Fiction:Coalition of United Kerbin Nations

(Note: This empire has sections based on contents of the Kerbal Space Program community. I also did not make Kerbal Space Program, it belongs to Squad. The only thing I own here is the base concet of making this an empire for the fiction universe)

Kerbin's Federation of Southern States is a Tier 6 civilization and represents the union of multiple Kerbin countries fighting for space travel. It is one of the several nations on Kerbin, the second most powerful, and the only spacefaring nation.

History
Despite being a recent power, the Federation's origins date back 221 years ago, when several countries across Concetia(the Africa-shaped continent) were each beginning their space programs. Although their basic rockets struggled to achieve Low Kerbin Orbit(and those who did running out of fuel), those countries were extremely confident on their progress and often taunted each other, often claiming that they could beat them in a race to the Mün.

Eventually the countries agreed in seeing who would make it to the Mün first. They would begin to improve their science technology, with assistance of doing flights and using several arrays of science 'dispositives', one of them being a thermometer with some wires attached to a spacecraft.

The Space Race went through a boost when breakouts in science technology revealed solid fuel boosters, combining rocketry and eletricity together, more powerful and more efficient engines, and bigger rockets. However, most of these were inventions of the People's United Empire of Pandora, an extremely large militaristic empire controlling most of Pandora(Kerbin's largest continent), who wouldn't share the technology with anyone.

The Empire would win the space race by accomplishing a full-fledged Mün landing and return. Due to Kerbals' competitive and ambitious nature, the several Concetian countries realized that the only way to beat the empire was to unite together and use several of their different arrays of technology. An union treaty was signed between the countries of Concetia, thus forming the Kerbin Federation of Southern States. The 'southern' on the name derives to the fact that Concetia sits right below a continent possessing multiple countries, rich and poor.

The Federation had narrowly won the race by landing while the Empire was still circularizing around the Mün, although casualities happened on the return, as the Federation's astronaut landed on the Empire's territory, and their cosmonaut had landed on the Federation's empire. It had spiffed up tension between the two civilizations, although they grudgingly agreed to return the astronauts in custody.

Ever since, the Empire let go of their objective for space travel and the Federation has been expanding ever since.

Planets
Although only a Tier 6 civilization, the Federation has three extraplanetary colonies. The Mün= Named as 'Mun Prograde City', it is not much more than a space city, but for a Tier 6 civilization like the Federation it is a neat achievement, not to mention it was their first colony.

The city also works mainly as an observatory center for astronomers and such. Observers also often look out for objects posing danger for the Federation and Kerbalkind at whole, such as ICBMs and asteroids.

Since the Mün cannot host life, it is extremely dependent of Kerbin for water, although it is self-sustaining in terms of oxygen and food due to greenhouses, allowing for planting oxygen-producing trees and farming.

Minmus= Although not a proper colony, it is still an estabilishment. It has been discovered that Minmus has valuable resources under its surface, and since not only it is a moon of Kerbin, but as it has a ridiculously low gravity, shipment of said resources back to Kerbin is relatively easy.

Laythe= Named the Laythe Island Republic, it is perhaps the Federation's biggest accomplishment, Laythe has had one of its islands completely colonized. It has long been a target for space colonization due to the fact that it has an oxygen atmosphere, it has liquid water on the surface and its atmosphere and ozone layer blocks out Jool's radiation.

Of course, every good thing comes with a bad thing, because Laythe's temperature is low(warmest at 6°C), its oceans are mixed with ammonia, which is hard to seperate from water, and it is far from Kerbin. Although, despite the difficulties, Laythe is proudly colonized, and a few daring colonizers venture into the uncivilized islands to have outposts, away from Kerbalkind.

Calendar
Kerbin spins at a quite fast rate, thus days at Kerbin are rather quick, lasting 13.5 hours. The Mün is tidally locked to Kerbin, and thus its day lasts as long as a full orbit around Kerbin. The same applies to Laythe, although it is around Jool.

Kerbin
Being the result of several merged countries, the Federation is governed by multiple Kerbals. On the beginning of times, it had roughly 15 leaders, mainly because the other 7 decided to drop out. Over the time, the ammount of governers has dropped gradually. As of now, only four Kerbals control the federation, which are often nicknamed the 'Great Four'. They have control over all of the colonies.

Mün
Unlike Kerbin, the Mun Prograde City has only one leader - Dontop Kranz, elected by the Kerbin government to maintain the Mun base. He has no control over the choices of the Federation, however.

Minmus
Being only a resource exploration outpost, Minmus has no governers. The Minmus outpost instead follows orders of the Kerbin Federation and Mün base.

Laythe
As is common with democratic civilizations, the Laythe Republic has mayors for each district and a president - Thompbles Krein.

Propulsion and Space Travel
Being a Tier 6 civilization, the Federation has to rely on Slower-than-Light technology, and in rockets. They mainly use a Liquid Fuel + Oxidizer combo as a propulsion, and their engines vary between normal LF-O tanks to heavy, large engines over five times the size of a Kerbal to tall, nuclear engines with extremely high ISP.

Other than rockets, the Federation also has spaceplanes. Using techniques such as SABRE engines, and a Jet engine + Air intakes + Liquid fuel+Oxidizer engines, spaceplanes work highly efficient on fuel while on oxigenated atmospheres such as Kerbin's and Laythe's, and once it gets to vacuum, switches to Liquid fuel + Oxidizer engines, effectively making an airplane which works in space, although still relying on Slower than Light travel.

Offensive and Defensive weaponry
When the Kerbal pilots are not using repurposed solid fuel boosters as large missiles, they're fighting with machine guns, guided missiles and sometimes lasers. These weapons are usually fitted in spaceplanes meant for combat, and rarely used in rockets, although there are exceptions.

When in on-foot combat, they use weapons such as sub-machine guns, grenades, pistols and sometimes RPGs.

Informatic Technology
Most ships are often guided by flight computers, which give useful information such as Delta-V readouts, Periapsis/Apoapsis details, and Thrust-to-Weight ratio. Thanks to Anatid Robotics and Multiversal Mechatronics, two companies on Kerbin, flight computers are much more advanced, having autopilot systems and even artificial intelligences.

Energy Generation
For spaceships, stellar energy is often the main source of energy, relying on Kerbol's solar rays to power the ship to keep heat in and power reaction wheels, flight comuters, weapons and probes.

Despite that, thermoeletric generators are often still used in some spacecraft when they explore places far from Kerbol, such as Eeloo, or when the need to operate in the night side of a planet is too great.

Quotes
Though Kerbals cannot contact alien species, as long as your civilization can translate their speech into Kerbal language, you're free to drop quotes, just don't expect a response in return unless you fly to them.

[[File:Yellow face.png]] Neutral
"Don't bother us, and we won't bother you."
 * Other Kerbin Nations - ...

[[File:Red face.png]] Enemies=
"We have a breaking point, and you flew right through it."
 * People's United Empire of Pandora - "We're just waiting for you to fire your ICBM at us."