Terran Confederacy

The Terran Confederacy of Allied Systems is a complex amalgamation of many different peoples and systems, slotted together by a web of treaties and trade agreements, and bound together as brothers by blood and sacrifice. There is one common element in every member's history; Humanity. At one point or another every member of the Confederacy has been at war with TerraSol, found itself defeated, and ultimately brought into the fold as friends and allies.

## History

Rising out of the ashes of the Third Republic of Beings, the Terran Confederacy was hammered out of strife and war around 3000 years ago. The primary members all banded together to put down rebellions and worse in a bloody campaign that lasted nearly a hundred years. Once that had been done, the bonds forged by the long bloody years led to the member races setting aside their differences and forming the Confederacy.

Originally consisting of several branches of government, including the Senate, the House, the Star Chamber, the Wings of the Queens, and the Speaker's Bench, over time the sections have fallen to the wayside as more and more of the actual governing has fallen to the local systems and species. The Senate was famously dissolved in the riots after the Mar-gite War ended when one Senator moved to immediately disband the Terran military but also disarm the Terran people.

The Terran Confederacy is not a peaceful government, nor is it a benevolent one. It believes in self-determination, self-reliance, and the Twelve Basic Rights. It mainly exists to regulate trade, provide the *vast* Confederate military, provide commerce protection, and engage in protection of intellectual and physical property.

Following the House Mouse War, the Confederacy has had to engage in sometimes violent protection of intellectual property for corporate entities and the individual.

The Confederacy currently faces its most difficult struggle, as the Coreward War has shown that the average citizen of the Lanaktallan Despotism could legally be only considered a child, despite their vast fleets and unending armies. Pushed by the Lanaktallan Despotism via biowarfare attacks, the Confederacy is attempting to avoid the dreaded 1% Line from being voted on.

However, as the war rages on, there may be no choice.

## Structure

### Government

The Terran Confederacy is more of a conglomerate of allies than one single government. While most members of the Confederacy defer to the overarching command of TerraSol, they also act independently.

There are Twelve Universal Rights of Existence for members of The Terran Confederacy.

"You will be protected by the Twelve Universal Rights of Existence, by the Right of Consent, the Right of Self-Determination, the Right to Speak Your Mind, and most importantly, the Right to Freely Vote As You Will." - *Dreams of Something More*[5]

Citizens have a "Right to be Forgotten," where they are issued a new identity and start a new life.

TerraSol Diplomatic Corps

### Technology

Most core Terran worlds are protected from biological warfare by "the soup," a nanite cloud that checks for genome tampering.

## Member Systems

The Terran Confederacy of Aligned Governments covers a startling twenty-two different species, not counting the thirty species that were 'uplifted'.

* Terrasol
* Rigellian Compact
* Mantid Free Worlds
* Treana'ad Hive Worlds
* Biological Artificial Sentience Systems (BASS)
* Digital Artificial Sentience Systems
* Clone Worlds Directorate
* Cybernetic Organism Collective
* Sky Nebula Alignment

## References

1. ↑ First Contact - TOTAL WAR - 268 (Notes)
2. ↑ Ralts\_Bloodborne: *Deme> . . . Eventually you'd just want to get on a ship and GTFO, invoke your "Right to Be Forgotten", and start over somewhere new with a new body. . . Invoke your Right to Be Forgotten, and get a new SIN.*
3. ↑ First Contact - Part Eighty-Two
4. ↑ First Contact Second War - Chapter One Hundred Eleven