United Colonies / UNITEDCO

The United Colonies was established 2159, three years after humans first arrived in Alpha Centauri. The colony of New Atlantis was founded in 2160, and officially became the United Colonies’ capital in 2161.

The UC attempted to expand into the independent system of Narion in 2194 by placing the Clinic star station above Deepala, but the residents of Narion protested and voted to join the Freestar Collective. The dispute over Narion escalated into the Narion War in 2196, which concluded in 2216 with the Treaty of Narion. The UC ceded its claim over Narion and recognized it as a Freestar member, and halted its expansion beyond the three star systems it already possessed.

Tensions between the UC and Freestar resurfaced in 2308, when the UC lodged a formal complaint over Freestar’s colonization of the Lunara system and insisted that the Treaty of Narion prohibited Freestar from claiming a fourth star system. When diplomatic talks failed, the UC besieged the Freestar colony on the planet Vesta and killed all of its defenders, igniting the Colony War. This second conflict ended in 2311 after the UC Navy lost the Battle of Cheyenne to a Freestar flotilla of military and civilian ships, and both sides ratified the Armistice. In response to this defeat, the UC created the UC Vanguard, a civilian navy pledged to protect UC member colonies and interests, in 2315.

As of 2330, UC military forces are on alert due to increased aggression from the Crimson Fleet, which has established new footholds in several systems that threaten UC territory.