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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2635177" data-attributes="member: 6390">The Silent RebellionA.K.A.The Birth of the ConfederacyAs the First Artifical War (then known as the Digital Rebellion) wound down, the majority of the population was unhappy with the Terran Unified Systems government. Most citizens felt that the corporate influence on the corrupt and incompetant beuracry was what led to the Digital Rebellion. Despite the fact that the the government claimed that all digital intelligences were out to kill every human in existance, many digital intelligences had infiltrated the homes of those referred to as "dregs" and befriended roughly 80% of the voting population.During the years of fierce fighting, many new colonies either successfully broke away, or failed altogether, several of the larger, more established colonies, including the Orion Systems and the Hawking Trinary, established thier own independence. The TUS was too busy to bring the rebellious systems back in the fold, but still began making contingecy plans to bring the systems back into line through force after the war was over.When the Digital Rebellion was over, elections were held once again, for the first time in the 20 years since the Digital Rebellion had started. The people in power agreed to let the newly formed Digital Artificial Sentient Systems overseeing the voting tabulation. The Free Colonies insisted that the people in power abide by the results of the election, and agreed to abide by the results of a second vote putting forward whether or not the Free Colonies should rejoin the TUS without penalty.The people in power were confident in the fact that the three people that they had put forward for the position of President of the TUS would win, and that the several dozen "outside canidates" that were not supported by any of the three main political parties would have no chance.When the votes were tabulated, the people in power of the Terran Unified Systems were shocked that an unknown candidate running under a reform banner had won. "Maylo Traven" of Signus IV had won the election, garnering a massive 80% of the votes. In a shock, most of the degens had actually voted, rather than let thier votes be sold, and over 90% of them had voted for Maylo Traven.At first, the majority of Terra based super-corporations geared up thier mercenary forces and prepared to enforce thier edicts of what the elections results would be. Despite the fact that many of thier databases had been severely damaged and/or comprimised during the Digital Rebellion, most of the super-corps were convinced they had held the advantage in numbers and technology.However, the Free Colonies had been brought back into the fold, and thier warships jumped into the Sol System to enforce the legitimate results of the elections. The majority of the non-Sol System based super-corps joined in with the Free Colony's fleet, and thousands of warships, dropship, and ground forces arrived.A vote of confidence in the current government took place, with the government failing by an overwhelming 70%. After ten years, a new government emerged, the power of the executive office seperated by multiple layers and offset by several layers of beauracry.With the discovery of ancient battlegrounds, G'Tak Empire monitoring stations, the frightened and technologically regressed former allies and enemies alike, and evidence that after 6,500 years, the G'Tak Empire was still intact, the population of the Terran Human worlds wanted to ensure that any attack by the G'Tak would not only be rebuffed, but a followup mission could be sent to persued the enemy to never return.The military was carefully regulated, enlistment on an entirely volunteer basis, and lavish benifits provided to those who completed thier terms of enlistment. A full 40% of the governmental tax income was slated for the military. The military was seen as the enforcement arm of the new government as well as it's citizen's sword and shield.For the most part, individual planets/systems answered to themselves as far as laws, customs, religion and the day to day running of operations. Tax limits were set at maximums for planetary and system governments to bring in, and limits were set on what each level of the government could take from those below.In the five hundred years since the collapse of the Terran Unified Systems, the Terran Confederacy has kept several thousand planets moving in the same direction, and kept them protected from the very real threat of the G'Tak Empire.While to outsiders the Terran Confederacy may see a monolithic organization, there are many different factions, based on religions, idealogy, genetic beliefs, and ancestory. Every election usually has several dozen canidates that have been nominated by the various political entities of the Confederacy.With an election coming up in the next two years, members of the Confederacy and protected/member species alike are looking forward to the election.</blockquote>

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