Real zones of influences of the forces would mean to basically just dot the map with colored pixels, and even that would be a gross overestimation due to involved scales. Displayed borders of the Alliance and the Empire are quite a lot arbitrary.Most often Sessions are gathered on the "Shining" Station, which is political and informational heart of the Alliance, and besides that is the safest neutral territory in the Galaxy - station is independent and harbors its own defense fleet, which constantly patrols local space to ensure safety of any vessel within its borders. But any significant interaction with another civilization, that cannot be settled in peace is going through Alliance Assembly, which gathers ambassadors from every Alliance species, and runs discussion sessions about the matter at hand. The alliance is a conglomerate of different civilizations, though they still remain highly autonomic in everything regarding internal matters. The alliance is the largest government body in the Galaxy besides the Smi'Tar Empire. It is estimated that Alliance territory covers roughly one billion stars, of which no more than several thousand are surveyed. The territory of the Alliance is more of an area that can be reached by the Alliance's ships without assembling expedition fleet. Yet "territory" is a fairly abstract term, because not all stars are surveyed and even fewer systems actually have any sort of protective forces to enforce the border. The alliance is made from one single territory, divided between several civilizations, of which Raharrs are the most numerous ones. The alliance covers about 1/20th of the Galaxy volume. Map with areas of influences of the most notable structures* Propulsion technology allows engines that can achieve high thrust values with very little propellant demands (think ion engines on steroids).FTL technology provides only means of shortening the distance between solar systems, it does not increase the velocity of the vehicle itself.Spaceships, in general, try to avoid the standard "space is an ocean" designs with decks arranged orthogonality to the thrust vector, with clearly defined "top" and "bottom".As a result, Alliance is not a monolithic organization, but more segmented and its members have a certain freedom of action. This is done to ease the reading of materials and to preserve the author’s sanity. Note: most units of measurement and concepts are defined by human values and names (meters, AU, seconds, Dyson Sphere, etc.) unless noted otherwise. The fleet acts like a peacekeeper, ensuring the safety of travel and adherence to the Alliance space laws and stepping up whenever a star system or a planet begins to radicalize against peaceful coexistence. This unavoidable disunity, coupled with the inevitable social drift, is the reason for the need for a military fleet despite the absence of historical global interstellar wars. Ktak were more fortunate, as their dogmatic religion allows communities to maintain integrity over larger distances and their colonies retain a strong sense of connection and unity with their metropolises. The Alliance is the dominant global governmental organization de jure, but all the member planets that are separated by more than a couple of weeks of FTL flight are, in fact, almost independent states (having at least one independent state on the surface) that solve problems on their own as much as possible. Nevertheless, in this relatively small volume, there are billions of stars, of which only a small percentage has been studied in detail and even fewer have any settlements or bases in their systems.ĭue to the lack of superluminal communication, there is no unification in the galaxy. Most of the galaxy has not been explored, and the Alliance occupies a relatively small volume. Interstellar communication is developed to the level of regular commercial flights. The setting is stationed in the MilkyWay galaxy, with most of the species achieving relatively mundane interstellar flight capabilities.