Interstellar Compact of Collective Human Harmony

The Interstellar Compact of Collective Human Harmony (ICCHH; Stadtverisch: Interstellarer Pakt der Kollektive Harmonie der Menschheit), also known as simply the Compact or Human Compact, is an intergovernmental military and economic alliance between several majority-baseline human star states in the Milky Way galaxy. Despite the social, cultural, and ideological diversity of Compact member states, all are binded by the organization's mission statement of "''...dedication to the preservation of humanity's hegemony and prominence in the Galaxy". More specifically, the organization embodies the actualization of the diplomatic treaty of the same name, which outlined an economic and martial cooperation between member states in response to the increase of galaxy-wide astropolitical situations such as the rise of the Stepford-Arnau Trade and Military Alliance, or SATMA'', and the various crises across the galactic quadrants including the spread of Karax and the Welded.

The current headquarters of the Compact is located on the Olimpiadan world of Triumvirate, in the Gaia system. Constituting a hexagonal artificial island within Triumvirate's vast oceans, it also is the location of the Compact Security Cooperative, a loose organization of member-state navies and armies that act to preserve the Compact's influence and sovereignty.

Founded in June 14th, 790 SA after the Zhuque Summit on Zhuque, Sinica, and entering into force on June 16th with the activation of the Treaty of Zhuque, the organization's founding members included the Menschlicher Sternenstaat, Federated Worlds of Olimpiada, Greater Imperium of Pikasistan, People's Republic of Sinica, and the Coalition Theomilitary, and was spurred into creation by the political consolidation and threats of various galactic power blocs such as SATMA. The Abajun Empire formally entered the Compact on August 15th, and the Kue'sahn Ministrate applied as an observer state on December 13th of the same year. The Compact is considered to be the legitimized extension of the Order of Smoke Jaguar, which exists as an ambiguous and esoteric partnership between the founder states.

Background
The groundwork for the formation of the Compact was laid with the member nations of the shadowy Order of Smoke Jaguar. The nations of Olimpiada, the Coalition Theomilitary, and Pikasistan both experienced historical conflicts in relation to the treachery of xenoi and enemy human states, and thus postulated for an expansion of like-minded human states that could maintain a galaxy-spanning vanguard against a miscellany of threats. The astropolitical emergence of the Menschlicher Sternenstaat and the People's Republic of Sinica into the wider galactic scene was, in effect, an answer to this. All aforementioned star states engaged in various diplomatic talks and trade interactions as means of assessing the economic and military viability of each, and as these engagements grew, a fraternity grew that drew each state into pursuing a formal alliance.

Zhuque Summit and Founding
The Zhuque Summit occurred in a one-week time span on the Sinican planet of Zhuque within the Lizhou system from June 7th to June 14th, 790 SA. The Sternenstaat, Sinica, Olimpiada, Coalition Theomilitary, and Pikasistan convened on the world with their respective representative diplomats to discern the specifics of their newfound alliance, and as such drafted a variety of documents that share a same name with that of the alliance itself. These documents, collected into one uniform charter, stipulated the formation of a anthropocentric alliance of both military and economic value, with a combined initiative to protect the economies and sovereignty of all member nations in addition to the pursuit of liberation and harmony for all human populations in the galaxy. These directions were codified in the mission statements and the motto of the Compact, with the latter being ordained as "nil mortalibus ardui est", or "nothing is impossible for humankind".

Modern expansion
The Abajun Empire was inducted into the Compact on August 15th, 790 SA following Padishah Aksan Süleyman al-Baykara's celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of his victory in the Abajuni Civil War, which was in part thanks to the contributions and support of the Sternenstaat and Sinica. The Kuesan Ministrate, although historically a rival to the Sternenstaat's expansionist goals, decided after a heated senatorial debate to join the Compact as an observer state on December 13th in order to access a degree of the Compact's internal markets and curry favor with the recently joined Abajun Empire.

Interpolitical Directorate
The Interpolitical Directorate is the executive board of the Compact and consists of all heads of state (or their representatives, in the Sternenstaat's case) of the organization's member nations. Each member nation through this board holds one equal vote towards any and all major decisions brought to them, which includes decisions that can override the autonomous decisions of subordinate organizational entities like the Compact Security and Economic cooperatives. More often than not - thanks to the background machinations of the Order of Smoke Jaguar and other political channels or alliances such as the Twin Star Accords - a gridlock of decision making is never reached, and instead regularly occur with supermajority or unanimous votes for important issues including mutual declarations of war. Observer states, although given spectator status in some processes of the Interpolitical Directorate, do not have any say in its conduct. Furthermore, at the behest of other members, observer representatives can be suspended from attending sessions on the basis of organizational security.

Compact Security Cooperative
The Compact Security Cooperative is an organ of the Compact that is dedicated to providing instant communication and deployment of member-state armed and security forces in response to disasters both artificial and natural, ranging from wars to galactic plagues. Currently, Oberbefehlshaber der Operationssektor Tom Bäumler of the Weltraummarine serves as the Chairman of the Compact Security Cooperative.

Security of human populations
One tenet of the Compact's mission is to provide security and safety for all baseline human (and, in some instances, near-human) populations, regardless of ideology or creed. Although humans at the individual level are able to commit acts of treachery, entire populations are unable to share in such immoral burdens, and as such, member nations of the Compact pledge themselves to intervene in any conflicts possible as a supporter of human liberty and sovereignty.

Maintenance of human sovereignty
Another objective of the Compact is to maintain the sovereignty and self-direction of humanity without being under the yoke of xenoi races, due to the belief of humankind as being the supreme sophont form. This is accomplished through a firm maintenance of economic power and diplomatic influence as an avenue of preventing human subjugation and oppression, in addition to the possible deployment of the Compact Security Cooperative.

Protection against "non-human sophonts"
Similar to the tenet above, the Compact pursues human protection against the aggression of xenoi, whether by state actors, private organizations, or individuals, on both physical and financial fronts.

Flag
The official flag of the ICCHH, drafted on June 16th, 790 SA, was created in order to efficiently represent the organization. In this sense, the colors within the flag represent the following meanings:
 * Black Background: The banality and disorder of space outside of the confines of the Compact's border.
 * Gold Outer Border: The borders of the member states of the Compact, radiating in their brilliance of wealth and power.
 * Black Outer Border: The frontiers of the member-states in the process of colonization and expansion.
 * Grey Interior: The space within member-states attaining purity and safety.
 * Golden Star (w/ black accents): The wealth and harmony of member-states of the Compact.
 * White Central Star: The purity of humankind; the supremacy of the human race over all of the Universe.

Emblem
The official emblem of the ICCHH is known as the Brilliance of Man. Consisting of an eight-pointed star surrounded by an octagon, the Brilliance of Man possesses its own meaning when divorced from the flag through representing the influences of mankind in all four dimensions: space (x, y, z) and time (w) within the confines of the observable Universe, as shown by the edges of the octagon.