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	The principle advantage of the expansion policies is that it serves as the primary economic engine for the UFAW, providing jobs for newly assimilated citizens as well as the potential for real growth. Colonizing new worlds or reconstructing old ones requires the efforts of sentient individuals. Putting down stakes on some airless rock or jungle world might not be appealing to a citizen living in a Class IV or V paradise, but from someone from an overcrowded Indian slum or post apocalyptic nightmare, manning a comm station in an isolated star system or mining asteroids would represent a leap up the economic ladder. In summary the UFAW expands not only to protect itself, but also to create opportunities for its citizens.		The principle advantage of the expansion policies is that it serves as the primary economic engine for the UFAW, providing jobs for newly assimilated citizens as well as the potential for real growth. Colonizing new worlds or reconstructing old ones requires the efforts of sentient individuals. Putting down stakes on some airless rock or jungle world might not be appealing to a citizen living in a Class IV or V paradise, but from someone from an overcrowded Indian slum or post apocalyptic nightmare, manning a comm station in an isolated star system or mining asteroids would represent a leap up the economic ladder. In summary the UFAW expands not only to protect itself, but also to create opportunities for its citizens.

			== History ==

			''Note: Some of the following information may not be from a reliable source ;-)''

			The seeds of the UFAW were sown over 1000 years ago when researchers on the index world henceforth known as "Earth 0" stumbled by chance onto a phenomena that allowed them to break through the boundaries of their own reality and into one where the physical laws were much more conducive to sufficiently advanced technology. Foremost among these was a capability to create targeted weakness in the fabric of the multiverse that would allow for the convenient travel between alternate realities. For the next 200 years this capability was used in a very limited capacity by Earth 0 to explore various alternate worlds and gain experience with how such exploration must be carried out. Over this period contact was made with a number of friendly worlds and three of these, Earth 1, an FTL capable sci fi world, Everearth, a high magic world and the Dragon Empire, agreed to coordinate their exploration of alternate worlds.

			=== The Confederation of Alternate Worlds ===

			The initial agreement between the worlds that had made contact with each other during the exploration phase formed the '''Confederation of Alternate Worlds''' (CAW). This agreement mostly handled matters of trade and movement between worlds and also regulated control of the interdimensional transport technology. While some mutual defense and intelligence organizations were created, such matters were mostly left to the discretion of member worlds. Mechanisms for identifying new members and adding them to the confederation were also specified.

			It was decided that a special organization dedicated to exploring alternate realities and dealing with any problems that might be uncovered within them was needed. With a secondary goal of better integrating the distinctly alien Dragon Empire, the '''Dragon Knights''' were established to match the powers and abilities of the dragons with the judgement and pragmatism of the non-dragon (aka "lesser") races. With both magical and technical capabilities the DK's served at the forefront of the initial expansion of the CAW both between and within individual universes. The use of dragons was particularly necessary due to the severe lack of FTL capable ships and other advanced technologies available to the Confederation.

			=== The Catastrophe ===

			43 years after the CAW was founded the alliance faced its greatest test in a two year period known as '''The Catastrophe'''. By that time the confederation consisted of 12 member realities and 23 others undergoing various stages of colonization. The first incident involved a a growing Class IV civilization known as HE-5, which had been admitted to the CAW early on as a promising source source of ships, technology and personnel. Several years after its admission HE-5 became involved in a conflict with an obscure trans-biologic race known as the Xinti. No aid was requested and Confederation Council ruled the conflict a matter internal to that specific reality. Except for a reduction in trade the conflict simmered out of sight for years, until the CAW embassy on Earth 5 sent back reports that an alien fleet had appeared in the Sol system. Only a small handful of the 9 billion inhabitants of Earth 5 were able to be evacuated through the established ID gateways before the planet was burned in a massive bombardment.

			While the ID links with the affected reality were shut down, the remaining CAW members were alarmed as none of their own defense forces had been up to the level of those that had been fielded by HE-5. Earth Beta, the newest member and second high magic CAW member made an immediate request for aid in dealing with a dark force that was extinguishing the stars in its galaxy one by one. While Earth Alpha (Everearth) and the Dragon Knights provided a forceful response, it severely degraded the CAW's ability to respond to new threats elsewhere in its territory.

			96 days after the destruction of Earth 5, a Dragon Knight team uncovered a stealth invasion by a parasitic alien race on Earth 11. ID links were secured just in time before the invasion would have spread into the other realities, but the initial infiltration has progressed to such a point that only 1 billion of that world's 7 billion inhabitants were able to be saved.

			=== The Federation is Born ===


	== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==		== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==

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Civilization Development Index

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	{\| class="wikitable"		{\| class="wikitable"
	\|-		\|-
	!~~PDI~~ Level		!CDI Level
	!Class		!Class
	!width="300" \|Criteria (Summary)		!width="300" \|Criteria (Summary)

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	Sub-Federal governments may establish their own colonies and be granted waivers from the normal jurisdiction rules, but to avoid conflict colonies established in this manner may revert to the default track if chosen by a 3/5th super-majority in a popular referendum.		Sub-Federal governments may establish their own colonies and be granted waivers from the normal jurisdiction rules, but to avoid conflict colonies established in this manner may revert to the default track if chosen by a 3/5th super-majority in a popular referendum.

			==== Civilization Development Index ====

			The Civilization Development Index or CDI is a tool used in policies that relate to how the UFAW interacts with other civilizations that it may encounter in both newly explored realities or existing ones. The UFAW has no [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive Prime Directive] and in fact takes the opposite stance that it is their ''duty'' to assist any civilization that may be be in need of it. Still, policies are in place to prevent alien or uncontacted alternate civilizations from being harmed or exploited. Perhaps more important in the eyes of the Federation are the policies designed to prevent contact between the Federation and other advanced hostile civilizations or a weak civilization that could be the ''target'' of an advanced hostile civilization.


			The CDI works much like the PDI associating a numerical level with development milestones and assigning jurisdiction of who handles the complex details of contact and ongoing relations.


			{\| class="wikitable"
			\|-
			!PDI Level
			!Class
			!width="300" \|Criteria (Summary)
			!width="300" \|Jurisdiction
			\|-
			\|0
			\|Fallen / Not Applicable / Uncategorized
			\|Pre-civilized or non-civilized sentient life, post collapse societies
			\|Exploration Office or UFAW Military
			\|-
			\|1
			\|Pre-Industrial
			\|Civilizations that have yet to master the wide scale application of energy for production of goods.
			\|Office of Culture via Non-Technological Exploration and Contact Agencies
			\|-
			\|2
			\|Industrial
			\|Civilizations that can mass produce goods and built large scale projects.
			\|Office of Commerce via Elite Federal, Sub-Federal or Contract Agents (Dragons Knights, Guardians, Google, etc)
			\|-
			\|3
			\|Post-Industrial
			\|Civilizations that have mastered information and automation technologies.
			\|UFAW Military with Office of Commerce via Elite Federal Agents.
			\|-
			\|4
			\|Interstellar
			\|Civilizations that have mastered interstellar travel (with or without FTL)
			\|Office of Foreign Affairs via UFAW Military.
			\|-
			\|5
			\|Advanced
			\|Galactic or multi-reality scale. Functional Immortality.
			\|Office of Foreign Affairs advised by UFAW Military.
			\|-
			\|}

	= For the Writer =		= For the Writer =

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Breadth and Depth

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	Breath/Depth is not a euphemism for blind expansion and Breath/Depth type policies not only promote expansion, but also the right kind of expansion that makes the increased Breath and Depth mean something more than just distances on a map. Because the Federation is ultimately on the hook to provide for the common defense of all its nations and citizens it has final say on how new worlds are colonized and now new realities or civilizations are contacted. This doesn't mean that out beyond the frontier there isn't a bit of a Wild West mentality, but these policies allow one to rely on not only the location of the nearest cavalry outpost, but also under what circumstances it will come to your rescue.		Breath/Depth is not a euphemism for blind expansion and Breath/Depth type policies not only promote expansion, but also the right kind of expansion that makes the increased Breath and Depth mean something more than just distances on a map. Because the Federation is ultimately on the hook to provide for the common defense of all its nations and citizens it has final say on how new worlds are colonized and now new realities or civilizations are contacted. This doesn't mean that out beyond the frontier there isn't a bit of a Wild West mentality, but these policies allow one to rely on not only the location of the nearest cavalry outpost, but also under what circumstances it will come to your rescue.

			The principle advantage of the expansion policies is that it serves as the primary economic engine for the UFAW, providing jobs for newly assimilated citizens as well as the potential for real growth. Colonizing new worlds or reconstructing old ones requires the efforts of sentient individuals. Putting down stakes on some airless rock or jungle world might not be appealing to a citizen living in a Class IV or V paradise, but from someone from an overcrowded Indian slum or post apocalyptic nightmare, manning a comm station in an isolated star system or mining asteroids would represent a leap up the economic ladder. In summary the UFAW expands not only to protect itself, but also to create opportunities for its citizens.

	== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==		== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==

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	=== Limitations ===		=== Limitations ===

	One would naturally assume that technology that allows for instant transport from anywhere to anywhere would have some limitations and you would be right. Chief among these is the '''discovery problem'''. A set of universal coordinates is not a destination. It is a fixed point in some universe in relation to the epicenter of the local big bang. There is no magic directory that allows one to look up or divine the address of some desired reality and moreover no way to determine where anything is within that reality even if you have the location of the object in the origin reality. Assuming some alternate reality even has an Earth, if that Earth's orbit or the orbit of the solar system around the galactic ~~gore~~ or the movement of the Milky Way away from the center of the universe were to differ be just the smallest amount then you would sucked through the portal and into space, or worse, be merged into some solid object that the portal opened inside of.		One would naturally assume that technology that allows for instant transport from anywhere to anywhere would have some limitations and you would be right. Chief among these is the '''discovery problem'''. A set of universal coordinates is not a destination. It is a fixed point in some universe in relation to the epicenter of the local big bang. There is no magic directory that allows one to look up or divine the address of some desired reality and moreover no way to determine where anything is within that reality even if you have the location of the object in the origin reality. Assuming some alternate reality even has an Earth, if that Earth's orbit or the orbit of the solar system around the galactic core or the movement of the Milky Way away from the center of the universe were to differ be just the smallest amount then you would sucked through the portal and into space, or worse, be merged into some solid object that the portal opened inside of.

	This makes it almost impossible to open a portal to another location without some sort of fixed reference on the other side. These are known as '''portal anchors''' and in the case of mobile portals allow the calling unit to create a portal in a safe location and even provide a velocity vector so that the portal on the other side won't shoot off into space or rock as the Earth moves away from it. So how does one get a portal anchor into the position to lock onto? Well that's where good old fashioned air, space and ground transportation comes into play wherein the travel makes a '''blind jump''' to a safe location, then travels the old fashioned way to where they need to set an anchor. When opening a portal to a "blind" location one typically sends in some sort of probe ahead of time, ideally one that contains a portal anchor to lock onto, or makes an educated guess of where a "safe" location may be. Space after all is quite large so the possibility of opening a portal and running into something is small, but this does mean that the act of exploring new realities cannot be typically done without an FTL capable spaceship.		This makes it almost impossible to open a portal to another location without some sort of fixed reference on the other side. These are known as '''portal anchors''' and in the case of mobile portals allow the calling unit to create a portal in a safe location and even provide a velocity vector so that the portal on the other side won't shoot off into space or rock as the Earth moves away from it. So how does one get a portal anchor into the position to lock onto? Well that's where good old fashioned air, space and ground transportation comes into play wherein the travel makes a '''blind jump''' to a safe location, then travels the old fashioned way to where they need to set an anchor. When opening a portal to a "blind" location one typically sends in some sort of probe ahead of time, ideally one that contains a portal anchor to lock onto, or makes an educated guess of where a "safe" location may be. Space after all is quite large so the possibility of opening a portal and running into something is small, but this does mean that the act of exploring new realities cannot be typically done without an FTL capable spaceship.

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Inter-D Communications

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	Because the real work of creating the portals for the mobile units are done at large central facilities, the portals can be remotely monitored for signs of catastrophic failure and action can be taken to dissipate the wormhole before something like a feedback explosion occurs.		Because the real work of creating the portals for the mobile units are done at large central facilities, the portals can be remotely monitored for signs of catastrophic failure and action can be taken to dissipate the wormhole before something like a feedback explosion occurs.

	== Inter-D Communications ==		=== Inter-D Communications ===

	When just transmitting information and not matter the portal size and strength can be drastically reduced. Additionally Inter-D communication channels are more resistance to both jamming and interference and are also much less detectible. Information/Data links can also operate with higher degrees of signal degradation and noise so the equipment used to generate the portals can work with more granular frequency ranges to be able to fit more links into a given chunk of bandwidth.		When just transmitting information and not matter the portal size and strength can be drastically reduced. Additionally Inter-D communication channels are more resistance to both jamming and interference and are also much less detectible. Information/Data links can also operate with higher degrees of signal degradation and noise so the equipment used to generate the portals can work with more granular frequency ranges to be able to fit more links into a given chunk of bandwidth.

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 * '''Portal Instability:''' Strong energy fields can destabilize Inter-D portals resulting in feedback explosions, transport errors or premature portal cutoff.
 * '''Portal Jamming:''' Portal instability can be induced via a number of active jamming techniques.
 == Physics and Magic ==

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 Breath/Depth is not a euphemism for blind expansion and Breath/Depth type policies not only promote expansion, but also the right kind of expansion that makes the increased Breath and Depth mean something more than just distances on a map.  Because the Federation is ultimately on the hook to provide for the common defense of all its nations and citizens it has final say on how new worlds are colonized and now new realities or civilizations are contacted.  This doesn't mean that out beyond the frontier there isn't a bit of a Wild West mentality, but these policies allow one to rely on not only the location of the nearest cavalry outpost, but also under what circumstances it will come to your rescue.
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 Types of magic that may run into problems when exported include those where the abilities are provided by some diety or other god-like being, since those types of power feeds don't tend to cross between realities, as well as any system that relies on "true names" as objects/people in other realities would never be provided with such names without the ambient magic system that supports them.
 == Organization and Government ==

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	'''Mobile portals''' make use of fixed portal generating equipment to create a weak spot in the substance of the multiverse that allows low power field equipment to establish a point-to-point gateway from anywhere to anywhere. Mobile portals are more limited in duration and are not self-contained/self-sufficient, but have drastically reduced size and power requirements. Established mobile portals have the same blue glow as the fixed portals, but the edges are less defined with a hazy lensing effect in the transition between normal space and the wormhole.		'''Mobile portals''' make use of fixed portal generating equipment to create a weak spot in the substance of the multiverse that allows low power field equipment to establish a point-to-point gateway from anywhere to anywhere. Mobile portals are more limited in duration and are not self-contained/self-sufficient, but have drastically reduced size and power requirements. Established mobile portals have the same blue glow as the fixed portals, but the edges are less defined with a hazy lensing effect in the transition between normal space and the wormhole.

			=== Limitations ===

	One would naturally assume that technology that allows for instant transport from anywhere to anywhere would have some limitations and you would be right. Chief among these is the '''discovery problem'''. A set of universal coordinates is not a destination. It is a fixed point in some universe in relation to the epicenter of the local big bang. There is no magic directory that allows one to look up or divine the address of some desired reality and moreover no way to determine where anything is within that reality even if you have the location of the object in the origin reality. Assuming some alternate reality even has an Earth, if that Earth's orbit or the orbit of the solar system around the galactic gore or the movement of the Milky Way away from the center of the universe were to differ be just the smallest amount then you would sucked through the portal and into space, or worse, be merged into some solid object that the portal opened inside of.		One would naturally assume that technology that allows for instant transport from anywhere to anywhere would have some limitations and you would be right. Chief among these is the '''discovery problem'''. A set of universal coordinates is not a destination. It is a fixed point in some universe in relation to the epicenter of the local big bang. There is no magic directory that allows one to look up or divine the address of some desired reality and moreover no way to determine where anything is within that reality even if you have the location of the object in the origin reality. Assuming some alternate reality even has an Earth, if that Earth's orbit or the orbit of the solar system around the galactic gore or the movement of the Milky Way away from the center of the universe were to differ be just the smallest amount then you would sucked through the portal and into space, or worse, be merged into some solid object that the portal opened inside of.
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	Here are some other significant limitations to the UFAW Inter-D tech:		Here are some other significant limitations to the UFAW Inter-D tech:

			* '''Portal Collision:''' If two active portals are created on the same frequency then a feedback explosion will result, especially if matter attempts to transit either of the collided portals.
			* '''Portal Instability:''' Strong energy fields can destabilize Inter-D portals resulting in feedback explosions, transport errors or premature portal cutoff.
			* '''Portal Jamming:''' Portal instability can be induced via a number of active jamming techniques.

	== Organization and Government ==		== Organization and Government ==

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	== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==		== Interdimensional Transport and Communications ==
			The centerpiece of Federation technology is that which allows instantaneous travel and communications between alternate realities. While there are a number of ways to carry out travel between realities using both technology and magic, the UFAW has standardized on a specific flavor of Interdimensional technology (commonly referred to as Inter-D or I-D) that can be used on a wide variety of scales from personal to starship and in both mobile and fixed applications. The technology has the added benefit of being capable of Intra-reality travel as well and thus it has been possible for the Federation to establish a unified system for all forms of long distance travel.

			Here is a rundown of the features of standard UFAW Inter-D portal technology:

			* '''"Doorway" operation:''' Allows instantaneous transmission of both matter and information.
			* '''Bi-directional:''' Both matter and information can travel in <u>both</u> directions without need to reestablish the portal.
			* '''Soul-safe:''' No matter-energy conversion takes place preventing death from consciousness discontinuity.
			* '''Privacy-preservation:''' Interactions between the realities at the portal horizon result in a strong blue-white glow.
			* '''Long Lasting:''' Depending on operating conditions and available power mobile portals can remain active from between 5 and 60 minutes. Fixed portals can remain active indefinitely.
			* '''Direct dial:''' Portal connections can be established with a portal address (fixed) or co-ordinates (mobile) without any preexisting setup.
			* '''Automatic energy balancing:''' Potential energy differences between portal ends are automatically accounted for by the addition or removal of mass.

			Portals come in two main types, mobile and fixed.

			'''Fixed portals''' are stand alone devices establish long lasting stable wormhole connections to similar portal units through a large predefined portal aperture. These require significant power requirements, but can be left connected for long periods of time making them well suited to roles in ground transportation networks. Fixed portals can also be constructed as orbital jump gates, but at large sizes this becomes less desirable than mobile type portal generators.

			'''Mobile portals''' make use of fixed portal generating equipment to create a weak spot in the substance of the multiverse that allows low power field equipment to establish a point-to-point gateway from anywhere to anywhere. Mobile portals are more limited in duration and are not self-contained/self-sufficient, but have drastically reduced size and power requirements. Established mobile portals have the same blue glow as the fixed portals, but the edges are less defined with a hazy lensing effect in the transition between normal space and the wormhole.

			One would naturally assume that technology that allows for instant transport from anywhere to anywhere would have some limitations and you would be right. Chief among these is the '''discovery problem'''. A set of universal coordinates is not a destination. It is a fixed point in some universe in relation to the epicenter of the local big bang. There is no magic directory that allows one to look up or divine the address of some desired reality and moreover no way to determine where anything is within that reality even if you have the location of the object in the origin reality. Assuming some alternate reality even has an Earth, if that Earth's orbit or the orbit of the solar system around the galactic gore or the movement of the Milky Way away from the center of the universe were to differ be just the smallest amount then you would sucked through the portal and into space, or worse, be merged into some solid object that the portal opened inside of.

			This makes it almost impossible to open a portal to another location without some sort of fixed reference on the other side. These are known as '''portal anchors''' and in the case of mobile portals allow the calling unit to create a portal in a safe location and even provide a velocity vector so that the portal on the other side won't shoot off into space or rock as the Earth moves away from it. So how does one get a portal anchor into the position to lock onto? Well that's where good old fashioned air, space and ground transportation comes into play wherein the travel makes a '''blind jump''' to a safe location, then travels the old fashioned way to where they need to set an anchor. When opening a portal to a "blind" location one typically sends in some sort of probe ahead of time, ideally one that contains a portal anchor to lock onto, or makes an educated guess of where a "safe" location may be. Space after all is quite large so the possibility of opening a portal and running into something is small, but this does mean that the act of exploring new realities cannot be typically done without an FTL capable spaceship.

			Here are some other significant limitations to the UFAW Inter-D tech:

	== Organization and Government ==		== Organization and Government ==