Galactic Space Federation

*"You tell me everything you know about the disc and Megan. In return, I will let you accompany me to any of these supposed leads… However, you will still be locked away in the underground prison, and you will be isolated away from all of the other prisoners. I will accomodate any of your desires, such as a TV, computer, beer, pizza, whatever. After we kill Black Shadow, you will be banned from stepping foot on any Federation planets ever again, with the exception of F-Zero races…"* *―Jody Summer* *to* *Lt. Seppuku, F-Zero: Seppuku - Part 3/3, Lap 33*

The Galactic Space Federation is a governing body centered around Earth and with several human planet colonies across the universe. This political entity was formed in the late 22nd century CE mostly by the United Powers—as well as Japan and Korea—with the mission of exploring and colonizing new planets, with said planets granted to different Earth cultural groups. With the successful creation of colonies across the universe as well as the inevitable rise of space piracy and other space-related threats, the Federation would gain such massive influence and power that it would effectively overtake the United Powers, unofficially and silently taking over as the central authority representing humanity. Although eventually encountering intelligent life on other planets, the Federation would only find foes through internal conflicts, most notably the Mysterian Empire—a breakaway colony.

## History

### Founding

Beginning in the 22nd century CE, social advancements and cooperation between cultures of Earth led to entire continents centralizing into single political entities. From this point on, a wider discussion had begun on whether these unions could lead to a unified planet. This discussion led to the proposal of a 'United Powers,' with China and the United States essentially bribed in with a compromise that these two nations would maintain a great deal of autonomy in this new world order. The motion to forge a United Powers was successful, but Korea, Japan, and Vatican City would instead choose to remain independent; regardless, world peace had essentially been achieved, and so the United Powers would spearhead an initiative to get humans living on new planets.

Although Japan and Korea would remain independent of the United Powers, the three nations worked closely together on this space exploration mission. As the time came closer to moving colonists into space, these governments would draft an idea for the Galactic Space Federation—the official space agency of Earth that would carry the great responsibility of keeping all of Earth's future colonies prosperous. The Federation, in the beginning, was nothing more than a company of investors and scientists with the simple goal of efficiently carrying out the mass colonization initiative known as the 'Star Settlement Program.' Among some of the Federation's most popular colonial projects was Mysteria, Magica, Big Blue, Green Plant, and Sand Ocean, each of which was awarded to different ethnic groups based on relevant climate data for colonizable systems.

Within a mere decade, the Galactic Space Federation was hailed as an astounding success, and its rising popularity among humanity would lead to outstanding advancements in revenue, especially due to the new resources being discovered on planets.

### The Militarist Takeover

As the years went by and the Federation amassed more money, its single and simple goal of maintaining efficient colonial development would eventually lead to the thought that, in order to maintain maximum efficiency, these Federation planets required non-local garrisons and policing. In a controversial move at the time, the right of the colonies to protect themselves with their own soldiers was essentially stripped away by the Federation, as a Federation-trained private military would create bases on all colonies, even if only sometimes in the form of shipyards. Amidst this radical change in direction, a Federation navy was drafted as well and with weaponry that, also controversially, put even the United Powers' ships to embarrassment.

Ironically, while the top office of the Galactic Space Federation pushed for this great military expansion with the goal of maintaining developmental efficiency and revenue, this same move would lead to them being pushed out of the picture completely. With the uncontrolled rise and influence of the military in the Federation, its own generals and admirals would eventually find the money and connections needed to buy the rights to it for themselves. With the corporate headquarters of New York City now converted into a military headquarters, and absolute power of the Federation placed into the hands of the Supreme Commander, the Galactic Space Federation had transformed into a kind of military junta with democratic principles.

With this change in power, the Federation would further stray from its old identity by establishing a military-exclusive political hierarchy that placed the Commander at the top, a designated Chief Commander as heir, Majors as Chief Commander candidates, and Admirals largely making up the bottom of the political hierarchy. Consequentially, while the Federation would continue to make a lot of money due to the success of its colonies, much of this growing revenue would go directly into expanding the military resources of the Federation. With Federation soldiers all over Earth and its colonies, and with a battleship over virtually every continent, an incredible transition would occur that had humans slowly and quietly identifying the Galactic Space Federation as the true governmental authority over humanity, rather than the United Powers. In effect, despite officially being the child of the United Powers, Japan, and Korea, the Galactic Space Federation had eclipsed all three in power and wealth, thus peacefully and unintentionally becoming Earth's representative government. Consequentially, in what seemed like a blink of the eye, humanity found itself under the authority of a military dictatorship, albeit one that respected the democratic principles of the United Powers, Korea, and Japan.