The Greater Terran Commonwealth

The Greater Terran Commonwealth is a multi-system authoritarian force spread across the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. Hailing originally from the planet of Junast, the Commonwealth was a predominantly-human federation devoted to exploration of other star systems. Their exploratory fleet soon became too top-heavy, however, with too few resources to effectively fuel their large fleet of weaponless scout cruisers. They soon resorted to heavy taxation of their Core Worlds, as well as an efficient but ruthless mass-mining campaign that spread across every world they colonized. This ruined the planetary environments of a whole 10 Star Systems on the fringe of their territory, creating what is now known as the Aurens Dead Zone. When the locals of the now-ruined Aurens System resorted to organized raids of Commonwealth Space in revenge, the Commonwealth began a massive campaign of arming their vessels, creating a formalized army and an entire fleet of armed frigates and battleships. They defeated the Aurens Insurrection, but soon faced yet another economic crisis when they were forced to contend with the resource costs of this even larger fleet. This spiraled into a long era of imperialist conquest and expansion by the Commonwealth of the surrounding systems, which continued to this day.

The Commonwealth, soon after hearing of Earth's reappearance, desired to colonize the Jewel of Sol and turn it into a haven for their social 1%. They arrived in force, primarily with supply ships, and began the process of terraforming the planet. The Commonwealth soon began to exert more and more influence in national politics after the foundation of their puppet government, the Commission for the Reconstruction of Earth, and began to slowly annex Earth through their Member-States in the Commission. Some have become wary of this, and have begun a secret campaign of re-arming in order to openly combat the Commonwealth before it can take over Earth entirely.

## Major settlements on Earth

The Commonwealth generally allows the Commission to act autonomously, at least until the Concordat Insurrection and the mass-consolidation of the Commission's member-states. However, due to Earth's position as a haven for the rich elite of the Commonwealth, several territories have been identified as central regions for this elite to dwell: These locations are primarily France, Japan, and the Caribbean. These locales specifically are specialized Member-States known as the Core Territories, and are defended by the Commonwealth's primary military forces themselves. Australia was also planned to be one of these Core Territories once its' terraformation completed, but the continent's invasion hindered this process. These "Core Territories" are granted very little autonomy themselves, despite falling under the category of Member-States.

## Commission for the Reconstruction of Earth

The Commission for the Reconstruction of Earth, or CRE, is a central puppet government put in place by the Commonwealth to administrate Earth in their absence. The Commission is responsible for Earth's reconstruction, and is divided into 3 distinct branches: The Administration, Reconstruction, and Defense Branch. The Administration Branch is comprised of a central Council, which in turn is comprised of the governors of the CRE Member-States. The Reconstruction Branch is a massive work force of almost two hundred-and-a-half million people, who are shipped around the world to Outlands Zones and other areas still damaged by The Bloodbath. Finally, the Defense Branch is comprised of the respective National Guards of the Member-States, who serve as a psuedo-military when the Commonwealth's central armies are off-world. The National Guards have been recently more and more replaced by the Commonwealth Galactic Peacekeeping Force, raising concerns among the remaining Guards.

## Autonomy Waiver

A protocol first set in place to quell colonies that went rogue and attempted to steal from the Commonwealth, the Autonomy Waiver is a directive initiated by the Commonwealth's Highcom on Junast. The Autonomy Waiver Protocol, as outlined in the Commonwealth's Governance Manifesto: "Pertains to the declaration of substantial civil unrest on a planetary scale, and the clearance of the Commonwealth Peacekeeping Forces' deployment to completely quell an insurrection". There are rumors of another kind of protocol known as "OLC" (or Occupation Lost Contingency) that would permit the whole of the Commonwealth's fleet in the sector to orbitally bombard a planet until the atmosphere could not sustain life. Occupation Lost would only be declared in the wake of a complete destabilization of Commonwealth rule over a planet.

## Commonwealth Galactic Cosmonavy

The Cosmonavy is the dedicated fleet of the Terran Commonwealth. Once comprised of peaceful research ships, the Cosmonavy gradually shifted to a purely militaristic body, with the exception of relief ships deployed to worlds in desperate need of terraformation or aid. The Commonwealth is believed to possess 13 functional fleets, with each fleet containing 20-40 battleships and hundreds of other smaller frigates, support ships, heavy transports, and the like.

## Commonwealth Galactic Peacekeeping Force

The Commonwealth's ground military is comprised of specialist Human soldiers from across the Commonwealth's territories. Designed to quell uprisings on planets and invade hostile neighbors, the Galactic Peacekeeping Force is a proud and disciplined collection of legions numbering in the millions. Commonly a specific Legion is designed to an individual major planet, and more are called in should one Legion prove insufficient in keeping the peace.