United Sol Trade Alliance

Emblem of the United Sol Trade Alliance

## Overview

The USTA, or United Sol Trade Alliance, is a coalition that formed during the Cataclysm. It was originally formed between the old Earth conglomerate states, the North Eurasian Socialist Republic (NESR), and the East Asian Megastate (EAM). The NESR was one of the largest superpowers in the world, having risen to power from the ashes of the USSR nearly a hundred years before it, ready to start a Cold War with the EAM.

For such an alliance to arise between these factions was quite surprising, given their opposing roles in bringing about the Cataclysm, leading to rampant speculation and conspiracy theories.

The most fanciful of such theories being that the Cataclysm and the subsequent evacuation of Earth was entirely planned, as a way to force the human race out of their paradise prison, to force humanity to become stronger, more resilient, and now capable of resisting astronomical extinction.

Another more likely possibility includes the fact that the extremely nationalistic members of all these factions likely died out following the Cataclysm. Most of what remained perhaps saw the terrible folly of this disaster and vowed to never let it happen again. And thus, bitter enemies bent on annihilating each other were now close allies, ready to turn a new page in human history.

Regardless of how such an alliance could form, those nations were soon joined by many more nations eager to evacuate, and the burgeoning USTA soon became much more than its original founding nations, and soon the only identity that remained was the alliance.

The USTA was the first faction to evacuate straight to the outer solar system. While the Republic of Free People was dumping their people on Luna, Mars, and the asteroid belt, the USTA was taking years and years to dump their people on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, sometimes keeping refugees stuck inside their colony ships for years. Other factions soon followed their lead, rushing for the resource rich fields of ice and methane of Uranus and Neptune.

Over the course of hundreds of years, the USTA has held an aggressive colonization and resource exploitation policy, strip mining all the asteroids and moons it can, and then dumping colonists to the furthest reaches of the solar system, as far out as Eris and Haumea. Despite their utter worthless strategic nature, the Kuiper Belt belongs completely to the USTA, as no other faction has been foolish enough to exploit such bodies. In addition, their reach extends as far inward as several orbital stations around Mercury, and enjoys an omnipresence across the entire asteroid belt.

To this day, they remain the largest faction in the Solar System by GDP, and celestial claims.

## Characters

* USF Captain Jake Charron
* USF Captain Aleksandr Zhou
* USF Captain Albert Gaertner
* USF Commodore Tatiana Vanhanen
* USF Rear Admiral Pavel Sullivan
* USF Lieutenant Commander Nathan Xiping
* USF Admiral Celestina "Overkill" Voitenko
* USF Lieutenant Commander Jessica Tlaloc
* USF Rear Admiral Jesper Pacari
* USF Commodore Ezra Dugar
* USF Rear Admiral Ebele Smith
* USF Fleet Admiral Brian Jefferson

## Ship Names

* Screaming Silence
* The Nothing
* Hateweaver
* Ocean of Sorrow
* Cage of Ashes
* Temple of Decay
* The Unmaker
* Dream Shatterer
* Dead Sky
* Dusk Inferno
* Hope Void
* Tomorrow's Despair
* Planet Butcher
* The Gift of Loss
* Volcanic Rain
* Misery Spinneret
* Vengeance Eternal
* Cosmic Eraser
* Terra Requiem
* Solar Tomb
* Shattered Sun
* Wasted Sun
* Entropy
* The Inner Darkness
* Progress Devourerer
* Peaceeater
* Wasteland of a Type I
* Cosmic Epitaph
* Molten Tears
* Desolation River
* Plasma Rain
* Symphony of Violence
* Infinity Eclipse
* Volcanic Glory
* Soul Unraveler
* Nuclear Summer
* Faraday Prison
* Atomic Scar
* Solace Sieve
* Fusion Parasite
* Dead Seraphim Rain
* Shiver
* Scattered Equinox
* Molten Sky
* Nadir
* Heat Death
* Splintered Spacetime
* Bleeding Soul
* Carrion Galaxy
* Weeping Star

### Flagship Names

* The Apocalypse Engine
* The God Machine
* The Chaos Device
* Angel Wreckage
* The Extinction Dream
* The Genocide God
* Cosmic Abortion
* Stillborn Star