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== The Federated Worlds ==

Our Triplanetary Confederation works out a new kind of FTL drive, the transwarp drive (today just "warp drive"), and starts exploring. At first, they're just following up their old trade contacts, but the Confederation picks up allies, and soon there's a move toward a new kind of interstellar government. Worried about a repeat of the crimes of the Old Empire, the wrangling over a new constitution continues for years.

But they finally sign the document, and the new Federated Worlds are founded, a cyberdemocracy dedicated to the principle that all life-forms have a fundamental right to existence in their own terms, and that governments are instituted among sapients to secure an equitable compromise for all within their sphere. (Or some such language; I'm not an expert in interstellar treaty law, so I probably can't phrase it properly.) And this young federation is a smashing success.

That brings us up to the present day, 2809 CE, shortly after the Federated Worlds' Centennial celebrations. The last war with the Cronan Empire was decades ago, the old space exploration program has been reactivated, and the government is involved in a top-down reassessment of internal programs. Stuff's changing, except the stuff which hasn't, but life goes on.