Pax Senatus

The new role of the Senate was to regulate use of the Helios Network and ensure that there would be a strong and united front against the Terrans should they ever re-emerge from the darkness. Senate rule became very strong as it redeveloped its ability to control the Helios Network, lost to it when the First Founders left. Strict rules systems were revived governing conflicts, and democracy became stagnant through sheer bureaucracy.

And so the Senate today stands with the middle aged factions in majority, with a few remaining founding factions watching over them and the younger factions vying for status and respect. But as the Era closes, this all changes with the new wave of emergent empires joining the Senate and others declining their offer...