Following the end of the South American Inferno and the Battle of Liberty the Argentine People's Republic was finally accepted by the world powers without hesitation and they revelled in that. The charge at the Battle of Liberty was romanticised to the point of misinformation with the sailors involved in the operation granted the highest medal possible that sailors could be awarded. As they built up the heroism of the Argentine People's Navy as they threw money into their dockyards in the north of the county. They expanded the yards massively until the vast, majority of the land that they had annexed from Urguay was part of a grand shipyard pumping out warships to prey on the slave trade of the Goa'uld Empire. As they threw the majority of their money towards their interstellar branch the other branches of their military were starved of funding which led to the Argentines opening dialogue between all of their neighbours save for the Republic of the Andes. Requesting a permanent treaty much like the European Union so that they could focus more on their interstellar navies. The agreemnet was accepted by the Brazilians, and Chileans and the Treaty of Rio De Janeiro established the South American Union as one of the world's most powerful economic blocks.

The new South American Union started focusing on establishing economic connection between the member states with the collected members funding the creation of a railway connecting the far north of Brazil, with the southern shores of Chilean Patagonia. The railway was designed to connect everyone so that the people of South America could connect to each other under the banner of the South American Union. The new union also established a routine system of intervening into the Republic of the Anders to train their military against militia which would prove useful when they fought against the Jaffa People's Republic in the next few decades. As South America began to reconnect the rest of the world began to follow that trend. The Argentines also founded the International Peoples Union an economic block with Cuba and any other socialist nation if they arose elsewhere. To the north of the South American Union Mexico managed to convince their southern neighbours to join their trade block as the world polarised between the grand blocks of Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Free Africa. This defines the world we live in today a world dominated by economic blocks all united against the enemies of mankind. The European Union the first of the international trade blocks was the closest with an agreement to set all currencies of member states to be pegged to the Imperial Pound allowing trade to flow more efficiently as every trader no longer needed to change their currency as they travelled and just pay with the first one they found. The most obvious benefit of this was that the European Union solidified into a decisive unified trade block that could tip the world's economy easily.

-Extract from an explanation of the birth of the South American Union and polarisations of Earth's economy.

The most well-known aspect of the early Second Golden Age of Piracy was the Goa'uld slave ships and the horror of the slavery that Anubis instituted and the pirates reactions to that. The stance of the Lucian Alliance was wide ranging varying from pirates taking the slaves in the same condition and selling them off, to those who freed them and inducted them into their crews. The majority however took them as slave but granted them much better conditions as an attempt to make themselves seem more popular to the people of the galaxy.

The Allies on the other hand had a very negative view of both the slavers and the slave ships declaring the both the slavers and those who worked on the slave ships hostis humani generis. Enemies of mankind in general thus, allowing the crews and Interstellar Exploratory Teams that found them could kill them with out having to deal with laws differing national laws. This was met with glee by the sailors of the Queen Anne class warships that had been hunting down the slavers. The methods of punishment for the Goa'uld slavers quickly became a thing of legend as the allies unleashed a taste of justice on the slavers before they burnt in whatever hell they had. While most simply lined them up in a hanger and shoot them in the back of the head several ships did it differently. For example, the HIMIS Bloemfontein became known for releasing the slavers they captured into the void and letting them asphyxiate in space. The HIMIS Calcutta had a set of gallows in one hanger and hung the slavers the old-fashioned way but every ship did it in a slightly different way. There were some concerns raised that the executions was extrajudicial and just outright sadistic but the Windsor Powers were more than willing to modify the laws to allow anyone that committed Crimes against Humanity as the Goa'uld slave ships were to be executed in whatever way those who captured them found fit. The slavers were so detested that when it came out that IIET-1 had beheaded the slavers they capture it was met with applause from several well-known opponents of the death penalty. The Goa'uld slavers were often not even regarded as human due to the crimes they committed which while morally dubious can arguably be called deserved.

-Extract from Peter Mollwing's book the sun rises: The Second Golden Age of Piracy. (Authors Note: I oppose the extrajudicial killings committed in that segment and believe that everyone must be tried fairly no matter what their crimes.)

The opening stages of Operation Grenade allowed the more interesting side of John Churchill to show as he charged into every battle wielding a sword and longbow alongside Bra'tac and Sigurður Steelfangs. His actions at the Battle of Nova Australis are the most well-known example of this when he killed the commanding Goa'uld through the use of his longbow. As he continued on his as some have put it slightly insane actions across the galaxy his popularity back home exploded though not reaching the level of love the people of Earth held for his predecessor with the image of him killing a Goa'uld in a sword duel becoming very popular.

-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.