**This will be an oversimplified history (haha funny) of the Ottan Republic. Anything in-depth will go into the Worldbuilding Stuffs thread.**
History:
A Tale From the Elders (general history of the Ottan Republic):
In the year 2194, our home planet of Tierra was divided amongst three major alliances of nations: the Tierra-Verde Alliance, Azul Pact, and the Opal Union, which have historically been hostile to one another for many years up to this point. On April 1st of that year, a handful of unknown races of alien creatures who would eventually call themselves the “Sekari” made contact with some of the top Opal Union scientists and astronomers at a long-duration space station orbiting Tierra. While communication between both the Sekari and ourselves was difficult at first, it became clear that the Sekari were at a complete military advantage, and could technological dominate our home at will. On May 21st 2194, a global parliamentary-style meeting was held between the three alliances, where it was decided that for the good (really survival) of our race, they would unify into a singular governmental body called the “Ottan Republic” (formed officially on June 2nd). This new world order (out of fear of destruction), made friendly ties with the Sekari—trading and technology sharing, and gradually we picked out some weaknesses of the Sekari militarily to be prepared for the possibility of a fight to come. And come it would. On October 21st, 2194, a date that will live in infamy within our history, the Sekari gave us an ultimatum; Join their empire, or die. We chose neither domination, nor death. We would fight, with valiance, and more surprisingly, an upper hand. We lacked any spacecraft that could be fit for combat (or many spacecraft in general), so the Sekari were forced to come to us and fight in our home, on our rules. The “Apocalipsis” (Apocalypse) as we called it, dragged on and on for years. Soon, our population grew enervated of war as the Sekari assaulted wave-after-wave. Finally, on November 11th, 2197, peace came to our world. Peace, does not come without cost however, as the planet needed to be rebuilt, and roughly 650,000,000 Ottans were casualties in the Apocalipsis. To our surprise, being a Sekari vassal turned out to work for us pretty nicely. Over the next 300+ years, we advanced in technology at a faster rate than ever before. We expanded our domain across the stars, and built up our military and industry to compete with the space combat of the modern age.
