The Humanverse
The Humanverse is the name given to the star systems populated by human beings. Thanks to mathematician João Sayeh we now know that it consists of one hundred star systems, all contained within the Limit that prevents travel beyond its boundaries. Nobody knows what created the barrier or why. Each star system is surrounded by this barrier and is properly known as a heliosphere.
There is no single authority that governs all one hundred heliospheres, although some claim that Fleet is the greatest authority. There are competing ideas about how the Humanverse should be run. ‘Hegemony’ is the belief that the Humanverse should have one set of laws and government. Counter to this is ‘Accord’, which is a philosophy that states that nobody should be involuntarily subject to a law or government.
The current driving force for Hegemony is Unitas Consortium. Through the creation and promotion of self-contained Prefectures, Unitas hopes to build a single system of trade and governance across the One Hundred Suns.
The Signatories of the People’s Galactic Assembly, usually known as People's Galactic, is a group of organizations and institutions whose purpose is to preserve the tenets of Accord philosophy and resist the spread of Hegemony.
In recent decades there have been increasing reports of armed conflict between Hegemony and Accord militant adherents. The military of the Prefectures is known as GuardCorps, opposed by the Heliosphere Mutual Defense Pact that was created during the New Earth Tyranny.
One of the most recent ‘flashpoints’ of tension and potential conflict is the Astrapelago heliosphere. The cause is the disappearance of the slipway connecting it to neighboring Periphery in an event known as the Saber Ridge Incident. Both GuardCorps and militant Pact forces have increased in the area since the event.
