PACT Arm Today
PACT
USA
The USA lost no major world during the ZOCU war and while its overall military record during the conflict was mixed, it emerged strong.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Hope and Change/New American Millenia
Brazil
The third of the PACT's 'leading three', Brazil was generally removed from the conflict.
- Status: Didn't Play
- Political Stance: Ignore the War
Japan
Japan's offworld ambitions were stymied by the defection of Kanon, but the enduring loyalty of their colonists at Horizon allows them to maintain significant presence in the Near Rim.
- Status: Zero Summer
- Political Stance: Corporate State
EU
Germany and France
Neither Germany nor France suffered significant defection and their contributions to the war - including both the famous 'Doppels' and Germany's first genuine war hero in two centuries, Admiral Anton Zweiker combined to put these two at the pinnacle of the EU's power structure, where they have begun to direct its attention outwards.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: New European Millenium
Britain
Britain (and the Commonwealth as a whole) lost a great deal of prestige during the war. Affiliated worlds like New Mercia, Londinium and Transbaal all defected away, decisively weakening Britain's position in the EU.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Fraying Patchwork
Belgium/Denmark/The Netherlands
These nations were the primary backers for Vrijheid, which defected to ZOCU. They have since retreated into more isolationist, local politics.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Credits to Society
ZOCU
Londinium
Londinium escaped the war without significant damage and remains the core of ZOCU. Its philosophy of outward direction finds strong support.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Put It Behind Us
Kanon
While having suffered an early ground campaign, Kanon rebounded and maintains its position as a key ZOCU world and a center for science and engineering. Like Londinium, it strives to keep the Union intact.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Guiding Star
Transbaal
The demands of war proved too much for Transbaal's fragile economy and some mis-steps in the immediate postwar has put the world into doldrums. Resentment and resignation is growing among the citizens at the government's inability to properly manage the situation.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Internal Collapse
New Mercia
New Mercia and Albion practically had to be forced apart at gunpoint after the close of the main war, and unfortunately like Transbaal, the peacetime economy has not been kind to New Mercia.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Never Forget
Haraway
Despite being the scene of brutal fighting both on the ground and in space, Haraway largely feels it came out a winner in the war. However, while the immedate threat of an EU invasion has been removed, tension continues to run high with the EU, and many on Haraway regard a second round as a question of when not if.
- Status: Draw
- Political Stance: House of War
Hampshire
Located behind the front lines, Hampshire remained untouched by the war. Their large merchant marine provided logistical support to the Combined Milita and attacked PACT and EU supplies lines with their new stealth ships. Peacetime has found Hampshire one of the wealthiest nations within ZOCU. They share Londinium's philosophy of outward expansion.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Put It Behind Us
Horizon
The target of several PACT naval offensives aimed at securing a backdoor into ZOCU space, Horizon experienced an attritional war for each and every major near-Euclidean object between the system's jump-safe outer regions and the Horizonan colonies around Fulcrum and its' Lunar-clone moon of Euclid. When the war ended and the demand for ships to replace losses in the outer system disappeared, postwar depression left them with nothing but their hard-earned freedom and a wary outlook regarding their former, baseline, masters.
- Status: Draw
- Political Stance: Never Forget
Sino-Russians
Russia
The collapse of the Chinese arm gave Russia an opportunity to play catch-up with the PRC, though it remains to be seen if Russia's quiet interventionism will backfire.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Transhumanize!
China
For thirty years, China had to suffer the indignity of having most of its colonies cut off. Fresh indignities were heaped upon them with the growth of nationalist feelings in the 'New Taiwans'.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Long March Into Space
The League
Minkowski and Bilad Al-Rafigayn
The war allowed the systems of Minkowski and Bilad Al-Rafigayn the opportunity to flex their muscles free of Core interference, helping themselves and by extension the League achieve a position of local strength.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Be Interventionist
Independents
Fuso
Something of a sideshow during the war, Fuso managed to be a tough enough customer that PACT signed an early seperate peace with them. However, their particular brand of ultranationalism has found them few friends in ZOCU or elsewhere.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Ideological Purification
SIYAN
SIYAN was a major combatant in the Pac-Am arm and was one of the additional parties covered by the Treaty of Sirius. They remain an official observer in ZOCU and to PACT planners, a worrying techno-military power at the end of the Pac-Am catapult chain.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Get Sirius
Theia
A world that remains split between pro-independence and pro-PACT nations, Theia has become militarized and is one of the more likely flashpoints.
- Status: Loser
- Political Stance: Law of the Gun
Helicon
Throwing in with ZOCU early on in the hope of decisively ridding themselves of Core interference with their affairs, Helicon was able to use longstanding strategic reserves and stockpiles to alleviate the costs of the war. Suffering minimal losses outside of the Battle of Haraway, the Treaty of Sirius stands as the single sour note in what is otherwise viewed as a successful and politically popular war.
- Status: Winner
- Political Stance: Get Sirius