Human Confederacy
In the future, humankind may unite across Earth and interstellar space into a single, unified polity, the Human Confederacy, the Confederation of Terran Worlds.
Fiction
[edit]Ask Vector Prime
[edit]In a bleak future timeline after Hook, Line, and Sinker abducted Galvatron for Unicron's plans elsewhere and elsewhen, Rhythms of Darkness! the human race gained hope from the disappearance of the despot and eventually rose up to overthrow their Decepticon oppressors and take back their planet, establishing the Confederation of Terran Worlds. The Confederation of Terran Worlds went on to actively liberate other Decepticon enclaves, starting with Nebulos. Later on, after the final defeat of Unicron by the entire Transformer race, the now-reformed Cybertronian Empire became a staunch ally of the Confederation as well. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/24
Beast Wars: Uprising
[edit]The Human Confederacy was formed in 2029 C.E. Having reverse-engineered a great deal of Transformer technology, humankind had reached the Terran Singularity—completely outstripping the technological developments of the Transformers. The old Earth Defense Command would have a place in this new government, reorganized into the larger Confederated Terran Colonial Fleet. Micro-Aggressions This period of increasing human might and reach would later be called the Terran Ascendency. The Inexorable March
The Confederacy intervened on Nebulos when that planet's Hive and World Watcher factions declared war on each other. They discovered that the Decepticon Zarak had been manipulating the planet's geopolitics as part of the Decepticon infiltration protocol, and in doing so the Cybertronians dropped all pretenses and went in for all-out war. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue
The conflict culminated in Scouring of Nebulos in 2031. Tired of the Cybertronian civil war ravaging unaffiliated worlds, this latest atrocity prompted the Confederacy to impose heavy sanctions on all Transformers, Autobot and Decepticon alike. Head Games Micro-Aggressions The Cybertronians were barred from entering human-controlled space and restricted to an Allowed Zone that consisted of Cybertron and nine colony worlds of their choosing. In 2033, Galvatron launched the Great Push in an attempt to take out the Confederacy by pushing into human space, which went poorly for the Transformers, the Decepticon fleet being ruthlessly totalled in an embarrassingly one-sided battle. As a result of the attack, the Confederacy told the Transformers that they would now only be allowed half their previous territory. After a ten-day evacuation period, the Confederacy sterilized the other five planets. Ultimately, the Transformers would never recover from this defeat; the decrepit and dying survivors of that conflict became the Builders, ruling over a broken and stagnant Cybertron. Micro-Aggressions Nucleon, one of Galvatron's binary bonded partners, believed that, despite what history recorded, the Great Push and the Grendel Gambit had very nearly succeeded in destroying the Human Confederacy. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue
Meanwhile, humanity kept pushing onwards, rapidly discovering and incorporating new technological innovations into their society. By 2054, the Confederacy had conquered death itself and over the next 20 years, most citizens of the Confederacy had speciated into three varieties of augmented posthumans: biologicals, circuitry-enhanced, and psychals, as well as fully-sentient A.I.s. Micro-Aggressions By this point, humans had diverged so far from their ancestors that many of the "second-born" humans didn't identify as male or female, considering themselves somewhere between these two notions. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/23
By 2114, the Confederacy had embarked on the Eutychus Project: a massive undertaking that aimed to bring back almost every dead human in existence. Micro-Aggressions This went all the way back to cavemen! Intersectionality
After returning to her home universe, Blackarachnia attempted to travel to Earth, in the hopes of recruiting the Confederacy to overthrow the cruel Builder empire. She was dragged off-course by Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix and crash-landed on Cybertron instead. Broken Windshields
In the late 24th century, a small CTCF ship, Spooky Action at a Distance, under resurrected caveman Captain Blix patrolled the edges of the Allowed Zone. When the Grand Uprising started, the crew had to suddenly pay a lot more attention in case they had to sterilize the last Transformer colony. Intersectionality They should have paid more attention: the Antares Eight almost drew the crew into an ambush by pretending to be lightly-armed Cybertronian rebels holding the long-lost Rosetta Stone. Luckily for the humans, the Ex-Bots stopped the plot and handed the Stone to the humans, and shamed Una for how callous and arrogant the humans, long past any real suffering, were towards Cybertronians. Cultural Appropriation
After the Grand Uprising had ended, Lio Convoy announced his intent to leave Cybertron, realizing he was too polarizing a figure to remain in the uncertain political climate. Upon Blackarachnia questioning what he intended to do next, Convoy pondered running across the Human Confederacy in his self-exile and repairing Human/Cybertronian relations. Derailment
By the 25th century, humanity still didn't trust Cybertronians one bit. When their ship The Problem of Infinities came under attack from some Shi-Lai, who were able to overcome human tech, and was subsequently saved by Cybertronians, the ship's captain, an older Una, decided to ignore regs and help them out. This managed to result in the first human-Cybertronian romance (and a great deal of fiction depicting said romance).
Around this time, the ongoing political conflict between the Traditionalist and the Celestial movements had turned into a schism and the result was draining resources from the Fleet. The Infinities was thus an old ship stuck in service longer than it should be. The Inexorable March
In the coming centuries, the Human Confederacy collapsed in the Fall of Man, resulting in the saeleacum obscurum, a period of brutal civil wars and a new dark age. The Inexorable March Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny
Notes
[edit]- Sorenson stated in a Q&A that in the main Uprising timeframe, the Human Confederacy's population numbers 500 trillion.<ref>Beast Wars Uprising AMA post by Jim S on The Allspark Forums, 2016/10/16</ref>
- While the Confederated Earth of Uprising never made it into the stories, Jim Sorenson has said we wouldn't recognise it at all as there'd "been some fairly massive projects undertaken at various times based on the aesthetic and moral values."<ref>Beast Wars Uprising AMA post by Jim S at The Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18</ref> In regards to the humans' position on the Cybertronians, Sorenson stated, "While the rest of the galaxy has differing views on the quarantining of Cybertron, nobody strong enough to challenge them cares enough to do it."<ref>Beast Wars Uprising AMA post by Jim S at The Allspark Forums, 2016/10/17</ref>