Editing SCRPG Cosmic Tales/Setting (section)

=== STELLAR COALITION NOTES ===
* Unambiguously the "good guys" polity. They are founded on the ideal of protecting and ensuring sentients' rights
** Food, Shelter, Healthcare, and Freedom all guaranteed by law
* A kind of EU-style government - a collection of smaller polities - all democratic
* The process to become a member of the Coalition is relatively long and involved, and requires any polity trying to gain membership to adopt the core principles of the Coalition
* A near-post scarcity society - not quite there yet universally across Coalition space, but it's close
* The Coalition maintains a standing military - all slick, gleaming, high-tech starships and military technology - largely used for defensive purposes
* The Coalition's scientific and exploratory space fleets are separate from their military
* The Coalition projects power outside its border primarily via soft power - energy generation, medical tech, replicator tech, and trade in such goods
* The Coalition isn't inherently expansionist - but it does take on new member systems and polities who petition for entry, assuming they can jump through the sentient rights reform and democratic governance reform hoops
* The Coalition provisions and maintains the Epochal Marshalls - think a kind of combination federal police force / green lantern style corps of planetary protectors. Each Epochal Marshall is equipped with a genetically personalized/secured, pciotech enabled, armored battlesuit - think the height of Iron Man nano-tech shapeshifting power armor