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== Overview ==
Rising from the former Coalition of Colonies, the Frontier Alliance is a loose confederation of united "entities" within the human frontier. These entities range from whole colonial systems to travelling super ships to mining and farming outposts. The Frontier’s motto is “Together We Are”. Though nearly any language can be found in the Frontier, Tau Ceti Basic is considered the official language.


===Population and Notable Factions and Planets===
The Coalition of Colonies is an independent, space-faring nation formed of once-Solarian colonies residing in the frontier. Population estimates range from 85 to 110 billion, with an accurate census being nearly impossible due to the decentralized government of the Coalition. Founded in a revolt against the governance of the Association of Sovereign Solarian Nations, or the Sol Alliance, it won its independence in the prolonged Interstellar War. It is made up of 357 core member systems with a fluctuating number of loosely-defined associated systems. Previously known as the Frontier Alliance, the Coalition is one of the most diverse entities in known space culturally, socially, and politically.


Due to the ever changing nature of the Frontier Alliance, it is hard to get a population count. Estimates put a minimum of 100 billion to a maximum of 175 billion people currently protected by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact.
==Government==


'''Xanu Prime'''
The overarching government of the Coalition is a confederation held together by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact, a treaty which ensures that all members will come to the aid of the other in a case of invasion or in more recent times, to defend against piracy. It is headed by the Chief Representative, the representative of whatever planet is voted as the capital of the Coalition. The current Chief Representative is Reilly Sianne of Xanu Prime.


Xanu Prime is effectively the hub of the Frontier Alliance, being one of the most populated and wealthiest planets in the Frontier. The representatives and military officers of the Frontier meet on Xanu Prime to discuss treaties and strategies. The planet is the headquarters for the Free Assembly, which is a Frontier-based political group who believes in free government.
The government of each individual entity within the Alliance varies dramatically, from republics to monarchies to communist parties, but the entities all agree to have representatives meet on the capital planet. This bi-annual meeting, known as the Representative Summit, forms the leadership of the Coalition of Colonies. The Representative Summit is a bicameral legislature, made up of by the House of Members and the House of Observers.


'''The Techno-Conglomerate'''
The House of Members is formed of the core systems of the Coalition, and is where legislation can be proposed. The House of Observers is formed of representatives from affiliated frontier systems. While the House of Members currently has 357 members, because of the state of the wild frontier attendance for the Observer house can range from as few as fifty up to five hundred. Each system receives one representative. There is only one written rule to the Summit - no violence may take place in the chambers. All other rules and regulations are merely agreed upon traditions, solidified over the Coalition's history.
The Coalition of Colonies does not care how each system governs themselves, they only ask that each system respect one another and honor the pacts during the time of a crisis.


The Techno-Conglomerate is the backbone of the Frontier Alliance’s military and technology. As a moving flotilla of high-tech ships, the Conglomerate look to incorporate technology with humanity. They were driven out of the Sol Alliance for their stance on augmentations. Despite this, they are incredibly accepting, trading with foreign bodies (excluding the [[Empire of Dominia]]) and even considering synthetic life as equals.
[[File:Xanu.png|thumb|The extremely populous Xanu, core capital of the Coalition of Colonies. Its surface can be seen dotted with gargantuan impact craters from years of heavy bombardment.]]
==Notable Members==


'''Yinglishen'''
===[[Xanu Prime]]===


The Democracy of Yinglishen is a faction composed of three colonization efforts that banded together. Yinglishen is among the most developed planets, and has a booming tourism and agricultural economy. Robots are commonplace in the system, and Yinglishen even gives IPCs citizenship. The capital planet is Fengzu, where voting is mandatory with little exceptions.
The All-Xanu Republic, located in the system of Xanu, is the current capital of the Coalition. The Republic is governed by a president who is elected from among the political parties of the parties and serves a five year term. In the capital city of Nouvelle Rochelle, many embassies and legations are found in the Greentree and Xansan quarters, alongside branch offices of every megacorporation in the Kulkarni Business Districts. The low-lying grasslands and beaches outside the towering metropolises are coated in craters, rusting military equipment, and graves from the battles seen on the planet during the Interstellar War, the most brutal and costly of the conflict being the Siege of Khairabad, now Kshatrigarh. Some of these areas, officially deemed "Scarlands" are protected by the government against looting and desecration and have been preserved as national parks while others have been redeveloped. The government of the Coalition, the Representative Summit, meets in the Xansan district of Nouvelle Rochelle. Xanu Prime is not just the political capital of the Coalition, but serves as an economic, miltiary, and to a lesser extent, cultural juggernaut within the Coalition of Colonies.


==Societal==
[[Image:Minimap coalition.png|thumb|A closer image focusing on the factions surrounding the Coalition's territory.]]
Humans and aliens from any and all ethnicities, as well as any combination of them, can be found in the Frontier. The religions in the Frontier are also as diverse as the people. Exact numbers and percentages are unknown.
===[[Himeo]]===
 
Himeo (Hephaestus Industries Mineral Extraction Operation) is an economic powerhouse of the Frontier Alliance originally founded as a mineral extraction operation by Hephaestus Industries in the 2200s. The planet openly revolted in the years leading up to the Interstellar War, and joined hands with Xanu in the formation of the original Coalition of Colonies. It has one of the most accurate censuses on the frontier due to its strong government: its 2460 population stands at 1.5 billion citizens on the planet itself with 200 million in orbit. Presently, Himeo serves as a primary source of raw materials for the Coalition due to its location near Xanu and large underground deposits of metals. Himeo is a barren, permafrost world where most of the population lives in four major cities and one large offworld station: Magnitogorsk (the largest settlement on the planet), Highland City (the major spaceport), Cannington (a major industrial center), Kiruna (the center of government), and Danzig Station in orbit.
 
The surface of Himeo is defined by its large, windswept plains broken up by massive mountain ranges. The average temperature is generally −58.2 °C (−72.8 °F) before factoring in wind chill, so all major settlements are built into the ground - with the largest cities extending kilometers under the ground. Himeo is a direct democracy, with its First Speaker being elected by a pure majority vote every five years. Unlike many planets on the frontier, Himeo operates a small standing fleet of formerly corporate vessels, self-made warships, and Interstellar War prize ships. Megacorporations are banned from operating in Himeo’s space.
 
===[[Federal Technocracy of Galatea]]===


===The Free Frontier===
Based in the Yggdrasil System, the Federal Technocracy of Galatea is a multi-planet entity within the Coalition which serves as a technological and innovation hub. The Technocracy is an unusual state with its roots in a Solarian scientific and terraforming expedition which was cut off from the broader Alliance during the Interstellar War, and has an unusual form of technocratic government in which one must hold a degree to have a vote. Located in the Weeping Stars, it has always maintained a more open relationship to the Alliance than much of the Coalition — a stance which has consistently irritated its neighbor, Gadpathur.
The Frontier Alliance’s people often believe everything should be free for the people to do, excluding harmful activities. While some things like interspecies marriage and IPC citizenship are more complex, nearly everywhere in the Frontier supports same-sex marriage, marriage between those of different religions, and the freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly. It is also a common belief to allow immigrants and refugees into the Frontier Alliance as proper citizens, and supporting free trade between civilizations. The treatment of non-humans varies by entity, but they are generally treated equally.


==Politics==
===[[Gadpathur]]===
Currently, the Chief Representative is Carter Han from Xanu Prime. The Techno-Conglomerate’s representatives are Sumini Kumar-Holst and Joran Leeyao for civil and military services respectively. Yinglishen’s civilian representative is Kimiko Ichida and their military representative is Meienne Tao.


===Government===
Located in the Weeping Stars, the former Alliance Neutral Zone, is Gadpathur: a planet-sized reminder of the bloody fighting of the Interstellar War. Prior to the retreat of the Solarian Alliance from its Outer Ring, the grim people of Gadpathur were regarded as the Coalition's first line of defense against Solarian imperialism in the event of a Second Interstellar War. Now with the Alliance in retreat, the future of the planet might take a quite different turn. The primary language of Gadpathur is Gadpathurian Common, a dialect of Solarian Common dating back to before the Interstellar War.


The overarching government of the Frontier Alliance is a confederation held together by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact, a treaty which ensures that all members will come to the aid of the other in a case of invasion or in more recent times, to defend against piracy.
===[[Assunzione]]===
The government of each individual entity within the Alliance varies dramatically, from republics to monarchies to communist parties, but the entities all agree to have representatives meet on the unofficial capital, Xanu Prime. Some entities have representatives for both military and civilian sectors, others have joint reps. Some systems elect these representatives, others have competitions, while some yet give the job to the person who can speak the clearest.
The Frontier Alliance does not care how each system governs themselves, they only ask that each system respect one another and honor the pacts during the time of a crisis.


==Military==
Located in Light's Edge, on the ragged edge of the Coalition of Colonies, lies the Republic of Assunzione. While it did not participate in the bloody fighting of the Interstellar War, the Republic's position led it join the Coalition following the end of the War. Despite not having a functional star Assunzione is the largest settlement in Light's End and is known for being the gateway into the sector. It is also home to its own religion, [[Luceism]]. The primary language of Assunzione, unlike the rest of the Coalition, is Assunzionii Tradeband.
The Frontier Alliance Military is unlike most militaries in the galaxy. For the most part it resembles a backwoods militia of people without uniform using outdated weaponry to defend their homes. In an attempt to have the galaxy take the Frontier Alliance more seriously, the Chief Representative has pushed forward the notion of a uniformed military. This idea has been rejected, as Alliance forces are too varied and many planets provide their own uniforms, even if they are as simple as similarly coloured shirts and matching armour types. The Chief Representative then pushed for a standard emblem to be accepted. This is still being worked on.


The Frontier Alliance's military fights a defensive game for the most part and only engages offensively if they know they have overwhelming numbers. They are not equipped with the most advanced ships or the best weaponry, but they are able to mass produce weapons, armor, and starships in staggering quantities. They have access to small quantities of combat RIGs and combat exosuits, and it is not uncommon for Frontier Alliance soldiers to retrofit industrial RIGs and Ripley APLUs for combat.
===[[Vysoka]]===
If a force were to attack a single Alliance planet, it is deemed as a threat to the Alliance as a whole. The current nature of the defense pacts has led to complications in which single planets within the Alliance have picked fights with other non-Alliance planets, forcing the aid of their allies in order to win a war. The wording of the defensive pacts are being revised to disallow such actions.


Theoretically, the Frontier Alliance can field one of the largest militaries in the known galaxy and, in fact, has done so in the past to defend itself against invasion from the Sol Alliance. All members of the Coalition of Colonies pitched their military and industrial might against the Sol Alliance, coming out victorious. This level of military cooperation has not been seen since then.
The Free System of Vysoka is the agricultural center of the Coalition of Colonies, commonly known as the “Breadbasket of the Frontier” due to a large number of foodstuffs exported from the planet. The main language of Vysoka is Freespeak, though Tradeband is commonly spoken among merchants. The colony of Vysoka is located in the Zeic system.


The Techno-Conglomerate provides most of the tech used by the Frontier Alliance, especially its military. The Techno-Conglomerate keeps its own force known as "The Thunder Legion". This force is very well equipped, and it is believed these soldiers could easily match a standard Sol Marine detachment.
===Zaurghis===


==Economics==
Zaurghis is an unremarkable planet in an equally unremarkable star system roughly forty light years from Xanu. The planet itself is small, relatively similar to Earth, and devoid of most materials early colonists sought after. Zaurghis is, however, in an ideal location to exploit a feature unique to the frontier: wormhole travel. Zaurghis’s system is, through sheer luck or unknown forces, home to dozens (if not hundreds) of wormholes: some consistently stable, some changing by the hour. The economy of Zaurghis was, for the better part of its existence, centered around these wormholes: the planet had a booming shipping industry, with most of it concentrated in low-orbit docks. There was, of course, some illegal activity. However, a robust system of enforcement and policing kept the Zaurghis wormholes mostly free of danger.
The Frontier Alliance uses the Colonial Dollar in a bid to remain independent from the Sol Alliance, however the Credit is widely used. The standard of living is varied but is mostly low. Some worlds enjoy rather high qualities of living, while others are quite poor and have little access to modern tech or resources. Some groups have formed in an attempt to assist low-tech and low resource worlds.
The industries in the Frontier are varied, but farming and mining are common among low-tech worlds. Shipping and industry are frequent on mid-tech worlds and service and technology are most common on high-tech worlds.  


==History==
With the end of Solarian rule during the Interstellar War, there was no real push for government on the planet by the majority of the population, with the small amount of those who did, most of them being the original residents of the planet, exiled to its moon, Visraho. Previously a penal moon known as Correctional Facility 48, now there exists a small pro-corporate society. Over time, an anarchist society developed, lacking official law or representation: a society run purely by the idea of the Non-Aggression Principle, or NAP. Citizenship is automatically granted to all owners of property above one acre in size, and these citizens directly vote for their representation in the Coalition.
The Coalition of Systems was founded to resist against perceived Sol Alliance oppression in the Frontier, and won their independence from Sol after the First Interstellar War. They suffered highs and lows until eventually collapsing in the year 2452, only two years after enacting the “Anti-Dominia Piracy Pact”. With the Coalition disbanded, pirates went nearly uncontested and gained much ground in the Frontier.
With the Coalition gone and pirates gaining more ground than ever, the Frontier became a rough place to live. Many systems once belonging to the Coalition fell, but some resisted the pirates, setting up blockades and working together to form safe trade routes. For six years these systems fought a defensive campaign against the pirates threatening their borders. In 2458, the Allied Systems made a trade agreement with the Techno-Conglomerate, a trader and transhumanist organization, to get much needed supplies as well as access to shipyards and weapon factories far more advanced than anything currently in the Allied System's space.
With this more advanced technology the Allied Systems drove the pirates back from their corner of space. These systems then came together and formed the Frontier Alliance, with the primary goal to rid the frontier of piracy.
Today, the Frontier Alliance is still a budding group, an alliance of systems working together to defend one another from outside threats. They do not have a true form of centralized government, nor a standard form of government. Still, representatives from each system work together to keep their people safe. Toward the beginning of 2460, the Frontier Alliance struck a series of victories against the pirate force, the Wrecked Kings, and liberated several key telecommunication hubs throughout the Frontier. This gave the Frontier Alliance better ways to communicate with its systems and a way to communicate with the galaxy at large.
Currently, the Frontier Alliance is acting on a "Live and Let Live" policy with the other galactic powers. They are still rebuilding from the collapse of the Coalition and understand causing issues with any of the existing powers could prove fatal. Still, that does not mean they are unwilling to criticize the other powers.


== Potential Character Concepts ==
However, with the recent proliferation of bluespace technology, Zaurghis’ wormholes have seen less and less use by merchants. Private enterprises have developed the once-prominent business port into one of the largest parts of the Coalition’s shipbuilding sector. Alongside this, however, a new area of commerce has emerged: smugglers, always willing to take risks in order to avoid authorities, have taken to utilizing the wormholes around Zaurghis in order to ship product. These smugglers tend to avoid the larger and more well-traveled wormholes, instead risking life and limb on the smaller and less predictable, but less policed, wormholes. With smuggling being fully permitted on the planet, many have come to call this relatively inoffensive planet home.


'''Here is an example character from the Frontier Alliance:'''
===Crosk===


*Daniel Church, 33, is a security officer for Nanotrasen. He is rowdy, but strictly professional while on-duty.
Located in the Astoral system, the hot and arid planet of Crosk is a sparsely-populated mining world that has risen to punch above its weight due to its massive aviation industry. Crosk has become renowned throughout the Orion Spur due to the thriving racing scene that has developed as a result of this racing industry. Crosk has a remarkably high concentration of IPCs, which have come to prominence in the racing scene due to their superior reflexes compared to organic pilots. IPCs are so prominent that they have their own synthetic racing league, due to their superior reflexes. The planet is regarded colony of Xanu Prime, which sent the first settlers to its rich mineral fields in 2395, and maintains a close relationship with it.


*Church is 5’10” and heavily muscled, likely 190 lbs. He has a tense posture and frantic movements. He has dark green eyes and a trimmed, dark brown afro.
===[[Konyang]]===


*Church previously moved from station to station in the Frontier before moving to the Odin. He lives alone, but frequently calls his husband and siblings. Church is agnostic. He has little care for politics, having moved so often in his life.  
The former Solarian world of Konyang is one of many areas that changed hands in the chaotic aftermath of the events of the Solarian Collapse seen in [[KING OF THE WORLD]]. Originally established in 2305 as a water-rich planet, Konyang's claim to fame has long been its status as the birthplace of modern robotics thanks to the discovery of drones on its surface. Even before defecting from the [[Sol Alliance]] Konyang had a very friendly relationship with the Coalition, which has made it the arguably most important former Solarian world in the Coalition - though Gadpathur remains suspicious of it. A significant [[IPC]] population can be found on Konyang, due to the planet's massive robotics industry and citizenship rights.


*Church generally dislikes all non-humans, especially Vaurca.
===[[Scarabs]]===
The Scarabs are a tightly-knit and nomadic faction of humans residing primarily upon repurposed colony ships, travelling throughout the Orion Spur for resources and knowledge. Originating as a colony fleet sent to establish outposts in the furthest reaches of the human frontier, their ships were lost in the ensuing chaos of the Interstellar War. Without the ability to navigate home, and without habitable worlds to colonise, the colonists began to indelibly change; generations spent in microgravity contorted their bodies such that they could never return to a planet again, and their culture was hammered by decades of desperate scarcity until unrecognizable.


*Church speaks Tau Ceti Common, Freespeak, and Tradeband.
Though now having been welcomed to the Coalition of Colonies, the Scarabs remain alienated from the Spur they left over a century prior. Unsure of their future in the new world they have entered, the ultimate fate of the largest offworlder community remains uncertain.


'''Here is a second example character from the Frontier Alliance:'''
==Society==


*Kiko Mori, 63, is a botanist aboard the NSS Aurora. She is quiet, but warm and kind.
While every species can be found in the Coalition, it is human dominated due to its origin as part of human colonization efforts. However, the exact breakdown of Coalition society being impossible to determine. Social organization can vary wildly from planet to planet: the Coalition is home to a variety of states ranging corporate oligarchies, industrial wastes, militarized states, popular republics, and authoritarian regimes unified by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact.


*Mori is 5’1” and slightly chubby, roughly 125 lbs. She moves slowly but surely, and has surprisingly good posture for her age. She has dark brown eyes and long, black hair with streaks of grey.
==The Frontier Protection Bureau (FPB)==


*Mori lives in Mendell City on Biesel, leaving her home system to follow her grandchildren. She currently lives with one of her daughters, her son-in-law, and two of her grandkids. Mori is an avid Shintoist.
Though the military composition of the greater Coalition of Colonies is rather complex, with separate system states operating different levels of navy and ground assets, the Frontier Protection Bureau has remained a staple of not only the Coalition government, but through the '''Frontier Rangers''', also of the entire human frontier in general. The origins of the movement were out of sheer necessity, formed unofficially by members of the Frontier Alliance to combat the various threats early colonies had faced in the untamed regions they inhabited. Alone many colonies lacked the supplies, training, and sheer manpower to effectively handle threats such as carp migrations and pirate attacks. In the sprawling attempts to fight these issues together, the ''Frontiersmen'' culture emerged, a rather wide ideology centred on personal freedoms, and the struggle to keep to them against overbearing odds. While these initial men and women would romantically refer to themselves as the ''Legion of Frontiersmen'', their name and reputation would hold much more weight following the Interstellar War. There, countless Rangers would participate as a paramilitary unit, used in various guerilla warfare missions which would forge their legend for years to come. It had also solidified the Frontier Rangers as a force not meant to serve any one nation, but the Coalition and its eternal freedom as a whole.
 
*Mori has trouble agreeing with any political party in the Republic.
Included in the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact was the establishment of an officially recognized intelligence office to help carry out the will of the Alliance. Already known by much of the Coalition and even outside of it, the Rangers were easily merged with several semi-official agencies to create the Frontier Protection Bureau. Both halves of the organisation are headed by the Chief Marshal who is themselves nominated by the office of the Chief Representative, and then voted in by the House of Members. While the Bureau’s intelligence service is given directives by the Chief Representative as well, the rest of the organization - most importantly, the Frontier Rangers Division - is held accountable by the House of Members, who may question and overrule actions taken by the force if a consensus is reached. Due to this, Rangers are generally not allowed to interfere with local governments (unless explicitly asked to by said administrations), and the extent of their operations have mostly been the same as in their past. While securing the ever-changing borders of the Frontier from pirates, spacefaring creatures and other unusual threats is a constant worry, the rest of the Bureau is otherwise employed in various intelligence operations, the nature of which only the Chief Representatives and their selected Marshals of the past and present have been privy to. Numerous theories abound, as the lack of any overseeing agency holding the group accountable makes it particularly difficult to ascertain how far some operations have gone, a fact that the CFP has denounced multiple times. While some continue to push for the Bureau to have the reach it needs to establish stability, others warn against the creation of a police force that could unwind the very ideals the Coalition was built upon. The Rangers themselves are indeed not spared from political infighting, and many within their ranks struggle to internalize whether they are a symbol of the grand ideals of the Coalition, or a possible tool for those who wish to see the Frontier quelled.
 
Internally, the FSB is supplied through a quota expected of every core member, scaled depending on a system’s individual military capacity. This may include everything from weaponry and manpower to ships and building materials. While this would make the Bureau one of the most well-funded forces in the galaxy by numbers, in reality, the sheer size of the Coalition means that the average Ranger or agent sees very little of this money, and often ends up relying on either outdated or faulty equipment. Many operations only continue to persist due to the zealous nature in which many operators adhere to their Frontiersman traditions, managing to scrape by with not much support. For similar reasons, the selection process for agents is often aimed at finding volunteers that are particularly committed to upholding the Coalition’s values, which further serves to reinforce the stereotypes which plague the position. More specifically, Rangers are often chosen from already established sub-groups within their nation of origin, such as particularly well-performing Gadpathurian cadres or Vysokan Host-men eager for adventure outside of their Steppes. While much more unusual, Scarab Rangers have been well-respected in the past for their self-sufficient lifestyle and effectiveness in Zero-G conditions, which encompass much of a Ranger’s work. Though primarily composed of humans, there have been notable Rangers of various species, such as Himean Tajara, who are often employed in missions which cater to their highly specialized skill set.
 
==Synthetics in the Coalition==
 
The Coalition of Colonies is well known for its diverse collection of governments, cultures and beliefs, and the treatment of synthetics across the Coalition is similarly diverse. From the highly integrated, forward-thinking planet of Konyang to the oppressive methods used on Burzsia, many other planets fall between these extremes, and the prospects of synthetics vary greatly depending on where they are located. The majority of synthetics in the coalition are owned by mega-corporations or other private entities, with free IPC frames making up a smaller minority of those across the Coalition. The synthetic population of the Coalition is also centralized into the more developed planets present within the coalition, due to their requirements for charging and maintenance to be regularly available to them, positronics on more rural, less developed worlds are either exceedingly rare or not present at all.
 
The legal status of synthetics within the Coalition is mostly down to the local laws of the planet where they find themselves residing, either by choice or through ownership. These matters are left to the local governments across the coalition and so their treatment often comes down to who owns them or the personal wealth they can accrue.  
 
The Golden Deep and The Trinary Perfection both have a presence across the Coalition as well, with the Golden Deep operating across many of the planets and the Trinary Perfection making use of its base on Orepit to preach and perform its work within the Coalition itself, both groups hold decent influence over various parts of the Coalition.


*Mori has no strong opinion about non-humans, but she is fond of IPCs.
==Seeking Asylum in the Coalition of Colonies==
The Coalition of Colonies is seen by many as a refuge from tyranny and persecution throughout the Orion Spur, and as such, many have tried to seek asylum there for decades. The process of asylum seeking in the Coalition is one that must be conducted through diplomatic channels and if granted, it offers the person the diplomatic protection of the Coalition against extradition and persecution by their home country. It is not the same as being granted Coalition citizenship however, and those who have obtained asylum within the Coalition would still need to go through the citizenship and naturalization process of whatever Coalition member they are hoping to obtain citizenship in. The information pertinent to player characters on the SCCV Horizon in regard to seeking asylum in the Coalition can be found below.


*Mori speaks Tau Ceti Common and Sol Common, and she knows Sign Language.
Characters aboard the Horizon may request asylum with the Coalition of Colonies only through the aid of a Coalition of Colonies consular. Requests for asylum must include good cause for why a person is seeking asylum. These include evidence that a person has been persecuted or will be persecuted by their native government without having committed any crime that the Coalition of Colonies acknowledges. This is a high standard which some requests for asylum may not meet. The scrutiny and expediency of review for requests for asylum are dependent on a number of factors, including the gravity and immediacy of a threat to the asylum seeker, such as if an asylum seeker has an active extradition order pending from their home government. Without an intervening circumstance, the fastest asylum status can be granted to an applicant is one week but it will often take longer. The asylum review process is not egalitarian; some groups are more likely to have their asylum request granted by the Coalition than others. For example, '''Fisanduhians have a higher chance of having their asylum requests granted than others.''' Conversely, '''Dominian Primaries are entirely barred from seeking asylum in the Coalition of Colonies.''' Former members of the Solarian and Dominian militaries and governments (including the clergy of the Tribunalist church) must face a heightened standard of scrutiny to achieve asylum within the Coalition, including a security check, and are denied their requests at higher than average rates. If a request for asylum has been made concurrently with a request for investigation or extradition by another government, the request for asylum DOES NOT nullify any investigation or extradition request unless asylum is granted. Whichever completes first, the asylum-seeking process or the extradition process, is what holds. Judgements on the granting of asylum by the Coalition of Colonies are made by the Human Lore Team and can be appealed by making subsequent requests for asylum through a Coalition of Colonies consular.


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  • Offical flag of the Coalition of Colonies, "Infinite Freedom". The blue symbolizes freedom, the black frontier space. The three stars represent the three key members of the Coalition and the lemniscate represents the other countless members as well as eternal freedom.

    The Coalition of Colonies is an independent, space-faring nation formed of once-Solarian colonies residing in the frontier. Population estimates range from 85 to 110 billion, with an accurate census being nearly impossible due to the decentralized government of the Coalition. Founded in a revolt against the governance of the Association of Sovereign Solarian Nations, or the Sol Alliance, it won its independence in the prolonged Interstellar War. It is made up of 357 core member systems with a fluctuating number of loosely-defined associated systems. Previously known as the Frontier Alliance, the Coalition is one of the most diverse entities in known space culturally, socially, and politically.

    Government

    The overarching government of the Coalition is a confederation held together by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact, a treaty which ensures that all members will come to the aid of the other in a case of invasion or in more recent times, to defend against piracy. It is headed by the Chief Representative, the representative of whatever planet is voted as the capital of the Coalition. The current Chief Representative is Reilly Sianne of Xanu Prime.

    The government of each individual entity within the Alliance varies dramatically, from republics to monarchies to communist parties, but the entities all agree to have representatives meet on the capital planet. This bi-annual meeting, known as the Representative Summit, forms the leadership of the Coalition of Colonies. The Representative Summit is a bicameral legislature, made up of by the House of Members and the House of Observers.

    The House of Members is formed of the core systems of the Coalition, and is where legislation can be proposed. The House of Observers is formed of representatives from affiliated frontier systems. While the House of Members currently has 357 members, because of the state of the wild frontier attendance for the Observer house can range from as few as fifty up to five hundred. Each system receives one representative. There is only one written rule to the Summit - no violence may take place in the chambers. All other rules and regulations are merely agreed upon traditions, solidified over the Coalition's history. The Coalition of Colonies does not care how each system governs themselves, they only ask that each system respect one another and honor the pacts during the time of a crisis.

    The extremely populous Xanu, core capital of the Coalition of Colonies. Its surface can be seen dotted with gargantuan impact craters from years of heavy bombardment.

    Notable Members

    Xanu Prime

    The All-Xanu Republic, located in the system of Xanu, is the current capital of the Coalition. The Republic is governed by a president who is elected from among the political parties of the parties and serves a five year term. In the capital city of Nouvelle Rochelle, many embassies and legations are found in the Greentree and Xansan quarters, alongside branch offices of every megacorporation in the Kulkarni Business Districts. The low-lying grasslands and beaches outside the towering metropolises are coated in craters, rusting military equipment, and graves from the battles seen on the planet during the Interstellar War, the most brutal and costly of the conflict being the Siege of Khairabad, now Kshatrigarh. Some of these areas, officially deemed "Scarlands" are protected by the government against looting and desecration and have been preserved as national parks while others have been redeveloped. The government of the Coalition, the Representative Summit, meets in the Xansan district of Nouvelle Rochelle. Xanu Prime is not just the political capital of the Coalition, but serves as an economic, miltiary, and to a lesser extent, cultural juggernaut within the Coalition of Colonies.

    A closer image focusing on the factions surrounding the Coalition's territory.

    Himeo

    Himeo (Hephaestus Industries Mineral Extraction Operation) is an economic powerhouse of the Frontier Alliance originally founded as a mineral extraction operation by Hephaestus Industries in the 2200s. The planet openly revolted in the years leading up to the Interstellar War, and joined hands with Xanu in the formation of the original Coalition of Colonies. It has one of the most accurate censuses on the frontier due to its strong government: its 2460 population stands at 1.5 billion citizens on the planet itself with 200 million in orbit. Presently, Himeo serves as a primary source of raw materials for the Coalition due to its location near Xanu and large underground deposits of metals. Himeo is a barren, permafrost world where most of the population lives in four major cities and one large offworld station: Magnitogorsk (the largest settlement on the planet), Highland City (the major spaceport), Cannington (a major industrial center), Kiruna (the center of government), and Danzig Station in orbit.

    The surface of Himeo is defined by its large, windswept plains broken up by massive mountain ranges. The average temperature is generally −58.2 °C (−72.8 °F) before factoring in wind chill, so all major settlements are built into the ground - with the largest cities extending kilometers under the ground. Himeo is a direct democracy, with its First Speaker being elected by a pure majority vote every five years. Unlike many planets on the frontier, Himeo operates a small standing fleet of formerly corporate vessels, self-made warships, and Interstellar War prize ships. Megacorporations are banned from operating in Himeo’s space.

    Federal Technocracy of Galatea

    Based in the Yggdrasil System, the Federal Technocracy of Galatea is a multi-planet entity within the Coalition which serves as a technological and innovation hub. The Technocracy is an unusual state with its roots in a Solarian scientific and terraforming expedition which was cut off from the broader Alliance during the Interstellar War, and has an unusual form of technocratic government in which one must hold a degree to have a vote. Located in the Weeping Stars, it has always maintained a more open relationship to the Alliance than much of the Coalition — a stance which has consistently irritated its neighbor, Gadpathur.

    Gadpathur

    Located in the Weeping Stars, the former Alliance Neutral Zone, is Gadpathur: a planet-sized reminder of the bloody fighting of the Interstellar War. Prior to the retreat of the Solarian Alliance from its Outer Ring, the grim people of Gadpathur were regarded as the Coalition's first line of defense against Solarian imperialism in the event of a Second Interstellar War. Now with the Alliance in retreat, the future of the planet might take a quite different turn. The primary language of Gadpathur is Gadpathurian Common, a dialect of Solarian Common dating back to before the Interstellar War.

    Assunzione

    Located in Light's Edge, on the ragged edge of the Coalition of Colonies, lies the Republic of Assunzione. While it did not participate in the bloody fighting of the Interstellar War, the Republic's position led it join the Coalition following the end of the War. Despite not having a functional star Assunzione is the largest settlement in Light's End and is known for being the gateway into the sector. It is also home to its own religion, Luceism. The primary language of Assunzione, unlike the rest of the Coalition, is Assunzionii Tradeband.

    Vysoka

    The Free System of Vysoka is the agricultural center of the Coalition of Colonies, commonly known as the “Breadbasket of the Frontier” due to a large number of foodstuffs exported from the planet. The main language of Vysoka is Freespeak, though Tradeband is commonly spoken among merchants. The colony of Vysoka is located in the Zeic system.

    Zaurghis

    Zaurghis is an unremarkable planet in an equally unremarkable star system roughly forty light years from Xanu. The planet itself is small, relatively similar to Earth, and devoid of most materials early colonists sought after. Zaurghis is, however, in an ideal location to exploit a feature unique to the frontier: wormhole travel. Zaurghis’s system is, through sheer luck or unknown forces, home to dozens (if not hundreds) of wormholes: some consistently stable, some changing by the hour. The economy of Zaurghis was, for the better part of its existence, centered around these wormholes: the planet had a booming shipping industry, with most of it concentrated in low-orbit docks. There was, of course, some illegal activity. However, a robust system of enforcement and policing kept the Zaurghis wormholes mostly free of danger.

    With the end of Solarian rule during the Interstellar War, there was no real push for government on the planet by the majority of the population, with the small amount of those who did, most of them being the original residents of the planet, exiled to its moon, Visraho. Previously a penal moon known as Correctional Facility 48, now there exists a small pro-corporate society. Over time, an anarchist society developed, lacking official law or representation: a society run purely by the idea of the Non-Aggression Principle, or NAP. Citizenship is automatically granted to all owners of property above one acre in size, and these citizens directly vote for their representation in the Coalition.

    However, with the recent proliferation of bluespace technology, Zaurghis’ wormholes have seen less and less use by merchants. Private enterprises have developed the once-prominent business port into one of the largest parts of the Coalition’s shipbuilding sector. Alongside this, however, a new area of commerce has emerged: smugglers, always willing to take risks in order to avoid authorities, have taken to utilizing the wormholes around Zaurghis in order to ship product. These smugglers tend to avoid the larger and more well-traveled wormholes, instead risking life and limb on the smaller and less predictable, but less policed, wormholes. With smuggling being fully permitted on the planet, many have come to call this relatively inoffensive planet home.

    Crosk

    Located in the Astoral system, the hot and arid planet of Crosk is a sparsely-populated mining world that has risen to punch above its weight due to its massive aviation industry. Crosk has become renowned throughout the Orion Spur due to the thriving racing scene that has developed as a result of this racing industry. Crosk has a remarkably high concentration of IPCs, which have come to prominence in the racing scene due to their superior reflexes compared to organic pilots. IPCs are so prominent that they have their own synthetic racing league, due to their superior reflexes. The planet is regarded colony of Xanu Prime, which sent the first settlers to its rich mineral fields in 2395, and maintains a close relationship with it.

    Konyang

    The former Solarian world of Konyang is one of many areas that changed hands in the chaotic aftermath of the events of the Solarian Collapse seen in KING OF THE WORLD. Originally established in 2305 as a water-rich planet, Konyang's claim to fame has long been its status as the birthplace of modern robotics thanks to the discovery of drones on its surface. Even before defecting from the Sol Alliance Konyang had a very friendly relationship with the Coalition, which has made it the arguably most important former Solarian world in the Coalition - though Gadpathur remains suspicious of it. A significant IPC population can be found on Konyang, due to the planet's massive robotics industry and citizenship rights.

    Scarabs

    The Scarabs are a tightly-knit and nomadic faction of humans residing primarily upon repurposed colony ships, travelling throughout the Orion Spur for resources and knowledge. Originating as a colony fleet sent to establish outposts in the furthest reaches of the human frontier, their ships were lost in the ensuing chaos of the Interstellar War. Without the ability to navigate home, and without habitable worlds to colonise, the colonists began to indelibly change; generations spent in microgravity contorted their bodies such that they could never return to a planet again, and their culture was hammered by decades of desperate scarcity until unrecognizable.

    Though now having been welcomed to the Coalition of Colonies, the Scarabs remain alienated from the Spur they left over a century prior. Unsure of their future in the new world they have entered, the ultimate fate of the largest offworlder community remains uncertain.

    Society

    While every species can be found in the Coalition, it is human dominated due to its origin as part of human colonization efforts. However, the exact breakdown of Coalition society being impossible to determine. Social organization can vary wildly from planet to planet: the Coalition is home to a variety of states ranging corporate oligarchies, industrial wastes, militarized states, popular republics, and authoritarian regimes unified by the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact.

    The Frontier Protection Bureau (FPB)

    Though the military composition of the greater Coalition of Colonies is rather complex, with separate system states operating different levels of navy and ground assets, the Frontier Protection Bureau has remained a staple of not only the Coalition government, but through the Frontier Rangers, also of the entire human frontier in general. The origins of the movement were out of sheer necessity, formed unofficially by members of the Frontier Alliance to combat the various threats early colonies had faced in the untamed regions they inhabited. Alone many colonies lacked the supplies, training, and sheer manpower to effectively handle threats such as carp migrations and pirate attacks. In the sprawling attempts to fight these issues together, the Frontiersmen culture emerged, a rather wide ideology centred on personal freedoms, and the struggle to keep to them against overbearing odds. While these initial men and women would romantically refer to themselves as the Legion of Frontiersmen, their name and reputation would hold much more weight following the Interstellar War. There, countless Rangers would participate as a paramilitary unit, used in various guerilla warfare missions which would forge their legend for years to come. It had also solidified the Frontier Rangers as a force not meant to serve any one nation, but the Coalition and its eternal freedom as a whole.

    Included in the Frontier Alliance Defense Pact was the establishment of an officially recognized intelligence office to help carry out the will of the Alliance. Already known by much of the Coalition and even outside of it, the Rangers were easily merged with several semi-official agencies to create the Frontier Protection Bureau. Both halves of the organisation are headed by the Chief Marshal who is themselves nominated by the office of the Chief Representative, and then voted in by the House of Members. While the Bureau’s intelligence service is given directives by the Chief Representative as well, the rest of the organization - most importantly, the Frontier Rangers Division - is held accountable by the House of Members, who may question and overrule actions taken by the force if a consensus is reached. Due to this, Rangers are generally not allowed to interfere with local governments (unless explicitly asked to by said administrations), and the extent of their operations have mostly been the same as in their past. While securing the ever-changing borders of the Frontier from pirates, spacefaring creatures and other unusual threats is a constant worry, the rest of the Bureau is otherwise employed in various intelligence operations, the nature of which only the Chief Representatives and their selected Marshals of the past and present have been privy to. Numerous theories abound, as the lack of any overseeing agency holding the group accountable makes it particularly difficult to ascertain how far some operations have gone, a fact that the CFP has denounced multiple times. While some continue to push for the Bureau to have the reach it needs to establish stability, others warn against the creation of a police force that could unwind the very ideals the Coalition was built upon. The Rangers themselves are indeed not spared from political infighting, and many within their ranks struggle to internalize whether they are a symbol of the grand ideals of the Coalition, or a possible tool for those who wish to see the Frontier quelled.

    Internally, the FSB is supplied through a quota expected of every core member, scaled depending on a system’s individual military capacity. This may include everything from weaponry and manpower to ships and building materials. While this would make the Bureau one of the most well-funded forces in the galaxy by numbers, in reality, the sheer size of the Coalition means that the average Ranger or agent sees very little of this money, and often ends up relying on either outdated or faulty equipment. Many operations only continue to persist due to the zealous nature in which many operators adhere to their Frontiersman traditions, managing to scrape by with not much support. For similar reasons, the selection process for agents is often aimed at finding volunteers that are particularly committed to upholding the Coalition’s values, which further serves to reinforce the stereotypes which plague the position. More specifically, Rangers are often chosen from already established sub-groups within their nation of origin, such as particularly well-performing Gadpathurian cadres or Vysokan Host-men eager for adventure outside of their Steppes. While much more unusual, Scarab Rangers have been well-respected in the past for their self-sufficient lifestyle and effectiveness in Zero-G conditions, which encompass much of a Ranger’s work. Though primarily composed of humans, there have been notable Rangers of various species, such as Himean Tajara, who are often employed in missions which cater to their highly specialized skill set.

    Synthetics in the Coalition

    The Coalition of Colonies is well known for its diverse collection of governments, cultures and beliefs, and the treatment of synthetics across the Coalition is similarly diverse. From the highly integrated, forward-thinking planet of Konyang to the oppressive methods used on Burzsia, many other planets fall between these extremes, and the prospects of synthetics vary greatly depending on where they are located. The majority of synthetics in the coalition are owned by mega-corporations or other private entities, with free IPC frames making up a smaller minority of those across the Coalition. The synthetic population of the Coalition is also centralized into the more developed planets present within the coalition, due to their requirements for charging and maintenance to be regularly available to them, positronics on more rural, less developed worlds are either exceedingly rare or not present at all.

    The legal status of synthetics within the Coalition is mostly down to the local laws of the planet where they find themselves residing, either by choice or through ownership. These matters are left to the local governments across the coalition and so their treatment often comes down to who owns them or the personal wealth they can accrue.

    The Golden Deep and The Trinary Perfection both have a presence across the Coalition as well, with the Golden Deep operating across many of the planets and the Trinary Perfection making use of its base on Orepit to preach and perform its work within the Coalition itself, both groups hold decent influence over various parts of the Coalition.

    Seeking Asylum in the Coalition of Colonies

    The Coalition of Colonies is seen by many as a refuge from tyranny and persecution throughout the Orion Spur, and as such, many have tried to seek asylum there for decades. The process of asylum seeking in the Coalition is one that must be conducted through diplomatic channels and if granted, it offers the person the diplomatic protection of the Coalition against extradition and persecution by their home country. It is not the same as being granted Coalition citizenship however, and those who have obtained asylum within the Coalition would still need to go through the citizenship and naturalization process of whatever Coalition member they are hoping to obtain citizenship in. The information pertinent to player characters on the SCCV Horizon in regard to seeking asylum in the Coalition can be found below.

    Characters aboard the Horizon may request asylum with the Coalition of Colonies only through the aid of a Coalition of Colonies consular. Requests for asylum must include good cause for why a person is seeking asylum. These include evidence that a person has been persecuted or will be persecuted by their native government without having committed any crime that the Coalition of Colonies acknowledges. This is a high standard which some requests for asylum may not meet. The scrutiny and expediency of review for requests for asylum are dependent on a number of factors, including the gravity and immediacy of a threat to the asylum seeker, such as if an asylum seeker has an active extradition order pending from their home government. Without an intervening circumstance, the fastest asylum status can be granted to an applicant is one week but it will often take longer. The asylum review process is not egalitarian; some groups are more likely to have their asylum request granted by the Coalition than others. For example, Fisanduhians have a higher chance of having their asylum requests granted than others. Conversely, Dominian Primaries are entirely barred from seeking asylum in the Coalition of Colonies. Former members of the Solarian and Dominian militaries and governments (including the clergy of the Tribunalist church) must face a heightened standard of scrutiny to achieve asylum within the Coalition, including a security check, and are denied their requests at higher than average rates. If a request for asylum has been made concurrently with a request for investigation or extradition by another government, the request for asylum DOES NOT nullify any investigation or extradition request unless asylum is granted. Whichever completes first, the asylum-seeking process or the extradition process, is what holds. Judgements on the granting of asylum by the Coalition of Colonies are made by the Human Lore Team and can be appealed by making subsequent requests for asylum through a Coalition of Colonies consular.

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