Jack of Harts

The New England Federation funded and performed much of the early space exploration of our own Solar System, and then the colonization of the stars that followed our development of hyperdrives. Near limitless fusion energy reserves and advanced fabricators allowed them to build anything Earth’s space forces needed, and they harvested the Solar System’s wealth to do exactly that. Their large population was easily able to operate an industrial system that used minimal robotic or AI support, and could also send people to colonize other worlds. And they were happy to give opportunities to those immigrants who came through Ellis Island every day. Most of those opportunities were in the New New York trinary star system, or the many Alliance colonies the Federation supported, but they kept enough immigrants on Earth to maintain a healthy population curve there as well.

The New England Federation provided its people with the best standard of living in the world in a time when other nations were still struggling with the aftermath of the Second Great Depression and the Cybernetic Wars. And then, in one of the defining moments of the century, they reopened Ellis Island as a symbol to the world that America was once again willing and eager to accept migrant workers from all over the world. The tired and the poor, the homeless, the tempest-tossed, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, all were welcome to come to Ellis Island and find a new future in a Better America. The New England Federation promised them jobs, security, and prosperity if they came to America. It was a new era in America, built by the Great Families that fundamentally transformed it into a better place to live and thrive.

The New England Federation fundamentally transformed America in the Twenty First Century. It introduced new, local, secure energy production technologies that revolutionized the power production networks and made them less susceptible to foreign attacks. New fabrication technologies reduced their dependence on foreign shipping. And new pushes to refund smart policing and social support networks made life safe again throughout Federation territory. The security and prosperity they provided proved to be a powerful incentive for their neighbors, and States from Ohio to Minnesota sought membership in the years and decades that followed. The Great Families made the New England Federation an example to the world of how a rational and moral American government could provide for the common good, and prospered because of it.