New Colonization and the UPF

The UPF was organized out of the emergency of the First Sathar War. The first Session of the Council of Worlds saw representatives of most but not quite all worlds represented on the AD map. Space Fleet's mandate as the primary line of defence for this interstellar federation is to keep these systems safe.<br /><br />Each new world admitted to the UPF increases Space Fleet's area of responsibility and by extension its budget requirements. If the new admission has a strong economy then, in theory it contributes more then it costs the UPF. <br /><br />There has been an undercurrent of discouraging new colonization in the Frontier dating as far back as 10 PF<br /><br />[quote=Zeb's Guide]Representatives of the four major races request that all explorations cease while delegates meet to form a unified defense and mutual interest organization. [/quote]<br /><br />The truth is that they were afraid of new lightly populated or outpost colonies being included in the future UPF and the expense they would cause while not actually contributing much overall. Time and again exploration and new colonies have been discouraged. True enough there are differences between the AD map and the Zebs map but most of these system have a mega corp sponsor so they weren't just admitted, they were fast tracked into the UPF treaty. <br /><br />As the UPF matures its consistently thrown up hurdles to new colonies if its judged that their economy is marginal. Also the longer the period of time since the last sathar war the greater the decrease in Space Fleet's budget thus creating more pressure to not let in light or outpost population level colonies. a very public precedent to refusing admission is Mechano although there were other consideration to its blocked entrance to the UPF.<br /><br />Despite attempts to dissuade new colonization and exploration these activities still go on. Religious groups and cults occasionally manage to fund expeditions. there are always rumors of pirate bands establishing bases outside of UPF jurisdiction, mega corps look to expand exploitable resources secretly on the Alcazar model. And sometime individuals with wanderlust decide to head out into the black.<br /><br />Servicing these peripheral colonies are tramp freighters, CFM ships, and sometimes a corporate carrier (but only to a corporate system). This generally is not much law out on the periphery or at least not much more then you can establish with a gun. There is always the danger of pirate bands and sathar and possibly other mysteries. Travel amongst the periphery can be very wild, exciting and dangerous.<br /><br /><br />There a new sand box take on the Frontier. The AD and Zebs map represents the core and the edges of the map lead to adventure.