Earth Federation (2199)

For the comparable Earth government in the original Space Battleship Yamato and its sequels, see Earth Federation (OS). For the government of the Earth in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, see United Nations.

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Earth Federation
E.F.G. President	Unnamed president
Legislative Body	Earth Federation Government Congress
Military Branch	Earth Federation Defense Force
Capital	New Capital
Founded	Between 2199 and 2201
Preceded by	United Nations

The Earth Federation (E.F.) is the governing nation of Earth, the Solar System, and its inhabitants since the early twenty-third century. It was established following the Great Garmillas War, which led to significant technological advancements for the Earthlings but also brought them to the brink of extinction. As a relatively new interstellar state, the Earth Federation maintained cordial relations with the Great Garmillas Empire and continues to do so with its successor, Galman-Garmillas.

Initially, the federation adopted heavily militaristic policies; however, the Gatlantis Campaign of 2202 and 2203 challenged it both militarily and ethically, prompting a shift away from its aggressive foreign stance.

During the escalating tensions between Garmillas and the Bolar Federation, the Earth Federation chose to remain at a safe distance from its ally, seeking to avoid becoming involuntarily involved in another conflict.

As of October 2207, the capital of the Earth Federation and its homeworld have fallen under the occupation of the alien faction known as Dezariam, following years of infiltration into its political, military, and business sectors by Dezariam sympathizers.

Organization

The first president of the Earth Federation in late 2202.

The Earth Federation sits on Earth, with its New Capital being located in Japan, and claims jurisdiction over the entire solar system and various colony worlds it was gifted by the Great Garmillas Empire. One interstellar area of activity of the Earth Federation is the Perseus Arm. The E.F. continues to operate certain territorial divisions previously established under the United Nations, such as the Far-East District.

The Earth Federation Government President leads the Earth Federation, assisted by the Earth Federation Government and various offices, such as the Science Bureau and the Security Bureau. The president resides in the Presidential Building. In case of emergency, the head of state can evacuate from a private transport named Air Force 1, which then immediately assumes the function of seat of the government.

The Earth Federation Government Congress holds legislative power in the Earth Federation, with the authority to declare a state of war. Justice is administered by a judicial branch. The Grand Bench serves as the highest court of law in the Earth Federation.

Military matters are handled by the Earth Federation Defense Force, with the Earth Federation Cosmo Force being responsible for defense and offense against threats from beyond Earth. The Earth Federation also operates the Coastal Police and the Public Security Police.

As of October 2207, the Earth Federation has fallen under the occupation of Dezariam, a group claiming to be Earthlings from the far future of 3199. They have been declared a "special advisory organization" to the Earth government by both the president and Congress, and have taken over the regular chain of command of the Earth Defense Force.

Emblem

"The Symbol of Earth Federation" seen in its official colors on a carpet in the E.F.G. President's office in late 2202

As of 2202, the Earth Federation used an emblem representing the solar system surrounded by two branches and bearing the writing "The Symbol of Earth Federation". Much like the United Nations' logo, the symbol was usually light blue. As of 2207, the E.F. has gone back to reuse the United Nations original logo, displaying it in a variety of colors.

History

Founding and rebuilding the Earth

The Earth Federation's first president gives a speech in 2202

After the Great Garmillas War, the Earth underwent a period of reforms. The United Nations was dissolved and replaced with the Earth Federation, which worked to unite all national governments under a single federal executive. While this transition process would take years to be completed, only ending by 2205, by the 2202, the E.F. had already named its first president.

The time fault factory in 2202

During the war, the Earth's biosphere had been destroyed by constant bombing. Luckily, the Cosmo Reverse System, an alien device gifted to the Earthlings by the Iscandarians, saved the planet. The activation of the device created a singularity under the planet's surface, where time was dilated tenfold. This area was discovered in 2201 and a military factory was immediately constructed to exploit the time distortion and help reconstruct the Earth at a faster rate. The time fault and the factory were both kept under military secret. In the same year, the Earth Federation government and military announced the Wave-motion Gun fleet plan, which was meant to refurbish the depleted United Nations Cosmo Force with warships armed with Wave-motion Guns. This project went against a clause in the armistice between the Great Garmillas Empire and the Earth, which had been imposed by the Queen of Iscandar for the Earth to receive the CRS, and banned all applications of the Wave-motion Theory in the military field. However, the armistice had been signed by the captain of a battleship, who hadn't been given full authority to negotiate a deal on behalf of the Earth. Thus, the Earth Federation Defense Force ignored the accord as a mere verbal agreement. Nonetheless, the plan was opposed by many, both inside and outside the EF, most notably by the crew of the space battleship Yamato, which had brought the Cosmo Reverse System to the Earth, and by Admiral Ryu Hijikata of Space Defense Command.

After the activation of the CRS in 2199, the E.F. worked on rebuilding the planet's surface, but progress was slow. The Far-East District quickly became the economic and political center, benefiting from the reconstruction, while other areas lagged. Locations like Moscow still had their populations living in underground cities in 2202. The workers involved in reconstruction faced hardships and began protesting for better pay and working conditions, organizing strikes in industrial areas like the Bōsō District.

The Garmillas Embassy's staff (left) beside the Earth Federation Defense Force's leaders

The Earth Federation also began building friendly relations with the Great Garmillas Empire's new government and signed a mutual security agreement with it. The treaty gave the Earth access to various colony worlds the empire had no use for in exchange for selling slots of the time fault factory. A Garmillan embassy was also opened on the Moon, with Loren Burrell, signatory of the peace treaty with Garmillas, being named its ambassador. These were considered the Earth's first step into intergalactic politics. However, the new peacefull relationship with Garmillas was not accepted by all citizens. An organization known as the Anti Earth-Ga Security Alliance Committee was founded in Moscow, and by 2202 it began organizing strikes worldwide, while also financing the Destruction Liberation Army, a terror group that opposed the Garmillas Empire's government.

Around the same year, the government began lifting its monopoly on interstellar travel, with the launch of the first large warp-capable civilian cargoship setting sail.

The Andromedas' launch and Teresa

Andromeda after firing its DWIE

On December 2, 2202, the Great Garmillas Empire invoked the mutual security treaty with the Earth to retake its 8th Floating Continent, which had been seized by the Gatlantis Empire. The Earth's forces had already clashed with Gatlantis in late 2199 when a Gatlantean governor attacked the Yamato. The joint forces of Garmillas and Earth struggled against the Gatlantean fleet, especially after the empire sent out its new warship model. However, they managed to secure a victory, albeit a costly one, with the implementation of Plan A and the launch of Andromeda, the first battleship of its class, which served as the flagship of the Cosmo Navy and was the first ship produced in the time fault to ever be launched. Despite Andromeda quickly eliminating most of the enemy force with its Wave-motion Gun, the new Gatlantis battleship survived and traced the warp signature of two Earthling cruisers, thereby locating the position of Earth and threatening it with a suicide run. The warship was ultimately destroyed in orbit thanks to the timely intervention of the Yamato, which was being repaired in an underwater dock.

Burrell pressures the President into pardoning Yamato

Six days later, the E.F.G. President participated in a naval ceremony celebrating the launch of four other ships of the Andromeda-class. The ceremony was held in the Earth's capital and was attended by dignitaries of the Earth and Garmillas, including Ambassador Burrell and exponents of the military-industrial complex. Both Burrell and the Earth government had discovered that, in the aftermath of the joint operation, the former crew of the Yamato had received a vision from the goddess Teresa calling them to her planet. Burrell assisted the crew's acting captain, revealing him the existance of the time fault and meddling with the President to make him ratify Yamato's journey to planet Terezart when the ship took off on December 25, despite HQ's orders to stand down.

War comes to the Solar system

Battle at the 11th planet

The 11th planet is bombed

As Yamato's insurrection unfolded, the Gatlantis Empire attacked the 11th planet of the solar system, a joint colony of the Earth Federation and the Great Garmillas Empire. All communications with the Earth were cut off, and the outgunned local forces were almost wiped out, with only a handful of civilians managing to escape to a makeshift refuge in a mine. A lone cosmo marine broke through the Gatlantean blockade to seek help and was rescued by Yamato. HQ ordered the battleship to stay put since Garmillas' authorization was needed to carry out any military action in the joint colony. However, Yamato once again disregarded its orders and independently led a rescue operation, taking on board all survivors. Despite the battleship's crew's aversion to the Wave-motion Gun, they were forced to fire it to destroy the enemy fleet. Still, at the suggestion of a Garmillas Embassy attachée, they chose to fire the weapon at the planet's artificial sun, causing a reaction that deactivated the invading fleet.

11th planet refugees on the Moon

The civilians were later transferred to a Garmillan patrol fleet and were brought back to the Earth. They were interned in a quarantine facility on the Moon, and their testimonies convinced the Earth Federation Defense Force's leadership that war with Gatlantis was inevitable.

Operaton S: Total War

The leaders of the UNF discuss the coming war with investors

With the Gatlantean threat closing in, and confirmation from Yamato that the White Comet, a massive mobile object that had been observed travelling toward the Earth in the previous months, being the empire's capital, the Earth military began putting countermesures in place to prepare for a full invasion of the solar system. The so-called Operation S was put in place and various defense lines were prepared between the outer and inner solar system. The time fault factory began building warships at a faster-than-ever-before rate, and new classes were put into service to feed the evergrowing Earth war apparatus. In early May 2203, following a series of skirmishes in the outer planets and the asteroid belt, the private and public sectors were united at the suggestion of General Kotetsu Serizawa, leading to a full transition to a war economy. This led civilian contractors, such as Domon Hightech, to start working inside the time fault.

The battle at Saturn

On May 8, the Gatlantis Empire's primary fleet battled the UNCN forces at Saturn. With the help of the Garmillas military, led by Ambassador Burrell, the Earth Federation managed to put a halt to the Gatlantean andvance, and thanks to the combat data obtained, they began fielding more advanced and automized weapons. An escape plan was also put in place in case the total losses of the joint forces reached 50%.

The Golem Assault Battle: Yamato saves the Earth

For this topic in more detail, see Final Battle Over Earth

The White Comet and the Gatlantean Seventh Mobile Fleet fly over the capital

Despite the Earthlings' efforts, on June 2, the line of defense on Mars was broken through, and the White Comet reached the Earth. The Gatlantis Empire bombed the Earth capital, issuing an ultimatum to the EF leaders and declaring full control of the planet. However, Yamato, backed by the Garmillas military and the forces of Supreme Leader Abelt Desler, who had defected from the Gatlantean side, launched on a last assault against the empire, aiming to activate a device that could kill all Gatlanteans instantly, which Emperor Zworder kept hidden in his throne room.

The Ark of Destruction, fully reactivated at last

The attack was successfull, but in a surprising turn of events, the Gatlantis sovereign activated the device himself and fused with the White Comet, reactivating it to its full potential as the Archelian Ark of Destruction. The Ark blasted the surface of the Moon, tearing it apart, and made its way to Saturn to absorb its core and gain enough energy to wipe out all life on the Earth. However, Teresa managed to descend from her dimension to regular space and, together with Yamato, rammed the Archelias superweapon, destroying it and saving the Earth.

Post-war reconstruction and the referendum

Yamato resurfaces in the time fault

After the end of the war, the Earth Federation earnestly began reconstructing. The military's expansion was not stopped by the end of the conflict, and the time fault continued to churn out automatized warships. The fault also played a significant role in the rebuilding of the capital. On December 8, 2203, the thought-to-be-destroyed Yamato reemerged in the time fault after spending six months in Teresa's dimension. A plan was drafted to rescue two officers who had remained stuck in the higher dimension after the battleship's descent, but to activate it, an almost infinite amount of energy would be needed to send a rescue vessel beyond the dimensional boundary. Such power could only be obtained by collapsing the time fault, hence losing its properties.

Lt. Com. Shiro Sanada's speech before the referendum

The EF Cosmo Fleet's commander, Captain Osamu Yamanami, supported the project, having come to hate the militarist policies of the Earth Federation. Once again, thanks to Burrell's mediation, the truth about the time fault was publicly revealed, and a referendum was held over whether or not to sacrifice it. In the end, the idealism brought forth by the former Yamato crew won over the Earth's citizens, and the time fault collapsed to propel Yamato into the higher plane of existance. The rescue mission was successfully completed on December 31, 2203.

Garmillas, Bolar and the prospect of war

With the time fault out of commission, the Earth was forced to change its military policy and scale down its military in accordance with the new Fourth Defense Plan. In 2204, the Great Garmillas Empire announced the Garmillas Migration Plan, a project to migrate the entire population of the dying planet Garmillas to a new world. The Earth Federation pledged its full support to the cause, and offered the empire a new model of civilian transport.

The members of the peace delegation, from left to right: Serizawa, Yamanami, and Burrell

However, things changed when in early 2205 the empire announced the destination of the migration plan, planet Garmann. The world was a perfect copy of Garmillas' ecosystem, making it the only viable candidate for long-term migration, however, it was under the control of the Bolar Federation, an autoritarian intergalactic state that held territory inside of the Milky Way. Given Bolar's vicinity to the E.F.'s territory, the federation was hesitant to aid Garmillas out of fear of being dragged into another conflict. To fully display its pacific foreign policy, the Earth planned to send the Yamato, the symbol of its demilitarization, and its new fleet on a peace mission to the Salezar system, home to Garmillas and Iscandar. For this mission, a delegation made out of Ambassadors Burrell and Serizawa, and Captain Yamanami was created and scheduled to depart on October 2.

Yamato and its fleet arrive at Iscandar

While Yamato was en route to Salezar, planet Garmillas was attacked and destroyed by an unknown enemy, later identified as Dezariam. Without any information on the attack's perpetrator, the Earth Federation refused to send any fleet to help the surviving civilians out of fear of triggering a conflict with Bolar. For the same reason, HQ forbid Yamato's corps, the closest to the Magellanic Cloud, to continue its journey. However, after a mutiny on board and at the subtle suggestion of the delegation's members, the fleet refused to execute its stand down order and embarked on yet another unauthorized mission.

The Dezariam Invasion of Earth

Bolar's incursions and Dezariam's attack

A Bolar fleet performs a territorial incursion near the 11th planet

In the following years, the Bolar Federation began carrying out regular incursion in the E.F.'s territorial waters, forcing the Earth Federation Defense Force to partly sacrifice the principles of the Fourth Defense Plan. At the same time, Dezariam entered in contact with various of key figures within the military, financial and political world of the Earth Federation, convincing them to switch to their side in preparation of a coming Dezariam invasion of Earth. Forseeing the danger and keeping track of the movements of these Dezariam sympathizers, General Serizawa and his direct superior, General Commanding Director Heikuro Todo, began planning Operation DAD, a secret operation to fight back against the invaders.

Citizens watch as the Ground Reverse lands in the New Capital

In October of 2207, during a routine incursion by the Bolar Federation Frontier Patrol Fleet 584, a Dezariam space fortress, the Ground Reverse, moved into the Solar system and broke through all of Todo and Serizawa's lines of defense. With the help of inside sympathizers, the Dezariam Army defeated all countermeasures and landed in the New Capital. The President was evacuated, and Air Force 1 assumed control of the government as the battle raged near the capital. Selected members of the Cosmo Force evacuated Earth to continue Operation DAD while Defense Force members loyal to Dezariam withdrew from the battlefield and sent out an official government announcement stating that Dezariam was not carrying out an armed invasion. Earth HQ was stormed by the sympathizers, and the planet fully fell under the aliens' occupation.

Under Dezariam's occupation

A crowd of Earthlings watches Skulldart's broadcast

After their occupation, Dezariam's holy leader, Skulldart, delivered a public message that was broadcast throughout the solar system. He revealed that his people were Earthlings from a millennium in the future who had returned to the past through a temporal rapture located at the center of the Milky Way. Skulldart warned that in the future, a spatial rapture would open at Saturn, leading to Earth's destruction in an event known as the Great Loss. Dezariam had come back in time to create a functioning Cosmo Reverse System and to rewrite history by preventing the rapture from occurring.

As Skulldart spoke live, a Bolar fleet that was encroaching on Earth Federation territory was unexpectedly annihilated by Dezariam forces. This event, combined with the growing mistrust of the current president's government, led to a rapid increase in support for Dezariam among Earth's citizens.

The Earth Federation officially began collaborating with Dezariam after a presidential decree recognized the faction as an advisory organization to the Earth government. This decree was approved by Congress on the same day it was issued. At the same time, the Dezarian General Kazan was appointed to oversee the Dezariam Army's occupational forces on Earth and effectively took control of the Earth Federation Defense Force. Other officers were assigned to control specific regions, such as Major Alfon for the Far East.

Dezarian civilians at the welcoming ceremony

To assist in the creation of the CRS, Dezarian civil engineers and their families migrated to Earth, settling on a plot of land outside the New Capital that was granted to them by Congress, thanks to the manipulations of the president of Nanbu Heavy Industries, a key figure among Dezariam sympathizers named Kozo Nanbu,. A ceremony was held to welcome their arrival, attended by the president, senior military officials, Nanbu, and other officials.

Operation DAD goes on

Serizawa and Todo hear a report from the special task force

While apparently collaborating with the invaders, Generals Todo and Serizawa coordinated a task force, led by the Yamato, which was to continue Operation DAD clandestinely. In order to complete the Cosmo Reverse, Dezariam would need to capture the two "fragments of Iscandar": Yamato, which originally housed the CRS in 2199, and Sasha Iscandar Kodai, the daughter of the late Queen Stasha Iscandar. While they managed to track down and kidnap Sasha, who was being held aboard the Yamato, they failed to take the battleship. The Yamato then moved out toward the galactic center, in order to reach the time rift and find out if Dezariam's claimed origins were indeed the truth. The supply carrier Asuka instead returned to Earth to begin setting up a resistance against the invaders.

Society and Culture

For more details, see Earthlings.

The Earth Federation is a diverse country that is home to almost the entire Earthling species. Until at least 2205, the various nation-states that made up the pre-Great Garmillas War Earth were still active under the federal executive but gradually gave up their powers in favor of full unification.

Two Garmillan children and an Earthling boy in the streets of the New Capital in 2205

In addition to its already diverse population and the novelty of a united Earthling race, the E.F. also has a substantial population of Garmillas immigrants, especially in the years after the destruction of the 11th planet's joint settlement. While post-war resentment against the Garmillas people exists, with at least one organization opposing them and xenophobic graffiti seen in the streets of the capital in late 2202, Garmillan citizens have since integrated within the Earth Federation's society.

A government message broadcasted in English, Japanese and in the Garmillas language

By at least 2207, government messages are broadcasted in both Earthling and Garmillas languages.

Yamato has become a powerful symbol for both the Earthling and Garmillan citizens of the Earth Federation. Having saved both peoples during the Great Garmillas War, it has come to symbolise hope and defiance against enemy threats.

Notes

• The official description for Heikuro Todo for Space Battleship Yamato 2199, seen both on the official website and on various publications, erroneously refers to the UN as the "Earth Federation".
• The symbol for the Earth Federation in the Yamato 2199 continuity remains the same as the one used in the original series continuity.

Japanese language information

地球連邦 Chikyū renpō