Fiction:Defensive Systems Bloc/Protected States

The Defensive System's Bloc in its quest for peace is willing to make military pacts with other powers in order to protect them. The motivations for becoming a DSB protectorate are varied, most because they feel threatened by a hostile power and they feel the DSB is the best power to defend them, while other powers were made into protectorates in a peace treaty signed after a war.

History
The Alpha-Kolos Alliance was founded as a conglomerate of corporations that bound together on the planet of Alpha-Contralta. A company that specialised on space travel and a real estate business began selling housing on other planets. Before long, an interstellar power was formed, ready to bring its thirst for money to other powers.

The Alpha-Kolos Alliance, through economic strength, quickly became the regional power. They bought out the neighbouring powers, named the Beta, Gamma and Delta-Kolos, and turned them into servant races. After a small, unsuccessful revolt from the Gamma-Kolos, a campaign went through Alpha-Kolos society to bring equal rights to the Beta, Gamma and Delta-Kolos.

The Alpha-Kolos Alliance's wealth did not go unnoticed. It began known to various groups of pirates that Alliance ships held cargoes of great wealth, the merchantmen began suffering regular raids. The Alpha-Kolos contacted the Defensive System's Bloc and applied for protectorate status, so DSB ships would defend Alpha-Kolos cargo vessels. The DSB agreed, on the condition that the Alpha-Kolos would give equal rights to the Beta, Gamma and Delta-Kolos. The condition was agreed to, and the Alliance has been a DSB protectorate ever since.