Federalist Party

"The Federalist Party has always been the leading political party within the Union States. We believe that Earth and her people should be governed by a single government rather than an alliance. And this party will do anything to keep the Traditionalist Party out."

- Federalist Party member

The Federalist Party was a political party that existed within the Union of Earth States, and was the leading party of the Union Senate, using it to forward their own private agenda through means of absolute secrecy. The party's security forces was known as Federalist Security.

Several notable members of the Federalist Party included Richard Williams, Edward Bridger, Williams Crest, and Radford Redforge. The party were political enemies of the Traditionalist Party.

Founding
The Federalist Party was founded on the belief that all nations of Earth should remain united under a single government. Their vision mirrored and were opposite of the Traditional Party; wanting Earth's nation to be part of an alliance rather than a single government.

However as time went on, the Federalist Party became obsessed with obtaining absolute power within the Union Government and used the Senate as the means to obtaining the power they craved.

First Crusade
In 71 BBY, members of the Federalist Party had covertly began a "crusade" against the Union States in order to further tighten their grip on the Senate after the Traditionalist Party was gaining support from Union citizens on improving the Union States. The Federalist Party willingly allowed their puppets to kill innocent civilians, and in return were showing they were working to resolve the "plague" that was terrorizing the Union's stability.

In response, the majority of the public supported the Federalist Party's vote on mobilizing the Union Armed Forces to take action against the "crusaders", with members of the Traditionalist Party pressing for diplomatic measures rather than military action, but were however overruled by majority vote.

In 68 BBY, the First Crusade officially came to an end, the Federalist Party continued to lead within the Senate with their anti-crusade policies and were supported by 73% of the public. The Party continued to work in secret.

Second Crusade
For three years since the election of Alice Wards as the first Traditionalist Party member to be President of the Union States, the Federalist Party was no longer the leading political party of the Union States, but still had one of its own as Secretary of State.

In response to this "heavy loss", the Federalist Party secretly launched another crusade and was aimed at assassinating Alice Wards in order to allow their Secretary of State become Union President. At the time, the "crusaders" chosen by the Federalists were seen as "amateurs" but weren't replaced, convinced that they would succeed in their mission. They also used the Second Crusade to press for more military action and further development of the Union Armed Forces.

With Alice Wards successfully assassinated by the "crusaders", the Federalist Party voiced their sympathy for the "unfortunate" death of Alice and their Secretary of State announced that the Senate would authorize their swearing to take office as the President of the Union States. As a result, the Second Crusade was put on hold.

Federalist-turned-Traditionalist
In 59 BBY, Edward Bridger became tired of the Federalist Party's corruption and threatened to reveal their history as the ones behind the First and Second Crusade as well as testifying against them, and said that the Party would most likely assassinate him. He was given a place among the Traditionalist Party who were skeptical of his claims of the Federalist's corruption and their assassination on Alice Wards. However before he could appear in the Supreme Court, he was killed by an assassin hired by the Federalist Party, taking truths with him to the grave.

In 58 BBY, the "crusaders" were purged and only one of them escaped Federalist Security, and spoke with Traditionalist Party members, about how he and others were chosen to assassinate Alice Wards as well as the corruption within the Federalist Party. However he was also killed before he could appear in court.

Union Civil War
In 58 BBY, the Federalist Party was caught by surprise when 45% of the Union Armed Forces broke away from the Union. The Party, for the first time, agreed with the Traditionalist Party when they deemed the breakaway faction as an act of treason against the Union, but were unaware that it was the doing of the Traditionalists.

For the duration of the civil war, both political parties had cooperated with each other on resolving the crisis and had numerous discussions regarding the deactivation of the Union Armed Forces once the conflict was resolved. This eventually did became a reality after the current Federalist Union President was also tired of the way their Party was acting; saying that they were going against the vision of their founders on unity of Earth.

In 57 BBY, the "Rebels" surrendered and the Senate voted for the deactivation of the Union Armed Forces. In the following year, the second Traditionalist Party member was elected as the President of the Union States.

Dissolution
The Federalist Party was dissolved in 18 BBY when the Galactic Empire invaded Earth and defeated both the Confederate States and Union States; the latter actually siding with the Empire and became the Earth Empire.