PACT

PACT is a revolutionary front that has toppled the once mighty New Empire during the PACT Revolution and is spreading throughout the galaxy. Led by the mysterious Veniczar S. Arcadius and his cult of personality, PACT appears intent on dominating every human being in the galaxy.

Recieving it's acronym from "People's Action for Common Treatment", PACT originated from Compact, a resistance movement from within the New Empire. Originally lead by an idealistic Venassar, Compact was at the beginning nothing more than some guerrilla fighters and rebels that protested against the New Empire ambushing Imperial Nobles, and in general stealing from them and similar low-key acts. However, at the end of The Alliance-Imperial War Compact managed to swell it's ranks with thousands of discontents thanks to the defeats at the war and the financial support of the newly formed Solar Alliance. Thanks to this and the perennial infighting of the Imperial Court, the Compact started becoming a dangerous threat to the Empire's survival. At 490, Arcadius emerged as Venassar of the Compact, promising to finally end the Empire. After almost 100 years of infighting and constant losses, the empire couldn't do nothing while Arcadius liberated world after world. The end of the Empire came the year 494, when the betrayal of the now Veniczar B. Cullen let the Compact Fleet successfully launch a surprise attack on the remnants of the Imperial Fleet, destroying them and leading to the Sack of New Eden. Until that moment the Compact had been an intergalactic association with the only purpose of ending the empire, but after this victory Arcadius set to formally unite the territories under Compact as a united nation with a new goal. After finally reforming Compact as PACT in 495, Arcadius set the capital at New Eden, and proclaimed PACT's aim: to successfully unite all the galaxy and build a new order where every person is treated equally. Aiming to fulfill that, PACT launched an invasion on the Neutral Rim, violating the treaty of Vespa, conquering it half of it by 503. At that year, PACT finally launched a full scale attack on one of the remaining main powers on the Neutral Rim, Cera. Achieving a complete victory at the Invasion of Cera, PACT used it's momentum to complete the Neutral Rim conquest 2 months later. Days later it occupied Ryuvia, after a betraying of a diplomatic treaty they had with them, and tried to launch a full scale invasion of the Alliance. The latter however, was completely defeated at the Battle of Far Port.

Pact's hierarchy is strict and lineal, with all power centralized in the hands of their sumpreme leader, Veniczar S. Arcadius. This power is executed through the Veniczar office, which can probably be described as the mots similar thing PACT has to a government's body. Overall, PACT can be easily compared to a totalitarian state, with restricted space voyage, no separation of powers, and other numerous similarities. Most high ranking officers (civilian or military, though PACT mixes both branches) have the title of Veniczar, with the letter next to the tittle signifying their ranking. So, Arcadius is Veniczar S. Arcadius, while his right hand man is Veniczar B. Fontana. Arcadius chose the name Veniczar as a spiritual successor the name of Venassar used by the leader of Compact.

Space Force

Since Arcadius became their leader, first Compact and later PACT have pursued an expansionist policy through heavy use of military power. After finally destroying the New Empire, the newly proclaimed PACT absorbed the remaining imperial forces (including deserters at the last moment, like Cullen) into his own, and started using the famed resources of New Eden and the former planets of the Empire to rearm and strengthen even more their military power. The result is a fleet that can be only matched by that of the Solar Alliance in all the galaxy. The PACT fleet is a strange mix of new technologies and cost-cutting measures. On one side, every ship bigger than a frigate is equipped with the las Shielding technology, with the one in Carriers and Battleships being especially formidable. It's missile and rocket capacities are also top-notch, with Bombers able to carry standard rockets and Battleships a nuclear warhead, besides storage space for two powerful missile salvos, and its frigates sacrifice the capability to launch rockets for a nearly infinite supply of missiles which works as a perfect support, and makes coordinated salvos especially deadly. However all of it's ships are generally heavy and slow, and despite it not as sturdy as their Alliance counterparts. While equal in laser, they also show some deficiencies in their Kinetics cannon. In general, however, the biggest problem is their logistics. While nominally very big, a big part of PACT's fleet are units either absorbed from surrounding worlds or that have fought for several decades. Being only 10 years since the end of the New Empire, their formers planets have had barely any time to recover, and the planets absorbed from the Neutral Rim have either been devastated by a PACT's invasion (like Cera) or had all their whole political, economic and legal system changed to that of PACT in a hurry, naturally destroying most of their economy (which relied on a liberal or auto sufficient models ). Due to this, PACT's production rate is very inferior to that of the Alliance in everything, which limits any possibility of victory against the Alliance to evading a war of attrition and managing to defeat the enemy quickly and decisively.