Jack of Harts

The San Santiago Sector promised to bring untold riches to the South American Union. It also promised a political upheaval that the Union Council would not abide. Cheaper and faster transports and colony ships sent hundreds of thousands of souls a year to the interstellar colonies, and colonies began requesting official seats on the Union Council. The richest members of the Union saw their control of the Council waning. So seating the interstellar colonies, they formed a new Central Council made up of only the founding nations and the richest colonies of our Solar System that could annul any action of the larger Union Council on a majority vote. Assured of their control of Union politics, they soon welcomed their new and growing colonies into the Union Council.