Confederacy

Overview
The Sol Confederacy was the first, and is the biggest, government on the galactic stage. It is the current Unified Earth Government. It is a Federation with it's own sovereign power, acting as an overarching power that functions more like an oligarchy.

The Confederacy currently sustains no colonies within the Mirak star-system, but controls nearly all systems in The Milky Way.

Formation
As humans developed and began colonizing space, it became apparent to the governments of Earth that their power was on suicide watch. The great powers of Earth laid claim to the bodies of the Solar System. These five colonies, and Earth, would eventually form The Sol Confederacy, but not before centuries of conflict between themselves.

The New American Republic staked their claim on Mars early on. They'd spend the next few centuries terraforming and changing Mars to be livable, a struggle that would come to define their spirit moving forwards. The Soviet Union, now large enough to encompass all Slavic countries, chose Titan as their new cosmic colony. The Nanking Alliance would form shortly after the Americans and Soviets started to colonize, realizing none of the Asian countries could survive alone, and take to the task of terraforming Venus, a task that was streamlined in great part due to their technological leadership. Nuevo Hispania, a military dictatorship ruling the Latin-Americas, would follow the rest and take Mercury. And finally, the British Empire, would lay claim to Europa, naturally.

As the centuries pass, and the governments of Earth find themselves draining the resources of their new worlds, the need for interstellar travel became imperative. The last straw was when the British Empire and the Soviet Union both tried to colonize another world, the same world, Jupiter's moon of Callisto. This event would come to be known as the Callistoan Tragedy, in which both sides lost a whopping billion men collectively, and the Soviets unleashed the first planet-killer weapon, sending Callisto hurling into Jupiter's atmosphere. The Tragedy would force the governments of the Solar System to come together and form a systemwide government known as the Solar Commonwealth, with one of the stipulations of this new government being that all worlds colonized after would hold no allegiance to any Earth government outside of the Commonwealth itself.

The Solar Commonwealth would last another century or so before the technology to jump beyond the oort cloud was discovered. There was an unprecedented peace not only in the system, but on the Earth itself. That all fell apart when new worlds became available. The Commonwealth would persevere for a time, but it wasn't long before more worlds just kept being added to humanity's repertoire. The original six worlds of the home system began to be called "The Great Six" and every world that came after would come to judge them for it. In time, with infighting factions, skyrocketing corruption, and an unacknowledged cold war between the old governments, the Commonwealth would collapse.

From the ashes of the Commonwealth rose a handful of splintered cosmic powers. The old governments returned to war, the new worlds fought amongst themselves, and once more the known galaxy was chaos and bloodshed. Like a brightly burning candle, the fighting lasted a measly few decades before representatives from the new, old British Empire called a peace conference. The conference turned out to be a ruse, when they and the New American Republic, led by General Leslie Stewart, proceeded to declare war on, and massacre, all attendants of the conference. This effectively brought an end to their opposition, and the Sol Confederacy was formed. A federation in all but name, as the Americans and the British rapidly went about instituting laws that would protect their place in power, and sew potential for corruption for centuries to come as humanity spread across the Milky Way.

The Euralian Mistake
Like all governments, eventually the Confederacy drummed up it's own fair share of problems. They had spread throughout the Milky Way, colonizing and furthering the reach of humanity as far as it could go. Knowing too well how their predecessor state had died in part because of this, the Confederacy immediately set about achieving trans-galactic travel. A mere decade later, they had it, and with it the ability to reach their neighboring galaxies. Several fleets were sent to each of the galaxies in the Local Cluster. The only one to return a signal other than a short-lived distress signal was the one that had gone to the Mirak star-system, in the Tarsara Galaxy.

The Confederacy established a handful of colonies in this new system, in this new galaxy. A new frontier, as it were. Their first colony, a planet named Rykon, went pretty well. They built a steady population, one to spawn a jumping off point for conquering and harvesting this new galaxy. With the success of Rykon, they naturally moved on to another, a Earthlike world they came to call Euralia. What seemed like an idyllic "Garden of Eden" soon became hell for the Confederacy. The planet's gravity was too strong, the indigenous wildlife too hostile, the flowers even capable of emitting toxic gasses. Euralia would quickly turn from a hopeful colony, to an industrial wasteland. There was a rapid change in focus from turning Euralia into this galaxy's Earth, to turning it into a planetary strip mine. To do this, they began to abuse the citizens of Euralia, and harshly so. Already sick and dying from the environment, their bodies began to pile with no end in sight. It was there, during excavation, that First Contact was made. Humanity's first encounter with a sentient alien species.

The Venn, they called themselves. Stored away in this massive underground vault they lived in to survive. They had become trapped after a war of their own decimated their population and left them as the only known living remnants. The Venn had advanced technology beyond anything the Confederacy could've dreamed of, which is why the citizens of Euralia knew they had to stop them. They explained their situation to the Venn, and in their kindness and generosity, offered to change the humans of Euralia. They would alter their very genetic code, changing them forever, and in return they would let the Venn live among them and thrive in peace. The Euralians accepted, of course, and through a series of procedures that are still not well known, were changed into the Euralians we know today. Stronger, more durable, more agile, taller even. They were simply better humans, and they came to realize that in short order. They rose up against the Confederacy, and with the help of the Venn and their advanced technology, waged a war that would see them beat the Confederacy off of Euralia, off of Rykon, and nearly out of the system entirely.

This brings us to now. The Confederacy maintains a limited presence in the Mirak system, but does not hold any planets. Through a series of travelling flotillas, they manage to keep a presence in the new galaxy, but nothing strong enough to make any moves. At least, not directly. Eventually the Euralians would fall to the hubris that the "regular humans" had fallen to so many times before, and their own rebellion would ignite. They called it theAscendancy, and the Confederacy was all too happy to help supply their resistance.