The United federation of Colonies

## United Federation of Colonies (UFC)

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## **General Information:**

**The United Federation of Colonies** (UFC) was founded officially on the 9/6/2407 mid way through the Loyalist uprising. The United Federation of Colonies better known as the UFC was born out of the remnant of the true UFI during Admiral Ben Davis' coup d'état in 2407. The UFC contains multiple Human colonies. the main 7 being; **Earth**, **Alpha Centauri**, **Epsilon**, **Sirius**, **Capra**, **Blacksun** and **Regulus**. The UFC Navy is run by the High Command comprising of **Grand Admiral Jonathan.W.Beach**, **Admiral Darren Shepheard**, **Admiral Paul Sparks**, **Vice Admiral Stella Collins** and **Vice Admiral Sam**, despite being the founders Grand Admiral Beach decided to form a Civilian council with each colony electing a representative. it was decided that all Division leaders would report to them, this was done in order to avoid marshal law. The UFC is currently engaged in multiple conflicts throughout the quadrant with a war against the G-Corp remnant and the remains of the Loyalists but most recently the Collective.

## **Divisions**

* **UFC Navy**
* **UFC Army**
* UFC Science
* **UFC Intelligence**
* **UFC Red Cross**
* **UFC Special Forces**

## **Formation of UCE: (2097)**

the **U**nited **C**ountries of **E**arth (UCE) was formed in 2097 by British Prime Minister Alan Augusta with the goal of reaching the stars. the first interplanetary craft was launched in 2101 one year after Alan Augusta's death during a plane crash. the first interplanetary craft named the S.S-Enterprise named after the famous star trek vessel and outfitted with the new and improved jump drive mark 1.2 successfully made it to Alpha Centauri in late 2102 after just under 2 years in space.

## **2nd Insurrectionist War: (2381-2389)**

In 2381 a group called the insurrectionists re-emerged and seized power on 3 of Humanities 11 colonies and began a brutal campaign against the UCE and CBR. During the War multiple new ship classes were designed to better aid in the re-taking of the lost colonies. In 2387 20 UCE Ships engaged Insurrectionist forces over Capra**Capra** during the battle a fatal flaw was discovered in the Nacelle design of Starships, if the connecting struts between the Starships body and the nacelle's was struck in the correct place the fuel and power lines inside them would suffer a catastrophic failure, only 3 ship classes were immune to this flaw; **Constitution Class**, **Hiawatha Class** and **Erebus Class** due to their nacelle struts having increased armour and failsafe's, luckily all Insurrectionist ships in the battle were destroyed and by the time the Insurrectionists discovered this flaw it was too late. After thousands of deaths the insurrection was finally put down and forced to surrender after then Vice Admiral **Jonathan.W.Beach** led the largest fleet yet seen in the quadrant and methodically eliminated all insurrectionist leadership until they eventually surrendered no longer able to continue. The quadrant lay in peace. After the war all ships with Nacelles with the exception of the 3 ship classes not effected were mothballed due to the weakness.

## **Formation of the UFI (2390)**

After the end of the 2nd Insurrectionist War in 2389 there was serious demand to change the name of the faction as it was seen as un-inclusive to other colonies that provided more to the war effort than **Earth**. A vote was held across all colonies and eventually a year after the war ended the name UFI was chosen for the Colonies, the colours were also changed from dark and light grey to dark grey and red to further emphasise the change in the faction.

## **Early G-Corp Civil War: (2404)**

In 2404 when then just **Darren Shepperd** and **Sam** where shot down over Mars by the vile corporation known as G-Corp. G-Corp held massive economic power in the quadrant and rapidly used it's merchant defence fleet along side secretly built warships and superweapons to assault UFI targets across the quadrant. on the 11/4/2404 **Darren Shepperd** and **Sam** encountered Admiral James Rafferty and his taskforce sent to mars to destroy the G-Corp presence, **Darren** and **Sam** proceeded to aid in the assault resulting in their ship the Artemis taking critical damage, fearing the ships explosion would set of the bomb buried into Mars' core **Darren** made the controversial decision to do an in atmosphere jump with a damaged reactor, resulting in the Artemis opening a temporal vortex and shooting it one year into the future.

## **G-Corp Civil War: (2404-2406)**

During the end of 2404 G-Corp was thought destroyed. however on the 14/10/2405 Then **Captain Stella Collins** received a transmition from thought lost former **Captain Darren Shepperd** who had crashed on Triton and was locked in combat with G-Corp forces. Rushing to their aid **Stella Collins** and her starship the UFI Redeemer reached Triton and fended off G-Corp force's long enough for **Darren** and **Sam** to make it aboard before making their escape. **Stella Collins** would be injured minutes later forcing **Darren Shepperd** to step in re-taking his former rank of Captain to take command of the Redeemer. soon after when now officially **Captain Darren Shepperd** was given his new command, the Hammerhead Class UFI Athena **Sam** was officially promoted to Commander to serve as **Captain Darren's** XO. G-Corp would continue their campaign led by the Dreaded second in command known only as "The Admiral" onboard his dreaded flagship rained terror across the quadrant forcing the mostly docile Combat Blockade Runners (CBR) to get involved. however on the 27/8/2405 in command of the X Fleet with the flagship Dawn under Heaven **Captain Darren Shepperd** as well as recently promoted **Captain Sam** as well as **Captain Stella Collins** managed to kill "The Admiral" which they believed was the end of G-Corp. little to their knowledge G-Corp once again went underground with only select fleets still active to hold the line and keep the UFI occupied and on the 3/2/2406 G-Corp re-emerged fully with their new flagship, housing a super weapon. the atlas laser. the G-Corp Emperor ordered mars to be burnt to a crisp thinking the UFI would buckle under such a show of power mars and it's defence feet where annihilated. however this plan would backfire as **Grand Admiral Jonathan.W.Beac**h re-directed all forces to crush G-Corp once and for all, the now **Admiral Darren Shepperd** along with his new flagship the science cruiser UFI Challenger were put in charge of the systematic destruction of G-Corp. **Admiral Darren** along with **Captain Sam** led several crushing strikes against G-Corp pushing them all the way back to the G-Corp capital world of **Azerfar** which was promptly invaded and captured. during the final hours of G-Corp resistance **Admiral Darren** and **Captain Sam** stormed the G-Corp emperors palace and killed their Emperor but not before **Admiral Darren** was shot and wounded. less than an hour later all G-Corp resistance would come to an end

## **Loyalist Uprising: (2407)**

on the 19/4/2407 Admiral John Davis had gathered a large group of individuals that believed **Grand Admiral Jonathan.W.Beach** could have prevented the G-Corp civil war and was thus unfit to command the UFC Navy. John Davis ordered one of his followers aboard the UFI Phoenix to sabotage the jumpdrive and reactors while the ship was observing the gamma wormhole causing the ship to crash into it. Believing he had killed the Grand Admiral his next step was to eliminate **Jonathan.W.Beach's** closest supporters. Blaming **Admiral Darren Shepperd** and **Captain Sam** for his death and listing other such as **Vice Admiral Stella Collins** as co-conspirators Admiral John Davis gained complete control over the UFI within hours. he then changed his title to Supreme Admiral as he wanted no association with the old Grand Admiral. Evading capture many members of the old UFI who didn't believe Admiral Davis' lies escaped and formed many different resistance cells across the quadrant the 2 largest being the Chimera Cell under the joint command of **Admiral Darren Shepperd** and **Captain Sam** with the flagship being the UFC Sanctuary and the True Believer Cell under the command of **Vice Admiral Collins** with the flagship being the UFC Redeemer. during the conflict a mysterious informant known as *Red Fox* fed information to the resistance cells across the quadrant until his discovery as Lieutenant John Murphy. however on the 6/6/2407 a strange signal was transmitted on all channels. coming from the UFI Phoenix which had not been destroyed but much like the Artemis during the G-Corp Civil war had been pushed into a temporal vortex troughing the ship into the future. Hearing the call both the Chimera Cell and True Believer Cell rushed to the transmition linking up and forming the United Federation of Colonies after **Admiral Darren Shepperd** revealed the survival of the Grand Admiral in his speech to the quadrant 9 of the 11 Colonies including Earth joined the UFC abandoning Davis and his Loyalists. with this new found support the UFC opened a new campaign against the Loyalist brining them all the way to **Earth** where at the sacrifice of the UFC Athena Supreme Admiral Davis was killed when the ship rammed into the command deck of Starbase 1, ending the Loyalist uprising on the 12/7/2407

## **Collective War: (2408-2409)**

On the 3/1/2409 during a planet wide battle between the Loyalist remnant and the UFC on the planet **Blacksun**3 vessels of unknown origin and design entered UFC scanning range, after numerous attempts at communication the ships took control of UFC communication frequencies and broadcast a message across the quadrant; “This is the Collective, surrender your lives and planets in the name of the ‘Great One’, resist and you will become casualties of the Holy Journey”, soon after 20 more vessels of the same design entered orbit around **Blacksun**, they spread across the planet like an infestation, destroying UFC, Loyalist and civilian targets alike, within 24 hours of the first sighting of the Collective the call was given to evacuate **Blacksun**, the Collective forces moved quickly, destroying the Epsilon shipyards only 48 hours after first contact, they moved quickly and with armour that only 406mm shells or bigger could breach, Collective warships steamrolled fleet after fleet with no signs of slowing down, they snuck up on and boarded the UFC *Commonwealth* sabotaging it’s main reactor and forcing it to crash, the ship was so badly damaged that after returning to UFC space it was deemed a liability and was forced into drydock for combat repairs, however they wouldn’t finish in time. The Collective met fierce resistance at the CBR capital world of **Regulus**, the CBR resistance was so dug in with the once heart of art and culture in the quadrant turned into a fortress world, the Collective bombarded the planet from orbit, melting cities and causing the largest loss of life in the history of the quadrant. Only weeks later the Collective jumped into **Earth’s** orbit, after setting up a jamming station to prevent a distress call from reaching UFC reinforcements, it only took 5 days for the Home world of Humanity to fall under Collective occupation, with the remains of the UFC as well as a small band of civilians surviving the siege of **Earth** to go on to form a resistance against the Collective.