Build Your Own Federation!

AndrewJTalon

Well-known member
Founder
A great conflict with an implacable enemy requires the alliance of several worlds with Earth as a major player. The war is won and the alliance deepens into something more: A great dream of a better tomorrow. A United Federation of Planets.

But the players involved are very different and it's fun to imagine how and why.

Basic idea: Select four or five alien races from other fictional works to join with Earth in a Federation. Work out how they get along and who their foes are. And if the dream remains.

Tech levels are more or less equal between all members, FTL is your choice. Let's have some fun!

To get started:

1: The Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw Star)
2: The Minbari (Babylon 5)
3: The Keronians (Sgt Frog)
4: The Wookies (Star Wars)
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
You triggered a nerdgasm in me.... damn you...

(((WIP)))

It had been known for at least a half century, perhaps even longer that we were not alone in this Universe. But now Humanity faces an unprecedented threat, Alien Invasion. Some might argue that invasion is too strong a term. No large scale battles have been fought, territories conquered, cities occupied by otherworldly armies or flying saucers hovering over the White House yet. But recent events have shown that while we know scant little of the extraterrestrials or their motives, technology, beliefs or goals, they have presented a clear and present danger to Human civilization.

Whatever actions we undertake, whatever missions we prosecute, whatever mandate we choose to operate under, our primary mission is the defense of Humanity. Defense implies combat, but research and intelligence gathering are just as important. Their technology is superior to ours in almost every way including in military capabilities which leaves a question of motive. Sure the presence of aliens is a threat, but how long have they been here? Why are they escalating now, from mere observation to interference, abductions, and even outright attacks? What do they want with Humanity... or Earth itself?

If we as a society, as a civilization, are to survive we must be courageous. While we would welcome peaceful coexistence as a victory, we must be prepared for the long war. And it is a war we can win. Humanity has been an open book to the Alien threat for at least a century now but the tide is turning. Every encounter, every engagement, every scrap of information we can glean from the Extraterrestrials is knowledge we have gained and an advantage removed from our mysterious adversaries in this clash of civilizations.

- United Nations Special Council of Funding Nations during the Founding of X-Com





I didn't like the term 'The First Alien War' and as the galaxy opened up to us after the destruction of the Temple Ship and the later mission to seize the Martian Alien Complex of Cydonia, I became more cynical. I remember Doctor Vahlen's words from the beginning of the expedition, and how she had difficulty understanding how such an advanced species could have so little empathy for other living beings. And through it all, she still hoped that the Aliens callousness was an aberration. My hope was that aliens generally were just people, like us.

It was then we met the true Sectoids.

- Commander Bradford, X-Com


1. Vanir (Stargate: Atlantis)

Notes on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

1. Preparing for the extragalactic threat of the Replicator dominance of the Ida galaxy remains the primary issue concerning all of galactic civilization.
2. Support of the Jaffa Rebellion and Tok'ra Resistance against the System Lords should be maintained publicly, with support of Special Operations personnel.
3. Expansion of the Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty to any suitable worlds and species if practical and species.
4. Ensuring the territorial integrity of the Vulcan-Andorian space as independent polities and monitoring potential Romulan Aggression.
5. Preliminary discussion of an international space station at a location to be later determined.
6. Formal recognition of the Union of the Earth, Vanir and the First Hebitian Union.

Signatories

1) Representative of United Earth: Secretary-General of the United Nations Spencer Chartwell
2) Representative of the Vanir: Supreme Commander Loki
3) Representative of the Asari Republic: Councilor Tela Vasir
4) Representative of the Andorian Empire: Ambassador Thoris
5) Representative of Vulcan: Ambassador Soval
6) Representative of the Centauri Republic: Princess Lalvu Vinnoto
7) Representative of the League of the Non-Aligned Worlds: Council Co-signage
8) Representative of the Hebitian Union: Gul Tular
Cosigned: Representatives of the Bolarus, The Free Jaffa Nation, Hebridan, Kelowna, Reetou Central Authority
<continued on next page>


It almost felt like we were bottled up in our minor solar system after Cydonia. If the Vanir hadn't arrived soonafter the capture of Cydonia, who knows how long we may have been in the dark. The Vanir didn't have a galaxy anymore, or a homeworld… or even a homeland. We found them one and in the process found out just how big the galaxy at large actually was. The most priceless thing I remember as Ambassador was the look of the Centauri Ambassadors face when the Dr. Vahlen simply shook her head when he proposed that Earth was a lost Centauri colony.

- Doctor Daniel Jackson



The Galaxy was a chaotic place, but I loved every moment of diplomatic service. Meeting new species, interacting with new cultures and having just so many memories. My office is literally filled with trinkets and other eccentricities. After fighting for so long, it was nice to see almost fifty civilizations represented at this Conference. It was a culmination of literal decades of work. Convincing the Cardassians to signing onto a Federal Union with us was quite the coup. It's unfortunate that it was precipitated by conflict and threat, but we ensured that there would be no coercion from us in this regard. The Cardassians are a proud and cultured people and love their families and take pride in their work. We have a lot in common.

- Ambassador Richard Woolsey


2. The Hebitian/Cardassian Union (Star Trek)
 
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prinCZess

Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
1: The Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw Star)
2: The Minbari (Babylon 5)
3: The Keronians (Sgt Frog)
4: The Wookies (Star Wars)
I have no idea who the middle two are...But this combination intrigues me solely because I wanna see how the proud warrior race of space-elf weretigers interact with the honorbound tree-dwelling space-doggos. That is some baked-in tension right there that I love.

To attempt and create a similarly...dramatic...Federation of folks that might make shifty-eyes at each other:

0) Earth...of course.
1) The Chiss Ascendency (Star Wars EU)
2) The Zentraedi (Macross)
3) The Kilrathi Empire (Wing Commander)
4) The Krogan (Mass Effect)
5) The Elites (Halo)

Klingons conspiciously absent because they're far too mainstream of a warrior-race for my hipster-cred Federation, thank you. :cool:
The only way I can imagine such a cluster coming together would be one of those cliche 'larger, more evil enemy threatens everyone'--with the old sci-fi standby of 'all-consuming buglike aliens' ala the Zerg being the one that occurs to me offhand. Still, I think it'd be curious to see scenes of Humans and Chiss having to play peacemaker and...cultural ambassador/teacher/mediator I suppose...to this grab-bag of other federation-members that all have warfare and conflict as a central element to them with differing honor codes and the like...While humans and Chiss deal with their own legacy ideas of warfare and honor that jam up against everyone else's, each others, and their own.

Also, Krogan/Kilrathi seems like it'd be the dogs v. cats in this situation, and I can't help but think there'd be some headbutting between Zentraedi and Elites as the former go wholesale into adopting cultural trappings from other folks and the Elites go for more of a standoffish distance to try and maintain themselves (at least, I think that's the tack that would take...I have very limited knowledge of the Halo elites, so maybe I'm all wet there).
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
You triggered a nerdgasm in me.... damn you...

(((WIP)))

It had been known for at least a half century, perhaps even longer that we were not alone in this Universe. But now Humanity faces an unprecedented threat, Alien Invasion. Some might argue that invasion is too strong a term. No large scale battles have been fought, territories conquered, cities occupied by otherworldly armies or flying saucers hovering over the White House yet. But recent events have shown that while we know scant little of the extraterrestrials or their motives, technology, beliefs or goals, they have presented a clear and present danger to Human civilization.

Whatever actions we undertake, whatever missions we prosecute, whatever mandate we choose to operate under, our primary mission is the defense of Humanity. Defense implies combat, but research and intelligence gathering are just as important. Their technology is superior to ours in almost every way including in military capabilities which leaves a question of motive. Sure the presence of aliens is a threat, but how long have they been here? Why are they escalating now, from mere observation to interference, abductions, and even outright attacks? What do they want with Humanity... or Earth itself?

If we as a society, as a civilization, are to survive we must be courageous. While we would welcome peaceful coexistence as a victory, we must be prepared for the long war. And it is a war we can win. Humanity has been an open book to the Alien threat for at least a century now but the tide is turning. Every encounter, every engagement, every scrap of information we can glean from the Extraterrestrials is knowledge we have gained and an advantage removed from our mysterious adversaries in this clash of civilizations.

- United Nations Special Council of Funding Nations during the Founding of X-Com


I didn't like the term 'The First Alien War' and as the galaxy opened up to us after the destruction of the Temple Ship and the later mission to seize the Martian Alien Complex of Cydonia, I became more cynical. I remember Doctor Vahlen's words from the beginning of the expedition, and how she had difficulty understanding how such an advanced species could have so little empathy for other living beings. And through it all, she still hoped that the Aliens callousness was an aberration. My hope was that aliens generally were just people, like us.

It was then we met the true Sectoids.

- Commander Bradford, X-Com

1. Vanir (Stargate: Atlantis)

Notes on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

1. Preparing for the extragalactic threat of the Replicator dominance of the Ida galaxy remains the primary issue concerning all of galactic civilization.
2. Support of the Jaffa Rebellion and Tok'ra Resistance against the System Lords should be maintained publicly, with support of Special Operations personnel.
3. Expansion of the Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty to any suitable worlds and species if practical and species.
4. Ensuring the territorial integrity of the Vulcan-Andorian space as independent polities and monitoring potential Romulan Aggression.
5. Preliminary discussion of an international space station at a location to be later determined.
6. Formal recognition of the Union of the Earth, Vanir and the First Hebitian Union.

Signatories

1) Representative of United Earth: Secretary-General of the United Nations Spencer Chartwell
2) Representative of the Vanir: Supreme Commander Loki
3) Representative of the Asari Republic: Councilor Tela Vasir
4) Representative of the Andorian Empire: Ambassador Thoris
5) Representative of Vulcan: Ambassador Soval
6) Representative of the Centauri Republic: Princess Lalvu Vinnoto
7) Representative of the League of the Non-Aligned Worlds: Council Co-signage
8) Representative of the Hebitian Union: Gul Tular
Cosigned: Representatives of the Bolarus, The Free Jaffa Nation, Hebridan, Kelowna, Reetou Central Authority
<continued on next page>

---
It almost felt like we were bottled up in our minor solar system after Cydonia. If the Vanir hadn't arrived soonafter the capture of Cydonia, who knows how long we may have been in the dark. The Vanir didn't have a galaxy anymore, or a homeworld… or even a homeland. We found them one and in the process found out just how big the galaxy at large actually was. The most priceless thing I remember as Ambassador was the look of the Centauri Ambassadors face when the Dr. Vahlen simply shook her head when he proposed that Earth was a lost Centauri colony.

- Doctor Daniel Jackson

The Galaxy was a chaotic place, but I loved every moment of diplomatic service. Meeting new species, interacting with new cultures and having just so many memories. My office is literally filled with trinkets and other eccentricities. After fighting for so long, it was nice to see almost fifty civilizations represented at this Conference. It was a culmination of literal decades of work. Convincing the Cardassians to signing onto a Federal Union with us was quite the coup. It's unfortunate that it was precipitated by conflict and threat, but we ensured that there would be no coercion from us in this regard. The Cardassians are a proud and cultured people and love their families and take pride in their work. We have a lot in common.

- Ambassador Richard Woolsey

2. The Hebitian/Cardassian Union (Star Trek)

"I don't suppose we could ask Ambassador Dax if the Federated Union could spare a few ships? Say... five hundred?" - Councilor Tela Vasir, as quoted in the Asari War Council meetings during the Minos Wasteland Campaign of the Replicator War.

"They call if the Logic Plague but I haven't the foggiest idea of it's source, nor how the Covenant of all people could've created the blasted thing. One thing is for sure, they didn't give any thought as to how to control it." - Chief Montgomery Scott, Federated Union Starfleet, Engineering Division upon disclosure of the anti-Replicator tool.



Federated Union Archive
USS Normandy
Artemis Tau Excavation

Time is short. Here's what we know.

> The Logic Plague is a weapon that was developed to target artificial intelligences.
> It was not developed by the Covenant but by a species currently believed extinct and perhaps not even native to the galaxy.
> The use of compartmentalized virtual intelligences and computer systems is the best counter to the spread of the Logic Plague
> The Logic Plague isn't a parasite or virus or software, it is more like a philosophical argument that is disseminated through electronic networks. Unlike the Replicators who are basically machines, we are more then machines.

- Chief Science Officer Liara T'Soni


"Despite almost two centuries of warning, life in this galaxy was almost extinguished by the Replicator threat. The Covenant discovered the cure, but the medicine was almost as harsh as the sickness. If it wasn't for the Federated Union, the whole galaxy would be bowing to the Prophets Theocracy in a far more technologically and culturally dim world. The Covenant may have paid a heavier price in the Invasion, but they will also exact a greater cost." - Councilor Tela Vasir to the Asari Republics Council prior to the signing of the Treaty of Babylon and a formal Union between the Federated Union and the Asari Republics.


Reporting two glitches in the system. Diagnostics reported inadvertant copying then deletion of the 21st century era biological data file of a pre-Federated Union Earth military officer.
-Starfleet Security Logs, Vanir Moon


"The term for it is a Cold War. With the Asari and their massive economy and territory pledging themselves to the Federated Union, there are two major players in the galaxy now. Them and the Covenant. The only drawback to a bipolar galaxy is that we are not a player in it." - Unknown Romulan Senator


3. Asari Republics (Mass Effect)
 
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Sailor.X

Cold War Veteran
Founder
Hmm sounds fun. Mine would be this.

The Klingon Empire (Circa 2410 Star Trek Online)
The Shangalli (Circa Halo 3)
The Zentraedi (Circa Macross 2040)
Stargate Earth (Post Unending. But before Stargate Universe. That show does not take place in this timeline)
The G1 Autobots (Circa the Second Season of Transformers)
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
It had been known for at least a half century, perhaps even longer that we were not alone in this Universe. But now Humanity faces an unprecedented threat, Alien Invasion. Some might argue that invasion is too strong a term. No large scale battles have been fought, territories conquered, cities occupied by otherworldly armies or flying saucers hovering over the White House yet. But recent events have shown that while we know scant little of the extraterrestrials or their motives, technology, beliefs or goals, they have presented a clear and present danger to Human civilization.

Whatever actions we undertake, whatever missions we prosecute, whatever mandate we choose to operate under, our primary mission is the defense of Humanity. Defense implies combat, but research and intelligence gathering are just as important. Their technology is superior to ours in almost every way including in military capabilities which leaves a question of motive. Sure the presence of aliens is a threat, but how long have they been here? Why are they escalating now, from mere observation to interference, abductions, and even outright attacks? What do they want with Humanity... or Earth itself?

If we as a society, as a civilization, are to survive we must be courageous. While we would welcome peaceful coexistence as a victory, we must be prepared for the long war. And it is a war we can win. Humanity has been an open book to the Alien threat for at least a century now but the tide is turning. Every encounter, every engagement, every scrap of information we can glean from the Extraterrestrials is knowledge we have gained and an advantage removed from our mysterious adversaries in this clash of civilizations.

- United Nations Special Council of Funding Nations during the Founding of X-Com





I didn't like the term 'The First Alien War' and as the galaxy opened up to us after the destruction of the Temple Ship and the later mission to seize the Martian Alien Complex of Cydonia, I became more cynical. I remember Doctor Vahlen's words from the beginning of the expedition, and how she had difficulty understanding how such an advanced species could have so little empathy for other living beings. And through it all, she still hoped that the Aliens callousness was an aberration. My hope was that aliens generally were just people, like us.

It was then we met the true Sectoids.

- Commander Bradford, X-Com


1. Vanir (Stargate: Atlantis)

Notes on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

1. Preparing for the extragalactic threat of the Replicator dominance of the Ida galaxy remains the primary issue concerning all of galactic civilization.
2. Support of the Jaffa Rebellion and Tok'ra Resistance against the System Lords should be maintained publicly, with support of Special Operations personnel.
3. Expansion of the Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty to any suitable worlds and species if practical and species.
4. Ensuring the territorial integrity of the Vulcan-Andorian space as independent polities and monitoring potential Romulan Aggression.
5. Preliminary discussion of an international space station at a location to be later determined.
6. Formal recognition of the Union of the Earth, Vanir and the First Hebitian Union.

Signatories

1) Representative of United Earth: Secretary-General of the United Nations Spencer Chartwell
2) Representative of the Vanir: Supreme Commander Loki
3) Representative of the Asari Republic: Councilor Tela Vasir
4) Representative of the Andorian Empire: Ambassador Thoris
5) Representative of Vulcan: Ambassador Soval
6) Representative of the Centauri Republic: Princess Lalvu Vinnoto
7) Representative of the League of the Non-Aligned Worlds: Council Co-signage
8) Representative of the Hebitian Union: Gul Tular
Cosigned: Representatives of the Bolarus, The Free Jaffa Nation, Hebridan, Kelowna, Reetou Central Authority
<continued on next page>


It almost felt like we were bottled up in our minor solar system after Cydonia. If the Vanir hadn't arrived soonafter the capture of Cydonia, who knows how long we may have been in the dark. The Vanir didn't have a galaxy anymore, or a homeworld… or even a homeland. We found them one and in the process found out just how big the galaxy at large actually was. The most priceless thing I remember as Ambassador was the look of the Centauri Ambassadors face when the Dr. Vahlen simply shook her head when he proposed that Earth was a lost Centauri colony.

- Doctor Daniel Jackson



The Galaxy was a chaotic place, but I loved every moment of diplomatic service. Meeting new species, interacting with new cultures and having just so many memories. My office is literally filled with trinkets and other eccentricities. After fighting for so long, it was nice to see almost fifty civilizations represented at this Conference. It was a culmination of literal decades of work. Convincing the Cardassians to signing onto a Federal Union with us was quite the coup. It's unfortunate that it was precipitated by conflict and threat, but we ensured that there would be no coercion from us in this regard. The Cardassians are a proud and cultured people and love their families and take pride in their work. We have a lot in common.

- Ambassador Richard Woolsey


2. The Hebitian/Cardassian Union (Star Trek)

"I don't suppose we could ask Ambassador Dax if the Federated Union could spare a few ships? Say... five hundred?" - Councilor Tela Vasir, as quoted in the Asari War Council meetings during the Minos Wasteland Campaign of the Replicator War.

"They call if the Logic Plague but I haven't the foggiest idea of it's source, nor how the Covenant of all people could've created the blasted thing. One thing is for sure, they didn't give any thought as to how to control it." - Chief Montgomery Scott, Federated Union Starfleet, Engineering Division upon disclosure of the anti-Replicator tool.



Federated Union Archive
USS Normandy
Artemis Tau Excavation

Time is short. Here's what we know.

> The Logic Plague is a weapon that was developed to target artificial intelligences.
> It was not developed by the Covenant but by a species currently believed extinct and perhaps not even native to the galaxy.
> The use of compartmentalized virtual intelligences and computer systems is the best counter to the spread of the Logic Plague
> The Logic Plague isn't a parasite or virus or software, it is more like a philosophical argument that is disseminated through electronic networks. Unlike the Replicators who are basically machines, we are more then machines.

- Chief Science Officer Liara T'Soni


"Despite almost two centuries of warning, life in this galaxy was almost extinguished by the Replicator threat. The Covenant discovered the cure, but the medicine was almost as harsh as the sickness. If it wasn't for the Federated Union, the whole galaxy would be bowing to the Prophets Theocracy in a far more technologically and culturally dim world. The Covenant may have paid a heavier price in the Invasion, but they will also exact a greater cost." - Councilor Tela Vasir to the Asari Republics Council prior to the signing of the Treaty of Babylon and a formal Union between the Federated Union and the Asari Republics.


Reporting two glitches in the system. Diagnostics reported inadvertant copying then deletion of the 21st century era biological data file of a pre-Federated Union Earth military officer.
-Starfleet Security Logs, Vanir Moon


"The term for it is a Cold War. With the Asari and their massive economy and territory pledging themselves to the Federated Union, there are two major players in the galaxy now. Them and the Covenant. The only drawback to a bipolar galaxy is that we are not a player in it." - Unknown Romulan Senator


3. Asari Republics (Mass Effect)

"Dimensions. Infinite frontiers. These are the voyages of the Starship Aurora. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new planes. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

- Captain Jean Luc Picard, United Federation Starfleet,



"Even the tiniest fracture in our exploratory efforts allowed the enemy to exploit us which they were able to force upon ever wider, and come through in even greater numbers. I warned the Council that with such reckless drive to seek out the unknown we should've prepare for unforeseen circumstances. But that's our strength as well. When Earth was devastated by the Combine attack, I had the brightest hope I had felt since the Resonance Cascade. It forced us look our enemies in the eye, knowing we'd remember their faces for the rest of our lives and that now we will make them regret ever opposing us in the first place."

- Gul Dukat, Minister of Intelligence, United Federation Council



"The Border World Xen is ours for the time being. The Covenant were wrong to assume that diplomacy was dead."

- Ambassador Liara T'Soni after the Liberation of Xen Campaign


"Trilithium Torpedoes. Logic Plagues. Reprogrammed Replicator Blocks. We even unleashed the Rachni on them. It was like flicking ash at a gatehouse. We even tried to tow one of those Halo rings to detonate around the Combine Dyson Sphere. They almost turned it back on us. But collapsing the star into a Black Hole, it almost seemed crudely simple at that juncture. When they were caught in the time dialation field putting a ring on it and activating it turned out to be much, much, easier."

- Captain Benjaming Sisko, Interview with Jake Sisko for Federation News




"You made the leap, between the worlds. Joined with us, between the worlds. You leaped, You fell. You flashed between the barriers. You made the time fall and the tapestry of woe was unwoven. But how many hopes are trapped in there now? With far distant eyes we can see the Flood that will be. A communion with all of the galaxy will come, but passing is still a mystery to us."

- Vortessance Dialogues
4. Vortigaunts/Xen (Half Life)
 
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1. The Abh from Banner of the Stars -- They have an utterly massive military force with the gripping hand across all of human space as genetically engineered demi-humans ruling over vast numbers of humans. But they're also laissez-faire capitalists who keep the space-lanes open for trade and consider trade a requirement of every Abh's stage of life. They've never encountered aliens before and would love to meet them, I think, being themselves engineered for space.

2. The Hani from the Merchanter novels -- Matriarchal merchant catpeople in space who live in ship-clans which travel around trading while leaving their men on their homeworld (mostly). They would see the Abh peace as very, very good for business; the Abh concession would be exempting them from the ban on non-Abh operating starships, and allowing them free run and free trade within Abh space. That would create a symbiotic relationship...

...And we would keep following the pattern:

3. The Ferengi and the Hani would normally be enormously mistrusting of each other on the basis of sex, but the Abh may just be able to keep them collaborating for mutual profit with their skilled if eccentric Imperial diplomats who are used to keeping the peace. This could be the basis of a very, very rich and successful convivance.

4. The Quarn. The hermaphroditic starfish merchant trading people from In Fury Born would come in and find the entire thing of trying to make the Hani and Ferengi work together a hilarious joke that they would share with the Abh and laugh a lot. They would then find that the Empire was "open for business" and decide that this was awesome, since they're an aggressive merchant species themselves.

5. The Quarians. Abh share similar spaceborne values, and would have the power in the agreement to insist on the merchant species finding a way to work around the fact that Quarians sometimes have difficulty with the concept of private property.

Will it last? The Quarians cause the most tension, but the Abh have the gripping hand in military force and an intense desire to avoid violence and maintain laissez-faire principles. So it's got at least an even chance.
 

GoldRanger

May the power protect you
Founder
The SCARY aliens alliance:

1) Elders (XCOM)
2) Moties (Mote in God's Eye)
3) Rraey (Old Man's War)
4) Harvesters (Independence Day)
5) Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)

Each of these races have a long term agenda that is not really compatible with the others. Each of these civilizations will act malevolently towards Earth the second the common threat is defeated. Inside their own verses each of these races not only has a war with humans, but has something that makes them completely incompatible with humans on a basic level.

The common threat will have to be a race that is just as psychologically incompatible or alien as the others, but even scarier. A Lovecraftian threat. Something like the Mi-Go (Lovecraft) or the Scramblers (Blindsight).

The Federation will be a veneer the smarter races (probably the Moties) create and temporarily maintain to placate Earth until they're ready to strike.
 
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AndrewJTalon

Well-known member
Founder
The SCARY aliens alliance:

1) Elders (XCOM)
2) Moties (Mote in God's Eye)
3) Rraey (Old Man's War)
4) Harvesters (Independence Day)
5) Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)

Each of these races have a long term agenda that is not really compatible with the others. Each of these civilizations will act malevolently towards Earth the second the common threat is defeated. Inside their own verses each of these races not only has a war with humans, but has something that makes them completely incompatible with humans on a basic level.

The common threat will have to be a race that is just as psychologically incompatible or alien as the others, but even scarier. A Lovecraftian threat. Something like the Mi-Go (Lovecraft) or the Scramblers (Blindsight).

The Federation will be a veneer the smarter races (probably the Moties) create and temporarily maintain to placate Earth until they're ready to strike.

So, how would Earth respond? Because you know that they know just what the other races will do once the threat is over.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
The SCARY aliens alliance:

1) Elders (XCOM)
2) Moties (Mote in God's Eye)
3) Rraey (Old Man's War)
4) Harvesters (Independence Day)
5) Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)

Each of these races have a long term agenda that is not really compatible with the others. Each of these civilizations will act malevolently towards Earth the second the common threat is defeated. Inside their own verses each of these races not only has a war with humans, but has something that makes them completely incompatible with humans on a basic level.

The common threat will have to be a race that is just as psychologically incompatible or alien as the others, but even scarier. A Lovecraftian threat. Something like the Mi-Go (Lovecraft) or the Scramblers (Blindsight).

The Federation will be a veneer the smarter races (probably the Moties) create and temporarily maintain to placate Earth until they're ready to strike.

Too spooky, I better write up the last installment of my Federation when I can get arsed to do it. :oops:

Next time I should just rattle off a list with semi-paragraphical explanations. :p
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
@AndrewJTalon Finally finished my Federation... :p

It had been known for at least a half century, perhaps even longer that we were not alone in this Universe. But now Humanity faces an unprecedented threat, Alien Invasion. Some might argue that invasion is too strong a term. No large scale battles have been fought, territories conquered, cities occupied by otherworldly armies or flying saucers hovering over the White House yet. But recent events have shown that while we know scant little of the extraterrestrials or their motives, technology, beliefs or goals, they have presented a clear and present danger to Human civilization.

Whatever actions we undertake, whatever missions we prosecute, whatever mandate we choose to operate under, our primary mission is the defense of Humanity. Defense implies combat, but research and intelligence gathering are just as important. Their technology is superior to ours in almost every way including in military capabilities which leaves a question of motive. Sure the presence of aliens is a threat, but how long have they been here? Why are they escalating now, from mere observation to interference, abductions, and even outright attacks? What do they want with Humanity... or Earth itself?

If we as a society, as a civilization, are to survive we must be courageous. While we would welcome peaceful coexistence as a victory, we must be prepared for the long war. And it is a war we can win. Humanity has been an open book to the Alien threat for at least a century now but the tide is turning. Every encounter, every engagement, every scrap of information we can glean from the Extraterrestrials is knowledge we have gained and an advantage removed from our mysterious adversaries in this clash of civilizations.

- United Nations Special Council of Funding Nations during the Founding of X-Com





I didn't like the term 'The First Alien War' and as the galaxy opened up to us after the destruction of the Temple Ship and the later mission to seize the Martian Alien Complex of Cydonia, I became more cynical. I remember Doctor Vahlen's words from the beginning of the expedition, and how she had difficulty understanding how such an advanced species could have so little empathy for other living beings. And through it all, she still hoped that the Aliens callousness was an aberration. My hope was that aliens generally were just people, like us.

It was then we met the true Sectoids.

- Commander Bradford, X-Com


1. Vanir (Stargate: Atlantis)
Notes on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

1. Preparing for the extragalactic threat of the Replicator dominance of the Ida galaxy remains the primary issue concerning all of galactic civilization.
2. Support of the Jaffa Rebellion and Tok'ra Resistance against the System Lords should be maintained publicly, with support of Special Operations personnel.
3. Expansion of the Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty to any suitable worlds and species if practical and species.
4. Ensuring the territorial integrity of the Vulcan-Andorian space as independent polities and monitoring potential Romulan Aggression.
5. Preliminary discussion of an international space station at a location to be later determined.
6. Formal recognition of the Union of the Earth, Vanir and the First Hebitian Union.

Signatories

1) Representative of United Earth: Secretary-General of the United Nations Spencer Chartwell
2) Representative of the Vanir: Supreme Commander Loki
3) Representative of the Asari Republic: Councilor Tela Vasir
4) Representative of the Andorian Empire: Ambassador Thoris
5) Representative of Vulcan: Ambassador Soval
6) Representative of the Centauri Republic: Princess Lalvu Vinnoto
7) Representative of the League of the Non-Aligned Worlds: Council Co-signage
8) Representative of the Hebitian Union: Gul Tular
Cosigned: Representatives of the Bolarus, The Free Jaffa Nation, Hebridan, Kelowna, Reetou Central Authority
<continued on next page>


It almost felt like we were bottled up in our minor solar system after Cydonia. If the Vanir hadn't arrived soonafter the capture of Cydonia, who knows how long we may have been in the dark. The Vanir didn't have a galaxy anymore, or a homeworld… or even a homeland. We found them one and in the process found out just how big the galaxy at large actually was. The most priceless thing I remember as Ambassador was the look of the Centauri Ambassadors face when the Dr. Vahlen simply shook her head when he proposed that Earth was a lost Centauri colony.

- Doctor Daniel Jackson



The Galaxy was a chaotic place, but I loved every moment of diplomatic service. Meeting new species, interacting with new cultures and having just so many memories. My office is literally filled with trinkets and other eccentricities. After fighting for so long, it was nice to see almost fifty civilizations represented at this Conference. It was a culmination of literal decades of work. Convincing the Cardassians to signing onto a Federal Union with us was quite the coup. It's unfortunate that it was precipitated by conflict and threat, but we ensured that there would be no coercion from us in this regard. The Cardassians are a proud and cultured people and love their families and take pride in their work. We have a lot in common.

- Ambassador Richard Woolsey

2. The Hebitian/Cardassian Union (Star Trek)

"I don't suppose we could ask Ambassador Dax if the Federated Union could spare a few ships? Say... five hundred?" - Councilor Tela Vasir, as quoted in the Asari War Council meetings during the Minos Wasteland Campaign of the Replicator War.

"They call if the Logic Plague but I haven't the foggiest idea of it's source, nor how the Covenant of all people could've created the blasted thing. One thing is for sure, they didn't give any thought as to how to control it." - Chief Montgomery Scott, Federated Union Starfleet, Engineering Division upon disclosure of the anti-Replicator tool.



Federated Union Archive
USS Normandy
Artemis Tau Excavation

Time is short. Here's what we know.

> The Logic Plague is a weapon that was developed to target artificial intelligences.
> It was not developed by the Covenant but by a species currently believed extinct and perhaps not even native to the galaxy.
> The use of compartmentalized virtual intelligences and computer systems is the best counter to the spread of the Logic Plague
> The Logic Plague isn't a parasite or virus or software, it is more like a philosophical argument that is disseminated through electronic networks. Unlike the Replicators who are basically machines, we are more then machines.

- Chief Science Officer Liara T'Soni


"Despite almost two centuries of warning, life in this galaxy was almost extinguished by the Replicator threat. The Covenant discovered the cure, but the medicine was almost as harsh as the sickness. If it wasn't for the Federated Union, the whole galaxy would be bowing to the Prophets Theocracy in a far more technologically and culturally dim world. The Covenant may have paid a heavier price in the Invasion, but they will also exact a greater cost." - Councilor Tela Vasir to the Asari Republics Council prior to the signing of the Treaty of Babylon and a formal Union between the Federated Union and the Asari Republics.


Reporting two glitches in the system. Diagnostics reported inadvertant copying then deletion of the 21st century era biological data file of a pre-Federated Union Earth military officer.
-Starfleet Security Logs, Vanir Moon


"The term for it is a Cold War. With the Asari and their massive economy and territory pledging themselves to the Federated Union, there are two major players in the galaxy now. Them and the Covenant. The only drawback to a bipolar galaxy is that we are not a player in it." - Unknown Romulan Senator


3. Asari Republics (Mass Effect)

"Dimensions. Infinite frontiers. These are the voyages of the Starship Aurora. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new planes. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

- Captain Jean Luc Picard, United Federation Starfleet,



"Even the tiniest fracture in our exploratory efforts allowed the enemy to exploit us which they were able to force upon ever wider, and come through in even greater numbers. I warned the Council that with such reckless drive to seek out the unknown we should've prepare for unforeseen circumstances. But that's our strength as well. When Earth was devastated by the Combine attack, I had the brightest hope I had felt since the Resonance Cascade. It forced us look our enemies in the eye, knowing we'd remember their faces for the rest of our lives and that now we will make them regret ever opposing us in the first place."

- Gul Dukat, Minister of Intelligence, United Federation Council



"The Border World Xen is ours for the time being. The Covenant were wrong to assume that diplomacy was dead."

- Ambassador Liara T'Soni after the Liberation of Xen Campaign


"Trilithium Torpedoes. Logic Plagues. Reprogrammed Replicator Blocks. We even unleashed the Rachni on them. It was like flicking ash at a gatehouse. We even tried to tow one of those Halo rings to detonate around the Combine Dyson Sphere. They almost turned it back on us. But collapsing the star into a Black Hole, it almost seemed crudely simple at that juncture. When they were caught in the time dialation field putting a ring on it and activating it turned out to be much, much, easier."

- Captain Benjaming Sisko, Interview with Jake Sisko for Federation News




"You made the leap, between the worlds. Joined with us, between the worlds. You leaped, You fell. You flashed between the barriers. You made the time fall and the tapestry of woe was unwoven. But how many hopes are trapped in there now? With far distant eyes we can see the Flood that will be. A communion with all of the galaxy will come, but passing is still a mystery to us."

- Vortessance Dialogues
4. Vortigaunts/Xen (Half Life)

Senator Khalida of Vasuda: It is bad enough that the Covenant will never forget that we utilized their Halo weapon. They will never forgive us for saving the Galaxy with it.
General Jonathan Rico: Our behavior is different. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very Federation. It runs through all our member species folklore, religion, literature--a conviction that when one person needs rescue, others should not count the price.

- Federated Union Council Minutes after receiving of Covenant Ultimatum



"Borg vessel. What you're receiving is a sample of the knowledge we possess. You will see it is all linked. The ancient Human script on the Orion artifact. Inferi redivivus. It means the Dead Reincarnated. The warnings you intercepted from Voyager sent to the Romulans from the Delta Quadrant. The information you assimilated from the Halo Ring. The Logic Plague that affects you now. The Flood is coming. The more they assimilate, the more collectively intelligent they become. Once they reach sufficient biomass and intelligence, they will be effectively unstoppable. If you attempt assimilation I will have that data destroyed. We know you're in danger of being defeated. You can't afford to risk losing this information. We await your reply."

"State your demands."

- Admiral Sitak opening communications with the Borg



You've studied ancient civilizations and encountered countless ones still around during your lifetime of service in the Federation. You authored over two thousand entries in the Federation archives, visited several hundred different planets, served in at least forty consular and ambassadorial posts, participated in over thirty diplomatic missions, oversaw twenty archaeological sites and are currently working on your.... thirteenth... nonfiction book? One of the Librarians said your life alone can be encapsulated in one of those old leather bound encyclopedia tomes. With all that said... did any of it prepare you for brokering the Treaty of Mutual Defense and Support with the Replicators and the Borg? - Avery Sisko

You could... place... all of the information from those thirteen books of mine... all of which are also available as holobooks by the way... all of my ambassadorial and consular work, the entirety of the archives I unearthed on Mars and the Halo Installations and the Orion Army and so forth... and even throw in all of the data from the Archives on every planet I visited... and... don't quote me on this but I'm fairly certain that it was only a fraction of the data that the Borg Collective and Replicator Intelligence were transmitting to each other while I was in the room. And yet somehow... they managed to distill it into a few pithy sentences for my meat brain to write down on a Datapad. - Liara T'Soni

- Federation News Interview



"Between worlds being consumed by the merciless Flood, superweapons that could devastate light years, finding allies ancient and artificial and extra-galactic and extra-dimensional, there was only one thing I was truly relieved about. Thank that Gravemind that the Federated Union and Covenant didn't end up fighting each other instead. We've been saving the galaxy for so long, a peer war would've just been bloody, dirty and desperate. It's so much easier... and daresay cleaner, fighting against annihilation for your right to live."

- Captain's Log, Jeanette Devereaux, USS Hornet



Fellow citizens, I come to you in the wake of the Fall of High Charity to issue a call to reason. Let no one deny the perils of our time. While we battled one another, divided by the petty strife of our political differences, the tide of a greater conflict is turning against us, threatening to destroy all that we have accomplished. It is time for us as nations and as individuals to set aside our long-standing feuds and unite. The tides of an unwinnable war are upon us, and we must seek refuge upon higher ground, lest we be swept away by the Flood. The devastation wrought by the alien invaders is self-evident. We have seen our homes and communities destroyed by the calculated blows of the adversary. We have seen first hand our friends and loved ones consumed by the nightmarish Flood.

The Covenant are no more. Whatever semblance of unity and protection it once provided is a phantom, a memory. With our enemies left unchecked, who will you turn to for protection? Unprecedented and unimaginable though they may be, these are the signs of our time. The time has come, my fellow citizens to rally to a new banner. In unity lies strength. Already many dissident factions have joined us. Out of the many we shall forge an indivisible whole capitulating only to a single Union.

For five years, we've been fighting for our very survival against inhuman, genocidal monsters. But it is a fight we cannot continue. We face extinction, unless we end this war now. Soon we'll have nothing left to defend. And that means we have only one option: attack. We are no strangers to war. Despite our best efforts, some of us have been fighting for as long as we can remember. But war is not all we must know.

If we are to survive. If we are to live long enough to see the seasons change, our children grow and experience a time of peace that we have never known, then we must now take this fight to the Flood! We will go to where they live and where they breed and we will destroy them! This is the day we take the battle to the heart of the enemy. This is the day that we correct the course of human history! This is the day that we ensure our survival as a Union!

- Federated Union President Address to the Galaxy after the Fall of High Charity, the Covenant Capitol



"Resistance was not futile."

- Replicator Coded Transmission after the Battle of the Installation 00



"It turned out it was the Romulans were the ones who allowed us to find the evidence of the High Prophets duplicity. As soon as Sangheilos and the other worlds accepted the Presidents offer of membership into the Federated Union, the Romulan Empire was invited into the... new Covenant. The Star Covenant. What is that old Terran saying? Everything old is new again?"

Presidents Log evening of Federated Union Membership Expansion

5. Sangheili (Halo)
 

LordSunhawk

Das BOOT (literally)
Owner
Administrator
Staff Member
Founder
*cracks knuckles*

OK... if I need to make my own Federation... I'm going to go nuts.



First off... for all your HUMANITY FUCK YEAH goodness... I give...


Then, for ALL of the missiles...


Now for ground forces, there's nothing that can quite be as awesome as...


With of course, support from my favorite light armored force...


Of course, this is a multi-versal Federation, like TGG *evil grin* I never promised to do the alien thing!
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
Mostly because I hate the fact that Carl Manvers threadgasming has pushed this thread off of the first page... but because I must preen more on my quasi worldbuilding fanfic, I'll just have to formulate some more errata of how big my Federation apparently is by skimming over my old posts in this thread. :p


Federation Timeline:

201x: United Nations Council of Funding Nations creates X-Com to fight in what will later be called the 'First Alien War'. It ends with the destruction of an Ethereal Temple Ship hidden in Earth's atmosphere and the conquest of the 'Aliens' Cydonia Complex on Mars. It's later revealed the Ethereals were aliens who failed to achieve something called 'ascension.'
> Earth encounters the Vanir (Stargate) who are deduced of being another offshoot of the 'Sectoids' who were a member of the adversarial Alien threat in the previous War. Fortunately peaceful relations are established and the Vanir who are currently 'homeless' sign the 'Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty and soonafter the Vanir then settle on Mars.
> The Vanir also make Earth aware of both the growing threat of the System Lords and the Replicators who had conquered their home galaxy of Ida.

205x: Earth-Vanir Alliance joins the Galactic Community as basically a single Union. Through diplomacy they form alliances and treaties to counter both the threat of Romulan aggression, the ongoing conflicts with the System Lords and a looming future threat of the extragalactic Replicators.
> The Earth-Vanir Union establishes the concept of an 'Interstellar Space Station' or Babylon Project for the purposes of interstellar diplomacy.
> Earth, the Vanir and the First Hebitian Union (or Cardassians) sign a formal treaty establishing a 'Union' between their nations, or a Federated Union.
> Other smaller polities soon join afterwards including the Vulcans, Bolians, Kelownans, Hebridans, Brakiri, Reetou, Andorians and several Free Jaffa and Tok'ra factions among others over the next century.

226x: The Replicators invade the Milky War Galaxy, threatening the powerful Asari Republic, who leads the loosely aligned Citadel Council as well as the Covenant, a centrally organized alien empire. The Federated Union joins its geopolitical rivals in fighting the Replicators.
> The Covenant discover a forgotten weapon known as 'The Logic Plague' while excavating 'Precursor' ruins. The Logic Plague targets computer and artificial intelligence systems and is used to both great effect against the Replicators, but also to great damage to the Covenant and others due to its indiscriminate use and often spread. The Federated Union assists the Asari Republic in researching and refining the Logic Plague. The combined efforts of the three powers manages to eliminate the Replicator threat to the Milky Way Galaxy.
> Before withdrawing, the Replicators download a copy of Samantha Carter who is later created as a Replicator and assists the Replicators in countering the Logic Plague effects following their retreat from the Milky Way Galaxy.
> The Asari Republic, the most powerful economy in known space, joins the Federated Union.
> A 'Cold War' between the Covenant and now United Federation is established. A fear of the Cold War turning hot grips the galaxy in subsequent decades.

23xx: The USS Aurora is launched as the flagship of the United Federation and is used to explore interdimensional space, soon coming upon the borderworld of Xen. Soonafter Federation exploration of these unknown dimensions results in an encounter with the Universal Union or 'Combine' (Half Life).
> The Combine launch a devastating attack on Earth as a prelude to open war between the Federated Union and the Universal Union. The Federation unleashes all manners of conventional and super weapons at the urging of the Cardassian and other members of the Federation but little works against the Combines tremendous resources.
> The Vortigaunts of the borderworld Xen join the Federation and assist them in their plan of collapsing a star within the Combine's Dyson Sphere homebase into becoming a Black Hole. Remarkably while the Dyson Sphere somehow remains intact, it is caught in a time dialation field, allowing an ancient Halo Ring (originally discovered by the Covenant) to be brought into Combines Home System and then activated... sanitizing all life within the Dyson Sphere and within several light years of the Combine's base of operations, hopefully ending their threat.
> Both the Vasudans and Vortigaunts join the United Federation.

23XX: Cold War between the Covenant and the United Federation only intensifies in the wake of the Combine War despite some cooperation on the Halo Ring conflict. There's worry that a conflict between the Covenant and the Federation would be devastating with how militarized both sides have become.
> The Flood invade the Milky Way galaxy via the largely underexplored Delta Quadrant. A warning is sent by a stranded Federation Starship Voyager via a microwormhole that briefly allows them to communicate with a Romulan scientist. The Romulans share this information on 'The Flood' with the other powers. A subsequent Voth exodus later confirms this new threat.
> The Federation uses unconventional diplomacy to counter the threat, reaching out to both the Borg (after noticing they have been affected by the Logic Plague) and the Replicators who still dominate the Ida Galaxy. Meanwhile the Romulans assist and potentially manipulate the Covenant into confronting the Flood more directly.
> The Borg Collective and the Replicators form an Alliance of their own to counter the Flood and their use of a Logic Plague.
> The Covenant are decapitated when the Flood infest High Charity, resulting in its destruction and the death of most of it's theocratic leadership. The Federation and Romulans both provide assistance to the Covenant in the wake of the loss of Covenant leadership.
> At the Battle of Installation 00, the combined forces of the Milky Way Galaxy alongside the Replicators and Borg. The Replicators, having adapted to the Logic Plague already, are crucial in helping extinguish the threat of the Flood. The Replicators and Borg, to the relief of many, honor their agreements and do not pursue hostilities against their allies after the Flood threat is eliminated.
> The Sangheili abandon the Covenant and join the United Federation. Meanwhile the Romulans, having suspected of masterminded the elimination of the Covenant Prophets, join the Covenant and help rebrand it into a new Star Covenant.
> It remains a bipolar galaxy between the Star Covenant and the United Federation with several lesser powers still existing (Klingon Empire, Centauri Republic, League of Non-Aligned Worlds, Turian Hierarchy and others) though whether this division of power will lead to a new Cold War remains to be seen.

It had been known for at least a half century, perhaps even longer that we were not alone in this Universe. But now Humanity faces an unprecedented threat, Alien Invasion. Some might argue that invasion is too strong a term. No large scale battles have been fought, territories conquered, cities occupied by otherworldly armies or flying saucers hovering over the White House yet. But recent events have shown that while we know scant little of the extraterrestrials or their motives, technology, beliefs or goals, they have presented a clear and present danger to Human civilization.

Whatever actions we undertake, whatever missions we prosecute, whatever mandate we choose to operate under, our primary mission is the defense of Humanity. Defense implies combat, but research and intelligence gathering are just as important. Their technology is superior to ours in almost every way including in military capabilities which leaves a question of motive. Sure the presence of aliens is a threat, but how long have they been here? Why are they escalating now, from mere observation to interference, abductions, and even outright attacks? What do they want with Humanity... or Earth itself?

If we as a society, as a civilization, are to survive we must be courageous. While we would welcome peaceful coexistence as a victory, we must be prepared for the long war. And it is a war we can win. Humanity has been an open book to the Alien threat for at least a century now but the tide is turning. Every encounter, every engagement, every scrap of information we can glean from the Extraterrestrials is knowledge we have gained and an advantage removed from our mysterious adversaries in this clash of civilizations.

- United Nations Special Council of Funding Nations during the Founding of X-Com





I didn't like the term 'The First Alien War' and as the galaxy opened up to us after the destruction of the Temple Ship and the later mission to seize the Martian Alien Complex of Cydonia, I became more cynical. I remember Doctor Vahlen's words from the beginning of the expedition, and how she had difficulty understanding how such an advanced species could have so little empathy for other living beings. And through it all, she still hoped that the Aliens callousness was an aberration. My hope was that aliens generally were just people, like us.

It was then we met the true Sectoids.

- Commander Bradford, X-Com
1. Vanir (Stargate: Atlantis)

Notes on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

1. Preparing for the extragalactic threat of the Replicator dominance of the Ida galaxy remains the primary issue concerning all of galactic civilization.
2. Support of the Jaffa Rebellion and Tok'ra Resistance against the System Lords should be maintained publicly, with support of Special Operations personnel.
3. Expansion of the Earth-Vanir Protection Treaty to any suitable worlds and species if practical and species.
4. Ensuring the territorial integrity of the Vulcan-Andorian space as independent polities and monitoring potential Romulan Aggression.
5. Preliminary discussion of an international space station at a location to be later determined.
6. Formal recognition of the Union of the Earth, Vanir and the First Hebitian Union.

Signatories

1) Representative of United Earth: Secretary-General of the United Nations Spencer Chartwell
2) Representative of the Vanir: Supreme Commander Loki
3) Representative of the Asari Republic: Councilor Tela Vasir
4) Representative of the Andorian Empire: Ambassador Thoris
5) Representative of Vulcan: Ambassador Soval
6) Representative of the Centauri Republic: Princess Lalvu Vinnoto
7) Representative of the League of the Non-Aligned Worlds: Council Co-signage
8) Representative of the Hebitian Union: Gul Tular
Cosigned: Representatives of the Bolarus, The Free Jaffa Nation, Hebridan, Kelowna, Reetou Central Authority
<continued on next page>


It almost felt like we were bottled up in our minor solar system after Cydonia. If the Vanir hadn't arrived soonafter the capture of Cydonia, who knows how long we may have been in the dark. The Vanir didn't have a galaxy anymore, or a homeworld… or even a homeland. We found them one and in the process found out just how big the galaxy at large actually was. The most priceless thing I remember as Ambassador was the look of the Centauri Ambassadors face when the Dr. Vahlen simply shook her head when he proposed that Earth was a lost Centauri colony.

- Doctor Daniel Jackson



The Galaxy was a chaotic place, but I loved every moment of diplomatic service. Meeting new species, interacting with new cultures and having just so many memories. My office is literally filled with trinkets and other eccentricities. After fighting for so long, it was nice to see almost fifty civilizations represented at this Conference. It was a culmination of literal decades of work. Convincing the Cardassians to signing onto a Federal Union with us was quite the coup. It's unfortunate that it was precipitated by conflict and threat, but we ensured that there would be no coercion from us in this regard. The Cardassians are a proud and cultured people and love their families and take pride in their work. We have a lot in common.

- Ambassador Richard Woolsey
2. The Hebitian/Cardassian Union (Star Trek)

"I don't suppose we could ask Ambassador Dax if the Federated Union could spare a few ships? Say... five hundred?" - Councilor Tela Vasir, as quoted in the Asari War Council meetings during the Minos Wasteland Campaign of the Replicator War.

"They call if the Logic Plague but I haven't the foggiest idea of it's source, nor how the Covenant of all people could've created the blasted thing. One thing is for sure, they didn't give any thought as to how to control it." - Chief Montgomery Scott, Federated Union Starfleet, Engineering Division upon disclosure of the anti-Replicator tool.



Federated Union Archive
USS Normandy
Artemis Tau Excavation

Time is short. Here's what we know.

> The Logic Plague is a weapon that was developed to target artificial intelligences.
> It was not developed by the Covenant but by a species currently believed extinct and perhaps not even native to the galaxy.
> The use of compartmentalized virtual intelligences and computer systems is the best counter to the spread of the Logic Plague
> The Logic Plague isn't a parasite or virus or software, it is more like a philosophical argument that is disseminated through electronic networks. Unlike the Replicators who are basically machines, we are more then machines.

- Chief Science Officer Liara T'Soni


"Despite almost two centuries of warning, life in this galaxy was almost extinguished by the Replicator threat. The Covenant discovered the cure, but the medicine was almost as harsh as the sickness. If it wasn't for the Federated Union, the whole galaxy would be bowing to the Prophets Theocracy in a far more technologically and culturally dim world. The Covenant may have paid a heavier price in the Invasion, but they will also exact a greater cost." - Councilor Tela Vasir to the Asari Republics Council prior to the signing of the Treaty of Babylon and a formal Union between the Federated Union and the Asari Republics.


Reporting two glitches in the system. Diagnostics reported inadvertant copying then deletion of the 21st century era biological data file of a pre-Federated Union Earth military officer.
-Starfleet Security Logs, Vanir Moon


"The term for it is a Cold War. With the Asari and their massive economy and territory pledging themselves to the Federated Union, there are two major players in the galaxy now. Them and the Covenant. The only drawback to a bipolar galaxy is that we are not a player in it." - Unknown Romulan Senator
3. Asari Republics (Mass Effect)

"Dimensions. Infinite frontiers. These are the voyages of the Starship Aurora. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new planes. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

- Captain Jean Luc Picard, United Federation Starfleet,



"Even the tiniest fracture in our exploratory efforts allowed the enemy to exploit us which they were able to force upon ever wider, and come through in even greater numbers. I warned the Council that with such reckless drive to seek out the unknown we should've prepare for unforeseen circumstances. But that's our strength as well. When Earth was devastated by the Combine attack, I had the brightest hope I had felt since the Resonance Cascade. It forced us look our enemies in the eye, knowing we'd remember their faces for the rest of our lives and that now we will make them regret ever opposing us in the first place."

- Gul Dukat, Minister of Intelligence, United Federation Council



"The Border World Xen is ours for the time being. The Covenant were wrong to assume that diplomacy was dead."

- Ambassador Liara T'Soni after the Liberation of Xen Campaign


"Trilithium Torpedoes. Logic Plagues. Reprogrammed Replicator Blocks. We even unleashed the Rachni on them. It was like flicking ash at a gatehouse. We even tried to tow one of those Halo rings to detonate around the Combine Dyson Sphere. They almost turned it back on us. But collapsing the star into a Black Hole, it almost seemed crudely simple at that juncture. When they were caught in the time dialation field putting a ring on it and activating it turned out to be much, much, easier."

- Captain Benjaming Sisko, Interview with Jake Sisko for Federation News




"You made the leap, between the worlds. Joined with us, between the worlds. You leaped, You fell. You flashed between the barriers. You made the time fall and the tapestry of woe was unwoven. But how many hopes are trapped in there now? With far distant eyes we can see the Flood that will be. A communion with all of the galaxy will come, but passing is still a mystery to us."

- Vortessance Dialogues
4. Vortigaunts/Xen (Half Life)

Senator Khalida of Vasuda: It is bad enough that the Covenant will never forget that we utilized their Halo weapon. They will never forgive us for saving the Galaxy with it.
General Jonathan Rico: Our behavior is different. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very Federation. It runs through all our member species folklore, religion, literature--a conviction that when one person needs rescue, others should not count the price.

- United Federation Council Minutes after receiving of Covenant Ultimatum



"Borg vessel. What you're receiving is a sample of the knowledge we possess. You will see it is all linked. The ancient Human script on the Orion artifact. Inferi redivivus. It means the Dead Reincarnated. The warnings you intercepted from Voyager sent to the Romulans from the Delta Quadrant. The information you assimilated from the Halo Ring. The Logic Plague that affects you now. The Flood is coming. The more they assimilate, the more collectively intelligent they become. Once they reach sufficient biomass and intelligence, they will be effectively unstoppable. If you attempt assimilation I will have that data destroyed. We know you're in danger of being defeated. You can't afford to risk losing this information. We await your reply."

"State your demands."

- Admiral Sitak opening communications with the Borg



You've studied ancient civilizations and encountered countless ones still around during your lifetime of service in the Federation. You authored over two thousand entries in the Federation archives, visited several hundred different planets, served in at least forty consular and ambassadorial posts, participated in over thirty diplomatic missions, oversaw twenty archaeological sites and are currently working on your.... thirteenth... nonfiction book? One of the Librarians said your life alone can be encapsulated in one of those old leather bound encyclopedia tomes. With all that said... did any of it prepare you for brokering the Treaty of Mutual Defense and Support with the Replicators and the Borg? - Avery Sisko

You could... place... all of the information from those thirteen books of mine... all of which are also available as holobooks by the way... all of my ambassadorial and consular work, the entirety of the archives I unearthed on Mars and the Halo Installations and the Orion Army and so forth... and even throw in all of the data from the Archives on every planet I visited... and... don't quote me on this but I'm fairly certain that it was only a fraction of the data that the Borg Collective and Replicator Intelligence were transmitting to each other while I was in the room. And yet somehow... they managed to distill it into a few pithy sentences for my meat brain to write down on a Datapad. - Liara T'Soni

- Federation News Interview



"Between worlds being consumed by the merciless Flood, superweapons that could devastate light years, finding allies ancient and artificial and extra-galactic and extra-dimensional, there was only one thing I was truly relieved about. Thank that Gravemind that the Federated Union and Covenant didn't end up fighting each other instead. We've been saving the galaxy for so long, a peer war would've just been bloody, dirty and desperate. It's so much easier... and daresay cleaner, fighting against annihilation for your right to live."

- Captain's Log, Jeanette Devereaux, USS Hornet



Fellow citizens, I come to you in the wake of the Fall of High Charity to issue a call to reason. Let no one deny the perils of our time. While we battled one another, divided by the petty strife of our political differences, the tide of a greater conflict is turning against us, threatening to destroy all that we have accomplished. It is time for us as nations and as individuals to set aside our long-standing feuds and unite. The tides of an unwinnable war are upon us, and we must seek refuge upon higher ground, lest we be swept away by the Flood. The devastation wrought by the alien invaders is self-evident. We have seen our homes and communities destroyed by the calculated blows of the adversary. We have seen first hand our friends and loved ones consumed by the nightmarish Flood.

The Covenant are no more. Whatever semblance of unity and protection it once provided is a phantom, a memory. With our enemies left unchecked, who will you turn to for protection? Unprecedented and unimaginable though they may be, these are the signs of our time. The time has come, my fellow citizens to rally to a new banner. In unity lies strength. Already many dissident factions have joined us. Out of the many we shall forge an indivisible whole capitulating only to a single Union.

For five years, we've been fighting for our very survival against inhuman, genocidal monsters. But it is a fight we cannot continue. We face extinction, unless we end this war now. Soon we'll have nothing left to defend. And that means we have only one option: attack. We are no strangers to war. Despite our best efforts, some of us have been fighting for as long as we can remember. But war is not all we must know.

If we are to survive. If we are to live long enough to see the seasons change, our children grow and experience a time of peace that we have never known, then we must now take this fight to the Flood! We will go to where they live and where they breed and we will destroy them! This is the day we take the battle to the heart of the enemy. This is the day that we correct the course of human history! This is the day that we ensure our survival as a Union!

- United Federation President Njord's Address to the Galaxy after the Fall of High Charity, the Covenant Capitol



"Resistance was not futile."

- Replicator Coded Transmission after the Battle of the Installation 00



"It turned out it was the Romulans were the ones who allowed us to find the evidence of the High Prophets duplicity. As soon as Sangheilos and the other worlds accepted the Presidents offer of membership into the Federated Union, the Romulan Empire was invited into the... new Covenant. The Star Covenant. What is that old Terran saying? Everything old is new again?"

Presidents Log evening of Federated Union Membership Expansion
5. Sangheili (Halo)
 

Senor Hortler

Permanently Banned
Permanently Banned
1) The Drej.
2) The Elder Things.
3) Necrontyr/Necrons.
4) Splugorth

Spoopy Primordial Federation.

"Humanity as it exists now is different from humanity of the past. A statement that many citizens of the Federation would likely find uncontroversial; be they Necrodermis; Digital or simply baseline.

The humanity of the past would be disgusted with the Humanity that we are now. That statement however is something that many would draw the line at. But how could it not be true? The War in Heaven that we prosecuted changed us, our contact with the C'tan, and the Necrons, and the Splugorth, and all our myriad allies and subjects have changed us in ways that would have the previous iterations of humanity view us with horror. I cast no judgement on those that have some visceral repulsion towards the idea that their ancestors would despise them - I have no stake in this game. - but I do reject their view.

Right now sixty billion of our soldiers have been remade into unliving metal; necrodermis soldiers that will live eternally. Patrolling the inside of our military installations, ensuring the sanctity of the Federations borders and ever searching for the remains of the Enslavers and their soldiers that were cast down in the War in Heaven. Unfeeling things of metal rather than flesh; humanity has countless stories warning of the evils of living dolls, puppets, possessed toys, machine uprisings, and ghosts in the machine. They were terrified by the idea of becoming less of a man by becoming more a machine. They would see the routine policing of our borders and military as a monstrous action. We do not.

I myself am a product of inhuman sciences; the Drej collective welcomed my thoughts into their data stream the day I was born. I spent the decades before the War swimming through trans system data bursts; swimming in the corona of dying stars and bathing in radiation of black holes. I have never had a physical form. I do not breathe, or eat, or sleep. I exist as energy; unbound by the limitations of pre contact humanity. When I do take a form in the lower realms I feel limited by it. To a pre contact human I would be a nightmare. A spirit floating on solar winds, able to devour stars and snuff out the life of worlds with my carrier ship.

Pre contact humanity believed that we were all the product of random mutation, emerging in what was known as Afrika; spreading outward and changing as we did so. We know from the meticulous records of the Elder Things that this is not true. Humanity was the product of experimental leavings; we have no random origin, we were the cast offs of what was left of an alien experiment. The very idea would horrify a man on the 21st century; the fact that we remain closely tied with the Elder Things even more so.

Finally we come to the Splugorth. Our most recent addition to the Federation. Invaluable during the War in Heaven; they dictate the lives of billions of slaves, entire species of servants that live only to serve the will of the Splugorth. Slavery on a scale that is unimaginable to the minds of pre contact humanity. I have floated in the atmosphere of a Splugorth foundry world once. Every data burst that was sent from the surface was coated with agony; every video feed was of suffering. To the morality of a man of the 21st century they would see the various alien forms of life in pain and feel sympathy for them. They would not understand the placement of things in the universe. They would not understand things as simple as hyper geometric formulae. It would drive them into madness to see the most basic scripting."


- Humanity, a shackle best cast off. Anonymous Drej Author.

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"Praise be Splyncryth. It that Walks the Shoals. Eater of Worlds, High Lord of Atlantis. Praise be Splyncryth. It that Walks the Shoals. Eater of Worlds, High Lord of Atlantis."

- Final Transmission of the Destiny Ascension; mission: Classified. Location: Dark Space.


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"The first encounter we had with the Necrons...or Necrontyr, or whatever you want to call them, was past the Perseus Veil. My team had been keeping watch on the Geth from a viewing station on the relay. One day the Geth just got up and left their worlds. A fleet bigger than anything we had assumed they had dropped out of FTL near the primary relay on the system we were watching. Easily a dozen dreadnoughts, thousands of frigates and cruisers.

*Chuckle.*

"We shit a brick; assumed they were going to come through to us, so we sent back a report recommending a military buildup. The council agreed, and four months later our fleet had laid down five more dreadnought hulls, the Asari had done the same, and the Salarians had laid three. Batarians offered us production for the frigates and cruisers as well...I think they wanted closer political relations to us? Doesn't matter now I suppose.

When we pushed through the relay two years later; we found no Geth on the planet, the server farms had been emptied out and there were only a few thousand drone systems to maintain what was still active. We lurked nearby for a week, waiting for the Geth to come back and try and take the world. Never happened. So we pushed on. Through the primary relay to the next staging ground.

...

We lost a lot of good men, and good ships. Staging ground Alpha was where my fleet pushed through to. It was littered with what was left of the Geth fleet. Enough debris that the comms systems could barely reach across the width of the fleet, and our scanners were useless. Too much vented eezo, too much residual radiation; and a hell of a lot of weird particle dissipation. Past the debris field was what was left of the primary planet...and the World Engine."


- Bridge Officer Saren, first Turian Assault fleet.


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A Federation Garrison, 3281.
"Commonly referred to as 'Tomb Worlds' by the lesser races of the galaxy, Federation Garrison worlds kept the edges of Federation Space policed; each world possessed multiple, mile deep complexes of munitions depots, stasis barracks, warfleets and sensor equipment designed to continuously scan for the presence of Enslavers or their allies. The world depicted above was known as FW-1934 by the Reformed Council of sentients. While its purpose to them was unknown, it was placed there by a Federation building fleet to search specifically for Leviathan QEC bursts. Heading the garrison was an Elder Thing named..."
Federation Info packet.

When Humanity first journeyed out into the stars; they did not do so alone. For most of its existence humanity believed itself to be supreme and alone in the universe. The discovery of the city under the ice at Antarctica changed that. The discovery of the Elder Things changed that. A race entirely unlike anything on Earth, a hundred million strong, kept preserved in towering stasis systems. After nearly a century of study, humanity deactivated those stasis systems. They freed the Elder Things and in return received a brother in their journey through the void. The first two founding members of the Federation went out into space, hands clasped in brotherhood.
- The History of the Federation, 3rd Edition, e-format. Short tachyon burst.

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The first military conflict of humanity was against the Mi-go. An alien race based on the outer Ice Dwarf of Pluto. It was...brutal. Our assumption that with the rapid advancements made by working with the Elder Things made us somehow ready for an interstellar war was entirely foolish. Founded on rank arrogance.

The Mi-Go's defensive screens bounced all but our most powerful shells. The Elder Things Space/Time beams bypassed the screens, but were themselves stopped by the heavy physical defences. It took a month of orbital fighting for our first fleet to reduce the space defences to rubble and open a path for ground forces. At the end of it of the fifty seven ships that had been sent out only ten remained. Seven troop carriers and the three Elder Thing bioships. Not only did the Battle over Pluto prove that human superiority was a thin facade, but it also demonstrated the sheer inadequacy of humanities metallurgy. Our armour, shipbuilding and craftsmanship could not compare to the engineering of a species ten thousand years our senior.

The ground invasion was no less brutal than the orbital one. We lost one in five men taking the outpost; but after two days of close quarter fighting an enemy that seemingly did not die when shot, we managed to take the control room and force the Mi-Go into submission. Only a mere handful managed to get away, projecting their consciousness across space/time and leaving us to care for the traumatized minds that had been forced into the Mi-Go's bodies.

Humans had leapt into the dark, and cut it's throat. That our first movement through space was met immediately with violence should give any student of humanities history no pause. Nor should the reality that our future was also met with violence.

- Prelude to the War In Heaven. Charlemagne Bolivar, Sabra Jaguar Pride.

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Subject is approximately fifteen metres length wise, three metres at the smallest width and eight metres at widest. Body is partially composed of 'normal' human term matter, primarily of 'Star Matter'; non Mi-Go class. Subject has attached a cybernetic harness composed of material similar to early form Necrodermis; function is unknown. Main cavity has several non functional vestigial organs; most organs appear to have cybernetic analogues installed to maintain body function. Most organs unidentifiable, two identified as element zero emitters, likely used for hovering, one organ identified as a Quantum Entanglement Communications transmitter. Same design as previously encountered Reaper and Leviathan combat forms.

Brain dissection shows extensive and radial cybernetic prescence. Entire frontal lobe has been replaced with a solid state memory drive, nervous system has been replaced with electroconductive fluid. Psionic ability has been enhanced with surgical and cybernetic means, including several drug emitters implanted into the base of the brain.

- Enslaver Autopsy report. Year two of the War in Heaven.

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"To those that question the need for a planet killing weapon; you need only look to the Protheans. A minor race that may have one day been welcomed into the fold of the Federation. They could have been uplifted, shown that their religious pillars were tools used by the C'tan to control them, and given eternal bodies of Necrodermis.

Instead they were allowed to access a vault world, against my wishes no less! They came into contact with Enslaver pods and within a single cycle the entire primary relay section was lost to Enslavers, Reapers and Leviathan thralls led by a C'tan that had long been vanquished at great cost. If we had the power to simply snuff out that world before the Protheans unsealed the vault then we could have saved their civilisation. Instead we meet now to decide on putting their species to the sword? It is the rank failings and cowardice of my predecessor that has allowed this to occur. Before we vote on the engineering of the end of a species we must now vote on the World Engine; The Necontyr shall not meet in this council again until we are all agreed on if it shall be made or not!"

- Four hundredth and fifty seven meeting of the Federation council. Newest council member Imotekh The Storm Herald heads discussion. Replacing Anrakyr, then the Thinker now the Traveler.

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"The sky is burning! All the star scream! The C'tan have returned for us all!"
- Human Psionic. College of Reclusiarchs. Pluto. Apocryphal quote.

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- C'tan of Unknown name being freed from a Necron Vault.

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The primary combatants of the War in heaven were humanity, the Necron soldiers, Drej Collective, and the slave armies of the Splugorth. The Elder Things did rarely contribute footsoldiers, or pilots. But they did contribute massively to the war effort in the form of organic warships, weapons and terraforming devices. The C'tan themselves woke sleeping Leviathan entities from hidden worlds, they themselves brought fleets of semi organic warships from the depths of darkspace. Enslavers - an until then smalltime race clinging to the outer rim of the galaxy - were modified, their psionic powers amplified to allow the C'tan, and Leviathans to project their mental domination through them. Allowing for the rapid assimilation of entire species into slave armies.

Every C'tan that fought in the War was itself a holdover from the previous conflict that had caused the downfall of the Mi-go, Insuannon, and Shadows. Locked away in planet sized vaults. The Necrontyr had been charged by the Shadows with the preservation of the Vault on the Necrontyr homeworld. This task had been transformed over the millennia into a fanatical need to contain and overcome the C'tan in all forms, leading to the Necrontyr joining the Federation shortly after it was founded with the Drej, Elder Things and Humans. The war itself finalised the transformation of our species into the Necrons.

- The War In Heaven. Primary combatants. 3rd Edition. Nemesor Zandrekh.
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"Every vault has been opened. All of them; the system is shutting down. The C'tan are free! What have you done Szarekh!"

'I have provided us with the answer to the ultimate question. That aching absence on the throne of heaven will finally, finally! Be filled. Either by me, or the false gods. The wait is over. Summon my court; the Necrontyr shall truly become Necron, and we finally march to war!.'

- Data Fragment picked up by a black site research platform. Location of data burst was estimated to be from a black hole located in Necrontyr space. Vault system core. Blacksite.

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- Human Bioship, Hierophant Class.
The Hierophant class Bioship was designed to guard planetary orbits. Carrying with it enough drop pods to carry an army of Elder Thing Organic Warrior forms down to the planet should the need to repel a landing occur. It was equipped with a dozen space/time beam weapons, a photon lancer system and broadside banks of dark matter pulsars.



 

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