Interstellar Confederacy
A loosely allied collection
of 32 star systems within the Bunkeria
and
Cemplas subsectors of Core sector.
The Interstellar Confederacy was the largest interstellar government to
oppose the Sylean Federation
during
their 650 year ascendence in the Core Sector.
Formed in -684, the Confederacy was primarily interested
in preventing any further technological decline of its member
worlds. The
Interstellar Confederacy stopped accepting members after it absorbed 32
systems in the Great Spiral region
of
the Sylean Main. The Confederacy
members considered
the 32 systems to be the maximum that could be efficiently coordinated.
After its initial formation period, the Confederacy turned
in upon itself and made no further attempts to contact adjacent systems
until contacted from the outside by Sylean Federation Scout ships in
-301.
The meeting was an uneasy one on both sides and finally erupted into
open
warfare a hundred years later as the Sylean
threats of expansion into Interstellar Confederacy territory increased.
The centers of power within the Interstellar Confederacy
rested with the four to five tech level 12 worlds it contained.
Individual
planetary rights were paramount in its charter - so much so in fact
that
the Confederacy rarely achieved the cooperation necessary to carry out
its intention to halt the slow loss of technology and loss of general
prosperity.
The Interstellar Confederacy had very few contacts with
outsiders, and those that it did have were generally not
pleasant. However,
after contact with the Sylean Federation, the Confederacy steadily
weakened
in influence until finally in -17 Cleon
convinced
a number of member worlds to pull out of the Confederacy
altogether. By
-1, the Interstellar Confederacy ceased to exist as a government
entity,
conquered more by the apathy of its members than by any hostile intent
on Cleon's part.
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