Approximately five hundred years ago, late in the 27th century AD, a fleet of refugees were forced to make planetfall on Comorian, fleeing persecution in the Rim Confederature and the brewing war with the Naxos-Elk Republic core-ward. Grounding all their ancient vessels bar one, much of the early days of the colonisation of the world is lost to conflict, digital corruption and malice. What is known is that forty years ago, mid-32nd century by rough reckoning, they began the climb back towards the stars, achieving a haphazard unification and re-establishing contact with the dying vessel in orbit, the RCV Mbal Msafiri. Under the visionary leadership of Esmail Nejem a programme to reclaim their heritage began, seeding the skies with satellites and transferring what knowledge remained in it's databanks to the surface. With his assassination in February of 2 NS (~3189AD) his son looked to a Council of member Polities to guide the Federation forward

Nezem States - President Abdul Nejem supported by First Minister Abbie Nejem - Pro-Unity
(++Diplomacy, +Planetary Warfare, -Research and Development)

Founders of the Federation and largest of the polities within it, the Nezem States came to Comorian in three sleeper-ships, including the RCV Mbal Msafiri. They have settled widely in the badlands centred on Mkobe, primarily in townships centred around deep wells or mining pits. Conscription is practised, with men and women serving three years in either their militias or the Federation bureaucracy.

Known Territories and Settlements: Spread across the Northern, Central and Coastal Districts with the capital Mkobe together with the cities of Darbuiks, Usiku, Teruel, Safed, Kader Beach, Zanzibar, Saqqaf-Cadiz, and the Nezem Coast and Nezem Badlands
Known Influences: Unity
Known Facilities: Federation Capital, Fort Mkobe, several Stoic Clinics
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Presidential Guard and the Nezem Jeshi Kigeni

Today's Federation is formed from a number of polities - nation-states and special interest groups and megacorporations.
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Balcones (-Construction and Engineering, -Research and Development, +Diplomacy) - Vilma Montgomery - Pro-Unity
Nomadic traders, the Balcones operate several cross-border road-trains within the Federation, including the territories of the Rafiki - often fending off the minor bandits and outlaws to carry finished goods and raw materials between the small holdings and strongholds. Recently they have ventured into the void in collaboration with the New Stoics

Known Territories and Settlements: None
Known Influences: Cross-Border Trading
Known Facilities: None
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Several Roadtrains

Buna (+Construction and Engineering, -Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, -Stellar Warfare) - Charles Mbum - Pro-Unity
Claiming most of the equatorial region, including the Gama de Acero, the Buna have firmly turned their back on space and focused heavily on transforming their patch of Comorian into something liveable. Forced into the most desolate regions by other polities in their early history, they learnt to survive in this harsh region and now live within a handful of underground cities - as well as operating various wells, aquifers and mines. With their Pandayans they represent much of the industrial backbone of the Federation

Known Territories and Settlements: Buna City, Gharistan, Ndanga, Wuuwa, The Pandayans and the Vuoristö Savannah together with a polar base at Barafu Utoto Station
Known Influences: Renewables and Manufactories
Known Facilities:Barafu Utoto Station, Eastern Pandayan, Southern Pandayan, Vuoristö Pandayan Roadtrain Manufactory, and significant investment in Solar Power Plants
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Buna Defence Corps, supporting regiments, together with several Roadtrain routes

Chikalda (+Economy and Trade) - Rod Watts - Cool
Located in the Nezem side of the Anderbacks and south of Usiku, the Chikalda have kept to themselves for much of their history. When the Federation was formed the Nezem incorporated them early, but let them retain their independence, a nation within a nation. In recent years they have been more vocal about their own history, with strong movements growing around their traditional crafts and values of salvage and reclamation - partly in response to the surge in 'cheap' entertainment coming out of nearby Gharistan

Known Territories and Settlements: Chikalda Hills
Known Influences: Artisanal Crafts, Seam Mining, Salvage
Known Facilities: None
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Chikalda Infantry Division

Crimeran Confederation
Decimated in the Satyata-Seihai Conflict, the remnants were absorbed into the military of the Huitzilopochtli Group

Green Energy Party (+Diplomacy, +Economy and Trade, -Espionage and Counter-Intelligence) - Felicia Jenkins - Warm
Blossoming in response to the focus on Green politics within Federation budgets and led by Professor Havant's proteges, the Green Energy Party is a solid mixture of aspirational scientists and hopeful youth. Within the Council they have begun to establish a reputation for grey ops

Known Territories and Settlements: None
Known Influences: Ecology, Clean Tech, Sustainability
Known Facilities: Several Solar Power Plants and Kelp Harvesting facilities</i>
Known Technologies: Researched Recycling for the Federation
Known Units: None

Gorski Amalgam (++Research and Development, +Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, -Economics) - Meredith Haywood - Neutral
Fleeing persecution from the Rim Confederature for recidivist research into forbidden technologies, the Gorski Amalgam keep primarily to their city of Haven in the Anderback Mountains west of Mkobe - though they import a wide range of products as events in recent years have meant they are no longer self-sufficient. They were persuaded into the Federation on the basis of long-term trading contracts with the Buna and a defence pact with the Nezem States.

Known Territories and Settlements: Haven, Anderback Mountains
Known Influences: Espionage, Pharmaceuticals
Known Facilities: The Feigembaum Centre, Goldberg Observatory and a Bug Manufactory
Known Technologies: Combat Stimulants
Known Units: Sokovzhymalka

Grande y Felicísima Armada (+Stellar Warfare, -Planetary Warfare) - Blake Ainsworth - Neutral
Named for one of the great navies from Old Terra, they've contented themselves with ruling over the seas of Comorian with naval ships and trading posts centred on Port Cartegena on the Nezem Coast. They also have a fairly large stake in transoceanic trading.

Known Territories and Settlements: Port Cartegena, Loupe Point and Port Barbary off the Nezem Coast
Known Influences: Marine Industry, Shipbuilding
Known Facilities: University of Cartegena, several Kelp Harvesting and Processing Facilities
Known Technologies: Marine Surveying
Known Units: Several Patrol Cutters and other naval vessels with one decentralised Fisabee Marine Division

Hishu Gardeners (+Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, -Construction and Engineering) - Faxecura - Warm
Claiming a small territory on the edge of the Gama de Acero and south of the Buna, the Hishu Gardeners were a group that set out on a sleeper ship to start a utopian society and search for enlightenment. They believe that a society, like a garden, will not grow properly until it is pruned and the weeds are eliminated. While outsiders know the gardeners mostly for the large seed banks and skilled farmers, they are so much more. They have not rushed to expand taking there time to make sure they buildings facing and architecture do not interfere with positive energy flows and have spent some of their time and effort towards art and culture instead of just survival.

Known Territories and Settlements: Gama de Acero including the cities of Tōsandō and Kyoto Sands
Known Influences: Alternative Healthcare, Consumer Electronics
Known Facilities: Several Kelp Marine Harvesting and Kelp Farming platforms together with the Ny'ekundu Wetlands and Tōsandō Gardens
Known Technologies: Natural Detoxicants, Technical Fabrics
Known Units: Defence forces in the form of the Antai-Kazu and Yūbokumin-Kazu

Mercantile Alliance
Collapsed following a series of over-extensions and poor investment choices

Nicaragua Mining Conglomerate (+Economy and Trade, +Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, --Stellar Warfare) - Oluwatoyin Paterson - Neutral
Prominent in western Buna, the Anderbacks and the Nezem Badlands, the NMC is a powerful economic force - more so with the increased demands from manufacturing and the gap left by the lack of leadership in the PMMC and the fall of the Mercantile Alliance

Known Territories and Settlements: Esteli Pit, Siuna Pit, Boaco Pit
Known Influences: Pit Mining and Ore Processing
Known Facilities: Esteli Miner's Manufactory
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Pitman's Roadtrain

Oshakati Collective (-Diplomacy) - Jarkko Hathaway - Neutral
Emerging into prominence out of Darbuiks following the consolidation of numerous transport unions, the Oshakati were previously concerned with being truckers, municipal transport services and so on. Bringing everything together has strengthened them to the point of recognition by the Federation as a union polity

Known Territories and Settlements: None
Known Influences: Transportation, Worker's Rights
Known Facilities: Transport Hub in Darbuiks
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Oshakati Militia

Progress Made Manifest Coalition (+++Economy and Trade, --Planetary Warfare) - Rook Winters - Neutral
Formed from a consortium of private technology and engineering companies by Takala Dahajafada the Progress Made Manifest Coalition is an influential Federation lobbyist. Councillor Jaharala Neariera was killed in an automobile accident, Takala before him went mad with his obsession for the stars

Known Territories and Settlements: Browning, in Blackwatch territory
Known Influences: Communities
Known Facilities: Exotic Materials Market and Nebula Industries
Known Technologies: Global Economics
Known Units: Combat Engineers and Lunar Ansible Tunneller

Rafiki Brotherhood (++Diplomacy, -Planetary Warfare) - Salman Benalcazar - Warm
Existing at the edges of the northern badlands, the Rafiki Brotherhood claim a reasonably wide swathe of harsh and unforgiving territory - including the area where Captain Menzies records and equipment were recovered from. Keeping much to themselves, the Brotherhood are relatively populous with the majority of their people claiming small holdings centred on their twinned strongholds at Ksar el-Kebir and Ksar es-Seghir

Known Territories and Settlements: The Desert of the Moon including Ksar el-Kebir, Ksar es-Seghir, Loane and Gadir
Known Facilities: None
Known Units: Divisions of Peacemakers

Saenoori (+Construction and Engineering, -Diplomacy) - Park Hee-Ok - Warm
Descended from an engineering brigade attached to the exodus fleet, the Saenoori have retained much of their military roots in terms of no-nonsense straight talking and a blunt approach to problem-solving. Preferring to retain their cohesion they exist now as independent contractors for hire throughout the Federation, behaving in part as a union and in part as a tightly knit sub-culture

Known Territories and Settlements: Rhee on the Nezem Coast
Known Influences: Mercenaries
Known Facilities: Construction Manufactory
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Captain Niamh Byrne and three Damche Airbourne Battalions, several units of Combat Engineers and Combat Roadtrains

Sai Kung Hoi (+Diplomacy, -Espionage and Counter-Intelligence) - Quiying Tan - Warm
Claiming territory between the Acero Valley and Gama de Acero, the Sai Kung Hoi consists primarily of arable land, fisheries and a small cluster of entrepreneurs

Known Territories and Settlements: Sai Kung Province
Known Influences: Farming, Fishing, Innovation
Known Facilities: Kelp Harvesting and Processing Platform
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: None

Shivajians (++Economy and Trade, -Planetary Warfare) - Mahendra Agashe - Pro-Unity
Based in the Nezem States exclusively, the Shivajians represent the largest block of farming, grocery sales and distribution. It is said that one credit in eight spent by the average citizen is in a Shivajian supermarket since their purchase of their nearest rival, the Lotus brand, last year

Known Territories and Settlements: None
Known Influences: Farming, Distribution
Known Facilities: None
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Shivajian Militia

Svithion Union (+Construction and Engineering, -Diplomacy) - Emelia Fisher - Warm
Frontiersmen and women, the Svithion territory borders the Northern Ocean and the Western Union on one side and the New Stoic enclave on the other - though the distances to their neighbours are substantial and mostly untamed. Concentrated on the coastline, their recent influx of wealth comes from a set of rare earth mines recently discovered at the same time as prices have been soaring to meet increasingly high-tech manufacturing needs from the Federation. As a result immigration has been high, both refugees from the Western Badlands as well as from the interior

Known Territories and Settlements: Swain's Bay
Known Influences: Rare Earth Mining and Processing
Known Facilities: None
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Svithion Miner's Battalions

Thanh Hóa (+Diplomacy, --Planetary Warfare) - Sukhon Rocha - Warm
Nestled close to Port Cartegena, Thanh Hóa is a relatively small city-state comprised of schools, academies and salles. It has risen in prominence with the works being produced inspired by the cultural datavaults taken from the RCV Mbal Msafiri

Known Territories and Settlements: Thanh Hóa
Known Influences: Art and Culture
Known Facilities: Lê Thái Tổ Academie, two Hackschools
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: None

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ATC (+Construction and Engineering, +Research and Development, ++Economy and Trade, -Stellar Warfare, -Planetary Warfare) - Zethira
Previously part of the Mercantile Alliance, when Zethira became the Executive Director, under her leadership several reforms were made, and the company started to focus more on land acquisition, claiming setting up of logging and mining operations to widen the range of products it produced. When enough land had been acquired, she then revealed her plans and broke away from the Mercantile Alliance to form a polity of its own.

Known Territories and Settlements: Acero Valley, Ranica, Rovaniemi and Zarubino
Known Influences: Computing and Networks, the Skaði Festival and the Comorian World Cup
Known Facilities: Acero Convention Centre, Arachne Datacentre, Omniport Nephele, and Rusalka Military Base, together with a Transport Hub in Ranica
Known Technologies: Network Security, Wireless Networks, Spoke Sensor Networks, Wireless Power Transfers and Grey Water Systems plus researched Computer Networking
Known Units: the UTF Keihäs

Blackwatch (+Planetary Warfare, +Construction and Engineering, +Economy and Trade, -Espionage and Counter-Intelligence) - Blackwatch One
A private military company that took control of a small area of the eastern borderlands after being invited in the the owners and then asked to officially take control after their policies and work resulted in better conditions for the people that live in the area. Known for releasing full videos of any official operations that they have taken part in to the public at large two years after the operation has taken place and finished. All members are required to record all official operations that they take part in, with no exceptions.

Known Territories and Settlements: the Whispering Peaks, between the Kuru Vuoristö Mountains and Penhyll Mountain
Known Influences: Veterans, the VAA and the CETA with Wraithguard
Known Facilities: Eastmount Enclave , together with a Munitions Manufactory and a Remotes Manufactory
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: Saenoori Shock Trooper Battalions, numerous Polity Infantry Divisions, Border Security Brigades and Peacekeepers

Huitzilopochtli Group (+Construction and Engineering, ++Planetary Warfare, -Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, -Diplomacy) - Hummingbird
Collective formed from the engineering and security firms who built and protected the prototype solar plants and built out those facilities close to Lake Mundafen, with a continued focus on establishing and maintaining a highly efficient energy infrastructure and promoting energy security and self-sufficiency.

Known Territories and Settlements: Tlamacazqui
Known Influence: Power Generation, the SIR teams
Known Facilities: 'Leyline' Transmitters and Receivers, Citlali Power Plant, a Power Electronics Manufactory, Xolotl EM Lab and the Federal Policy Centre in Tlamacazqui
Known Technologies: [REDACTED]
Known Units: Tai Nakonechyk Wings and one Dervish Bomber Wing stationed at Anderback Airbase together with a Niellä Lifter

Jacinto-Saenoori Combine (+Construction and Engineering, +Research and Development, -Diplomacy) - Quentin Barnes
The Combine seeks to use current tech in new ways, dismissing the notion that progress requires a clean slate. Much of their political power is derived by the quick dissemination of new ideas that emerge from crowd sharing and funding collectives, as well as private research labs that hinge on radical new directions. The have a fundamental stance that society requires technology to move forward, bordering on transhumanism, and cultural strength to move forward.

Know Territories and Settlements: Kicheleko Island and Barnesville
Known Influences: Transhumanism, Knowledge, Supercar Racing and Comorian Football
Known Facilities: April Lab (Acero Valley), Dimensions Casino Resort, the One World Racetrack, the Jacinto League and the Jacinto News Conglomerate
Known Technologies: Missiles
Known Units: [REDACTED]

Saganite Cooperative (+Research and Development, -Espionage and Counterintelligence) - Dr Hamilton
Born from the ashes of the Focht incident, a group of scientist who discovered the cure to the plague decided that they would be able to do so much more together than apart. In the halls of the Awegala Memorial Hospital, the Saganite Cooperative was born

Know Territories and Settlements: Darbuiks, New Ibiza
Known Influences: Collaborative Research
Known Facilities: Chrysanth Garden University, Gabriella School of Learning and the Phoenix Institute - in Darbuiks
Known Technologies: Black, Gold and Purple Chrysanth Protocols, Holograms
Known Units: DJs

Sons of Nemedia (+Planetary Warfare, -Diplomacy) - Alexander Varellion
Formed from the ashes of the Long war, the Sons of Nemedia have claimed the staging post of Camp Mkesha and begun to erect a city from the battlefield, holding to their focus of being the foundation - logistical and emotional - of the services

Know Territories and Settlements: Mkesha wa Ngome and Ujane-Ujane Communes
Known Influences: Combat Service Support, Veterans, Sa'ka Legion
Known Facilities: Lake Mkesha Littoral Reserve, Universal Legion Corporation and Varellion Economic Foundation
Known Technologies: None
Known Units: None

The Kujaku-Mayura Confederacy of Kavacha (+Planetary Warfare, +Espionage and Counterintelligence, -Economy and Trade) - Ka-Atanrik Ghera
A small power block formed by the Raksha Koan, a religious martial order, set up in response to perceived aggression from the Seihai. Led by the High Marshal Ka-Atanrik Ghera, they see themselves as traditional protectors of the weak and have used they're military power to expand their influence at a local level in the eastern border regions. They have recently made moves to consolidate their position in regional politics where they espouse a radical mix of reactionary politics.

Known Territories and Settlements: Kavacha, from the Ny'ekundu Gulf to most of the southern portion of the Kuru Vuoristö Mountains, including their capital Raajad Haane Sietch and the settlements of Kandar Sietch and Mukt Shahar Sietch
Know Influences: Raksha Koan, a minority faith, 
Known Facilities: Laghu Dher Fission Power Station, Kaich Besin Recycling Plants, Rasad Transport Hub, KEI/VPS Manufactory, Ilaaj Kee Sabha Hospital, [REDACTED] </i> and Suvidha Testing Grounds
Known Technologies: Cryonics
Known Units: Several Polity Infantry Division, the Fedayeen

The New Stoics (++Economy and Trade, ++Diplomacy, --Planetary Warfare) - Maha-Lang
Named after a book published in 18 NS (Turn 4) of the same title, written by esteemed science fiction author, L. Robert Hubble, who claims to have interviewed Jenny Sto after her "Divine contact through the Comorian Crystals." The popularity of the book, particularly among previously troubled celebrities, and the organisational leadership of their founder - Henry Lang, formerly of Lang Industries - have managed to turn what would normally be a minor blip on social media into the largest minority religion of the age and a new political power to boot. Although Mr Lang has retired from public life, their new leader retains the title Maha-Lang

Known Territories and Settlements: Better Horizons (previously Abandoned Spaceport Site A, with enhanced solar power facilities ), Boca Ridge
Know Influences: Stoics, a major faith, and the Crystal Regulatory Authority and Intervention Committee
Known Facilities: Twin Shards Research Facilities at Better Horizons and Usiki, Kailish Monastery, Red Moon, Inc, Cobra University* in Boca Ridge, facilities at Barafu Utoto Station and several smaller corporate entites from the Mercantile Alliance's collapse
Known Units: Xur Corps

Wraithguard (-Economy and Trade, +++Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, -Diplomacy) - Strast Dandris
Wraithguard is a private contractor that was brought in to support a corrupt regime, After the truth came to light and the regime forced the locals to raise up and attack the regime the Wraithguard could not support this corruption and stepped aside to let the people do what needed to be done. Afterwards they supported an election from the people where the locals elected the Wraithhguard to help protect the interests.

Known Territories and Settlements: Parts of the Western Badlands
Known Influences: Military Procurement and the CETA with Blackwatch
Known Facilities: Arms Manufactory, Solar Power Plant and a Roadtrain between it's territories and the Blackwatch
Known Technologies: Combat Stimulators
Known Units: Several Haunt Divisions Polity Infantry Division and Reservist Division

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