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New Unity Coalition: The army of humanity. The Coalition is the brains and brawn behind the main Reconquest mission against the xenos. Most of their worlds feature large training centers where new recruits from all over human space are trained and genetically engineered to enter the battle against the enemies. All this activity is controlled from the Dyson Swarm that is Unity, the installation that houses the Coalitions executive powers as well as the major A.I. that help direct the war effort. Of course, in the name of survival and victory, most culture of these worlds has been replaced by a uniform warrior culture were everyone strives to serve the military and kill xenos. While dissenters are free to leave, should they try and get others to come most will resist themselves due to the pervasive indoctrination. All's fair in love and war after all.

United Technocratic Republics: The UTR is less nationalistic and oppressive than it's neighbor, but is still committed to the antixeno war effort. The UTR prides itself on being on the cutting edge of technology, always pushing the scientific frontier. Of course these discoveries coincidentally help improve weapons technologies, which can be used on the front line. Relativistic portal cannons, meson turrets, and plasma lances have all come from UTR's laboratories and factories recently. This technological progress comes at a cost. All parts of society are controlled by the government, from the economy to the bedroom, as inefficiencies can be made everywhere. A rigorous and 30-year long schooling system searches for the next Einstein or Da Vinci, while life extension therapy ensures that citizens can serve scientific progress for at least a millennia of their lifetime.

Sarken Caliphate: Despite it's religious roots the Caliphate is the most liberal of the United Stellar Authority. While Christianity and Hinduism failed tto modernize Islam had a renaissance and evolved into a liberal theology which accepts all theists, no matter what they believe as long as it's a higher power. Even then almost a third of the Caliphate's citizens would be called agnostic or atheist by today's standards. The smallest but populous state of the Authority was founded by a collection of religious professors from Earth Middle East and Indonesia who wanted a society that would accept religiousness in this dour and atheist times. While the Caliphate's culture is certainly Islamic, only 60% espouse believing in the religion itself, and the Caliphates hospitality has drawn many into the polity to settle. However the religious government still supported the reclamation of Earth, and has fallen into the Authority's camp over the past centuries. Many of the Caliphates youth enlist in the Coalition's military, though many comeback traumatized.