Editing Distant Broken Stars (section)

== PlanetBorn ==
The UPA (United Planetary Alliance) is a federation of independent worlds and nations joined together for common defense and the rejection of transhumanity. The Grand Assembly is a good example of this principle, every world submits two representative to discuss laws that affect the flow of trade, along with military funding and diplomatic relations with other interstellar polities. Each world is nominally responsible for itself under the Treaty of Spheres of 3000 SDE with their own laws, customs, and languages; but once a world has joined the Alliance they may only leave by a majority vote in the Grand Assembly. The Grand Assembly gives the illusion of democratic governance to the United Planets but the true power lies with the Federation Security Council.

The main nations of the Alliance are:

=== Ormande Houses ===
The Ormande Houses, aka Discount Tyar, pushing the metal boxes in space aesthetic of PlanetBorn to the limits with their color schemes, decals and ornamental structures slapped to the ships for the pure style. Splinter factions represents houses, that expanded from Ormande home system, or were exiled (yet still present in bureaucracy and tax schemes). If you think, that PlanetBorn infighting is harsh, The Ormande Houses are something like that, but few thousand times worse.

=== Conglomerated States ===
Conglomerated States, propagators of traditional and conservative values. Backed up by monumental military industrial complex. When Conglomerated States are not glassing dirty aliens, crushing perverted human societies, or spying on other UPA factions, they love to have proxy wars on distant colonies with rebellious states.

=== Imeretir ===
Imeretir, hive cities on frozen, inhospitable world (and moons). Technocratic society, that is slowly turning into some sort of police state controlled by the bureaucratic apparatus. Central Authority, Governing Agency and bio-matter converters for non-cooperating citizens. Splinter factions are known as Exploratory Fleets, which are slowly building industrial plants all over the most inhospitable planets and moons within their star cluster.

=== Volcanus Union ===
The Volcanus Union, commies in space, grinding precious materials. Somewhat naive, as they are probably the only ones without any secret agenda. Just mining, fighting and having good times with their comrades.