General William Hague, the Chairman of the Earthforce Joint Chiefs of Staff, soon suspected a conspiracy around Santiago's death. The Earth Alliance continued to take a turn towards an Orwellian-esque government. With an increasing hand in policy, the Ministry of Peace and its enforcement arm, Nightwatch, soon began to weed out people who were not completely loyal to Clark and his administration. Shortly after this, Clark assumed the office of the President of the Earth Alliance.
In 2258 Santiago was killed when Earthforce One exploded at the transfer point by Io. Secretly aided by the Psi Corps and the Shadows, Vice President Morgan Clark devised a plan to assassinate President Luis Santiago. Groups such as Homeguard began to attack aliens. Babylon 5 was constructed and opened in 2257.ĭespite the attempts at reaching common ground with other races, an increasing number of xenophobic groups sprouted up all over the Earth Alliance. The first three were destroyed by sabotage, and Babylon 4 disappeared mysteriously shortly after coming online. With help from the Minbari and several other governments, the stations were constructed. Another offshoot of this was the Babylon Project, which was started to prevent another war by allowing different races and cultures to work together in a neutral location toward resolving differences peacefully. EarthForce after the war was obsessed with gaining new technology and being able to fight the Minbari in the event of another war, and the Minbari stealth system was broken as mentioned in Points of Departure. EarthForce came out of the war much stronger than before, with new ships such as the Omega class destroyer and later the Warlock. Since the Minbari bypassed the majority of Earth's outposts and colonies and headed straight for Earth, this allowed Earth to rebuild very quickly after the war. After the War Įarthforce undertook a massive research and rebuilding program. The last battle of the war was the Battle of the Line, where on the verge of total victory over the Earth Alliance, the Minbari abruptly surrendered under mysterious circumstances.Ī planetary draft was instituted during the war. Misinterpreting a sign of respect for a hostile act, an Earthforce ship opened fire on a Minbari cruiser, unleashing a war which raged on for almost three years until mankind was beaten back to its home solar system. After defeating the Dilgar, the Earth Alliance fell into a period of aggressive expansion which continued until 2245.Īfter the war with the Dilgar, the Earth Alliance continued to expand until 2245, when first contact was made with the Minbari, in which a cultural misunderstanding ended in disaster. A great amount of influence came to the Earth Alliance after coming to the aid of the League worlds. In 2230, the Earth Alliance fought with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds against the Dilgar. It began to expand across multiple systems, meeting many new species. The Earth Alliance experienced a great deal of growth soon after the introduction of new technologies. Initially the Earth Alliance used Centauri jumpgates but soon began to build its own. The Centauri gave the Earth Alliance access to its technology in exchange for some trade agreements. In the mid-22nd century, contact was made between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri Republic. Some private companies sent sleeper ships to look for intelligent life, including the USS Copernicus.
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The founding nations also made great gains in colonizing space by founding small scientific colonies on Mars in 2101 and later the first full scale civilian Mars colony in 2169.Īlso in the mid-2100s Humans had indications of life elsewhere in the universe. The Earth Alliance was founded in 2085 by the countries of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States in the aftermath of World War III. Independent Mars Colony (as of December 2261).
The Alliance experienced severe democratic backsliding under President Morgan Clark, ultimately leading to power being consolidated in the executive branch, but this was reversed after the Earth Alliance Civil War. Earthdome is located on Earth in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Both the Senate and the President have their offices in the Earth Alliance capitol, which is known as Earthdome. The Earth Alliance is a Multi-Tiered Democratic Federal Republic, governed as a whole through a balance of power between a regionally elected representative body called the Senate, a President who is elected by the Alliance population as a whole, and a Judicial branch.
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