Gimoan Alliance

The **Gimoan Alliance** (also called the Gimoan Coalition, the Gimoan Union or simply the Alliance) was a galactic, intergovernmental, political coalition formed during the late-First Dawn Epoch, OE. It was originated by the Gimoan peoples of Old Astur, and its principle agenda was to prevent hostility between its members, promote peace, security, accessibility to interstellar exploration and positive trade relations for all nations, and to cooperatively study and universally share information regarding the state of the Galaxy. Its headquarters were located on international territory on the Gimoan capital and homeworld, Old Astur. It lasted from the 3rd Age of the First Dawn Epoch to the 2nd Age of the Chaotic Epoch, a total of 1,181 years. It is regarded as the largest collective organisation in galactic history.

## History

### Origin

In the early 2nd Age of the First Dawn Epoch, OE, the galactic nation, the Peoples of Gimoa, comprising the collective Gimoan interstellar territories, and the State of Vale, the centralised nation of the Valens, made what is considered to be the first known moment of contact between two distinct alien nations in the Galaxy. The moment instigated tentative relations between the two nations, and progress was slow to develop methods of effective communication and trust. The Gimoa-Vale Pact was signed in 199, 2nd Age, First Dawn Epoch, a treaty that declared an allegiance between the two states, effectuating open trade, a unification of scientific and technological interstellar affairs, a unification of militaristic and defensive systems against interior and exterior hostility, and shared knowledge of the Galaxy. By the start of the 3rd Age, the first international passport was developed, permitting individuals from either nation to visit, work, study and potentially gain citizenship in either the Gimoan territories or Vale.

The 3rd Age of the First Dawn Epoch saw a marked boom in interstellar exploration with the union of the two nations. The Galaxy was mapped for the first time by two contributing states, effectively doubling the scope and accessibility for travel. Although both Gimoa and Eluvth (the system containing the planet Vale) occupied the dense stellar region of The Wash, the Valen homeworld effectively bridged a small stellar void between the Gimoan territories and the star systems on the periphery of the Galactic Core. By 128, 3rd Age, expeditions to this bright, densely-packed region of the Galaxy were underway. However, the Valen and Gimoan explorers had not accounted for the volatility and inhospitable nature of the Galactic Core's comparatively young, volatile star systems. Detection technology indicated lifeforms existed within the system of Glimr, wherein a sole gaseous planet orbited an extremely large star. The planet itself was orbited by numerous terrestrial moons, but the extreme gravity of the planet made it impossible to enter the system. Contact was made, however, in 185, 3rd Age, after many gruelling attempts, with the Bizms, Glimric natives who inhabited the hostile planet's numerous moons. In 200, 3rd Age, the Gimoa-Vale Pact was expanded to include the Bizms, and the union of the three races became known simply as the Alliance.

### Early Alliance

Efforts to link the three nations via planetary colonisation were in quick effect during the mid-3rd Age. Terraforming technology was in its infancy during this time, but the technological ingenuity of the Valens meant new developments happened quickly. About 60% of terrestrial planetary systems between the Gimoan territories and the system of Glimr were occupied by Allied outposts, research facilities and settlements. Many previously uncontacted alien races came into the rapidly widening scope of the Alliance, namely the ferociously militaristic race of Kenajors of the planet Blue Moigiar, the already technologically advanced Sly-kies of Bagoglium, and the largely nomadic inhabitants of the planet Tullis, the Tinggi. Most of the major exploratory expeditions were spearheaded by Gimoan spacefarers, and most of the newly contacted nations were welcomed into what they deemed to be the *Gimoan* Alliance, a name which eventually stuck as much of the Alliance's social and economic power shifted towards the Peoples of Gimoa.

The Alliance established its governing capital on the Gimoan homeworld of Old Astur, where the heads of state and other high officials would make decisions concerning the Alliance through a democratic system of public voting; though the Alliance itself remained a federal coalition, with each nation under the banner of the Alliance effectuating its own laws and governing its own populace, more or less independently of the Allied capital. Under-developed nations, for example those which were pre-galactic prior to contact with the Alliance, would receive certain benefits from the Alliance depending on their economic status and/or distance from other Allied systems. The priority was to equalise the Allied nations so that one was not more powerful than the other and thus no Allied state would be exploited by another. This, however, was only able to occur through the governance at Old Astur. This was the first multi-stellar, international government system ever developed, and would set a precedent for the rest of galactic history.

### Height of power

The Gimoan Alliance was officially established in 350, 3rd Age, First Dawn Epoch, OE; and by the mid-1st Age of the following epoch, the Emergent Epoch, a time defined by the Alliance's emerging power, much of the Central Galaxy existed under its jurisdiction. Dubbed the "Green Galaxy" after the emblematic colour of the Alliance, a historically significant colour for the Gimoans of Old Astur, the Central Galaxy prospered during this time, with trade between nations spanning from one side of the Alliance to the other. Early galactic trade routes were established, setting the groundwork for future trade routes still used today. All across the Galaxy, new settlements were founded and innumerable new discoveries were being made. Interstellar technology was being developed at a faster pace than ever before, with ever more funding from Old Astur. Spacefarers would now be able to travel farther and faster between systems at more affordable costs than before. Crucially, under the Alliance, it was now possible for civilians to travel readily from star to star.

During this 1st Age of the Emergent Epoch, the previously secretive Bizms started to reveal some of their great mysteries to the predominantly Gimoan and Valen historians and anthropologists who occupied the Glimric moons. By now, there were Bizms inhabiting systems all throughout the Alliance, mostly employed as chroniclers of events, using their telepathic system of collating information in what was called the Bizmic Libraries. These archives were then transcribed by the Bizms at Glimr into accessible texts, the Bizmic Chronicles. The texts were so numerous that an entire planet, the dwarf-planet Hranar, was dedicated to their preservation. The Alliance of the Emergent Epoch became obsessed with unravelling the scientific mysteries of the Galaxy, unifying the Galaxy's nations, and documenting everything scrupulously.

The 2nd Age saw widespread expansion of the charted Galaxy. Efforts were made to reinforce Allied defensive strength, and the first official military of the Alliance was established, the International Space Force of the Alliance (ISFA). The ISFA comprised a majority Tinggi personnel, posted at the widening frontiers of the known Galaxy and occupying military stations scattered throughout the Alliance. Each nation maintained its own independent military, meanwhile, none of which were allowed to enter another nation's territories. Only the ISFA was permitted to move freely between nations if the right permit was attained. Special forces within the military, such as the Kenajor Elites, held lofty positions of militaristic power; and in 177, 2nd Age, the then-Chief of the Kenajor Elites, Krusudjak seized control of a planetary system on the outskirts of the Alliance over a long dispute with another prominent Kenajor official. Similar minor insurrections began to occur more frequently as the Alliance continued to focus its attentions on expanding its exploratory endeavours at its fringes.

By the 3rd Age of the Emergent Epoch, the Gimoan Alliance was at the height of its power and at its greatest territorial extent. It reached as far as the Allempi territories in the Antirebian Arm to the small Zongite nation in the Antiopian; from the Worrel state of Worrelia in the Draian Arm to the mysterious Eblarops in the Opian. However, at these extreme corners of the Allied Galaxy, the long-established tenet of equality for all nations under the banner of the Alliance struggled to be maintained due to internal corruption and external influences from the Outer Galaxy.