Incredible things had happened to our galaxy. Systems once isolated and skeptical of outsiders became connected and emboldened by a sense of comradery. To officially recognize the inhabitants of its sprawling multiplanetary systems, the Interstellar Planetary Alliance was created. The IPA would ensure that all of its members would be treated as equals. Should one celestial body fall to its knees, the others would be required to help them back up. Blessed were we to, in the vastness of space ruled by its dark unyielding silence, find community and solidarity among others.
Blessed were we.
That was over a century ago.
The idea of treating everyone as equals and sharing in the successes and failures of our existence is highly commendable. All for one and one for all, after all. But while commendable, it was also naïve. Although some of the founding members of the IPA were in fact able to implement this ideology across their own homeworlds, a task which should not at all be understated, the scale at which they were attempting to apply these principles was simply far too massive.
Eventually some of its members grew tired of the bureaucracy and wanted to bring about change. For the first few years their attempts were civil. Try to work with the institutions at power within the parameters that they themselves created. Of course, this would go nowhere. In a governance where even the most trivial matters need to go through countless rounds of voting and discussion, it was hard to get anywhere about anything. And so, the nature of civility would slowly be phased out by methods that would become increasingly aggressive as the years would go on.
Then came the revolts.
Admittedly, to the IPA these were nothing more than pesky little squabbles. They only did the bare minimum to address the issues at hand, as anything more involved would be stuck in parliamentary hell. This would be the first of many more mistakes to come. As the years went on, what was once merely a nuisance would grow to become a bona fide Insurrection.
It is only after several decades of escalated conflict that we arrive to today.
> Proceed
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