Faction

A faction describes a group of people or actors with a similar goal or agenda.

## Summary

In the past many factions had risen and fallen in the Evochron galaxy, most of them clans, but also major parties like the Richton sphere in the west, the Renegade empire in the north or the Rebel Alliance. Nowadays they all fall into one of four brackets; they are either trying to be independant, support the Federation's attempt to liberate the galaxy from Alliance control, reaffirm the supremacy and control of the galaxy by the Alliance of Sol or are fighting to destroy humanity and Earth like the alien species of the Vonari.

Most star systems have been swept up in the war, victims of circumstance, target of past atrocities or occupations of strategic position. The few that would fight and die for one of the factions long after the Insanity War had nearly doomed them has become very low. Most would prefer independence, a goal that at least on paper the Federation shares, but not the Alliance.

## The Evochron Galaxy

Evochron was discovered and colonized in the late 22nd to early 23rd century and later the Vonari discovered humanity and launched a brutal subjugation war to stop its rise to power and attacked Pearl. This horrifying slaughter and event would lead to the full milizarization of the Evochron galaxy and the formation of the Alliance of Sol, at least according to the Alliance in 2880.

If one listens to the Federation and surviving historic archives the Evochron galaxy had already been militarized as the predecessor of the Alliance of Sol rejected the independence of the new star systems and brutally crushed any separatist movement which led to the first civil war. Regardless of origin and founding myths, the two are at war today and the Vonari profit from their infighting as Sirius and Cerulean endured major purges and Mars got nearly completely wiped out.

## Major Powers

### The Alliance of Sol

This entity was once known as the Terran Alliance, later became the Alliance of Sol or just shorthand the Alliance, but is also commonly referred to by their own members and enemies as the Empire (see Arvoch Conflict intro).

Initially the Terran Alliance was a joint venture of several Earth nations to profit equally during the age of stellar exploration and colonization in the late 22nd and early 23rd century after the invention of space-folding technology. At some point the Alliance began to control more assets outside of Earth than it did at home and this led to a shift of perspective. This new perspective led the Terran Alliance to dissolve and reform as a semi-united new government of powerful planets and colonies like Argus, Alpha Centauri and Sirius. The new government was called the Alliance Council and represented the majority of people of the empire. The lesser colonies didn't get a say. As such when the colonies began to create their own colonies and demanded their own regional autonomy, the nations of the Terran and now Sol Alliance agreed to not allow it. They wanted full strategic control of the local assets and resources. This led to the first civil war and early seeds of the Federation in the shape of the UFA, the United Federation Allegiance.

Only those loyal to the Alliance High-Command and the Alliance Council were allowed to operate the most profitable and important businesses. Earth had become what it later would ascribe to itself, an (oligarchic) Empire not less exploitative than their historic counterparts.

Among the major achievements of the Alliance of Sol are the early colonization of the southern Evochron quadrant, the discovery and colonization of Sapphire and the expansion into and exploitation of the northern Evochron quadrant. Their feats would draw the ire of their soon longterm rivals and enemies, the Vonari. Humanity had stepped into their turf and the Alliance would bleed for it. With their successful challenge to the Vonari, the Alliance and Earth became their prime target for invasion and failing to conquer humanity, extermination. The canines didn't plan to share Evochron with dangerous monkeys.

For most of the Vonari-Human history, it was the Alliance that was the primary target of their attack and retaliation with the devastating assaults on Sol leading to their paranoia, distrust and creation of the Earth Planetary Defense Matrix which kills anyone without explicit invitation to land on Earth. Further isolation and distrust between Sol and its lesser members arose after the long and dangerous third Vonari war in human history which devasted the empire, destroyed Argus and collapsed most of their sphere. Rebel uprisings and betrayals prompted them to nuke human colonies and their own people and systems with Fulcrum weapons to stop the Vonari and their rebel sympathizers. The Alliance never showed any regret for this action and continued this brutal behavior into the genocidal Insanity War.

The Alliance did join the Federation in three major alliances, two against the Vonari and one against the Renegade Empire. Several other lesser agreements and accords allowed the free flow of goods or troops to support shared endeavors. Most of these have been voided in the Insanity War, but the Vonari neutrality agreement for the "Joint Navy" has been reinstated after the major invasion and the Alliance's brutal loss in Cygnus in 2874 in the following years.

During the Insanity War the massacred Thuban and they even went so far as to abandon their own northern colonies to their fate against the Vonari in a hope the Second Federation would suffer major losses against the invading forces to win the Insanity War. It was a decision they paid for with the desertion of major battle groups and super carriers that joined the Federation to protect the lives of those left in the north.

The history of the Alliance is littered with these events, as their hubris and arrogance ignores why those they "fought to protect" would betray them over their perceived misdeeds. Depending on who one would ask some of those misdeeds or betrayals were more than warranted. They are the 'baddies'.

The Alliance still considers all of Evochron its rightful empire and continues to expand and annex even systems that openly declare neutrality or independence and were never settled by the old empire. The brutal bombardment of Virgo, the extermination of the second Renegade homeworld in Lost Rucker and the reannexation of Rigel and Deneb are just a few examples of independent systems being brutally conquered or reconquered.

#### General Information

* Biggest Expansion: 2872 A.D. (Before the Cerulean Invasion and their loss in Cygnus)
* Biggest Population: 2402 A.D. (Before the destruction of Argus during the Arvoch Conflict / Potentially 2820 Pre-Insanity War)
* Historic Capital: Sol
* Current Administrative Capital: Pearl
* Current Military Headquarter: Alpha Centauri

#### Members

* Alpha Centauri star system
* Al's Quay star system
* Al's Quay II star system
* Aquila star system
* Capella star system
* Deneb star system
* Lost Rucker star system
* Onyx star system
* Orion star system
* Pearl star system
* Pices star system
* Rigel star system
* Rucker star system
* Sapphire star system
* Sirius star system
* Sol star system
* Thuban star system
* Vega star system
* Virgo star system

#### Disputed

* Arvoch star system - Warzone
* Lambda star system - East
* Argus star system - Warzone

#### Carrier Fleet

* Becker (1295 0 -3702)
	+ Alpha Centauri

* Providence (3500 0 -1500)
	+ Arvoch

* Phantom (-8 0 7)
	+ Sapphire

* Horizon (-2299 0 -3499)
	+ Argus / Sirius II

* Zenith (-2300 0 -3500)
	+ Argus / Sirius II

### The Second Federation

Born from the strife and will for freedom and self-determination of the 'lesser colonies' that were forced to slave away for the earth-like major colonies of the empire, the First Federation only came into existence, after the initial group the CFM (Colonial Federation Movement) had united under the banner of the UFA (United Federation Allegiance) and lost the first civil war. Following their loss or semi-victory in status quo, the UFA reformed to a more united body and government as the Federation with a proper presidency and senate.

The First Federation was known to grant self-government and autonomy to its peers and members like Virgo and later on Rigel, Iota and Deneb. It is unclear if the Second Federation and the remnant fleet still harbor the same sentiment, but their will to defend humanity above all else, even their own homeland, endures. In return and respect for this stance, among them are many former Alliance members that didn't share the sentiment of Alliance High-Command to abandon the northern colonies to their fate in hope the Vonari tear the Second Federation apart.

This draw and persuasion for freedom, self-determination and defense of their people is a common thread in the history of the Federation that after its full and recognized independence in the second civil war would lead to its galactic position as a guarantee of lesser systems against imperial ambitions of the Alliance.

As a less centralized and more open power, the secret infiltration of the Federation by Vonari loyalists had torn it apart by the Rebel Alliance in the Arvoch Conflict and left the Alliance to save humanity at great costs for the most part alone. However, once the dust had settled, the loose and more favorable governance of the Federation allowed the now liberated and independent systems of the former and now collapsed imperial sphere to find a protector that didn't demand access to all their resources. A side effect of the Federal civil war of the Arvoch Conflict was the creation of Richton between the Eastern Federal faction and the Argus survivors and Sirius. Most of which would later join the Federation proper during Richton's dissolution.

After the First Federation fell in a brave last stand and in the phase of fulcrum bombardments of Thuban, the survivors rebased to Sierra for the civilian government and Agate for their military headquarter. The second Federation uses the bulk of its fleet to push back against the Vonari in Sierra II and Cerulean II while holding the Vonari at bay in Talison II. Part of their super carrier fleet has defected from the Alliance, like the super carrier Arcturus and the legendary Nova that once struck fear into the Vonari of Sierra during the Arvoch Alliance war. This only occured due to the Alliance's plan to abandon the northern colonies to let the Federation get destroyed by their shared enemy. The navy would never accept this order and defected to the Second Federation.

Following the Cerulean invasion, the Second Federation continues the surveillance of Vonari space with cloaked stations and has a watchful eye on anything happening in the north. The Federation is responsible for the latest expansion of the gate network in the northwest into Agate and Sierra II while the Alliance effort stagnated and even failed in 2820 when trying to connect Atlas to Sapphire or Olympus.

#### General Information

* Biggest Expansion: 2468 A.D. (Pre-Dissolution War)
* Biggest Population: 2468 A.D. (Pre-Dissolution War / Theoretically Pre-Insanity War but no numbers are known)
* Historic Capital: Thuban
* Current Capital: Sierra
* Former Military Headquarter: Lambda, Fauston, Olympus
* Current Military Headquarter: Agate

#### Members

* Agate star system
* Aries star system
* Atlas star system
* Cygnus star system
* Emerald star system
* Fauston star system
* Iota star system
* Merak star system
* Olympus star system
* Sierra star system
* Talison star system

#### Disputed

* Cerulean II star system - Warzone
* Lambda star system - West
* Sierra II star system - Warzone
* Talison II star system - Warzone

#### Bridgehead

* Riftspace - Cloaked Listening Post
* Vonari star system - Cloaked Listening Post

#### Carrier Fleet

Total Carriers: 8 (8 of which are fighting Vonari)

* Verity (-2198 0 3618)
	+ Agate

* Nova (-2201 0 3802)
	+ Sierra II

* Omega (-2200 0 3800)
	+ Sierra II

* Intrepid (-2199 0 3801)
	+ Sierra II

* Griffin (100 0 2550)
	+ Talison II

* Hawk (2400 0 2500)
	+ Cerulean II

* Arcturus (2400 0 2501)
	+ Cerulean II

* Freedom (2399 0 2501)
	+ Cerulean II

#### Noteworthy

As the Alliance of Sol is the protagonist of most games even in Evochron Legacy the Federation's identification on the faction map initially remained "enemy". As such a player fighting for them would have a red sphere of influence with the Alliance in green and the legend of the map telling you red is the enemy. YOU are the enemy of the Empire of Sol.

This behavior and 'legacy' was later patched out during the UI overhaul. Nowadays the Federation is shown as green and Sol as enemy if one joins the FDN forces.

### Vonari

Vonari are a biogenic spacefaring race of canine bipeds with wolf-like appearance that value and respect strength above all else (see Renegades and Evochron Legacy Questline). Their ships are made of living materials and are self-regenerating. As such they resemble the Thargoids of the Elite Universe. Contrary to the Thargoids they seem to mimic human tactics and strategies and their ingenuity, implying they are another intelligent race and not a hivemind.

They were first encountered during the second civil war against the First Federation, even though the Alliance propaganda in 2880 would insist otherwise. Yet, the surviving history doesn't lie.

Initially the Vonari intended to conquer humanity and make them part of their own rising empire. They were centuries ahead in space technology, able to create artificial wormhole highways and in possession of the legendary Actarian Riftspace. To their dismay humanity soon proved more than they could handle and the entire invasion fleet got defeated. Shortly after they resumed their campaign against the dangerous Alliance on Earth that was able to challenge them. This time they tried to exterminate the planet, but failed again.

Ultimately the Vonari were defeated after major losses and humanity pushed further into Evochron. After another successful repel of their forces and the partial occupation of Vonarion itself, the Vonari went dormant and stopped using dangerous two-way wormholes to attack humanity as they could be used against them. They returned a near century later after they had undermined the two factions by building trust with humans that were led to believe they are a barbaric race. Proven wrong, they turned on their own people, believing the lies the Vonari fed them. The conflict the Vonari and Rebel Alliance would unleash is known as the Arvoch Conflict and was the worst Human-Vonari war in all recorded history.

Despite the setback of the Arvoch Conflict, the Vonari continued to challenge and harrass the weakened humanity again during several instances until the reawakened superpowers had grown too strong. They only returned after they weakened each other during the Dissolution War in Arvoch Alliance and were soundly defeated despite new rebel uprisings inside the Federation.

It was the devastating victory of the humans in Sierra in 2481 that truly shattered the Vonari. They didn't return to challenge humanity until about 100 years ago. After that they retook much of the borderlands they had lost and crushed most of the human colonies north of the gate network.

Despite other failed invasions like around Sirius and Sol in 2848 and beyond, they continued to inflict heavy damage on humanity. Sirius A for one was completely torched and depopulated and the planetary station destroyed. Outer Sol and Mars were near entirely eradicated and due to the burden of the galactic war this damage hasn't even been repaired yet. Further their most recent success is the total eradication of the Cerulean I population in July/August 2872, at least those that didn't escape or lived far off on the hidden Renegade blacksite. To this end they used an artificial wormhole near Vonarion and jumped right into Cerulean. The unprepared Alliance and their people had no chance to escape in time until the Federation could repel the invaders and took charge of defending the northeast of Evochron.

With humanities greatest asset against the Vonari being their gate network, in 2880 the Vonari put a long arranged cunning plan in motion to not only get access to hidden structures inside human occupied space to strike at Sol with strategic wormholes, but also to shatter humanities mobility by dividing them between several cut-off gate networks. The plan began before 2810 during their initial invasions. To this end they had begun to build hypergates, jumpgates that can be targeted from anywhere in Evochron space to jump to their destination and overwhelm the weakened humanity in a multifront war of high mobility and blitz. Unbeknownst to the Vonari, humanity has already uncovered their scheme and despite all quarrels among themselves is actively trying to sabotage it by forming the CRF, the Civilian Reserve Fleet. They also developed and equipped jump casters, which make most of the gate network useful and more efficient, but obsolete.

The current major Vonari war is about to reach its peak with both sides, Alliance and Federation, still fighting amongst themselves.

Only the Renegades have shown to treat the Vonari as anything else than a barbaric species and invaders, going as far as creating diplomatic agreements for a time when it was most beneficial for them. Despite this the Vonari destroyed their own holy world and Renegade homeworld "Paradise" during the Arvoch Conflict to prevent the Alliance to claim Riftspace.

#### Members

* Andromeda star system
* Riftspace
* Vonari star system

#### Noteworthy

All Vonari wreckages and cruiser have detailed maps of Vonari and Sierra, implying the major conflicts and hostility with humanity won't end until humanity retreats and ends intruding on THEIR space after they conceded to humanity to colonize the galaxy. They see Sierra as one of their core worlds and this likely will cause many major wars in the future in an attempt to destroy Earth, the Alliance and now the Federation. It is unlikely the Vonari will leave humanity in peace as long as they own Sierra.

The sabotage of the Atlas gate expansion may also have been the result of Vonari intervention, to prevent humanity to fortify the region and to spark a war between the two superpowers. They clearly wanted to hide their own local hypergate project. However, a Federation sabotage is still just as likely.

## Minor Powers

### The Renegades

Initially the Renegades as known by the superpowers and Mercenaries around 2300 were a collection of northern Evochron systems that banded together to take control of northern Evochron. They had technological superior equipment and very high mobility which led to many losses and one of the bloodiest and longest wars in history.

Their true origin was Paradise in Riftspace which they had taken from the Vonari during the Riftspace expedition in the late 23rd century by fulfilling a prophecy the Vonari honored until they finally decided to renege their neutrality agreement during the Arvoch Conflict and blew up the Paradise homeworld of the Renegades. The Renegade Empire was started by one of the Mercenaries that found Paradise alongside their brethren a few years later and the Empire officially dissolved after their death in 2363.

All loyalists and those worthy were allowed to join them in Paradise and Riftspace. Those left behind would go on to persist on the hidden worlds of Aries, Sapphire and Cerulean and kept trade routes open with Riftspace. Some of those left behind would use a Shefeld Gate to create a hard to reach but easy to return connection to Olympus in Wolf and found the Free System of Wolf in which all people had a haven and shelter as long as they didn't adhere to either superpower navy.

After the destruction of their homeworld in Paradise, the Renegades returned to Evochron and helped restore the anarchic and disorganized north. They reconnected with Wolf and their old blacksites, build new blacksites in Deneb and Pearl and supplied advanced technology to aid Mercenaries in their struggle to fight the Vonari.

The ultimate reward for their deeds in Evochron was the repurpose of the Rucker Shefeld Gate to connect to the Novachron blackhole that was still orbited by planets. Here they founded their new high-tech homeworld and helped guide Evochron from the shadows for centuries to come. Their main agenda was to support independence and free people among the stars, including the separatist movement in Deneb.

Naturally opposed to their ideology, after the Alliance had learned about Lost Rucker and gained control of Rucker itself, they invaded Novachron with massive force and bombed it to the ground. Robbed of their homeworld for a second time in the Insanity War, the Renegades were now once more refugees in the galaxy with a potential new beginning in the ashes of Cerulean.

#### General Information

* Biggest Expansion: 2300 A.D. (The Renegade Empire in the Evochron Wars)
* Biggest Population: 2300 A.D. (The Renegade Empire in the Evochron Wars)
* Historic Capital: Paradise in Riftspace
* Former Capital: Novachron in Lost Rucker
* Current Capital: NONE

#### Members

* Cerulean star system - Renegade Blacksite, Alliance devastated in the war and the Vonari Invasion, thus now de facto owned.

#### Bridgehead

* Aries star system - Unknown Blacksite
* Deneb star system - Unknown Blacksite
* Sapphire star system - Unknown Blacksite

#### Former

* Lost Rucker - Brutally conquered and purged by the Alliance during the Insanity War
* Pearl (Unknown) - Destroyed by invading Vonari from Andromeda in the Arvoch Alliance War
* Riftspace - Paradise got destroyed by the Vonari during Arvoch Conflict to prevent the Alliance from taking it

The Virgo Unknown is not part of the Renegade planets, but their own smuggling operation.

### Free People of Wolf

An off-shot of the Renegade Empire after its dissolution in 2363, the Free People of Wolf were not allowed to join the Renegades in Riftspace. They were seen as unsavory elements of the former empire. Instead they got paid for their service and they used their reward and share of Paradise-technology to establish a new home for themselves deep behind an Olympus wormhole with a Shefeld Gate back to Olympus Prime.

Wolf soon became an infamous haven for outlaws, refugees and political exiles during the anarchy phase Post-Arvoch Conflict and would aid their former allies the Renegades after their fall from heaven after Paradise got destroyed.

The system of Wolf has gone 'rogue' during the Insanity War and all planetary facilities kill any pilot trying to land or get close to their planet after it had an open door policy during the clan era. This reaction may have followed the purge of Novachron and the Renegades by Alliance High-Command. Their planet shall not be bombed! The airspace around Wolf itself remains contested.

### The Actarians

The Actarians are the most developed species in the known galaxies of Evochron and Andromeda and only occupy one system in Evochron. Their likely origin itself is in Andromeda and their current base of operation is solely used to observe the Vonari-Human conflicts.

They are the implied creators of the Riftspace wormhole network, designed the Arvoch Relic that shattered the Arvoch system and showed several galactic charts to teleport to as well and are at least a Tier II civilization. Incurring their wrath could be an apocalyptic decision and all humans involved with them have avoided any confrontation.

The Actarians are hostile to all foreigners that enter their outpost airspace without permit, but invited legendary and respectable mercenaries in the 25th century to settle alongside them. It is likely they also have chosen some Vonari to live among them and gave them the prophecy on Riftspace about who should control it. As such thanks to them neither species can truly be eradicated as long as the Actarians guard Actarius.

It is unclear if the Actarians will prevent the Insanity War from escalating towards apocalypse.

## Former Powers

### Richton Confederacy

Richton initially was the exile military command that struggled to keep the western and northern Federation together from Lambda once the Thuban Senate got attacked and the president went missing. Until the Reformed Federation took control of the central systems, Richton fought the rebels in Thuban and Cygnus alone.

Later after the destruction of Argus, Richton took in most of the abandoned and homeless fleets and offered support in the desparate defense of Sirius. With the Alliance of Sol reeling after the war and entrenched in isolation, while the Federation was still in a massive civil war, Sirius and the Richton military government formed a loose coalition, the Richton Confederacy. They would work together to help pacify Federal space, rebuild Sirius and protect the western galaxy.

After the Arvoch Conflict, Richton quickly became famous for its reverse engineered Vonari technology of self-regenerating rockets and enhanced jump drive technology. As a neutral third power and buffer zone between the Alliance and Federation while housing people from both, Richton assured a ceasefire during the dark ages of Evochron and the rebuilding of the north.

Differences in allegiance during the readmittance to the Federation would lead to its end. Between the indepenent and self-assured systems of Iota, Rigel and Orion and the urge of Sirius to conserve its massive influence as one of the two major population centers which it wouldn't be in the bigger Federation, it returned to its roots and old seat and influence on the Alliance Council in Sol.

The return of Sirius as the major colony of the southwest after the end of Argus would lead to renewed claims of the Alliance against the autonomous systems of Rigel and Iota and renewed claims on Orion. Alongside Rucker and Deneb this would lead to the R(igel) and R(ucker) crisis and ultimately the Richton Dissolution War between the two superpowers that rages into Arvoch Alliance.

#### General Information

* Biggest Expansion: ~2450 (including control of clans and economic influence through technology)
* Biggest Population: ~2450 (before Sirius returned to the Alliance and the remaining systems joined the Federation)
* Former Capital: Sirius, later Thuban (Planet Richton) after they rejoined the Federation as a subdivision after the civil war
* Former Military Headquarter: Unknown

### Rebel Alliance

A collective of defectors and traitors from the two superpowers on one side or self-declared Vonari sympathizers willing to live as part of their coming empire of strength, the rebels of the Federation and Alliance banded together into one entity. Prior to the war they undermined both superpowers and took root in many systems of executive and government until they finally struck in 2402 and caused the initial Arvoch Conflict in Sapphire with the blockade to conquer the north undisturbed which soon escalated to the Federal Civil War with the attack on the Thuban Senate and the Arvoch Conflict with the invasion of the Vonari in 2404.

The unity of the Rebel Alliance grew during their chain of successes, but ultimately broke down when the Alliance successfully destroyed the western Vonari bridgehead in Arvoch and crushed them at Cerulean prior. Afterwards most of the former Alliance navy defectors surrendered to the empire. The Federal part of the Rebel Alliance continued the war until the Vonari were defeated and then went on to declare their own independence in Sierra, Aries, Pearl, Rucker and Deneb to continue the fight against the Federation in the continuous Federal Civil War.

The traitorous actions of the Rebel Alliance ultimately caused the destruction of Argus and the shattering of the Federation into the temporary split nation of Richton, the Reformed Federation and some remaining rebel territories.

All territory gained by the Rebel Alliance during the Arvoch Conflict from the Alliance like Rucker, Deneb and Pearl would ultimately fall to the Federation, as the Alliance was exhausted after the Vonari war and couldn't reclaim it. This would cause future tensions between the two superpowers after the empire recovered from the loss of Argus and their attrition filled revenge campaign on Sierra and the Vonari planet in Sierra II. This included the massive losses prior to the sinfall and massacre of Merak.

#### General Information

* Biggest Expansion: 2405 A.D. (Height of the Vonari Offensive during the Arvoch Conflict)
* Biggest Population: 2405 A.D. (Height of the Vonari Offensive during the Arvoch Conflict)
* Former Capitals: Deneb and Sierra
* Former Military Headquarter: Deneb and Sierra

## Independent Systems

Lost to war, devastation and massacres or simply forgotten deep space remnants of the two fallen behemoths, these systems have decided to join neither side. Which doesn't means that one side might not come to take hold of them regardless. Independent stations will shot at military ships of either faction, causing these systems to drift into a perpetual disputed state.