the descendants know the horrible stories about what happened on Earth and wish to making the same mistake. All members take the Vow of Earth to promise themselves they will be better than the failing governments of the past in order to head towards a brighter future.

### Judicial Branch

The Judicial Branch of the League is the Supreme Court of Law.

## Territory

The Terran League is an interplanetary and interstellar government, originally formed from the surviving superpowers that got flung into an entirely new galaxy that is filled with all sorts of cosmic troubles and anomalies. Yet the region where they landed is free of such things.

## Stellaris In-Game Information

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## Trivia

* The Terran League flag is largely inspired by the Osean Federation flag from Ace Combat, but no tiny stars.