United Colonial Government

The United Colonial Government, also known as the UCG or simply as the Colonies, was a democratic union of planetary states spread across the Sol, Epsilon Eridani, Betelgeuse, and the Aldebaran systems that aimed to “Unite All That the Sun Encircles”, as opposed to the ancient goal of Egyptian kings during the Bronze age who aspired to rule “All That the Sun Encircles”. The United Colonial Government was founded many years before the First Contact War, in approximately 2776. The legislative, executive, and judicial branches governed the UCG under the United States Constitution and comprised thousands of senators representing the UCG’s member worlds. The President was the title of the head of the UCG, elected from the ranks of the federal government to lead the UCG on Gaia. An ecumenopolis or city-covered planet referred to as Washington, Gaia was the capital of the UCG and therefore the seat of the branches of government.

## History

The United Colonial Government traces its origins back to the early days of human colonization of the Sol system in the 28th century. It was conceived in 2776 to be under the auspices of the United Nations, a representative, public-facing organization to facilitate extraterrestrial colonial commerce, exploration, and industry. Conflicts between the insurrectionist movement known as Blackwatch, the Reconstituted Soviet Union (later the New Soviet Empire), and a coalition of individual UN nations on Earth, Earth’s Moon, and Mars, encouraged the Secretariat of the United Nations to officially involve itself in the Interplanetary War with a mandate to stabilize the system and deter further aggression, establishing the United Colonial Armed Forces in 2776. Persistent and widespread chaos of the decade past would result in the Unification Treaty of 2780, spurring great reform in support of Earth nationalism. Originally little more than a mere function of the Secretariat, the UCG would begin to see radical change, evolving from a ministry to its present state as a federal executive, legislative, and judicial body, eventually subordinating the United Nations itself. All existing supranational organizations, independent nations, and city-states, and their respective territorial possessions and claims on Earth and on extraterrestrial bodies; and all independent planetary and satellite colonies throughout Sol would be subject to the UCG by 2794.

As tension between the Inner Colonies and Outer Colonies increased in the 32nd century, the UCG increased the UCAF’s military presence in the Outer Colonies to prevent civil unrest. However, this led to increased aggression in the Outer Colonies that eventually led to the Blackwatch Insurrection. Although the civil war largely remained in the Outer Colonies, major Inner Colonies like Maria and Luanda were wracked by Blackwatch activity throughout the early 33rd century.

With the beginning of the First Contact War on April 20, 3225, and the Aeon Empire’s systematic annihilation of the Outer Colonies, the UCAF became humanity’s greatest protector against the genocidal threat. The UCAF thus overrode the civilian rule of the UCG and established itself as an emergency military government, with the military becoming humanity’s primary government. Although the United Colonial Government was more open to stepping down in this time of crisis, the Colonial Administration Authority resisted the UCAF’s drastic rise in power. It was subsequently stripped of its power and influence.