Federacy of Free Worlds

The Federacy of Free Worlds was established on the 22nd of December 2440 by Kurtis Jackson, a human male who was also a high-ranking Alliance general who had grown tired of President Damien Kameron's peaceful policies. Kurtis gathered many loyal followers and several Alliance member worlds, and broke off to form the Federacy, establishing it's capital on the planet Snovos, Kurtis's home world. The Alliance was shook, but accepted the change, and sent a ship of Diplomatic Wardens to Snovos to draft a peace treaty. Kurtis, paranoid and believing the Wardens to be assassins, ordered the ship's destruction. All seven Wardens onboard, plus the ship's crew, were killed. President Jackson then declared war on the Alliance. Federacy Navy ships use the prefix FNS (Federacy Naval Ship). When the Federacy was first created, around one-hundred and twenty Alliance member worlds joined and fought against the Alliance during the ensuing civil war. Kurtis's official title was "President of the Federacy", though he is a military dictator and there is nothing democratic about his regime, and the office of president is hereditary, much the same as a monarchy or empire. Admiral Francis Lester was one of the Alliance Navy top brass who defected to the Federacy along with Kurtis, and during the war he was one of the leading commanders of the war. His tactics were strange, but effective, and Admiral Jovan Moss of the Alliance Navy respected his counterpart, despite their allegiances. The core goal of the Federacy was to keep stronger grips on it's member worlds and to combat the growing Somakian threat, though Kurtis put this on hold temporarily to combat the Alliance, who he saw as ineffective and traitorous. When Kurtis's followers left the Alliance to follow him, they brought with them several hundred ships, and these were the backbone of the new Federacy navy. The Federacy Navy also began construction on it's own starfighters, designed to be faster and more versatile than the Alliance Strikers. The Federacy also had their own secret police force, known as the State Security Directorate (SSD) that rounded up political enemies, Alliance spies, deserters and guerillas and then arrested or executed them without a trial. Most worlds that seceded to the Federacy had themselves been victims of the Somakian Empire, and they all viewed Kurtis' opinions on the Empire as valid, believing that something had to be done about them before they conquered the whole galaxy. Despite the Federacy's promised ideals, they operated their own labour camps comprised of prisoners and POWs on several planets. They also had a secret police force that put down dissent and kidnapped political rivals. Despite their name, the Federacy was a military dictatorship ruled solely by Kurtis, who was an authoritarian that put action ahead of his citizen's personal freedoms and rights. Kurtis' only goal was to defeat the Alliance so that he could destroy the Somakians, who he viewed as the greatest threat to the galaxy.