Rothian Federation

## General Overview

The **Rothian Corperation** was a capitalism focused, militaristic plutocratic autocracy controlled by over two hundred thousand **"Aristocrat Corporations"** or **"Great Families"**. There are two distinct classes within the Rothian Corperation, the **Aristocracy** and the **Citizenry** (otherwise referred to as the "Serving Class"). Roth society operates on a strange variation of meritocracy where individual families can distinguish themselves in the hope of achieving **"Great Family"** status either through civil or military service.

This ideal of **"citizenship"** is similar to the Ancient Roman Empire on Earth, where any person could become a Roman "citizen" and enjoy a privileged selections of rights and freedoms under the law.

While the Roth use the term **"Citizenry"** often, it is only the Aristocracy class that receive civil protections, voting rights and property rights. In recent years, Roth law has been amended to include "Citizenry" working for a specific Roth family as "property".

The Roth possess powerful **Biological Technology** and well as **Genetic Research**, which was showcased with their invention of the **"Pursuer Class"** vessel, a powerful **biologically-engineered autonomous vessel** which almost destroyed the **U.S.S. Trident** in **March 2420**.

## Established History

### **The Rothian Federation**

The **Rothian Corporation** evolved on the Class M planet of **Roth Prime** and achieved warp travel around the Terran 15th Century. At first, Roth was a representative democracy known as the **Rothian Federation**, extending the same rights and privileges to all its people while protecting workers from exploitation by the various corporations which dominated the Rothian economy.

It is not known exactly when the Rothian began to experience societal change but Commonwealth historical examination of Roth society place the event as somewhere within the **Terran 17th Century**. Examined Roth archives state that one mega-corporation, found loopholes in Roth's anti-monopoly laws to buy up smaller businesses.

Eventually this particular corporation, known as **"Waitang Energy Enterprises"** discovered a way to provide more economical power generation by siphoning off geothermal energy from the planet. This move to provide cheaper energy was widely welcomed by the general Rothian society while fringe movements and ecological scientists argued against Waitang's method, claiming that tapping the molten core of the planet in this manner would severely damage the environment.

Due to Waitang's political influence, the Rothian Government passed this measure and concluded that this technology was safe, despite clear evidence from the scientific community to the contrary.

After the "Wainara Riots" of **1905**, in which protests, objecting to Waitang's massive influence over the Government were slaughtered by Government troops, Government officials slowly began to be replaced by Waitang sponsored advocates. Finally, in **1934**, Roth society had grown to over seventy-five billion and Waitang, who had steadily been increasing the molten tapping process for years, discovered that the planet would be rendered geothermally inactive in just a few years.

With only the richest members of Rothian society aware of the coming calamity, which would cause massive climate change on the planet, changing the surface of the planet into a frozen wasteland, the Rothian elite built a colossal space station in orbit of Roth Prime where only the privileged could live. Over the next few years, Roth society grew as cold as their dying world, Waitang was blamed by the Government for the ecological damage to Roth Prime and disbanded, but by this time, so much of Waitang's influence had corrupted the Government, that Waitang was essentially reborn inside the Government with the control of the entire Roth people.

### **The Rothian Corporation**

In 2001, the Rothian Government was formally reorganized into the modern Rothian Corporation with the establishment of the "Great Families" which controlled different regions of Roth space and colonies.

Each family was given a specific number of "Citizenry" (a name chosen because "slaves" was distasteful to the Roth and continues to be taboo to this day) to be assigned to the needs of the various families of the Corporation. After a slew of disastrous first contacts with other species including the **Robun**, **Black Eye Consortium** and the **Aventis Empire**, the Roth began to focus their efforts on acquiring new technologies through conquest. Wanting to see themselves as the apex of high class society and seeing all other races as "beneath them", the Roth aristocracy conquered the nearby worlds of **Zoranastris** and **Asturia**.

Due to their obsession with public spectacle as a way of keeping the "citizenry" in line, as well as promoting the very rare fantasy of "achieving nobility", the Roth began to develop advanced medical and cosmetic surgery technology at a much faster rate then other species in the area.

This was proved in devastating clarity during the short Roth/Zoranastris War, where the Roth wiped out the Zoranastris civilization by deploying a powerful biological weapon in the planet's atmosphere as the Zoranastris refused to accept Roth dominion over their people.

In the early 2100's, the Rothian Corporation engaged in a short war with the **Aventis Empire**, another major power in the **Zeta Quadrant**. This war resulted in a stalemate between the two factions, prompting much animosity that would last for hundreds of years.

First contact between the Roth and the **Commonwealth** occurred in July 2419, when the **U.S.S. Hiryu**, while exploring the nearly discovered wormhole to the Zeta Quadrant of the Black Eye Galaxy was captured by a Roth pleasure cruiser. The Roth analyzed the crew and discovered a form of a latent metaphasic radiation inside the cells of Captain **Orion Windwalker**, due to a holiday the Captain had taken on Ba'ku, the previous year. Seeing the potential in this radiation as a way to prolong the lifespans of the aristocracy, the Roth became obsessed with capturing Captain Windwalker.

The following year, the Roth successfully captured the now, Admiral Orion Windwalker but quickly learned that the metaphasic radiation within the Admiral was not able to be replicated and in too small quantity to be any use to the Roth. During the year, the Roth were forced to murder about 35% of their own citizenry due to a growing rebellion which they blamed on the Commonwealth, for "corrupting their society" on such a scale. As a result of this incident, the Roth joined forces with another embittered enemy of the Commonwealth, the **Strategos** and launched a joint military invasion of Commonwealth space.

In **May 2420**, the **Roth/Strategos War** ended with a victory for the **United Commonwealth of Planets**, **Canaan Station** in orbit around Roth Prime was destroyed during a covert mission by the crew of the **U.S.S. Generation** who believed that their mission was to aid the Rothian Resistance in seizing Canaan Station. However **Commonwealth Intelligence** had secretly assigned **Colonel Wolfbite Funizza** to assassinate the current Roth Leader, **Taltrix III**, seeing no other way to bring the war to the end. The assassination resulted in chaos within the Rothian Corperation and the destruction of Canaan Station had dire consequences, as debris from the station drastically effected the civilians still living on Roth Prime, slaughtering a large majority of them.

With the Roth facing total defeat, the Roth forces surrendered to the United Commonwealth of Planets and established the **Treaty of Bunuua** in late **May 2420**. This treaty created an effective **"neutral zone"** between remaining Roth territory and Bunuua, with both given jurisdiction to govern the border. Admiral **Karaan Sondus** formally took power as the leader of the Rothian Union, with a focus of turning the defeated and crippled Roth state into a Federal Republic.

### **The Rothian Union**

However the appointment of Admiral Sondus stirred open rebellion on many Roth worlds such as **Exorna Regalis**, due to the Admiral's family being involved in the Weinara Riots of **1905**. Unable to reconcile both sides, Admiral Sondus, with the assistance of the **U.S.S. Callisto** managed to quell an uprising on one of the former Roth client kingdoms, **Asturia**. However during this battle, Admiral Sondus bravely sacrificed her own ship to bring an end to the violence and quell the remaining uprising centred around her. As a result, the Commonwealth was asked to leave Roth Space.

By **June 2420**, the United Commonwealth of Planets and the Robun of Bunuua were still providing active convoys of aid to the various planets in the Roth Union, in order to help them rebuild their economy and provide for their citizens. The Commonwealth was still receiving reports regarding civil disturbances with Rothian space. Even since then, the Roth have been showing more and more signs of a civil war, with various leaders trying to take control of the remains of the Corporation and the Roth people slipping further and further into anarchy.

In **July 2420**, the long time enemy of the Rothian Empire, the **Aventis Empire** staged an invasion of Roth space, landing troops on **Exorna Regalis**, a core Roth stronghold, however by this point, the Union was too divided from infighting in order to stage a sufficient resistance and Exorna Regalis was swiftly conquered.

In **September 2420**, the United Commonwealth of Planets elected to aid the Rothian Union in secret, gathering all the various factions and bringing them aboard the **U.S.S. Normandy** for transport to a secret meeting being held on **Monarchia (Zeta Felis XII)**. However this meeting was a trap by the assumed dead former Rothian Emperor, **Taltrix III**, who had been cloned on Monarchia by the fanatical **Order of Vel'trexis (Cult of Monarchia)***,* a secret cult devoted to the Emperor. The crew of the Normandy was able to stop Talrix from absorbing all the neural energy of the faction leaders using a **Universal Constructor** and was killed when a secondary cloning process, combining the Emperor's DNA with that of **The Old Ones** failed.

### **Commonwealth Membership**

In **December 2420**, the **U.S.S. Wolfsbane** prevented a hostile takeover of the **Cal'tardona (Cal'tardona III)** by former Rothian Primus **Picus O'Kann** of the **13th Legion**, a secret military taskforce created by former Corporation Emperor **Taltrix III**. O'Kann attempted to invade Union space and capture President **Ues'sos Arran**, also known as **The Spanitarus** (the Rothian word for bird, resembling a **Terran Sparrow***),* who had aided the **U.S.S. Generation** to overthrow Taltrix III at Cannan Station. O'Kann was soundedly defeated with Commonwealth assistance and fled, wanted for the torture of **Sky Marshal** **Leogryn Romeli** earlier in the year, leading to President Arran to formally request Commonwealth membership for protection. As a result, the Rothian Union joined the **United Commonwealth of Planets** in **December 2420**, much to the ire of many different member worlds, including the **Foxune Federation**.

### **Upper Galactic Alliance**

In **April 2421**, the Rothian Union formally withdrew from the **United Commonwealth of Planets** due to security concerns and the increased threat of the **Umojan Empire**. Despite this withdrawal, many of which saw it as necessary due to the unstable position of the Rothian Government, President Arran was keen to maintain a good relationship with the Commonwealth, even lending military aid to **Operation: "Taon's Sword"** to retake **Chion Prime** from Umojan occupation.

Although having diplomatically cold relations in the past, the **Robun** made an offer to the Rothian Union in order to join a new coalition forming in the **Zeta Quadrant**, known as the **Upper Galactic Alliance**. Despite stiff opposition from the Rothian Provisional Government, mostly generated from a deep racial hatred for both the Robun and their historical nemesis, the **Aventis Empire**, President Arran formally brought the Rothian Union into this alliance. This move proved to be extremely unpopular with the general Rothian population who saw the Upper Galactic Alliance as a Robun attempt to expand their influence and conquer the Rothian people without firing a shot. This move was also endorsed by President **Bol Nevin** of the **United Commonwealth of Planets**, further adding to lingering Rothian xenophobia which had persisted since the fall of imperialist Roth.

### **The Roth/Aventis War**

In **September 2423**, two years after the collapse of the **United Commonwealth of Planets** and the dissolution of the **Upper Galactic Alliance**, the **Aventis Empire** launched an unprovoked attack on the Rothian allied world of **Asturia (Asturia IV)**, forcing the Roth into a state of open warfare with the Aventis. The war did not go well for the Roth, despite the attempted intervention of **Grand Admiral Leogryn Romeli**, who had left **The Shadow Commonwealth**, the last remaining Commonwealth presence in the **Black Eye Galaxy (M64)** and conducted a covert campaign to stop the **Aventis Empire** from conquering the Roth. Despite this, the Roth unconditionally surrendered to the Aventis, becoming part of the Aventis Empire on July 4th 2425 with the **U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A)** missing, presumed destroyed, leading to the public execution of **Ues'sos Arran** by **Queen Celia MacLowan.**

### **The Rebirth of the Rothian Federation**

In **July 2452**, **Queen Hild MacLowan** of the **Aventis Empire** formally ceded territory and control back to the Roth with a formal apology to the Rothian people for what she referred to as **"Her Mother's Unjust War"**. **Galactic Commonwealth** provided humanitarian aid to assist the Roth in rebuilding following conquest by the Aventis, something which was not taken place by the Aventis due to the continued harsh feelings between the Roth and Aventis.

As a result, the former Rothian Union was reorganised into a demographic Federation in which each planet of the former Rothian Corporation has a democratically elected representative, meeting in a senate established on the Roth home planet of **Roth Prime**.

In 2453, former **Rothian Liberation Army** leader **Xei'nrn M'sorn** was elected **President of the Rothian Federation**. Despite everyone's expectations, M'sorn led a reconciliatory effort with the **Aventis Empire** following the resolution of his own grief over the loss of his husband during the Aventis invasion. He publicly embraced **Queen Hild I'**s peace overtures during the rebuilding of **Enteris (Shattershield)** on **Aventis (Aventis II)** and publicly acknowledged that both states would need to move on from centuries of violence. M'sorn also requested **Galactic Commonwealth** assistance in an ambitious **5-Year Plan** to rebuild the Rothian Union and terraform **Roth Prime (Roth I)** using **Arkhosian Legion** terraforming technology, which had previous been used to make **Phoenix I (Formally Commonwealth I)** habitual again following **The Worthless War**.

## Known Heads of State

* **Heads of State: Rothian Federation/Corporation/Union**

## Known Vessel Classes

* ***Magnificent-Class Flagship Dreadnought***
* ***Apex-Class Cruiser/Research Vessel***
* ***Invicta-Class Advanced Cruiser***
* ***Pursuer-Class Experimental Biologically Engineered Battleship***
* ***Emancipation-Class Battlecruiser***

## Known Locations

* **Roth Prime (Roth I) - Home Planet**
* **Exorna Regalis**
* **Cal'tardona (Cal'tardona III)**
* **Monarchia (Zeta Felis XII)**
* **Asturia (Asturia IV)**

## Notable Individuals

* **Primus Picus O'Kann**
* **President Ues'sos Arran**
* **President Xei'nrn M'sorn**

## Notes

* The Rothian Corperation were first encountered in the U.S.S. Hiryu episode, "Ostentation" on the *25th July 2019*