Procyon Federation

The Procyon Federation was the government of the Procyon Cluster, a comparatively isolated area of space in the Expansion Region and Mid Rim that bordered on the Unknown Regions. Founded in 11,254 BBY by the Treaty of Procyon, the Federation consisted of 64 independently-represented planets and moons in 57 major star systems, including its capital, Graia, with a further array of sparsely-inhabited systems used as secure military sites and mining centers. Protected on the Republic border by the Perseus Veil, along the Unknown Regions by the Heart and Soul Nebulae, and on all sides by its advanced network of early-warning/hyperspace-interdiction platforms, as well as by its ever-ready armed forces, the Procyon Federation managed to remain independent and only marginally involved in galactic affairs until the Galactic Empire under Sheev Palpatine forced the Paladins and the Federation to take more active steps to undermine the Empire before sheer numbers and determination could overwhelm the cluster.

The Procyon Federation was ruled by an Executive Consul, with the legislative authority invested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of the General Council and the Representative Assembly, while judicial authority ultimately resided in the eleven-member Supreme Tribunal. The Consul, with the approval of the General Council, appointed an Executive Council whose members directly controlled the various branches of the executive government. The Procyon military consisted of the Federal Star Fleet, itself divided into eight Fleets with specific functions, and the ground-based special forces/national guard known as the Procyon Defense Force. The federal government also maintained a close cooperative and mutual oversight relationship with the Paladin Order, a Jedi offshoot organization also headquartered on Graia that was formalized concurrently with the Federation.

History
In 12,000 BBY, Contispex I's election to Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic triggered an exodus of citizens and refugees who did not wish to convert to the theocrat's Pius Dea religion. A substantial number of these refugees managed to reach the southwestern corner of what became the Expansion region and slip past the Coreward edge of the Perseus Veil via the Settler's Channel. Scattered conflicts and shifting alliances marked the disorganized politics of the cluster for the next seven hundred-plus years, even as all involved kept a wary eye on the Channel for the expansionist forces of the theocratic Republic. That feared threat never materialized, but the Cluster's inhabitants came together nonetheless in 11,254 BBY to form a coalition government that became the Procyon Federation.

The navigational hazards and outer defenses of the Cluster kept the Procyon Federation safe and mostly uninvolved in galactic affairs during the tumultuous periods of the various Sith Empires, particularly in the thirty-seventh and eleventh centuries BBY, although the Merchant Fleets' reduced or suspended operations during these periods were precedent for a similar withdrawal during the Clone and Galactic Civil Wars.

Government
The executive arm of the Procyon Federation was headed by a democratically-elected Consul and Proconsul, both of whom typically had "Executive" preceding their specific titles in formal situations. The Consul acted as head of state and government, and as civilian commander-in-chief of the Star Fleet and the Procyon Defense Force, and had power to make all Federation-level civil and judicial appointments with the consent of the General Council. This included the members of the E