Voor Confederacy

"To ask on what terms the hearth may be kept warm."Resolution of the High Council of the Voor Confederacy, Vi Simni, 3 October 2340

The Voor Confederacy is the interstellar state of the Voor, a confederation of worlds governed by a High Council of the worlds' delegations. Its capital is Hiverion, in the Exedor system. In 2318 it held fourteen worlds and 30 billion Voor. It was the first spacefaring state humanity met, when its survey cruiser Lorni Indur met the survey ship Grissom at Cirban on 21 September 2317.

The Confederacy was formed in the Fevarian wars and built to fight them again. Its military, the Voor Legion, was also a caste, a school and a church. The Legion's High Command sat in the Council with a veto over any matter it judged to touch the Confederacy's safety. Trade with the United Nations of Earth under the Voor-Solar Treaty of 2319 ended with the High Council's ban of 1 January 2328, and the Council declared war on 7 August 2333. The Confederacy lost the Voor War. The High Command died in the Kindling at Hiverion on 30 April 2338, and the Council surrendered on 21 December 2340. The Treaty of Ximpok of 21 January 2341 abolished the High Command, capped the Legion at twenty hearths and ceded Haedus, Kastaba and Myrum to the human state.

From 2415 the Red Khanate took the Confederacy's worlds one by one. The Confederacy ended as a state on 16 August 2427, when its last hearth broke at Exedor with the Council's presiding member aboard. Its survivors held on in the Haedus Territory of the Unified Solar Republic. It was restored at Hiverion on 1 January 2453, in a war for its worlds that ran from 2451 to 2460, under a presiding member from the Haedus Territory and without a High Command. The Republic rebuilt it under the Voor Reconstruction Agreement of 2462 and allied with it under the Fevarian Accords of 2466. By 2510 it was the Republic's closest ally and its second economy, with 24 billion Voor.

Name

The Voor call their state by a term the Institute of Xenology's linguists render as "the gathered worlds". It is built from the same root as the word Voor, which means the gathered people. "Confederacy" is Halima Rahal's translation in her dispatches of 2318, chosen because each world kept its own government. The Voor word for the Legion, which the linguists render "the order", is also the word for the state of things when the Confederacy is safe. The Institute's study of 2320 concluded that the Voor do not, in their own language, distinguish the Legion from the peace it keeps.

History

The six worlds and the Fevarian wars

Before the Fevarian wars the Voor held six worlds, each with its own government and its own navy, and no common cause. About 1,100 years before contact the clans of the Fevarians came out of the region of dust and dark stars the Voor call the Veil. The Fevarians were a nomadic species, living in fleets between the stars and raiding worlds for what they could not make. They burned two of the six worlds: the first colony at Ladiom and a world in the Gulf whose name the Voor no longer use. The four survivors pooled their fleets under a single command and called it the Legion.

The Legion's first century was the Fevarian wars. Fighting the clans between the stars meant building ships that could live there as the clans did. The answer was the hearth, the first of which was grown at Hiverion 900 years before contact: a ship that carried a Legion formation and its families and could hunt for a decade. Over a century of campaigns the Legion drove the clans out of the Gulf and beyond the Veil.

The Confederacy and its expansion

The four worlds became the Voor Confederacy when the war ended. The Confederacy is younger than its Legion, and the Voor say so. It secured the Gulf, settled it, and expanded into every system it could reach that did not belong to the Maweer. The Voor called the expansion civilising, the bringing of order to a disorderly galaxy. Each new colony was founded by a hearth that arrived, landed 20,000 colonists and stayed in orbit for a generation. Indata Mog, at Haedus, was founded in this way by the hearth the Navy later called the Acheron.

The Maweer, whom the Voor call the Caretakers, made contact with the Confederacy three centuries before humanity and became its other frontier. The Voor described them as an empire older and larger than the Confederacy, and did not ask them for anything. The Council's highest form of welcome for a foreign envoy, a rank of 10,000 Legionaries on the Legion's field, had been given only twice before 2318, both times to the Maweer. The Voor also knew of a species of the Gulf's inner systems that had been the Fevarians' prey before the Voor and no longer existed, and of the ruins of the Mardak Vol, whose builders they called the Wayfinders.

The Confederacy at contact, 2317 to 2318

The Lorni Indur met the Grissom at Cirban on 21 September 2317. The Voor opened with the prime numbers and led the exchange through a procedure they had used with other species before. On 14 October the Lorni Indur invited the Grissom to Indata Mog, where she spent November and December 2317 as the Voor's guests. A human mission under Minister Halima Rahal reached Hiverion on 30 April 2318 and landed on 2 May, between a rank of 10,000 Legionaries.

The High Council told the mission that the Confederacy held 30 billion Voor on fourteen worlds. Hiverion held 6 billion. The three great colonies, Indata Mog at Haedus, Vi Simni at Ximpok and Vur Duri at Aethos, held between 200 million and a billion each. The Council's civil factions, whose leaders Rahal met, wanted trade. The High Command, whose High Commander Rahal met once, wanted to know how many ships the federation had, and did not believe the answer. The talks ran from 2 May to 11 June 2318, and the Cirban Protocol of 11 June provided for envoys, a line at Cirban, a trading station and trade in food.

Treaty and trade, 2319 to 2328

The Voor-Solar Treaty was negotiated at Circumstance through the autumn of 2318. The Voor delegation was drawn from the High Council's civil factions and led by a member the human record calls the Trade-Speaker of Vi Simni. The High Command was represented by an officer who said nothing for four months and then, in the last week, said where the line would be. The treaty was signed on 3 January 2319. It divided the Gulf's systems by name: Media, Cirban, Golba, Izar, Bashpit, Esmyke, Uthan, Hhabban and Feonus to the federation, and Swur, Batraq, Leesak, Ladiom, Haedus and Kastaba to the Confederacy. Myrum, on the northern route toward the Maweer frontier, stayed Voor.

The treaty opened trade through a single station, the Cirban Exchange, built by both sides at Cirban's Pillai radius in 2319 and 2320. It also exchanged envoys. The Confederacy's first ambassador, a civil-faction Voor the record calls the Envoy of Vur Duri, took up residence at Circumstance on 2 March 2320 with a household of 400. Rahal went to Hiverion as the federation's ambassador the same spring. The Voor bought food above all, by the million tonnes, and sold engineering and raw materials. The trade of 2319 to 2328 moved 80 trillion credits of goods. In 2321 the Council granted the Maweer a right of transit through Myrum to trade with the federation at Nomotar.

The High Command used its veto eleven times between 2320 and 2328, on the Institute's count of the Voor court's factional record. In 2324 the federation bought a licence for the Maweer's field technology at Nomotar. The High Command lost the argument in the Council that year and spent four years winning it, on the case that a federation with Maweer fields, Maweer minerals and 200 jump-capable warships was no longer a customer. The High Council banned the passage of human goods through Voor space on 1 January 2328. The ban was the High Command's last use of the veto before the war. It cut the federation's trade with the Maweer and left the civil factions, who had argued for trade with humanity, with nothing to show for nine years of it.

The road to war, 2328 to 2333

Trade through the Cirban Exchange went on after 2328 at a falling volume, under a Voor customs regime that inspected every cargo for Maweer goods. From 2328 the Legion, not trade, was the relationship between the two states. On 19 July 2333 a Maweer fleet arrived at Myrum bound for Nomotar under no licence the Voor court had issued. A patrol of the Legion's Tactical Corps under a commander the record names as Drovak Tenn stopped it, followed it into the human system at Nomotar on 24 July, and fought the federation's Battle Squadron Papa there on 28 July. The patrol withdrew to Myrum with the loss of a heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Who fired first is not known.

The Confederacy's ambassador at Circumstance delivered the Council's protest on 2 August and severed relations. Rahal was expelled from Hiverion on 6 August. On 7 August 2333 the High Council, on the High Command's motion, sent the United Nations of Earth a formal declaration of war. It was the first declaration of war humanity had received from anyone but itself.

The Voor War, 2333 to 2341

In August 2333 the Legion held 52 hearths. Twelve stood in the Gulf in two groups, under General Volar Vex at Haedus and General Ahnar Varn at Swur. Twenty stood on the Maweer frontier, opposite Maweer fleets that arrived there in 2334, sat for six years and never crossed. The Navy's campaign of deception, Operation Mirage, divided the Gulf formations. At the Battle of the Mog on 2 February 2334 the Grand Armada destroyed four of Vex's five hearths and Vex with them. At the Second Battle of Media in May 2334 Varn was killed aboard his flagship, the Voor Aegis, which the 108th ROD Division boarded and captured on 19 May. The Legion's Gulf strength, twelve hearths in August 2333, was four by the end of May 2334.

New Indata Mog fell to the Unified Solar Marine Corps on 12 September 2334, and the Legion lost a world for the first time in its history. Kastaba fell in February 2335 without a landing. Six hearths came north from the Veil frontier in 2335 and 2336, on the High Command's reading that the Fevarians were the lesser danger. At the Battle of Exedor, from 10 to 16 March 2336, the Legion met the Grand Armada with fifteen hearths led by the Hiverion, the First Hearth, grown 900 years before contact, with the High Commander aboard. The hearths fought from inside the capital's orbital defences and its shield. They lost five, and the Hiverion was holed along 2 kilometres of her hull and withdrew under the shield. At Leesak on 22 June 2337 a relief force of six hearths from Aethos lost four.

The Grand Armada landed on Hiverion on 14 February 2338. The Council's civil members left the capital for Ximpok in March 2338 on the High Command's order, and the Council sat at Vi Simni from April. The Corps fought into the Krakre, the Legion's fortress at Hiverion, ring by ring. On 30 April 2338 the 20th Battalion of the 103rd ROD Division's 8th Regiment reached the Kindling, the Krakre's inner sanctum, where the First Hearth's flame was kept. The High Commander and eight of the Legion's nine Generals died there in a firefight of forty minutes. The Hiverion sortied on 3 May and broke with 130,000 aboard. The Legion had lost its High Command, the Hearth Guard and the order, in the Voor's own understanding of it.

The Council at Vi Simni took two and a half years to decide what a Confederacy without a Legion was. For the first time in its history it was divided into factions that did not include the High Command. The civil factions wanted the war ended. A faction the Institute calls the frontier party, the Generals of the Maweer frontier and the Council members of the frontier worlds, held that the order could be rebuilt from the frontier's twenty hearths and that surrender, the cooling of the hearth, was something no Voor had the authority to order. The Navy took every system the Confederacy still held that a fleet could reach. Ximpok's orbit fell on 14 August 2339, and on 17 August a hearth there struck to the Navy with 110,000 aboard, the first in the Legion's history to do so. Aethos was blockaded from October 2339. In September 2340 the Navy's fleet reached the edge of the Maweer frontier and stopped there.

The Council decided on 3 October 2340, by nine worlds to five, with the frontier party dissenting, to send a delegation to the federation's fleet "to ask on what terms the hearth may be kept warm". The Confederacy surrendered on 21 December 2340 in the court of the Kindling, on the Voor midwinter, the day the Voor calendar marks as the lighting of the First Hearth. Its delegation was the Council's presiding member, the Trade-Speaker of Vi Simni, and four members of the civil factions, with no officer of the Legion. The Treaty of Ximpok was signed at Vi Simni on 21 January 2341. The Legion had lost 24 of its 52 hearths.

Under the Treaty of Ximpok, 2341 to 2415

The treaty annexed Haedus, Kastaba and Myrum to the human state and took no other world. The Confederacy kept Exedor and Hiverion, under a Corps military government limited to five years, Ximpok and Aethos, and its eight far worlds beyond Faenov and Omaggus, which the human fleet had reached the edges of and never entered. It survived as a state of eleven worlds and 29 billion Voor. The treaty abolished the High Command as an organ of the Council, and its veto with it. It capped the Legion at twenty hearths, forbade it to grow another for fifty years, dismantled or held the yards at Hiverion, Swur and Kastaba, closed the treaty line to armed Voor ships, and gave an inspectorate the right of entry to every Voor yard and anchorage in perpetuity. The Council accepted every clause. The Institute's reading of its minutes is that the civil factions accepted them with a feeling the Voor language has no word for and the linguists have rendered as relief.

The treaty also returned 400,000 Voor prisoners, reopened the Cirban Exchange under the federation's tariff and guaranteed the Maweer's transit through Myrum. The Exchange reopened on 1 March 2341, and by 2360 it handled more than it had in 2327. The military government of Hiverion ended on 21 December 2345, and the Corps left the capital. The Confederacy recovered its trade and not its Legion. Its worlds had lost their yards, their forward base and their fleet, and had nothing to sell but raw materials and engineering. The Council moved the twenty hearths of the Maweer frontier to the Veil frontier in the 2340s, where the treaty's cap left the Confederacy only enough strength to watch one border.

The High Council at Vi Simni kept every clause of the treaty. The civil factions governed the Confederacy from 2340, and had never commanded a war. In 2391 the Council asked the Republic to lift the cap of twenty hearths, because the Legion's frontier formations had reported raids from beyond the Veil. The Solarite majority's foreign affairs committee declined. The Voor of the Haedus Territory, citizens of the Republic since 2340, sat in the Republic's Chamber from 2344.

The Red Khanate, 2415 to 2427

The Red Khan's monoliths crossed the Veil frontier in the autumn of 2415. In October the Legion's twenty frontier hearths met forty monoliths and lost six. The monoliths' ancient shields absorbed the hearths' projectors, and their beams cut a hearth's field in minutes. The High Council sent its request to the Republic on 2 December 2415, through the Haedus Territory's council and the Republic's ambassador at Vi Simni. The Republic's Mutual Aid Act of 14 March 2416 lifted the cap on the Legion for the emergency, suspended the inspectorate, and sold the Confederacy fields, projectors, munitions and food on credit. The Legion, for the first time in its history, fought a defensive war. It fitted Republic fields to its hearths, put Republic projectors on its platforms and laid down fifteen new hearths at Hiverion.

The eight far worlds fell between 2416 and 2420. A world that submitted was made tributary, its yards and people set to the Khanate's use and its young taken into the tributary fleets. A world that refused was burned from orbit and then landed on. Two of the eight refused. By 2420 the Council counted 4 billion Voor dead or enslaved. Vur Duri, with a billion Voor, was besieged from March 2420 by 150 monoliths and held for twenty-six months under a General the Council had appointed from the civil factions. It fell on 14 June 2422, after its Council refused to submit, and the Red Khan burned it. About 700 million Voor died there and the Khanate's landings enslaved 300 million more.

The Council moved from Vi Simni to Hiverion in August 2422. Vi Simni submitted in 2424 after a siege of a year, and its 2 billion Voor became the Khan's. Hiverion held from 2425 to 2427 behind a shield rebuilt with Republic generators, with seven hearths, 3 million Legionaries and 8,000 Republic volunteers. The shield failed on 2 August 2427. The Council refused submission on 5 August and ordered the Confederacy's evacuation to the Haedus Territory, while the Legion's seven hearths held the Khan at Exedor's edge. They held for eleven days. The last of them, the Vi Simni, whose Voor name the Institute renders as The Hearth That Was Kindled in the Long Watch, broke on 16 August 2427 with the Council's presiding member aboard. The Red Khan landed on Hiverion on 20 August and took the Krakre on 4 September, and received the submission of Hiverion's Voor in the hall where the High Command had died. About 1.5 billion Voor died on Hiverion. The Republic counts the Voor campaign's dead at 3.5 billion.

The Confederacy in exile, 2427 to 2451

The Voor Confederacy ended as a state with the Vi Simni's loss. What remained of it was in the Republic. Six hundred Voor ships and 30 million Voor reached Haedus between August and December 2427. The surviving members of the High Council joined the Haedus Territory's council in December 2427, and the Legion was one hearth that reached Haedus with its field gone. In November 2427 the Republic's Chamber raised the Haedus Territorial Legion, 2 million Voor under the Republic's flag and the Voor's own officers.

The Confederacy's eleven worlds and their 26 billion Voor were tributary for twenty-five years. Their peoples were put to the Khanate's yards, its swarms and its slave levies, and the Khanate settled 400 million Fevarians on the tributary worlds' orbitals. The Red Khan kept his court in the Kindling at Hiverion. Indata Mog burned on 6 November 2428, and its council and the Territorial Legion fought the Khanate from the planet's tunnels until 2451. The hearth The Hearth That Waits, which the Khanate had taken, came over to the Republic in 2434 with her Voor crew and fought on the Republic's side for the rest of the war.

Restoration, 2451 to 2460

The Republic's Retribution Fleet reached the Voor worlds in 2451. The Haedus Territory's council came out of the Indata Mog tunnels on 14 May 2451. The Battle of Exedor of 24 to 29 September 2451, fought in Hiverion's gravity well, destroyed the six monoliths there. When the Corps landed on Hiverion on 2 October 2451, 800 million Voor rose against the tributary garrison on the day of the landing. The Krakre was taken in December and the Kindling found empty, stripped by the Khan's household in 2448, but the orbital ring, held by 6 million Fevarian settlers and the garrison, did not fall until 30 November 2452. Vi Simni's garrison surrendered the world on 4 December 2451, and Vur Duri's monolith was destroyed on 20 January 2452. The Voor of every world rose as Hiverion's had, and the Corps estimates that they killed 30 million Fevarians between 2451 and 2460. Every world after Aethos was a siege of its orbitals.

The Voor Confederacy was restored at Hiverion on 1 January 2453, a month after the orbital ring fell, by a Council of the surviving civil factions of six worlds, the Haedus Territory's council and the Voor of The Hearth That Waits. Its presiding member was the Voor of the Haedus Territory who had held Indata Mog's tunnels for twenty-three years. The Republic recognised it on 14 January 2453. On 1 February the Chamber voted, by 500 to 60, to release it from the Treaty of Ximpok's military terms: the hearth cap, the fifty-year bar, the inspectorate and the treaty line. The Legion was refounded at Hiverion in March 2453 under officers of the Haedus Territorial Legion, and the High Command was not restored. The Legion answered to the Council.

The restored Confederacy held six worlds and 13 billion Voor in 2453, of the 30 billion of 2318, and the war for the rest went on for seven years. The Khanate of D'Ashan came out of the Veil in August 2453 and retook Aethos, Ksora and Banagho, and the clan D'Hovar retook Omaggus in February 2456. When the main fleet went north in 2454 and into the marches in 2455, the Republic's Southern Command and the Legion fought on alone, siege by siege, in the years the Voor call the Long Siege. Kuma and Ijaagin were still under siege when the conference at Fejantris opened, and the Peace returned them in 2460 and gave their Fevarians passage into the Veil. Three of its far southern worlds, beyond Omaggus and within a monolith's jump of the Veil, were never retaken. The clan D'Hovar held them from 2453 with their 2 billion Voor, and the three worlds were the Confederacy's price for the Republic's line at the Veil. The Confederacy was one of the six parties to the peace concluded at Fejantris on 1 January 2460. In the occupation zones that followed it held its eight worlds and 30 million Fevarians, whom the Council kept at Vur Duri's yards under a guard the Republic paid for.

Reconstruction, 2460 to 2510

The Voor Reconstruction Agreement was signed at Hiverion on 4 March 2462 by President Tomás Okonjo-Beauvais and the Council's presiding member. The Republic committed itself to rebuild the Confederacy's yards, orbitals and towers at its own cost over twenty years, at a cost of 15 trillion credits, and to open trade between the two states without tariff, inspection or licence. The Fevarian Accords were signed at Hiverion on 20 June 2466. The Confederacy's Legion took the eastern approaches of the Veil's frontier, and its Commander sat in the Accords' Joint Command at Haedius. Under the Veil Protocol all 30 million Fevarians in the Confederacy's custody returned to the Veil, because the Council offered no world.

The yards at Hiverion, Swur and Vi Simni were rebuilt by 2475 and built hearths from 2476, the first Voor-built hearths since 2420. The Legion held twelve hearths by 2490 and twenty by 2510, under a Council that appointed and dismissed its Generals. The Tactical Corps was not refounded. The Confederacy's population was 19 billion in 2476 and 24 billion in 2510. Its trade with the Republic, 4 trillion credits a year at the height of the Mutual Aid Act, was 30 trillion by 2500. The Voor of the Haedus Territory, who had governed the Confederacy since 2453, held both citizenships under an act of 2466 and sat in both legislatures.

Government and politics

The High Council

The High Council is the Confederacy's civil government. Before 2341 it seated the delegations of fourteen worlds, and it governs trade, settlement, law and its own budget. It descends from the assemblies of the steppe clans and decides by their rule: a decision taken in assembly binds every delegation that sat in it. Only Voor who have served in the Legion may sit, and a delegation's precedence follows the seniority of its world. The Council votes by world, as it did on 3 October 2340, and is chaired by a presiding member. The Council's hall at Hiverion keeps a fixed order of precedence for every clan, world, rank and office, and the seals of the member worlds are cut around the Council's own seal there.

Each member world is governed by its own assembly of clans, which elects the world's delegation to the Council and settles pasture, water, settlement and the clans' disputes. The Council does not govern a world's internal affairs.

The High Command

Until 2341 the Legion's High Command sat in the Council. It held a veto on any matter that touched the Confederacy's safety and defined for itself what touched it. It was headed by the High Commander, and in 2338 it numbered the High Commander and nine Generals. Every Legion engagement needed a General's sanction, and every General's move needed the High Command's. The Institute's judgment of 2328 was that the High Command had let the civil factions have the trade for as long as it made the federation a customer, and had taken it back in a day when it did not. The High Command died in the Kindling on 30 April 2338 and was abolished by the Treaty of Ximpok. It was not restored in 2453.

Factions

The civil factions are the Council's members outside the Legion's command. They held real power over everything the High Command did not care about, argued for trade with humanity from 2318, and governed the Confederacy from 2340. The Trade-Speaker of Vi Simni, who negotiated the treaty of 2319 and signed the surrender of 2340 as the Council's presiding member, came from them. The frontier party of 2338 to 2340 was made up of the Generals of the Maweer frontier and the Council members of the frontier worlds. It opposed the surrender and was outvoted. After 2453 the Council's leadership came from the civil factions and from the Voor of the Haedus Territory.

Member worlds

Military

The Voor Legion is the Confederacy's military. Every Voor serves in it, from the end of the thirtieth year, for twenty years or, in the hereditary formations whose families live aboard the hearths, for eighty. Its doctrine is concentration, written against Fevarian clans that scattered when struck and came back if any part survived. Its capital ships are the hearths, grown rather than built, of five kilometres and about 120,000 Voor each. Its patrol arm, the Tactical Corps, held a charter to engage without a General's sanction, and one of its patrols fought at Nomotar in 2333.

The Legion held 52 hearths in 2333 and 28 after the war. The Treaty of Ximpok cut it to twenty, which were lost or spent against the Red Khanate between 2415 and 2427 together with the fifteen laid down under the Mutual Aid Act. One hearth survived in 2427. The restored Confederacy's first four hearths were built at Europa under the Republic's licence and commissioned in January 2454 with Republic fields and projectors. The Confederacy's fleet, The Hearth That Waits and those four, sailed with the Retribution Fleet from 2454 under its own Commander, and from 2455 four hearths stayed on the Voor front until the Peace. The Legion held twenty hearths again by 2510.

Economy

The Confederacy's worlds live on the herds and grain of their steppes, on their yards and on the Legion's needs. Before 2328 the Confederacy sold engineering and raw materials to humanity and bought food, which the civil factions' households wanted as a luxury, not from want. The trade of 2319 to 2328 moved 80 trillion credits of goods. After 2341 the Confederacy had lost its yards and its fleet, and its trade passed through the Cirban Exchange under the human tariff. Its trade with the Republic reached 4 trillion credits a year under the Mutual Aid Act. After the Reconstruction Agreement it was free of tariff, and it reached 30 trillion credits a year by 2500. The Cirban Exchange was rebuilt at Bounty's orbit in 2468 as the Bounty Exchange, and by 2490 it was the largest market in the region.

Foreign relations

Humanity

The Confederacy's relations with humanity have run through five treaties. The Cirban Protocol of 2318 and the Voor-Solar Treaty of 2319 set a border and a trade that lasted nine years. The Treaty of Ximpok of 2341 ended the Voor War on human terms. The Voor Reconstruction Agreement of 2462 and the Fevarian Accords of 2466 made the Confederacy the Republic's ally. The Voor of the Haedus Territory, citizens of the human state since 2340, link the two: the Territory's council spoke for the Confederacy in the Republic in 2415, sheltered its government in 2427 and supplied its presiding member in 2453.

The Maweer

The Maweer made contact three centuries before humanity. The Council granted them transit through Myrum to the human trade in 2321, and the Myrum route was the cause of the ban of 2328 and of the fighting at Nomotar in 2333. Through the Voor War Maweer fleets sat opposite the Legion's twenty frontier hearths and never crossed. The Treaty of Ximpok guaranteed the Maweer's transit through Myrum at the Maweer's own proposal. The Maweer attended the Fevarian Accords of 2466 and did not sign them.

The Fevarians

The Confederacy was formed against the Fevarians, and every one of its institutions was built to fight them again. It fought them a second time from 2415, was conquered by them in 2427 and was freed by the Republic's fleet from 2451. The Confederacy is a party to the peace of Fejantris and to the Fevarian Accords, under which it holds the Veil's eastern approaches and in 2466 and 2469 returned every Fevarian in its custody to the Veil.

Symbols

The Confederacy's banner, The Hearth, is round. It shows a bone-coloured world split by the Legion's violet spine, burning at both ends in a three-tongued flame, inside a double ring on Legion purple, under a rim of gold with a band of base-eight script. The Legion flies the same banner with bone in place of gold, and every hearth flies its own, rimmed in lilac.

BOOK SOURCES

1. Solar Eternal, Part VII, §7.6 "Alone No Longer: The Voor Confederacy"
2. Solar Eternal, Part VIII, §8.2 "The Birth of Interstellar Trade", §8.4 "The Voor Legion" and §8.7 "The Ciriban Incident"
3. Solar Eternal, Part IX, §9.2 to §9.7
4. Solar Eternal, Part X, §10.5 "Republican Stagnation"
5. Solar Eternal, Part XI, §11.3 "Mutual Aid Act", §11.4 "The Voor Campaign" and §11.5 "A Giant Awakes"
6. Solar Eternal, Part XIV, §14.3 "The Voor Worlds" and §14.6 "Broken Giant"
7. Solar Eternal, Part XV, §15.3 "The Fevarian Accords" and §15.7 "The Confederacy, the Maweer and the Veil's Edge"