Fiction:Union

The Trade Federation was a very powerful commerce guild, trade cartel, megacorporation, and lobbying group an association of business and trade groups with its own commercial trade fleet.It grew to dominate entire star systems and all major trade routes, and possessed a formidable private military.

The Union was so powerful and its abuse of power so often that the Galactic Alliance set up a campaign war for anéentir. The war for just a year and was a crushing defeat for the Union was dissolved.