American Federation

The American Federation, often just referred to as the Federation, is a large stellar empire located in the top left quadrant of the Sean-Qi star chart, bordering the edge of the Tipikos Stellar Cluster. It is arguably the most powerful stellar empire, however it is large and extremely uncentralized, making it difficult to properly utilize its large military and economic power.

History
The Federation was the second nation to achieve full interstellar status in 2208, however it was nearly the last nation to flee the Sol system following the destruction of earth. Shortly before the Nemesis was discovered, the American Federation was a small group of squabbling nation-states occupying the territory of a once great empire. The rogue planetoid inspired a sense of camaraderie in the States of America, which was quickly capitalized on by Florentian Commander-General John Bernard.

John Bernard quickly led a campaign to unite the States in order to find a way off of earth, returning to the stars as the old America had once done. He conquered the states surrounding his home of Florentia, forcing their leaders to submit to his will and join the senate of his new Federation.

Once his forces came to occupy a large portion of the American Southwest, he led an expedition into the Great Mojave Waste in search of an ancient cache of old country technology. After several encounters with raider tribes and uncooperative states, he was able to recover the data lost in the Harwin Vault, which included the plans for a massive ark ship, capable of carrying almost the entirety of the American population. This information was quickly distributed to the remaining states, under the stipulation that they join Bernard's federation.

Pre-Interstellar Status
After the Ark Ship launched, it plotted a course to Bernard's Star, where they discovered a relatively large moon, suitable for human life orbiting a large gas giant. The moon was named Nova Colombia, and the gas giant was named Bernard's Salvation. Nova Colombia was quickly turned into a shining metropolis, and the federation turned their heads to terraforming the other planets in the system.

Federation Scientists quickly set about unencrytping the rest of the data in the Harwin Vaults cache, rediscovering technologies such as subspace flight and powered armor. Exploratory expeditions where quickly set up, probing nearby stellar systems for inhabitable planets and star-systems. Much to the Federations surprise, they discovered two previously unknown human settlements, the first being the Voidbourne, and the second being the Imperial Hegemony. The Voidbourne where almost immediately dismissed as simple pirates, but the Hegemony was approached with something of an uneasy alliance.

One of the most important things to come out of this alliance was the joint research agreement that eventually lead to the theory of Hyperspace, and the discovery of antimatter.