Coalition Wars

The Coalition Wars (also known as the Unification Wars or the First Interstellar War) was a period as defined by the Convention on Human Chronology, that began on December 25, 2329 with the Massacre of Kjerne, and ended on December 1, 2410 with the signing of the Treaty of Vienna by the Colonial League and the Terran Systems Republic. This period is characterized by a multitude of wars usually referred to as the Coalition Wars as a whole, though these wars were fought between many different parties. While sometimes called the Unification Wars, these conflicts were not all aimed at unifying human space. The name First Interstellar War was proposed as a parallel for the terran world wars.

Politics of the time are dominated by cosmopolitanism and supremacism, which clash with each other both diplomatically and militarily.

The Coalition Wars were an opportunity for many separatist movements to claim independence following the weakening of the federal government. These claims were sometimes at odds, and led to intercolonial wars for territory. The creation of the Colonial League (CL) from the League for Colonial Independence provided colonial systems with a supranational government that was granted executive power in order to coordinate military efforts while legislative and judiciary power remained in the hands of its constituent nations. The league went on to include most of colonial space by 2362.

Other notable participants include Anexarchia (joined the CL in 2361), the Union of Silicant Republics, the Red Sun Commune and the Democratic Republic of Nevis.

The global instability brought by these wars served as a pretext for many smaller supremacist groups to enact local policies against any religious, ethnic or political group they deemed inferior, leading to a great increase in migrants all over human space.