Federation

Races

**Federation**

**Sylon**

**Athrael**

**Thorun**

**Zhogarn**

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* Logo

## Overview

*NOTE - This page covers gameplay specifics for the Federation faction. For background history, check *Federation's lore.**

The **Federation** (Short for United Federation), used to represent the human race, is one of the five playable races of Five Nations. The Federation, almost recovered from a recent civil war event with it's colony of Mars, rapidly discovers the answer to the *"are we alone"* question in the most direct of ways possible. But the ingenuity, determination and resourcefulness of humanity are things that perhaps the other powers of the universe may take too lightly, and it could cost them...

Besides having advanced self-consciousness and self-ambition, humans are social beings who can be characterized by working together, advanced speech, and thinking. Although they are considered a relatively young species regarding the conquest of space, in comparison to other species, they have a promising future due to their willpower, adaptive and problem-solving skills. They compensate their vulnerable physical structure with their sophisticated technological solutions, which gives them ample opportunity to explore and exploit multiple star systems.

## Gameplay style

Federation gameplay is characterized by it's all-around capabilities and adaptability, with units that have a general health/shield count with potent high damage, ranged attacks.  While most basic Federation forces can handle themselves in a fight for a short while, they rely mostly on their range and upgrades to shine, especially their Hurricanes, Orcas, Hailstorms, and Dresdas.  Even the Pasteur requires some dedicated upgrading from it's tech facility, the Medical Station, to be greatly effective.

However, in their intended roles, Federation combat units are also capable of adapting themselves to other roles, an example being the Orca which, while meant to be a potent, accessible anti-armor solution, is also capable of handling fighter units itself and providing cover in melee.  The Hailstorm's unique attack, capable of ignoring blocking objects, makes it useful in neutralizing critical targets and defenses, and the St. George carrier is surprisingly one of the most durable units in the game, being capable of tanking damage even from high-damage units like Plasma Raids, Flagships and Overseers. Even their cargo ship, the Icarus, can aid in defense of resource sites during a harassment while defenses are build.

Ironically, for all their adaptability and firepower, one of the noticeable weakenesses of the Federation is the lack of an artillery for it's defense, relying it instead on stationed Avenger cruisers that instead could be useful for a fight or base siege.  Still, the Federation still has a stronger defense than most factions due to it's Defense Platform, which, when coupled with some other defenses, provides a bulwark hard to be broken through, except with other artillery units.

## Units

Command Station Units

Ship Factory Units

Merchantport Units

Dockyard Units

Campaign Only

## Buildings

Tier 1 structures

Tier 2 structures

Tier 3 structures

Campaign only

# Renegades expansion

## Units

File:Rear Admiral de Ruyter-ingame.png Rear Admiral de Ruyter
File:Vice Admiral Bradshaw-ingame.png Vice Admiral Bradshaw
File:Colonel Mirzo-ingame.png Colonel Mirzo
File:EIRA Absorber-ingame.png EIRA Absorber
File:EIRA Arson-ingame.png EIRA Arson
File:EIRA Gloom-ingame.png EIRA Gloom
File:EIRA Spear-ingame.png EIRA Spear
File:EIRA Twinblade-ingame.png EIRA Twinblade
File:Gas Tanker-ingame.png Gas Tanker
File:Admiral Leskovsky-ingame.png Admiral Leskovsky
File:Katar UAV-ingame.png Katar UAV
File:Zhao Liu-ingame.png Zhao Liu
File:Peacekeeper-ingame.png Peacekeeper
File:Rustom-ingame.png Rustom
File:Whip UAV-ingame.png Whip UAV

## Buildings

File:Material Collider-ingame.png Material Collider
File:Drone Factory-ingame.png Drone Factory
File:Peacekeeper-ingame.png Peacekeeper
File:Helium-3 Refinery-ingame.png Helium-3 Refinery
File:Metal Refinery-ingame.png Metal Refinery
File:Siegebreaker Platform-ingame.png Siegebreaker Platform
File:Tachyon Refinery-ingame.png Tachyon Refinery

## Researches

File:Whip UAVs.png Whip UAVs
File:Forward Command Post.png Forward Command Post

# Trivia

* The United Federation's banner (which is also the race logo) and some art style for it's ships (especially the Avenger) are a close reference to the United Citizen Federation from *Starship Troopers*.

* Some of the Federation structures' designs (especially the Command Station, the Dockyard and the EIRA Station) reference the United Federation of Planets from the *Star Trek* franchise.  The EIRA Institute, despite it's *de jure* scientific intent, may also be a reference to Section 31, also from this franchise.

* The wormhole generators such as Bifrost Bridge and the Jumpgate, and the exposed solar panels seen in multiple Federation units and structures may be a reference to the Earth Alliance in *Babylon 5*.
	+ Also, like in Babylon 5, there was also a brief divergence between Earth and the colony of Mars.

* The Federation shares multiple traits with the Terran faction in *StarCraft*:
	+ The diverse, liberal, often gung-ho appearance of characters such as Greg Leskovski and Salamon Zamor.
	+ The fact the Federation uses tactical nuclear warfare liberally, as well as heavy explosive ordnance.
	+ AIDA, which is similar to a Terran Adjutant, an artificial intelligence which assists commanders in battlefield tactical assessment.

* The noses of some vessels such as the Hailstorm and the Dresda may have been inspired by *Battlestar Galactica*.

* Some ship and station similarities to those found in the *Star Wars* franchise are also present, such as the St. George - which almost resembles an Imperial Star Destroyer - and the Merchantport - which recalls the Trade Federation's *Lucrehulk*-class Droid Control Ship

* The EIRA Institute station almost resembles the *GDSS Philadelphia* from the Tiberian universe of *Command & Conquer*.

# See Also

 * Federation
* Sylon
* Athrael
* Thorun
* Zhogarn