This is a story that's kind of the result of me playing too much Stellaris. So I went about and conceived a story idea where you're following the events of the characters from this one ship. And the intention is that it starts with letting you get to know the crew and the world around them. And as you may guess from the title, their race is joined into the Federation, an alliance of planets that is very intentionally referencing Star Trek's Federation as part of this is to criticize how the Federation is perceived. Eventually the characters will actually not all be on the one ship and start spreading out, which allows me to spread out the stories to different aspects of what's going on.

James Hattock is the audience analog, at least for the start of the story. Eventually as everything is more familiar to the reader, his role will become a bit less central to the story, especially once they start spreading out.

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