Hello my friends, readers, and writers alike. I know this won't be a story, but by title goes this is just an explanation.

So what is I.S.A.F?

Well I took inspiration from Ace Combat's "Independent State Allied Forces" and decided to rename it to "Interstellar Space Alliance Federation". I know the name doesn't sound catchy but naming it with "Association" would make it more like an interstellar company/organization than a legitimate space ferrying faction.

What branches are there?

Well there is of course the standards, such as Army, Navy, and Air Force. Where are the Marines? You ask? Well I decided that they'll be called the Special Atmospheric Assault Corps (S.A.A.C) They're equivalent to ODST's from Halo, but instead of drop pods it's drop shuttles. Basically these drop shuttles are like metal boxes dropped from a ship and onto the planets surface, each containing about 12-15 soldiers give or take.

What are the ships in the navy?

Well the ships for I.S.A.F are ships from the mobile game Infinite Lagrange where I absolutely loved it when I first started the game. The ship designs just look cool to pass off.

What about the weapons for the soldiers?

Well it's still just guns. Just guns with bullets. Like Halo. But tad bit more powerful. There are railguns laser weapons, but the railguns are just the mid and back parts of an Barrett M82 with just a railgun barrell. I didn't want to make the laser weapons too powerful for soldiers so I would make them have issues with reliability and power supply since these are meant for foot soldiers.

What about the weapons on ships?

I try to envision it not being too powerful, like Pulse Cannons do exist but they're new tech and costly, so only limited were made. Laser cannons used but they have problems such as barrell life, reliability issues and cooling issues. Ion weapons also exist but they're always mounted on bigger ships like Cruisers, Battlecruisers, Battleships, and Carriers. Ship based railguns do exist, heck they're even almost all standard, though they're not all mounted like UNSC ships from Halo. Some are mounted on gun turrets.

Other weapons like missiles, nukes, and torpedoes are still used and infact never changed.

Are there any other factions?

Now we are getting to the semi deep part. Why you ask? Well you do know that Star Wars has a like Canon and Legends lore right? Well there 2 narrative lore's for I.S.A.F too. One being named the Legacy era and the other the Ulysses War.

For the Legacy Era, I went and based it off LoGH: Die Neue These (Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These) Where the factions are only I.S.A.F and the Imperial Alliance or just the Galactic Empire. Yes, only humans. The year setting is 4065 and both factions territories span is MASSIVE, I'm talking about both side having one HALF of the Milky Way. FTL is like so good that you essentially jump from one end of the galaxy to somewhere in Federation space in mere minutes.

For the Ulysses War Era, there are alien species and also Automatons/Androids. And the female androids are... Well you can say that they're quite hot looking (sexy for some of you fucks) The territory span is identical with the Legacy Era, but some of these other factions also have their own territories.

What is the Ulysses War?

Almost a lot like Krieg from 40K, a planet spanning war that lasted for like 7 years but the war was never over. Like South and North Kore, it became a border planet and peace treaty was never brokered. So technically, the Ulysses war is still ongoing, both sides just does not want to be the one who instigates a war.

What are the humans, aliens, and the robots?

Now that is lore I will make so deep that this one snip alone won't be able to handle.

I will drop bits of lore in lore chapters. But for now this is just the nutshell.

THAT'S ALL
TOODLES!