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The Wars of Legends

Pegasus War

Interlude: The Tau'ri Alliance

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Hi all,

Things have been crazy lately in galacticpolitics hasn't it? And we have the Atlantis Expedition to thank for it. Who'd have thought that events in another galaxy would have such a major effect on our own. Then again, the Replicators, Asgard and Ori were extragalactic too… Yeah, I'll have to retract that previous statement. Anyways, let's get to the real meat of today's post shall we? Without further ado, let's talk about the Tau'ri Alliance.

The Tau'ri Alliance

The Tau'ri Alliance is a military, economic and political mutual assistance organization for the minor powers of the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies. It is essentially a miniature version of the Coalition of Free Peoples for said powers. It is designed with the purpose of providing its members a greater voice, or for some of its less developed members a voice at all, within the Coalition and as a check against the influence of superpowers such as the Albion Stellar Empire and the Chiropteran Swarm.

It was formed after the Coalition's victory in the Pegasus War against the Wraith and Asurans (for details on this war click here). In the aftermath of which the many Pegasus nations and tribes chose to organize themselves into some kind of united political body to reflect the bonds they'd forged during the war. The Tau'ri seeing the benefit in such an arrangement proposed they join in this burgeoning organization as well, soon followed by a number of other Milky Way minor powers (For a full list of current Alliance members click here). It was through these negotiations that the Alliance was born.

The Alliance is named after the most widely accepted name for Earthlings in the broader known universe, in honor of what its members feel is the outsized contributions they have made to the betterment of its other members and the universe. An honor that sits uneasy with the frankly far too humble Earthlings, but which their partners insisted on bestowing on them.

Conflict over the Alliance's induction into the Coalition

The Alliance's formation was not without its problems however. The biggest came from the Coalition. As the Alliance represented a significant voting bloc, tensions arose within the Coalition over whether its voting members were allowed to retain their individual votes in the Coalition General Assembly or the Alliance be granted only one vote. Thankfully after rather tense negotiations, which at one point saw Nimue turn into living lightning in agitation, it was decided that the latter would be the case. While this upset many in the Alliance which wanted at minimum some kind of compromise that gave it more than one vote, they were faced with no less than unanimous opposition to such from the non-Alliance members of the Coalition as such the outcome was never in dispute.

This development has spurred calls within the Alliance to move towards full confederation based on the argument that if the Coalition saw them as essentially a single unitary entity then they should become one in fact and not just on paper. These calls are considered fringe at the moment as various Alliance members fiercely cling to their national identities and sovereignty however they are growing in strength.

I for one am curious where these calls will lead. Wherever they go, I'll be here to cover them. Here and now, I'd like to wish the Alliance the best of luck in its endeavours. May it live long and prosper!

Done!

That's the interludes for Pegasus War done and with it the final curtain call for this story.

As previously mentioned there's still a few one shots inspired by this story to be posted in Sidestories though so I hope to see you all there.

Till then, qapla'!