Coalition of Congressional Republics

"'Everybody loves the fuckin' Coalition. A big mass of astropolitical tomfoolery and bureaucratic hells, always shifting and changing to compensate for the next big war it wages on itself.' — Hakim Ellis, ICMC veteran" The Coalition of Congressional Republics (CCR), also known simply as the Coalition, is a supranational administration that represents and oversees the various nation-states of humankind across the known cosmos of the Silver River Galaxy. Formed from the planetary United Nations (UN) in mid-2077 following the Second Martian-Terran War between the UN, the Alliance of Independent States of Mars (AISM), and other Solar colonial nations, the nascent CCR aimed to exercise sufficient control over subordinate polities in order to limit wars of potential human extinction. With the revolutionary invention of the Tepiltzin-Csanád Drive in 2083 amidst further advances into terraforming technologies, humanity in its united political state was able to rapidly expand onto the interstellar field; the first extrasolar colony on the planet of Cherub within the Aton star system being established in 2089 signaled the beginning of a new era for humanity.

As the overcrowded masses of the Solar System flocked to newfound pastures, humanity's population began to rapidly expand through a combination of prepared terraformed worlds, womb technologies, government protocols, and the fever of space colonialism. This "Planet Rush" lead to the formation of the foundational colonies that would later yield the Core Systems. However, as the Coalition of Congressional Republics grew in membership and population, so would its bureaucracy; the underground Corporate Wars of the 2200s would weaken the overall supranational government apparatus and lead to the proliferation of the modern megacorporations. The weakening of the central government, in addition to territorial overexpansion from miscellanies of prospective colonists raising settlements across tens of light years, would inevitably lead to the end of the Planet Rush.

Various insurrectionist groups have risen across the CCR in recent decades - most of which being based within the peripheries of the Coalition. However, in the southern and northern sectors, many infamous pirate fleets and warbands (such as Battlefleet Bahala and the Katon Legion) exploit transport lanes for their own gain. This has lead to recent expansions of the military, the Coalition Forces Authority, and its subordinate elements in preparation for the dawning War on Terror.