The Breakaway Alliance.
The fall of the Commonwealth and the brutal way the survivors were treated echoed through the galaxies, particularly the breakaway colonies. The 59 still out there realised that the Federation had become something wrong, something evil and immoral. Unlike the commonwealth's ship which had been lost by accident or an act of fate, the 59 were crewed by those who wanted to leave the Federation.
The peoples on them had seen the growing darkness in the Federation, and they knew they couldn't change it. There was more luck trying to stop an avalanche. So, if you couldn't stop it, then you could run away from it and change what you had before coming back.
That was the theory.
With the fall of the commonwealth, and the growing lack of morality in the Federation, the breakaway groups banded together, along with the remnants of the New Maquis. Realising it was only a matter of time before the Federation came after them, they built up their strength and the New Maquis brought their old tactics into the open, allowing the plans to change and preparatory work to begin.
3 years had passed before the Federation came, hearing rumours of more " rebels " in the remote regions of the galaxies. They found the colonies, along with the New Maquis. Again, the federation referred to them as separatists and rebels, and the public ate it all up. Hook, line and sinker.
Unlike the commonwealth, the alliance lasted longer and harder. The Federation eventually crushed them, but not before discovering that they'd evacuated the planets they'd inhabited.
- Extract of Political Mistakes. 8900.
