The Galactic Federation
From Yb Timeline
"Serve the Federation, serve the universe!"
-Galactic Federation Creed, Rebel Yell Prologue: The Rettilite Sector
The Galactic Federation is a transgalactic nation, and the largest unified body of power in the known universe. They span across four galaxies, and hold a sway over most human worlds, as well as a large portion of other major species. The Federation has been responsible to bringing many civilizations into an era of space flight, and are the founding member of the Alliance of Worlds. They are constantly bombarded from the outside by nations such as the Kriken Empire, and from within by revolts and Space Pirate raids.
| Galactic Federation | |
|---|---|
| Bah images suck | |
| Facts | |
| Type | Government |
| Allies | Alliance of Worlds (SWDF, Warpstarmy |
| Enemies | Metal Army, COUE, Orks, Kriken Empire, Space Pirates, Necrons, Cyclosis Rebels |
| Leader | Prime Minister Jacob Wilder |
| Size | 20 Quadrillion |
| Notable Members | |
| Appearances | |
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History
Forming a Federation
The Federation was formed from the Galactic Order of Diaban, a mostly human empire that spread across three galaxies, branching out from the Sapia and into the Helios and Cremia Galaxies. The increasing inability for the empire to manage itself from the seat of Diaban prompted the need for major reforms in the government. The former empires of the outer galaxies demanded representation among the Galactic Order in order to put the needs of their territories over the needs of Diaban.
This began to go on for several decades until major portions threatened to revolt against the Order. Now spread too thin, the Galactic Order underwent a major change in the Diabanian Reformation, in which all major nations came together to create a parliamentary representative democracy with self governing states for each sector of the Order. The entire government was renamed as well, and in 0 BZ the Galactic Federation was founded.
The seat of power was determined to be set on Diaban, with a prime minister leading the Federation elected by the senate. For the next hundred years the Federation focused on defense and expansion, creating fleets to ward off the Kriken Empire.
Expansion and Discovery
With the invention of the Slipspace drive, the Federation began to move out into other galaxies. They pushed a scouting force into the Salnos Galaxy. Many of the inhabitants joined willingly, but many civilizations resisted the larger empire's influence and fought back. In response, the Federation sent a fleet to pacify the rebelling civilizations, assimilating most of the galaxy. One of the displaced populations came to be known as the Space Pirates, who would play a role later in history.
The conquest of Salnos ended when a large negative response from the population of the Federation began to arise. As such, forces were taken out of the galaxy, and the foreign policy of the Galactic Federation was changed to focus more on the trade and study of other civilizations. Through these methods the Federation made contact with civilizations like the Chozo, who aided much in their technological advancement. A large portion of the galaxy was left untouched by the Federation, despite them being the supposed owners of the galaxy to this day.
In the 1800s scouting probes made contact with the Starlight Galaxy, which was found to be teeming with life. The Federation sent a diplomatic team, and many of the human based planets willingly gave themselves to Federation control. Several previously unpopulated worlds were also populated by the Federation, one of the most prominent being New Terra. In 1857 the Galactic Federation made contact with a fledgling Star World. The planet accepted much of their space travel technology, and in exchange many of their traditions and magical arts were passed onto the Federation.
At its peak, the Federation were the dominant force in five galaxies, and remained the most powerful force in the known universe, having crushed all Kriken advancements on their territory.
20th Century and Internal Conflict
In the 20th Century, the Federation halted its expansion in order to foster the development of its own territory. It had a stream of trade with other uncontrolled protectorates, as well as the largest standing military force. As such, reforms caused a large scale back of oversight among its outer colonies. This would quickly allow for two major events in 1921, the return of the Space Pirates as a large raiding force the rebellion of seven sectors in the Cyclosis Rebellion.
The Space Pirates fought a galactic shadow war against the Federation, hitting supply lines and causing trillions of credits in damage every month. They focused down Federation weapons labs and stole much of their prototype research, allowing them to not only become a powerful force that could contest with Federations forces, but giving them the ability to sell their findings to criminal syndicates in the Federation, both giving the Space Pirates an economic boon and causing a rise in the power of crimelords. In response, the Galactic Federation Police Force was formed in 1934, with the sole purpose of hunting down and destroying Space Pirate operations.
On Cyclosis, there was a long standing abuse of authority among the Federation leaders. Protests among the galactic district were widespread, and met with harsh police action. When one protest was met with hostile force and the death of several thousand, the seven systems erupted into rebellion against the Federation. From 1943 on, the Federation would attempt to quell the rebels by force, sending in their fleets to attempt to force the rebels to surrender. This tactic was inefficient, and a campaign of guerilla warfare spilled far beyond the rebelling sectors, becoming a campaign of terror across the entire Federation.
These two conflicts ran costs high for the Federation. As such, they were forced to give amnesty to several outer colonies, especially in the Starlight Galaxy, in order to allow for a more focused defense. As such, the Federation presence in the Starlight Galaxy was diminished to a few minor border worlds.
In 1965, a wing of the Federation Fleet, under Holar Horus, turned against the Federation in what was known as the Horus Rebellion. Horus took control of several ships containing nuclear warheads, and seized control of the planet of Valkyrie III. The 4th Fleet, under Admiral Dane, ordered the surrender of Horus's fleet, but was fired upon. In the span of three weeks, the entire planet was leveled and every ship held by the rebels destroyed. The Horus Rebellion was a costly shock to the Federation, and caused a substantial increase in funding to the military aspects of the Federation.
In 1969, the Galactic Federation called it allies together to form a offical alliance, that would stretch through most of the known universe. This primarily included Galactic Federation space, but stretched to the unclaimed regions of the Salinos Galaxy and most of the Starlight Galaxy. This alliance, headed by the Federation, became known as the Alliance of Worlds, which served both as a defense pact and a stage for intergalactic trade. The Chozo abstaned from this alliance.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Space Pirate attacks increased. Now they were a force able to go toe-to-toe with the Galactic Federation in terms of technology. They had obtained a sentient Chozo artificial intelligence, who had rebelled against its creators and willingly joined the Space Pirates. This organic AI, known as Mother Brain, became the tactical brain of their forces and coordinated some of the more brutal raids against the Federation. In 1993, the Federation caught wind of the Space Pirates using a Chozo bioweapon known as the Metroid and weaponizing it to their own ends on the planet of Zebes. To this extent, the Galactic Federation Police Force sent Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, to destroy the creatures and their Aurora Unit. This raid was successful, and the planet Zebes was destroyed as well as most of the Space Pirate leadership.
In this time, the Cyclosis rebellion continued to escalate. Terrorist bombings began to hit Diaban itself, causing a panic among the Federation. Attempts were made to destroy some of the more fortified worlds of the rebelling sector, but this was met with public outcry and distain, as well as threats of further rebellions. Meanwhile, continued attacks by the Space Pirates, internal struggle, and some unknown plague began to sweep through the Federation’s Chozo allies, slowly killing them off.
In the aftermath of the Zebes raid, the Federation uncovered research instillations revealing a new mutagen they had discovered. Samus Aran was sent again to raid the planet of Talon IV, discovering the source known as Phazon. After destroying the Space Pirates one the planet, Samus destroyed the Leviathan Seed as well as the Prime creature that controlled the growth of Phazon, but in an attempt to survive the creature absorbed some of her genetic code, creating a being known as Dark Samus.
Decade of War
At the turn of the 21th Century, Phazon became the largest issue for the Federation. The properties of the substance were unknown, and it seemed to be spreading through the Salanos Galaxy at a rapid rate. When Federation Marine squadron on the planet of Aether, Samus was sent to investigate, only to discover that Phazon had inhabited the planet for hundreds of years and had caused a dimensional instability in the planet, as well as created a race known as the Ing. After a long fought campaign, Samus destroyed the Ing and the Dark World of the planet, facing Dark Samus again and defeating the creature. However, Phazon's spread seemed to increase, going as far as the Starlight Galaxy and to the planet of Star World.
What followed was a four year period of conflict. The Space Pirates continued to mass as a threat, the Cyclosis Rebellion continued, Phazon threatened to consume a galaxy, and a Kriken Surge of 1991 continued to harass the Cermia Galaxy. A period of military recruitment and technological advancement followed, taking technologies from the newly arrived Mexous Sniffin, the dying Chozo, and the other cultures of the universe in order to keep the Federation stable. The Cyclosis Rebels would begin to fall shortly after, with six of the seven sectors that rebelled being brought back into the Federation.
In 2006, a mysterious transmission from the mostly unexplored Tetra Galaxy called for all civilizations to uncover an "ultimate power." The major powers of the universe sent their greatest warriors in order to claim this power, with the Federation sending Samus Aran to uncover it. She was aided by a cadre of Yoshi Bodyguards, who helped uncover the trap set by the mysterious being known as Gorea. It was soon defeated, and the threat nullified.
Soon after, the Cyclosis Rebels began to lose their footing, the last rebelling system falling to the Federation after a failed attempt to transplant themselves to the Starlight Galaxy. They continued as a threat to the Federation, but their forces were scattered and disorganized.
In 2005 there was an attempted invasion of Federation space by the COUE in the Huddukel Sector. This invasion was intercepted by Admiral Salo, who engaged the fleet as it came out of hyperspace and destroyed them. This culminated in the loss of over half of the COUE's entire standing fleet. Remnants scattered through the sector, but were cut off from their command.
In late 2006, the threat of Phazon became too great to ignore any further. Leviathan Seeds landed on several key worlds and began to corrupt them at a fast rate. The Galactic Federation Police Force, as well as the Marine Corps and the Navy, sent a large portion of their fleet to destroy these seeds. What followed was the largest deployment of troops since the Horus Rebellion, where Samus Aran and the Federation would destroy three Leviathan Seeds hitting a key Federation outpost. In the process, it was discovered that the Space Pirates held key research on Phazon and its effects, even going so far as to corrupt their own homeworld with the substance. Fleet Admiral Dane ordered an invasion of their homeworld, destroying the unified Space Pirate presence and uncovering the Phazon core world of Phaaze. Samus Aran was sent to destroy the planet, when she came across the Prime creature once again. This time, she destroyed both it and the Aurora Unit it had corrupted, which caused a chain reaction that destroyed the planet. Without its Prime unit, Phazon ceased to be a threat to the Federation.
Later in the following year, the Federation sent a task force under General Daliear to the planet of Ryshi in an attempt to end the genocide of its people at the hands of the COUE. This amounted to a long series of desert raids against the COUE bases, and finally an all out siege of the Porthex capitol. In the end, their commander General Mysterio attempted to retreat, but was slain. The COUE fleets were scattered and the organization disbanded.
Though the threat of Phazon was gone, in 2007 the Metal Army struck in the Starlight Galaxy. This conflict soon bled over into the Cremia, Salnos, and Sapia Galaxies, striking the Mid-Rim of the Cremia the hardest. The Federation rallied to the defense of their worlds, being pushed back at the battles of Necroplis and Hegate VII. With the help of SWDF and Yoshi Bodyguard Clone Army forces, they were able to stop the advancement of the Mid-Rim by planting superweapon grade EMPs on several command ships.
Meanwhile, the Chozo had become all but extinct and the Space Pirates scattered, but the threat of the Metroid bioweapon was still prevalent. As such, the Federation tasked Samus to wipe them out on their home planet of SR388. This task was accomplished, and one last infant Metroid was sent into Federation care.
In early 2008, however, the Space Pirates reformed on the shattered crust of Zebes for another stand against the Federation. Their leader Ridley raided the research station containing the infant Metroid and reconstructed the Mother Brain unit as well as the creature known as Kraid. Samus once again raided Zebes, destroying the Space Pirates command structure and finally destroying Ridley and Mother Brain forever. In the final battle, the last infant Metroid was destroyed.
Later in the year the Federation began to take a more active role in the Metal Wars. They began to push into the Starlight Galaxy and reinforce their allies in the Alliance of Worlds, namely pushing back the Metal Army from the Lylat System and Animalia. They mounted a heavy defense against the Zinc Legion on Mobius, but X-Naut saboteurs destroyed their communications network and shut their missile defense systems offline. The Metal Army hit the Federation frontlines with nuclear weapons, forcing them to fall back and regroup for a final push. Thankfully the same X-Nauts hit the Metal Army lines and disabled their sonic cannon anti-aircraft weapons, allowing the Federation to crush the Metal forces with ease.
In 2009, Star World was invaded by the Metal Army. The Federation retaliated and helped rout the fleet as it was pushed back by the defenders of the world. Seeing their opening, the Galactic Federation brought the Alliance of Worlds together for a full attack on Mekkai. They broke through the planet's defenses and crushed the last of the Metal Army's forces. In the aftermath, the Federation helped occupy the planet and ensure the last Metal Army forces were destroyed.
Immediately after the invasion however, a unknown extragalactic army forced its way through the fringes of the Salinos and Helios Galaxies. This force was known as The Dark Perforation, and began to destroy the worlds on the fringe of Federation space. Still weakened from the Metal Wars, the Federation's response was to attempt to hold out against the Dark Perforation in their own worlds, allowing their forces to move into the Starlight Galaxy unimpeded.
Later in March the Metal Army again pushed from the Tetra Galaxy with a cadre of X-Nauts, this time commanded by a powerful AI, hitting both the Dark Perforation and Federation lines. The Federation attempted to mount a defense, but were beaten back at Mintop and forced to defend. The Federation aided the SWDF in rallying the occupation forces to hit the planet that the assault was mounted from, Alinos. However, Omega had already taken control of the planet and it’s AI, and they were also met with Conrad the Conqueror's fleet as well as the remaining X-Nauts. In the ensuing four way battle the Federation forces were beaten back with the rest of the Alliance of Worlds.
The battle with the Dark Perforation finally culminated in an invasion of Star World, which the Federation attempted to assist in the defense of. However, a planetary shield blocked General Daliear's defense. When the SWDF forces broke the shield, they discovered a way to attack the Dark Perforation's main castle. The Alliance of Worlds rallied behind this assault, and gave command of the operation to General Cyrus Vance. The Federation forces provided a distraction as they made a large push against the Dark Perforation's main offensive line, while the rest of the Alliance of Worlds used the Black Hole Cannon to move their fleets in position to besiege their main castle. The operation was a success, and after the death of the core creature all Dark Perforation forces began to die off.
