The Solar Federation

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The Solar Federation better known as ‘The Feds’, are based on the United Federation of Planets as found in the Star Trek series and movies. The Federation can loosely be considered the stereotypical utopian "good guys": on the side of order, morality, and government, the Feds are the slightly creepy father figure who knows what is good for you, and by damn, will force you to accept it whether you want it or not. Other, similar races in Science Fiction are the "Alliance" in Firefly, Ian M. Banks' "Culture", and the US Government in nearly everything it shows up in. They have a very nice all-round fleet of ships, ready to fulfill any purpose you might think of. In the division which is often made between 'fighter-races' and 'torpedo-races' the Feds are definitely a torpedo-race, and a good one too.

Race Characteristics

The Federation have the widest array of torpedo ships ranging from the small two-tube Nocturne Class Destroyer to the massive Nova Class Super Dreadnought. This race is relatively easy to play (no dirty tricks you need to master first) and is fairly newbie friendly (super refit allows you to build tech 10-everything ships provided you find the right natives, and they have quite some useful ships below hull tech 7). The Feds’ special abilities are a 200% tax rate, the ability to Super Refit ships with better parts, some very nice crew bonuses in battle, three bonus fighter bays on any carrier and a good amount of special ships.

Strategy Guides

These strategy guides helped inform and in some cases word much of what is contained in this article:

Racial Abilities

The Feds main abilities revolve around their ability to maximize the economic efficiency of any native race they work worth, their Engineers that are able to come through in the clutch, and their modular ship design. However, the bureaucratic oversight that gives them so many economic advantages holds them back from being able to exploit the mineral deposits on planets they colonize, causing a reduction in mining efficiency.

The main race characteristics that distinguish the Feds from other races are:

Of the three different Terraforming Hull types the Federation have two of them and they are highly useful for their purposes. The Eros Class Research Vessel, and the Bohemian Class Survey Ship can create a hospitable planet out of any planet.

Disadvantages:

Due to Federation environmental protection laws, they mine at 70% the efficiency of all other races, except the Lizards. If a player is not careful this can cause serious problems with development.

Ship List

See The master ship list for a list of The Solar Federation ships.

Important Ships

Only the most useful ships will be mentioned here.

  • Nebula Class Cruiser: The small/medium warship and primary minelayer of your fleet. Decent mass, large cargo hold, large crew, large tank, four beams and four torptubes.
  • Brynhild Class Escort: The Federation Bioscanner, which has a 20% chance of scanning planets within 200 LYs for natives and temperature when it's mission is set to 'sensor sweep'.
  • Loki Class Destroyer: This ship should never do any fighting for you. It's far too valuable. It will decloak those sneaky cloakers, after which one of your other ships can kill them. Beware of Lizards and Birdmen: their cloakers are immune to the Loki's tachyon field.
  • Diplomacy Class Cruiser: Six torp tubes and six beams. Holds 95 torps, weighs 180 KT and has a nice big 350 KT fueltank.
  • Kittyhawk Class Carrier: The Kitty is the Federation's only carrier. It has six fighterbays, holds 65 fighters and has four beams. With the three bonus fighterbays it puts fighters in the battle at the rate of a ship with 9 bays, only one bay less than the large carriers. It's main drawback is it's limited cargohold.

Strategy

Overall Strategy

Set StrategyOverall= in this page.

Early Game

Midgame

Endgame

Notes

Alliances

Overall

The Solar Federation

The Lizard Alliance

The Empire of Birds

The Fascist Empire

The Privateer Bands

The Cyborg

The Crystal Confederation

The Evil Empire

The Robotic Imperium

The Rebel Confederation

The Missing Colonies of Man

Enemies

Overall

The Solar Federation

The Lizard Alliance

The Empire of Birds

The Fascist Empire

The Privateer Bands

The Cyborg

The Crystal Confederation

The Evil Empire

The Robotic Imperium

The Rebel Confederation

The Missing Colonies of Man