Terran Confederation
(-2400 to -2204): Interstellar government consisting of Terra and its colony worlds. Modern historians consider the foundation of the Terran Confederation to date from the signing of the Treaty of New York in -2499. Essentially, the treaty placed the armed forces of the major nations of Terra under the centralized control of the United Nations (until that time, a loose organization of the nation states of Terra, with no governmental authority). In addition, the treaty formalized the changes that had been made in the structure of the UN up to that time. The Secretary General was granted a wider range of executive powers than before. The Secretariat, previously an unofficial advisory group of representatives from the major nation states, was made the chief legislative body. The General Assembly was retained, but it was an institution without real power and served merely as a forum for debate among the representatives of both major and minor nations. The Security Council was dispensed with altogether.
After the discovery of Jump Drive in -2431 and the initial interstellar colonization efforts, representatives from the colony worlds were admitted to the General Assembly (and, later on, to the Secretariat). Throughout its history, Terran representatives (and thus Terran interests) dominated the Secretariat and General Assembly.
With the admission of the first colonial representative to the General Assembly, the United Nations changed its name to the United Worlds in -2400, then in -2398 the name was changed again to the Terran Confederation. Modern historians, for simplicity, use this term exclusively.
The Terran Confederation fought a series of interstellar wars with the Vilani Imperium over the period - 2408 to -2219. These wars ultimately resulted in the fall of the Vilani Imperium. The Confederation was dissolved in -2204 upon the proclamation of the Rule of Man (also called the Ramshackle Empire or, less frequently, the Second Imperium) by Admiral Hiroshi Estigarribia (Hiroshi I).
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