The New Earth Power Blocs

This is some preliminary material for a moderately futuristic setting that draws on Battletech, Gundam SEED, and assorted military fiction.

The Atlantic Federation
The Atlantic Federation is largely considered the largest and most potent of the 3 world power blocs. The Federation formed from the former United States of America, Canada, several Caribbean island nations, as well as Iceland, Greenland, and nominal membership of Great Britain, France, and Germany. The core technology of the Federation is the Arc Reactor, a sustained nuclear fusion engine. While the rest of the world shuddered through the death of the Petroleum Age, the Federation flourished with the advent of the Arc Reactor. Cities were increasingly powered by Colossus type reactors, while smaller vehicles were powered by batteries, or by increasingly smaller arc reactors. This gave the Federation a huge lead while the other power blocs were forming. The Federation also has built a large number of space stations and habitats removed from the nitty gritty of life on the mudball Earth. Materials and shuttles are launched not by rockets, but by high speed, and transit class mass drivers.

Allies
The Federation is not a sole power, going it alone. While the three blocs formed, they did not claim every nation or corner of the earth. Several smaller multi-national powers joined up. Some did this out of pragmatism, while others did so out of fear of being devoured by one of the three powers. The Atlantic Federation has since forged alliances with some of these powers. Its strongest allies include the Kingdom of Scandinavia, the South African Commonwealth, and the super-nation of Amazonia, which composes the northern half of South America (Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, and a few other small nations on the coast)

Enemies
The Federation has three main enemies, the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Zodiac Alliance of Space Nationalities, and internal pro-nationalist anarchists and terrorists. The ACPS is the Federation's principle rival in the international stage, rivaling it for resources, technology, and military power. The Zodiac Alliance is formed from a dozen habitats and space stations, each discarding their original names in favor of a Zodiac based nomenclature. Gagarin Habitat became the Leo Habitat, and the Aegis Interstellar Factory Station became Scorpio and so on and so forth. The Alliance is weak in terms of military power and population, but it has advanced tech, and has the ultimate high ground. Enemies of the alliance generally cannot depend on their satellites surviving long periods of time. Currently the Federation is at tenuous peace with the above groups. The last group is an amalgam of splinter sects, fundamentalist groups, and nationalists who opposed their nations becoming members of the Atlantic Federation. The strongest points of resistance are in the former nations of America, Ireland, and France, despite the latter's lack of full member status.

The Federation Military
The Federation Military was the first to deploy the battlemech. Powered by an Arc reactor, wrapped in armor tougher than a tank and sporting more firepower, the mech was a fundamental shift in combat philosophy. Old opponents of the mech stated such a machine would be ponderous, mechanically unfeasible, and easy to kill in a battlefield. The first generation of mecha did largely fit this description, but had a large psychological advantage in battle. The second generation of mecha were greatly improved in performance, and improved electronics warfare systems quickly brought the mech up to par for combat.   



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