The Solar Federation was founded on Earth many centuries ago. Over the ensuing millennia, it has come to embrace a wide variety of races and cultures from across the stars. They are a highly inclusive people with a scientific bent and natural gifts for engineering, improvisation, and luck. While many races find their highly structured form of government intrusive and confining, others delight in the cosmopolitan nature of their society.
They value all life and protect and nurture it where possible, making them popular among the native species they encounter. They see their path as ideal, fair and diplomatic. However, when challenged, history suggests they will do whatever needs to be done to ensure their survival.
They arrived in the Echo Cluster seeking new life and civilizations. They came with a strong engineering background but relatively weak technology; however, the conflict they encountered here has led to a sudden burst in advancement. There have also been rifts in their society, with some members activating the forbidden “Echo” technology, enabling individuals to skip through time using lightspeed time dilation effects in exchange for longevity.
Their peak tech on arrival was the ability to build their most versatile ship, the Nebula Class Cruiser. Within a few generations, they advanced, quickly adding many specialized and more powerful hull designs featuring advanced torpedo launching technology. This has culminated in their most impressive battleship, the Nova Class Super-Dreadnought.
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