Launch Aggregate Alliance

The Launch Aggregate Alliance, originally the Human Alliance and shortly after the Human Launch Alliance, also known as the Human/Aggregate Alliance, was an official collective alliance formed first between the nations of humanity's Earth after they fled their homeplanet for unclaimed space. The exact date of its forging was 24AS. Since that time, humans came face-to-face with their first alien species, namely the Salaro, who were integrated as part of the Human Alliance and declared "Near-Human" (and given more or less equal rights throughout the alliance). It was when the Shojop also appealed to become a collective part of the Alliance that the official title was renamed the "Human/Aggregate Alliance" or simply "Human Aggregate Alliance" to demonstrate the fact that humans were simply the founders, and no longer the entirety.

A similar collectivity, though one much larger and older, had formed deeper into the Milky Way, known as the Komon Rekai Yolga, which translates to Central United Alliance. The two accumulated forces came into contact after the LAA had recently assimilated its fifth species and settled its sixteenth planet. The CUA actually extended into territory the LAA had thought uninhabited, and declared 'claimed' though not actually colonized. Frightened of each other's power, their discovery in empty space resulted in a brief and violent though small-scale exchange, and the two retreated only to attack one another soon afterwards in force, both believing the other was attempting to breach their territory. This led to what was later named the First Pact War.

After the war reached a relative stalemate, with both forces unwilling to risk resources on the effort an indefinite truce was formed, which later formed into complete cooperation. The two sides were now essentially on the same side, and though they are still opposed on some matters and separate parties, they became part of the Galaxy Confedarate, which recognized all independant alliances and parties. Any competition for habitable planets was henceforth a matter of politics and not immediate, savage war.

The military division of the LAA is known as a separate empire, namely the Sentinel Empire, and it forms a rather large part of the alliance. The Sentinel Empire was the right and left hand of the LAA, and handled all of the non-political work, and was therefore more widely recognized than the LAA throughout the outer, relatively untamed reaches of the galaxy. Unfortunately, an almost equally large band of rogues, known as the Zealot Empire, broke away from the Sentinel Empire after the forming of the Galaxy Confederate, claiming their own alliance unto themselves, and they are composed only of humans - who believe in their superiorty and will go to any means to establish it - and enslaved alien races. They are the opposing force in the ongoing United Subjugation War.