Galactic Powers

[Factions, History, Politics]
Since 2287, the year in which Falcon Lisi discovered the way to make the jump through the Forerunner Gateways, mankind began to spread through these, colonizing in an uninterrupted advance what is now the known Galaxy. This colonizing phase has not yet been completed, and small peripheral states arise and are rapidly extinguished, while only a few large galactic alliances have been able to consolidate their power and influence, guaranteeing their survival with an almost feudal structure.
The Great Powers: The Illyrian Hegemony, The SoCP and The Shogunate
These factions were the product of great alliances between clans, since the states as they were born in the past, with their stable boundaries created by natural barriers, became now obsolete and dependent on the complexity of the gateways, which allow a free flow in almost any direction

The Battle of the Markets in 3087, marked the beginning of the consolidation of the great alliances known today, with the creation of the first mech army, capable of defeating a numerically superior force, but without the abilities that the mechs are capable of providing. During that year, the Radix Tribe, a clan belonging to the starting Illyrian Hegemony, was able to defeat a large conventional force of tanks with the use of a smaller force of Red Ant mechs, the first mech evolved from mining mechanized units.

The appearance of Mech as military units of great versatility, mobility and superior combat capacity, capable to move in small units capable of projecting a force superior to that of any conventional army, was the germ and guarantee of survival of the great alliances, they were only allowed to defend their status and lifestyle through their mecha armies.

Major Powers 
  • Illyrian Hegemony
  • Society of Cogwerk Planets (SoCP)
  • Shogunate
Mid Powers
  • Clarke Federation
  • Sengakuji Reaches
It is notorious that linked to each of these factions, there is always a group of manufacturers that guarantees the production of their own mech armies. These factories also constitute the main source of wealth, of these factions, either directly or indirectly.

Often these powers collide with each other with brief wars usually resolved through diplomacy and economic agreements.

Another faction as influential as the mentioned powers, constitutes the set of all the mech mercenary clans. Although in the past, these clans enjoyed a greater autonomy, over the last decades, they have frequently converged towards common goals, few divided into two large blocks and often joining a common cause like the defence of the Galaxy against dangerous threats as the Forerunner Droch'ah or Unification.

The interaction of the mercenary clans, who maintain contractual relations with the major Powers, often marks the course of conflicts, or their cessation.

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(By GJ - 685605)