Alliance

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The Alliance is a blanket term for the inter-dimensional government created during the Second Chaotic Period of the Mage Wars. As a functional body, the Alliance can be split into two terms:

The Old Alliance

Because of the unstable periods of the Golden Age, the Alliance cannot be described as a single, unbroken entity. The Old Alliance often reffers to the one created by Uther that ended the Mage Wars. The Old Alliance was stricly military in nature, and can be thought of as having existed from about 6 B.G.A. to roughly A.Y. 298, a little over 300 years.

The New Alliance

While the alliance created by Uther continued to exist in name and in spirit, it took around 700 years to transition into the New Alliance. Between A.Y. 298 and A.Y. 899, the Alliance existed only in the theoretical sence, as a spirit of cooperation. This spirited ended with the ninety-nine-years war that threatened to reignite the Mage Wars.

Pendragon Scott Sagen, who was annointed in A.Y. 1974, began the long work of rebuilding the Old Alliance, finally forming what can be called the New Alliance in A.Y. 1998. The New Alliance is better known as the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance.


The Unity Earth Sphere Alliance

The Alliance is the second largest power in the Verse. It was founded by Uther, first Pendragon of Slayer Dragons.


The Unity Earth Sphere Alliance is the coalition of nations founded in the last year of the Golden Age. Not a single government so much as an alliance of nations that acts similarly to the United States government, in that the Alliance has as much power over the nation states as the Federal government has over the individual states.


Alliance Space Commission

The Alliance Space Comission was created early in the Second Age is a department of the Alliance headed primarily by chairmen from Alliance Member Worlds, though representatives from MK'Hara and the [{Gudersnipe Foundation]] also sat. It's primary function is to govern interstellar space, a region which by it's nature belongs to no one. Interstellar space, even within the established borders of a multi-world nation state roughly equates to international watters on a multi-government world. In the hands of no one but still administered by someone.

While the juristiction of the Alliance Space Commission does not extend over the whole of the Known Worlds, it does cover the entire Alliance and Joint Space, as well as much of MK'haren Space and some GS only territories open to interstellar traffic.

The idea for a space commision was first put forward by the Runarin Confederation in the early years of the Golden Age, though it took the establishment of the "new" Alliance to finally create it.