Kassegar Confederation

The Confederation of Kassegar, also known as the Kassegar Confederation, or simply the Kassegars, is a multisystem polity located in the Helius Cluster. It consists of upwards of 2402 stars, 24 inhabited systems, and 27 inhabited planets. Out of these 27 planets, 23 are designated as Imperial Worlds, affording them a variable number of Imperial Councillors elected as their representatives to the Imperial Council, the Kassegar Confederation's legislature. These planets range in population from roughly a billion on the capital planet, to just over 5 million in a number of newly-assimilated colonies, totaling 4.4 billion total humans, and 346 million assorted members of other sapient species.

The date at which the Kassegar Confederation became an official entity is disputed among Kassegar historians; however, two main dates are proposed: the first is the day the Van Maanen gate closed, the second is the date the first and current government was officially formed after the end of the Unending Wars. The Unending Wars began with the collapse of the Van Maanen Gate, but the origin of the disunity which fueled this violent civil conflict can be found birthed in a time almost 3000 years past, when humanity first crossed from the Milky Way into the Astrias Galaxy.

Humans, the species which inhabits the Kassegar Confederation and much of the Helius Cluster, originally evolved on Earth, a planet millions of light-years away from the Astrias Galaxy. As humans left their system and began exploring others, it wasn't long before they came across a derelict gate built by an unknown intergalactic entity. The gate was already activated, and the prominent TriVark corporation quickly passed through the unfamiliar device. Seeing as there was little political motivation for any colonization of this other galaxy, much of the colonization that came was the product of economic and social incentive.

Extreme religious minorities, prisoners and convicts, daring mining corporations, rich tourists, and niche ideologies became the source of virtually all settlement of the newly-discovered Helius Cluster. With no incentive for the production of food, the moment the gate collapsed starvation became a mainstay of planets all across the Kassegar portion of the Cluster. After centuries of fighting and numerous attempts to support widescale agriculture, the war was finally brought to an end through an advantageous deal with the Spudniks, a collection of high-tech galactic nomads, agreeing to sell portions of their species' regenerating limbs in exchange for protection.

Today, the Kassegar Confederation is in the second-to-lowest range of galactic development, and just below the mid-point for technological progress. Economic production is miniscule in comparison to the nearby Levidian Accord and proportionally lower than many of the planetary states in the Helius Cluster. Population is far below the galactic average, and density is one of the lowest galaxy-wide. However, through skillful maneuvering the Kassegar Confederation has become influential in trade in the politically dispersed portion of their home Cluster.