United Commonwealth of Nations

Flag of the UCN

***`“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”`***

*`- Serina Magnolis, addressing the Confederation, during its federalization -`*

The **United Commonwealth of Nations**, is a federation that represents the last true descendants of the Democratic Republic of Atlas and legitimate government to all of Humanity. It is a beacon of democracy and freedom, having its radiance spread into its many neighbours. Atlas is their home, the Bastramor Confederation is their ally, but the Commonwealth is their goal. With the fall of Eldarus, they also uphold the new status of international protector of the free peoples of the Galaxy.

They are one of the **most culturally advanced** nations in the Galaxy, with a **state of welfare implemented within a representative democracy**, allowing not only for Humanity, but almost any other alien species to find a place within the greater Commonwealth.

They are mostly and historically populated by humans, an **adaptable** and **multicultural** **people** that have spread across the Galaxy in various forms. Within the UCN, however, they are united in diversity for the betterment of their Commonwealth and individual liberties alongside other aliens and ideals, representing their nation as many within one.

Ever since the war of The Scourge, the Commonwealth had joined the Bastramor Confederation, in an effort to thwart the rising galactic influence of the Athalmar Empire. The **UCN**, alongside its newly found allies, **successfully held off their front of the war**. Even dealing a **significant blow to Athalmar pride** by thrusting into their territory, and never loosing any major engagement. The **UCN** now stands as perhaps the most ardent member of the Confederation, with its leaders ever more closely pursuing a centralized super state, that may one day stand equal to the oppressive Athalmar and shine as a beacon of democracy in the wider Galaxy.

## History

### An exiled people

After the destruction of their homeworld of Atlas, in **3571**, Humanity as a whole was subjected to a massive exodus the spanned the many corners of the Galaxy. Among dictatorships, kingdoms and oligarchic states, the **UCN** was the only one of these that had followed the political and social doctrine of the Democratic Republic of Atlas, encouraging, throughout the years, many to settle in the **UCN**, after attempting to remake their lives within foreign alien nations.
Through their many charts and knowledge of the region, the human remnant travelled south towards the region known as the Bastramor Passage, then settling the presently known planet of New Atlas, in **3576**. In the early years of the Commonwealth, New Atlas was composed of dozens of member nations that did not wholesomely agree on the policies and goals of the Commonwealth, with many **sceptical of using the methods of which the** Democratic Republic of Atlas **had failed with**.

The many powerful corporations and dynasties that remained in check under the Garinsian League, had survived and now dominated most of the industrial and commercial aspects of the **UCN**, with conflicts and disputes being started or determined by the will of these institutions. Despite this, these powerful dynasties also ensured that the **UCN** **would not remain isolated from the wider galaxy**. With endless connections and great wealth, they intervened on behalf of their government to establish diplomatic relations with neighbouring sovereign nations and connect the **UCN** to the **Core and Western trade routes**. Chief among these families were the **Katsudaira**, **Hondur**, **Rolstein**, **Seragamo** and the **Magnolis**.

### Path of the Scourge

Over a century had passed without war or major bloodshed. The **UCN** thrived and its people flourished, with only pirates and occasional Zatuu bands disrupting the peace. Its greatest rival was the Greater Merdos Empire, another human state that, like the Dismo's Protectorate within the Athalmar Empire, had abandoned the democratic ideals of their human ancestors, and declared an autocratic regime, where conquest and noble privilege would be the corner stones of its society. The **UCN**, at the time of **3750**, was not strong enough on its own to defeat or even hold against the Greater Merdos Empire. However, where the Empire was supplied with great navies and powerful armies, the **UCN** utilised its powerful wealth and connections to bring nations, such as the Stratull Leadership (a people renowned for their martial ways), the Massanid Taliphate and the Nkaran Autocracy, against the Empire. Alongside these diplomatic victories, the **UCN** also made use of **insurgent groups** within its foe to weaken its regime and lead to its eventual **downfall**.

The Merdos Empire was not the only exception of nations that **UCN** had distaste in dealing with. Despite its favourable relations with the Elithians, Alvothari and Zatuu, the UCN both **feared and loathed the ever growing reach** of the Athalmar Empire, who's economical sphere of influence, known as the Compact, had completely engulfed the UCN's commercial opportunities to its east. Not only did this harm the Commonwealth's economy, but it also placed it just outside the borders of Athalmar influence. An influence that they openly sought to expand and the Commonwealth undermine. **Despite, officially, the UCN having a strict anti-Athalmar policy**, many within the nation still made dealings and thrived alongside the growing power of the east, especially the Great Families.

In an effort to secure their sovereignty and economical independence, the acting leader of the UCN in **3772**, Secretary General Janos Morani, secretly established the Bastramor Confederation with the following nations:

* the Stratull Leadership, a martial and democratic people who despised the Athalmar as hegemonic upstarts, with no regard for the people they dominated. They had, for a long time, established a close military alliance with the **UCN**, eagerly accepting any means to thwart the growing Athalmar influence and strengthen democracy in the region.
* the Zatuu Ascendency, a liberal government, who's powerful mining guilds and aristocratic elites had been funded and supplied by the Athalmar to govern the international interests of its country. Regardless of its economical revitalization and success, the proposition of a Confederation, independent from Athalmar rule, was greatly popular among the many people of the Ascendency, eventually leading to abandonment of the Compact in favour of the Bastramor Confederation.
* the Alvothari Transselar, a conservative democracy, in kind with the Zatuu, was also pressured to join the Athalmar led Compact. Through a desired a direct connection to their allies in the West, the Athalmar and the Elithian empires coerced the historically neutral state to join the Compact. The loss of any foreign policy was one of primary reminders of Athalmar tyranny, leading to their eventual secession from the Compact, and joining the Bastramor Confederation.
* **Despite not being politically involved with the Confederation**, the peoples of Eldarus and many other wealthy states that sought to confront the Athalmar, **greatly invested in its development and military**. This was a long standing goal of Athalmar enemies, who sought to create a new powerful opponent to their growing hegemony.

### Against all Odds

In **3766**, the war that is now known as the Scourge had broken out. The Galactic Council had been suspended by the primary belligerents. The start of the Great War, and the final preparations and funding supplied, the Bastramor Confederation declared its formation only a few months after the star of the war. With the Zatuu and Alvorathi's abandonment of the Compact, the Athalmar's exposed strategic flank was set upon by a combined force of Human, Stratull, Zatuu and Alvothari fleets, **making up a total of 3 powerful and well led battlegroups that would thrust into the Empire's southern sectors**.

The Athalmar, throughout the entire war, despite having defeated the two other Great Races within the galaxy, had only barely held off the Bastramor Confederation. Even if their people had come out unscathed by the war's end, the following inter war period only strengthened the military and ideological resolve of the Confederation and the UCN, as whole.

The answer to a coming era of likely defeat at the hands of the Athalmar's new legendary leader, Malacos Ulveth, was the ascension to the rank of Secretary General of the **UCN** and Prime Consular of the Bastramor Confederation by a brilliant and acclaimed human stateswoman, Serina Magnolis.