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==The Groombridge Accord==

The war with the empire also led directly to the development of the [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Star Flight Attribute|subspace (warp)]] drive by the Earth nations. Once the war was over, the Earth colonies used this new technology to start hassling the Federal Alliance over territory and the Earth colonies that signed up for the Alliance. The Alliance, showing typical colonial independence, capitulated immediately. This bought them enough time to obtain a number of subspace vessels from the United Nations Protectorate. The Federal Alliance then sent copies of the ship designs to every one of their planets capable of building one. Within two years (in 2785) the biggest war fleet the galaxy had ever seen sauntered down to the border zone and re-liberated all their colonies, along with any others who expressed an interest in joining. The Federation got the Empire, the Earth colonies and the U.N.P to sign up to a galactic treaty (which co-incidentally left them with the biggest piece of the pie.) The Groombridge Treaty holds at least to the eve of the fourth millennium. 

The most recent developments in star drive technology have been the [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Star Flight Attribute|subspace (fold)]] drive and the highly theoretical [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Hyperspace|Hyperspace warp drive]] .

''[[Blue_Giant:Hyperspace|Hyperspace]] is another universe, similar to ours just after the big bang. It is a place which can be tapped for near unlimited levels of energy. And while it is just as large as our universe, the distance between two points is far shorter.''