Freestar Collective / FREESTARCO

The Freestar Collective was established in 2189, one year after Solomon Coe, the founder of Akila City, invited the Volii system to form an alliance with the Cheyenne system.

In 2194, the Narion system voted to join the Freestar Collective after the United Colonies placed the Clinic star station above the planet Deepala and refused to remove it, which was seen as a prelude to annexation. The Freestar Collective mobilized to protect Narion in 2195. The UC escalated by sending a fleet to Narion in 2196, and Freestar responded by sending a fleet of its own, which instigated the Narion War. The conflict persisted until 2216, when both sides signed the Treaty of Narion and Narion was recognized as a Freestar member system.

The Freestar Rangers were founded in 2221 to serve as an elite protective and investigative force for the Freestar citizenry.

The Freestar Collective built a new farming colony on the planet Vesta in the Lunara system in 2307. The UC objected to this colony in 2308, claiming it was a violation of the Treaty of Narion and Freestar was not permitted to expand to a fourth star system. Diplomatic talks ensued, but ultimately broke down and the UC razed the Vesta colony. This set off a second major conflict, the Colony War, which culminated in the Battle of Cheyenne in 2311. The UC Navy fleet was defeated by a Freestar flotilla of military and civilian ships using hit-and-run tactics.

By 2330, the peace between Freestar and the UC remained in place, but it was fragile.