Galactic Federation

Biodata

Power Progression

The Federation’s documented growth concerns its ruling civilizations and collective military power, rather than an individual cultivation realm.

Government and Administration

Original Government

• Senate: The Federation Government’s true center of power. Its information network could uncover Kavin’s background, and its senior offices controlled the mobilization of Federation resources 228 262.
• House of Representatives: Gave participating civilizations a voice in public policy and an opportunity to reduce the exploitation imposed on them 238.
• Rotating government: The three original level-four civilizations each supplied a governing planet where the Federation Government conducted business and held meetings in rotation 242.
• Overlapping civil and military authority: The seven admirals were also the highest authorities within the three ruling civilizations and held concurrent government positions 245.
• Tower of Truth: A 1,771-floor political and military center. Its lower floors handled matters such as personal identity and civilization affiliation 198.
• Dependence on ruling powerhouses: Even a level-four civilization had to relinquish influence and territory if its principal powerhouse fell 156.

Civilization Ranking System

Before the constitutional overhaul, recognition depended on a civilization possessing an advanced lifeform with S-rank, or Overlord Tier, combat strength. An eligible representative could register the civilization on any governing planet 112.

• Permanent affiliation: Registering a civilization permanently bound the registering individual’s Federation identity to it; Hoffman warned that the registered information could not be changed 112.
• Superior and subordinate civilizations: Newly established civilizations received a century-long exemption from accepting superior leadership. Without a superior civilization, Merrick could not hold directly subordinate civilizations 204.
• Level-three allegiances: Powerful level-three civilizations competed for direct affiliation with level-four civilizations. Others remained nominally attached to the Federation Government and faced heavier exploitation 242.

Galactic Nobility

• “Galactic Noble” was an honorific, not a legal noble title. It applied to accepted members of level-four civilizations, including those born into them 115.
• Political access favored nobles. They commonly entered the Federation Government or governments of higher-level civilizations and could eventually become Federation legislators 119.
• Resources and education differed sharply by civilization. Lim possessed several S-rank skills despite having only A-rank overall combat strength 129.

Federation Military District

Recruitment and Advancement

• Open recruitment: The military accepted all galactic lifeforms, including unregistered inhabitants 119.
• Military merit: Service members could exchange merit for the Federation’s core resources, without a limit on the number of rare-resource exchanges 119.
• Grassroots support: Recruits from weaker civilizations could receive discreet assistance in ordinary units, although Galactic Nobles retained advantages at higher command levels 126.
• Central command: Central Army Groups formed the Military District’s core. The first ten numbered groups were elite formations, each guaranteed to have a Hegemon stationed with it 245.
• Commissioning authority: Promotions to general rank required approval by the Military District’s military commission 245.
• Recruit training: Lister’s reservist intake was ordered to complete three years of training at the Arcane Army Group camp on Planet W3909 121.

Branches

Warships and Class Hierarchy

• Telekinetic Class Holders were especially valuable because they operated major ship weapons. A73’s neutron cannon required high-tier telekinetic operators supported by mechanical and magic Class Holders 149.
• Mechanical and magic Class Holders supplied energy and technical support that amplified shipboard attacks 149.
• Martial arts Class Holders ranked near the bottom of the military’s class hierarchy because they generally had to land and fight directly rather than amplify warship weapons 149.
• Special-type ships exceeded large warships in grade. The first ten Central Armies possessed these vessels, which incorporated their respective level-four civilizations’ core technologies and required officers of at least lieutenant-general rank 274.

Technology and Resources

• Teleportation network: Federation teleportation arrays used its spatial framework and specialized materials to establish ultra-long-distance connections within a range of 100 light-years 127.
• Standard combat techniques: The military taught the A-rank Federation Fighting Technique and Federation Shunpo. Lister independently advanced Shunpo into an S-rank spatial-movement skill and renamed it Flash 127 140 141.
• Simulation facilities: The Arcane recruit camp’s combat simulation hall supported tens of thousands of simultaneous participants and was worth enough to purchase its host planet 139.
• Strength assessment: Federation equipment assessed race, development path, level, combat rating, and evolution count. Its highest measurable combat rating was S-rank, making it unable to distinguish Lister’s World-Ending strength 114 256.
• Standard enhancement resources: The Federation distributed attribute-enhancing resources by advancement stage. Its standard level-four resource increased all four attributes by one point per use, with a ten-use limit 241 262.
• Restricted technical knowledge: Lower-level civilizations often received usable technology without its underlying theory. During Merrick’s blockade, this dependence prevented it from independently restoring external communications 261.
• Core database access: Level-four status removed Merrick’s previous technological barriers and allowed its new academy of sciences to obtain cutting-edge Federation knowledge 262.

Exploitation and Hidden Practices

Treatment of Unregistered Inhabitants

• Restricted daily life: Unregistered people faced spending restrictions and could not ordinarily stay at inns or use teleportation arrays 119 207.
• Cheap labor: Recognized civilizations recruited them for mining, resource gathering, and other low-cost work while denying them ordinary civic access 119.
• Separate financial services: Federation-backed deposit points used biometric verification rather than personal identity records, allowing unregistered people to store credits and exchange currencies 119.
• Limited advancement routes: Commercial careers remained constrained by civilization status, while politics was dominated by Galactic Nobles. Military service was the principal route upward for people without powerful backing 119.

Resource Extraction and Harvesting

• Tribute obligations: Merrick’s level-three promotion ended its grace period and imposed heavy Federation taxes and resource demands 238.
• Layered exploitation: Even representation in the House did not free level-three civilizations from exploitation by level-four civilizations 238.
• Special resources: Lister discovered that the Federation’s special resources originated from high-tier lifeforms. Rather than being straightforward rewards, they marked recipients for further exploitation 258.
• Threats to emerging Hegemons: Vidal was shocked that Lister had reached Hegemon status without using the special resource, revealing a failure in the established mechanism 258.
• Restricted soul barrier: Even after obtaining Senate authority, Lister—like Boren Leviathan—was excluded from participation in the soul barrier 262.

History

Destruction of the Alchemy Civilization

Hoffman’s diary recorded the Alchemy Civilization’s early contact with Federation visitors and its attempt to register. The Federation rejected independently conscious mechanical lifeforms, treated their creation as an enemy activity, and ultimately attacked and destroyed the civilization 101.

This history explained the Federation assault that Lister remembered as the fifth act’s main conflict in his previous life 101.

Lister’s Entry and Merrick’s Rise

Zone 71 replaced Lister’s original second class advancement quest with a requirement to register his planet’s civilization. Hoffman offered an alternative affiliation, but Lister chose to bind himself permanently to his own civilization 87 112.

Lister and Wang Yue subsequently joined the Federation military to obtain resources unavailable through ordinary purchases. Merrick’s connection to the teleportation network accelerated its integration with the galaxy, while its government and Civilization Army gave it increasing political and military independence 119 121 156 204 238.

Conflict with Mechanical Life

The Federation’s campaign against Kavin and Hoffman culminated in the destruction of their star region. Federation forces believed Kavin had been killed, but he survived and vowed to return and destroy the Federation in revenge 236.

Hoffman’s intervention also changed his position from that of a wanted individual still affiliated with the Federation to an active participant against its forces 236.

Confrontation with the Old Leadership

After Lister became a Hegemon, the Federation summoned him to the Beta Civilization while blocking Merrick’s communications and spatial passages. Vidal confronted him, but Lister survived, killed Vidal, and returned through the Seventh Central Army’s blockade 256 257 258 260 261.

Merrick’s subsequent admission to the ruling tier did not end the conflict. Over the following three centuries, Beta and Witchcraft increased surveillance and restricted its technological development 274.

The struggle ended with the defeat of the old leadership in the battle for the Merrick Star Region. Lister killed Zion, an ancient soul entity, and Morris, then declared the existing constitution abolished 282.

Reestablishment and Expansion

Three months after the battle, the founding conference proclaimed the first year of the Galactic Era. Approximately 100,000 civilizations attended in person, while projections carried the proceedings across a Federation containing millions of registered civilizations 284.

The new administration pursued greater contact with the wider universe. Three years later, the Void Corridor was already investigating it, and Federation-aligned forces began operations in the N7 Galaxy 284 286 287.

The Milky Way later became the central galaxy of the Machine-Slaying Federation, benefiting from expanded resource access and investment from its member galaxies 305 306.

New Constitution

• Not an egalitarian government: Lister explicitly opened routes for advancement without distributing power or resources equally. Merrick remained the foremost civilization, and Boren deferred to Lister 284.
• Constitutional process: Lister, Boren, and civilizations close to them determined the new order before the conference; the assembly announced it rather than negotiating it 284.
• Implementation: The conference lasted three days. Lister presented the principal provisions, and Quint announced the detailed rules 284.

Game Storyline

• Original fifth-act role: Lister remembered the Federation appearing after the alchemy storyline as an attacking alliance 88 101.
• Early access: His teleportation connection brought Merrick into contact with the Federation during the fourth act, ahead of the expected storyline 156.
• Revised fifth act: Players entered a construction-focused storyline centered on Merrick’s government and Federation membership, with starting locations in Merrick territory and on Yalan’s ruling planet 211.
• Seventh act: Merrick’s level-three status and military establishment opened government and army factions to players 239.
• Eighth act: The New Galactic Federation became a player starting region as the storyline expanded into intergalactic conflict with the Void Corridor 286.