Galactic Union

Galactic Union
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File:Talin Galaxy political map.png
Galactic Capital	Aciorus
Other languages	Basic
Type	Galactic organization
Membership	10,000+ member systems
Leaders
• The Premier	Harom Sinis
Establishment
• Old Union	9800 BHT -
• New Union	800 AHT -
Population
• 1500 AHT estimate	800,000,000,000+
Currency	Union Credits

The Galactic Union, also known simply as The Union, is a democratic federal union spread across light-years of space in the Talin Galaxy. Old Union is the term affixed to the pre-modern Union that existed until 800 AHT.

The Old Union was founded in approximately 9800 BHT, with its origins being a loose alliance between Galactic Center and Core systems. The Union came into conflict with the Zatroth Alliance in the Core War (2390 BHT), with the Union annexing the center of the galaxy around Solymus and establishing Aciorus as the capital. Following the Runia War (722 BHT) and the defeat of the Iilviri Ascendancy, the Galactic Union federalized, consolidated its military, and instituted democratic referendums in all member star systems. The Union encountered the Human Expansion in 67 BHT, and signed the Human Admission Treaty in the year 0 following the destruction of the human homeworld. The Human Expansion merged with the Galactic Union in 800 AHT.

The Galactic Assembly governs the Union under the Galactic Constitution, and is comprised thousands of delegates representing the Union's member worlds. The Premier is the title of the head of the Union, elected from ranks of the Assembly to lead the government on Aciorus. The Galactic Union and it star systems share sovereignty, and span a multiplicity of worlds from the Core to the Outer Band, uniting a variety of sentient species, human and alien alike, under one banner.

History

Foundation

The original Galactic Union, referred since 800 AHT as the Old Union, was founded in the Core in 9800 BHT. The original alliance was almost solely economic, though some security agreements were made between individual systems. Some of the founding systems included Aciorus, Haivis, Nimia, Numyke, Sulmiulara, and Ucarro. By 9100 BHT, the Dandirilian Monarchies joined the Union and doubled its territory. For roughly 6,800 years, the Union gradually expanded throughout the Core region, with the general establishment of its administration based on diplomacy and cooperation between individual systems rather than a centralized government. At one time, Aciorus's fellow city world of Haivis rivaled it as the Union's cosmopolitan center, holding a population in the hundreds of billions. A notable portion of those citizens were part of major merchant and noble families. However, Aciorus ultimately outpaced Haivis in industrial growth.

Consolidation of Galactic Center

In 2390 BHT the Zatroth Alliance, which occupied most of the Galactic Center around Solymus, came into conflict with the Union. Due to the fact that the Old Union declared slavery illegal and expected other civilizations of the galaxy to comply, it took an aggressive stance against the Zatroth's slavery practices. Zatroth refused to comply and attacked Haivis, forcing both the Old Union to intervene. In a multi-year war called the Core War, the Old Union ultimately came out victorious, forcing out the practice of slavery in the Galactic Center and Core, and annexing the center of the Galaxy. With the capitulation of Zatroth, the centering of administration in Aciorus, and the addition of Ocharia to the Union, the Galactic Center had been consolidated.

Expansion

By 1400 BHT, the Galactic Union had expanded to encompass the whole of the Core Region and began expanding into the Inner Band. The admission of the Venrolla Ascendancy in 955 BHT brought tens of thousands of systems in the 'north' of the Inner Band into the Union. In the 'south' of the Band, however, Union efforts to create diplomatic ties with isolated systems were complicated by the expansive Iilviri Ascendancy. The Ascendancy were anarchistic marauders who had access to mysterious overspace routes that defied conventional overspace logic and allowed them to travel through overspace in ways no one else could and take seemingly impossible routes no one else could take. Though they originally focused on performing raiding operations throughout the galaxy's independent systems, the Ascendancy emerged as a significant threat to the Galactic Union and led them to conduct a series of anti-piracy operations against the Ascendancy. These operations resulted in the Ascendancy beginning an all-out assault on the Union, kick-starting the Runia War in 741 BHT.

The Runia War was particularly brutal, with thousands of systems ravaged by the Ascendancy's use of superweapons. Additionally, the unconsolidated nature of the Union's military meant initial campaigns to fend off the Ascendancy were chaotically managed and often faltered. The war ended in 722 BHT with the capture of Iilviri and its territory, widely expanding the Union's territory. Iilviri was placed under military occupation by the Union, which it remained under until 422 AHT. Recognizing the disastrous consequences of decentralized military command, the Galactic Union consolidated its military following the conflict. Further, the Hundred Administration Systems recognized the dissatisfaction throughout the Union with the governance of the Union at large, and moved to federalize and instituted democratic referendums in all member star systems. The establishment of the Galactic Constitution and Galactic Assembly was the introduction of democracy in the Union.

In 67 BHT, after decades of scientific observation of each other, the Union diplomatically encountered the Human Expansion for the first time. The Union established trade ties with the relatively primitive Human Expansion, exchanging technology and sciences critical to maintaining the human race and their interstellar civilization. In 3 BHT, Iearth was decimated in an Overspace disaster, causing the Human Expansion great political and cultural turmoil. Three years later, the Human Expansion signed the Human Admission Treaty, granting the human colonies and its refugees protectorate status in the Union. This also marked the Galactic calendar dating system and the Year 0.

Member systems

See also: List of planets in the Talin Galaxy

All political entities in the Galactic Union are fully sovereign, and thereby share in the privileges and obligations that come with being part of the Union. Corporations and guilds were also allowed to join the Union, who all sent democratically elected representatives on behalf of their governments or trade groups from across the galaxy, to the Galactic Assembly. Each delegate has one vote.

Organization

Government

The Galactic Assembly on Aciorus

The Galactic Assembly serves as the unicameral main body of the legislative branch, but has immense power over the entire Galactic Union. The capital of the Union, which contains the most political power and wealth, is Aciorus.

Each member world or system chooses a Delegate to represent them in the Galactic Assembly. Member worlds and systems maintain their governments and societies as long as it does not defy any central and core Union laws. There are a wide variety of different local governments along the political spectrum: from monarchies to republics to hive-like communes.

Defense

Union Defense Forces

See: Union Defense Forces