Orion Cluster Union

Once the core of the Union military build-up, the Argyll Spacedock is now the home port of the Hecatan 6th Fleet

The Orion Cluster Union was a very wealthy multi-star polity based in the Orion-Trapezium star cluster.  It was blessed with extensive natural resources, an open and responsible government, and an excellent location astride several major trade lanes, including no less than four primary wormhole nexi.

All this meant that the Union was a regional power despite its relatively small size, and other fringe nations looked to the Union as an example.

The Orion Cluster Union's capitol world is Tiferet, in the Zeta Trianguli Australis system, a star system unusual in its wealth of habitable worlds (five, including three large moons orbiting Nix, the larger of the systems two gas giants) and a wormhole nexus leading to the Eridani system.

However, nothing lasts forever, the leadership of the Orion Cluster watched with growing apprehension as another local power slowly grew in power and ambition.  Hecate was a relic of the old Terran Federation, a barren world converted into a massive industrial powerhouse. A breathable atmosphere easily provided with the technological wizardry of the lost Federation.

The Union saw the change in Hecate, saw what was once a peaceful and prosperous world become a tyrannical oligarchy, a ramshackle machine of conquest that had to expand at all costs to keep from starving to death.  They decided that they would not submit and allow there home to be raped, they spent twenty years preparing for the inevitable conflict, forging alliances and building up their defenses.

Unfortunately, when the war did come, all the careful preparation was undone by the treachery and betrayal of a few unscrupulous individuals.  Union field forces were cut off and defeated in detail along the frontier and the home defenses of Tiferet were neutralized from within by a cabal of traitors led by Oskar Delavera.

With the swift victory, Hecate wasted no time in annexing several key systems as territorial acquisitions and remanding the rest to be governed by a new collaborationist government led by Delavera.