A collection to showcase the vehicles in use during the First Colony War of the 2210s.

The first settling of the KRAC Star Group, named after the four most prominent systems within it, began in 2178 after a hopeful prospector decided to check out what appeared to be a black void on the subspace scanners at the time. What started out as a hopeful romp through the blackness sparked a new galactic gold rush; a tight star group with four systems having earthlike worlds without complex life, a binary star system, and an extremely violent neutron star that is potentially the cause of subspace in the surrounding area being mostly absent.

Due to subspace being so fractured, it became a necessity in the 2190s to create a series of jump gates to help facilitate interstellar travel to explore the other systems, as it took incredible power to maintain a steady warp field for anything more than a few hours with Starfleet's signature warp drive technologies.

After decades of exponential expansion, the colonies within the Cetarus system officially formed a government for mutual defense and aid to help combat the increased strain of so many immigrants into their growing cities. Thus, the United Constellation of Settlements was born. Starting out by standardizing their Endeavor-Class ships which were used to colonize the system in the first place alongside several Genesis-Class cruisers for planetary defense, and Atlantis-Class starships for dedicated survey expeditions, the UCSN was fielded in full force to combat rising piracy in the sector and patrol the borders while planetary defenses were set up.

However, during the 2200's many colony ships set out along the warpways to the Kursu and Aral systems due to growing disdain towards the UCS government for imposing taxes along the jump routes and requiring the full registration of munitions and ships in private ownership, which went against the off-grid living many settlers came to the system for in the first place. As a result, the UCS began sanctioning the breakaway states to keep them in financial subservience and maintain a tight grip on resources in the star group. Coming from this was the First Colony War, a war of rebellion or a fight for independence depending on who you believe.

The KRAC Free States and the Kursu Sovereignty being the two primary states opposing the UCS. the Free States are made up of all the people who wanted to live off of the grid on homesteads, tending to farms and embracing a fully free way of life with an understanding that mutual defense pacts are still needed to ensure their security. Many prefer simply basing within the Aral system as a foothold for their industrial corporation to grow, whether for asteroid mining or gas refinement there are no shortages of industrious opportunity.

The Kursu Sovereignty being the other large faction, which broke away from the UCS over disputes regarding the limiting of naval power for any one planetary system and despising the UCS doctrine of one large unified navy controlling everything throughout the star group, which would often lead to the cavalry coming too late to be properly useful as anything more than patrol ships would have to be fielded around the central planets of Cetarus II and III because of a lack of proper infrastructure.

This is a big project and I'm hoping to over the course of the next year craft a decent story with a good amount of depth as set-dressing for my ships. If you like anything in particular, please leave comments expressing that! I have a lot of issues with motivation due to never having any real feedback, so kind words are immensely appreciated.