United Terran Protectorates

The **United Terran Protectorates** (**UTP**), officially the **Collaborator Protectorates of the United Terran**, is a controlled and protected dictatorship state founded after the Screk Archivists made first contact with a grieving Earth. It is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy over most internal affairs while still recognizing the suzerainty of a Collaborators sovereign state without being its direct possession. Upon realizing that humanity's unbound curiosity may be useful to them, the Screk offered their ability to travel the stars in exchange for Earth's nations to be protectorates. This led to the armed forces across the world to be merged into the Terran Expeditionary Forces. Mankind is united in a message of peace and love, albeit under a corrupted and perverted version created by their Collaborators. It would later reorganized into the Greater Terran Empire.

## History

At the time of the Earhart Flotilla’s departure, the nations of Earth had detected seemingly artificial broadcasts of repeating, mathematical patterns. While unequivocal proof of alien life had not yet been found, it was no longer easily dismissed as purely science fiction. The records of when the Screk first arrived in the Solar System were lost in the war that followed. The exact course the conflict took was similarly consumed. Only the craters where once stood ancient cities of mankind, carefully recorded by hidden Confederate Drones, hint at the full extent of the cataclysm. The Screk were an ancient civilization, possessing knowledge and technology far beyond the realm of human understanding. But their vast empire had been consumed, and what remained became obsessed with the study of lost glories. Why they chose to conquer humanity, to travel well beyond their borders to a distant part of the galaxy and ignore every other species on the way, could not be explained. But choose the human race they did.

The United Terran Protectorates emerged from the end of the Earth as a captive state. Bound to serve the will of the Screk and help them reassert their power across the universe. As history was rewritten and forgotten, what remained of mankind became willing collaborators, expanding into space and reaping the benefits of their servitude. When the first representatives of the Antares Confederacy encountered the United Terran Protectorates within the halls of the galactic community, they were not treated as long lost brothers and sisters, but with open contempt. Only in the decades that followed, was it discovered that this had been, at least in part, a ruse. The few Terran diplomats and support staff that passed messages to the Antares Confederacy, always disappeared soon after, but the information they relayed was horrifying. Not every detail was revealed to Antares during this first address, but the base facts were clear. Earth was a prison, in which millions toiled as slaves and playthings for their overlords. Whatever power the UTP might have achieved was directed towards the Screk’s adversaries, with Terran fleets and Terran armies used as tools to enslave whole species and nations. And while the occasional smuggled message revealed the presence of a small resistance, the idea of a full-scale rebellion was unlikely, if not impossible. Liberation, if it ever came, would likely not arise from within.

Agreements and acts were passed by the legislature of the Confederate parliament in secret, to maintain the lie that the governments of Antares did not know the fate of Earth. The public Antares Confederacy learned about the existence of the UTP upon the entry of the Confederacy into the Galactic Community. This meeting was a complete shock to the descendants of the lost colonists of the Earhart Flotilla. No revelation of the government's knowledge about the UTP before this meeting was made at that time.

1. ↑ https://www.templin.institute/news/2020/7/23/the-united-terran-protectorates
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-K8cDuMY9k
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfZrd\_u8oE
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5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDr3eg34e4Y&t=335s