Horizon Federation
| Horizon Federation | |
| General | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | HF |
| Formation | 6 October 2023 |
| Membership | Arimfea Orovika Imperial Nova Cortesia Del Mar Amcar Shadow United Federation of Planets Sanctuary |
| Government | |
| Formation | |
| Preceded by | Andromedan Republic (Horizon's End) |
| Culture | |
| Links | |
| Discord | C62WWXVnz9 |
The Horizon Federation was a coalition of nations on Horizon's End, formed for the express purpose of combating RentDueYesterday in the Horizon Federation-RentDueYesterday War. The alliance consisted of almost all active colonist nations on the server at the time (with the notable exception of the Republic of Carthage), and is broadly considered to be the largest alliance ever in Horizon's End or StarLegacy history.Template:Citation needed
History
The Horizon Federation was formed hastily on the evening of October 6, 2023, in response to Vega allying with the new pirate nation of RentDueYesterday and attacking Novan forces, thereby broadening both the scope and scale of the lower-level piracy conflict then existing between Imperial Nova, Orovika, and RentDueYesterday. The coalition was initially predicated on the pre-existing anti-piracy alliance between Imperial Nova and Orovika, as well as the former Andromedan Republic, a then-defunct alliance between Imperial Nova and Arimfea which had previously existed to fight Vega, and had sworn to return if Vega presented itself as a threat again.
The coalition initially consisted of Orovika, Imperial Nova, and Arimfea. Cortesia Del Mar inherited membership in the alliance upon its split from Orovika on 29 December 2023. Several smaller nations (Amcar, Shadow, United Federation of Planets, and Sanctuary) were admitted to the alliance when RentDueYesterday's (and Vega's) broadly-distributed attacks eventually implicated them, and they sought protection therefrom.
On 6 December 2023, an incident occurred wherein Vortexion, then representing Arimfea in the coalition, posted an poll to coalition membership, proposing the delivery of the following ultimatum:
"Ultimatum vote: Either staff enforces a clean ceasefire with no terms on either side, and ends this war, or the HF and its members quit HE for a healthy while. Yes/No?either staff enforces a clean ceasefire with no terms on either side, and ends this war, or the HF and its members quit HE for a healthy while. Yes/No?"