Federation of Garrone
The Federation of Garrone is located in astrographic center of Beyond Sector. Garrone and the surrounding worlds were colonised between -600 and -80 by Solomani refugees, mostly of Western European ethnicity. Confrontations with the Corellians led to the creation of the Federation in 313.
Unlike its neighbor, Garrone was a centralised state from its founding. Centered around an oligarchic council known as the Conclave, it created a unitary policy for industrial development and education that gave the Federation a high standard of living. Strictly neutral, it encouraged the other powers to go elsewhere with their conflicts. Its wars with the Corellians were over commercial and political dominance of the sector, though the Garroneans spurned the Leagues' tendency for expansion in favor of more subtle economic methods.
The arrival of Aslan Ihatei in the Federation in the wake of the Imperial Civil War was dealt in an inept and disorganised fashion. Garronean military planners had always counted on good relations with the Aslan, and were concentrated to fight the League on the spinward border. For about five years, the Conclave dithered in creating a resolute response, and by that time the Aslan were beginning to assert themselves with force. In a panic, the Federation attempted a massive use of biological and chemical agents. The military attacked the Ihatei communities with aerial spraying, or contaminated food and water.
Ninety percent of the Ihatei perished, but the release of the Pharoah's Plague backfired catastrophically, contaminating local ecologies with deadly, foreign agents. This led to a massive flight of the "rescued" rimward populations to the coreward half of the Federation, creating the demographic earthquake. Careful diplomacy, genuine Conclave contrition and the overriding need for peace have kept the Aslan from ever retaliating for the plague.