Foamasi Federation TL10-18

Tech Level 10 - 18 Ships

The Foamasi, like the Gluv, faced a considerable recovery effort on the homeworld. Restoration of infrastructure had unified the populace in a purposeful manner, but divisions from before the war remained. However, due to the deliberate Cazov scorch planet tactics, the top leaders of the Church of the People and the government were dead. An intense lobbying effort and demonstrations by the disenfranchised to get the right to vote happened on all Foamasi worlds. Some of the demonstrations turned violent, resulting in several hundred deaths. The remaining die-hards in the Church and government with a vested interest in keeping the status quo used these incidents to enforce existing law. Outright oppression of the non-voters was not out of the realm of possibility. What prevented the Foamasi from becoming a religiously-backed police state was brave Church and governmental insiders and the vast majority of the Army.
      On the second anniversary of the liberation of Foa the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Ayylt Wiscu, announced that there were irregularities in the first national election since the war. It appeared that a significant number of votes were cast by people that were killed in the fighting on Foa. By law Wiscu had to investigate the irregularities. Additionally, he had to check the allegations that the various political parties had conducted illegal financial transactions during the election campaign. Ignoring informal requests from the newly-elected president, Wiscu continued his work. Stonewalling, political mudslinging, intimidation, and threats to his and his family's health didn't stop him.
     Five months later Wiscu declared that the elections were null and void due to voter fraud. He also formally charged the political parties of accepting illegal campaign contributions. His recommendation - new elections with the right to vote given to the disenfranchised populace. The firestorm that followed was what Wiscu predicated would happen. The parties refused, and Church officials were quick to pressure their governmental contacts to nix Wiscu's plans. In turn Wiscu, acting under the articles of the constitution, said that since the current president wasn't elected legally that an interim president must rule until new elections were held. That person happened to be National Secretary Jakzu, a strong supporter of franchising the non-voters.
     A new round of protests, this time on both sides of the issues, erupted. What the Church of the People leadership didn't expect was great numbers of their clergy coming out to support Wiscu and Jakzu. The corruption of the Church leadership had become too obvious to ignore anymore. The clergy advised their congregations to support governmental reform. While the Church underwent a revolution the Foa government had one so brief that it was hardly noticed.
     The enlisted and NCO ranks of the Foamasi National Army (FNA) was mostly composed of the non-voting minority since only voters were allowed to enlist in the more prestigious (and higher-paying) Holy Star Fleet. The true test of the Army's loyalty came when Jakzu exercised his authority as interim president, ordering the troops to say in barracks while the former president, disputing Jakzu's claim and constitutional authority, ordered the Army to the streets to stop the protests. The President expected his orders to be followed since he was the commander in chief of the armed forces. He failed to appreciate that the Army didn't swore to serve the President directly, but answered to serve and protect the constitution. When the National Court came through and declared Jakzu's rule legal the Army stayed in barracks while the former president was arrested for failure to vacate the office of the presidency. The remaining diehards of the old administration continued to protest the outcome, but the populace, still shaken from the loss of life during the war, accepted reality. On the third anniversary of Foa's liberation all adult Foamasi had the right to vote.
     The Church of the People underwent a meltdown as senior leaders were forcibly ejected for corruption. Over the next twenty years the Church fragmented in two parts, with those that supported Jakzu having 85% of the former Church membership. The two groups found it was easier to hate the other instead of owning up to the role their original church played in making Foa what it was before the war. Healing the rift would take much longer than two decades.
     Like the Gander, the Foamasi had no direct boarder contact with the Fendalen Kingdom. Trade treaties with the Gluv and Commonwealth allowed for continued industrial and economic advancement. New asteroid outposts and colonies were created and the Navy upgraded its stockpile of prefabricated base components. The Tzelan science outpost on Balta allowed the Federation to keep pace with the Commonwealth, making for sound technical advances that minimized equipment obsolescence.
     When proof of the Vendian genocide and stories of Pulurtan brutality against the Xhali reached Foa space there was an immediate call to action. Having suffered under Cazovian occupation, especially on the last day, the Foamasi knew how close they came to genocide on their homeworld. The Foa Expeditionary Fleet (FEF) was formed, assigned to the primary front with the CSF 2nd Field Fleet. A significant force of the FNA was also made available to the Commonwealth to serve in planetary invasions. During the war the FEF did exemplary service and the FNA conducted three major landings on Pulurtan worlds and numerous takeovers of asteroid outposts and colonies.
     The only major event to happen in the Foamasi Federation was the assassination of President Jakzu in the middle of his second term. It was determined that the assassin was hired by a group of petty backroom types that lost big in the new regime. Wiscu became the new president, and for the rest of his abbreviated term in office he sought ways to shore up Jakzu's initiatives. Despite his efforts, Wiscu was still viewed negatively by a majority of the pre-reformation voting block and a new president was elected in the next voting cycle.
     After the war much of the FSN went into mothball storage. Like the other allies much of the military budget went to terraforming projects. From time to time spasms of political bickering occurred on Foa as old pre-reformation laws were either struck down or updated. Active political life aside, the Federation had earned its right to partake of the Era of the Long Peace.

Federated Space Navy (FSN)
      With the dramatic shift in the political landscape the Holy Star Fleet changed its name and composition. Now called the Federated Space Navy (FSN), the organization digested lessons learned in the Fendalen War. Carriers, fighters, and gunboats were given priority in construction and deployment, followed by heavy capital units.Nothing lighter than a battlecruiser was built until the introduction of the improved needle beam (a Foamasi invention). Later, with an increase in revenue due to improved trading and new hostile environment colonies (and industrial expansion), the FSN built more lighter units such as the Winter Maple and Bamboo classes.
     Since the FSN favored heavy capital units it had less of a need to build copies of CSF designs. Like the Hokum, the FSN didn't develop tachyon technology during the war, so TL 18 refits of CSF copies had second-generation variable focus force beams instead of tachyon beams, increasing the unit cost by 100mc for each switchout. The FSN also made use CSF auxiliary and tug designs.

Warships

Warships	Bases	Transports
Carriers	Tug	Minelayers and Sweepers
Auxiliaries	Mobile Shipyard	Survey Ship