Human Colonial Authority
It's not like humans were ever prone to fighting amongst themselves, right? And if they were, it's not like two or three generations of self governance would have made that worse, right? I can't imagine it would be hard at all to try and fuse all those little splinters back into one piece... Have I gotten through to you yet?
When humanity scattered to the stars at the near destruction of Earth, it left in fits and starts. The many governments that had destroyed humanity's home were still set on fighting each other, and thus ran in opposite directions to lick their wounds. Other groups, keen on avoiding the fighting, left in every other direction.
It's impossible to know how many human colonies are left out there, hidden and uncontacted even hundreds of years later.
The ones we do know of are thanks to the Colonial Authority. One of the last vestiges of official governance in the Sol System before the lights went out for nearly two hundred years. At the time, as records were inscribed with maniacal haste, it was staffed by men and women that would eventually become the Solis, the Gentes that remained within the Sol System, on the less habitable worlds.
In the modern era, it serves as the single uniting force between the Gentes and humanity as a whole, and even then it's a tenuous relationship.
Structure
Each of the Gentes provides a section of the bureaucracy of the Lunar Capital as part of their admission to the Colonial Authority, and that section of the government is then split up to prevent on Gente from accruing power over time by saturating a particular section of the government with loyalist agents. As part of this voluntary recruitment, each Gente also provides an a political representative to serve on the Committee.
Each Gentes member is in charge of selecting their own representative through whatever means pleases them, but each tribe only gets one. These representatives debate each other and cast votes in an attempt to pursue their own people's best interests. The government gathers once every three months, for several weeks at a time, where things may be brought to the attention of the other delegates and subsequently vote upon them.
Assets
Humanity has one of the largest military fleets in the whole of the galaxy, at least when all of the Gentes are taken together. On paper they should be, but as we all know; paper only means anything while the ink is drying. In reality, it's often somewhat contentious when the ships of different Gentes are forced to operate together. If not outright hostile, they're certainly tense.
Military
Each Gentes provides a portion of the military, though like the governmental tithe each group is heavily dismantled and then shuffled in with the other tribes to make a whole unit.
The military is fairly well respected within the Galactic stage, though its function is more middle-of-the-road in comparison to a
Grasp the Stars, But Think of Home
Since it's relatively recent introduction to the galactic community, humanity has followed the currency standards laid out by the the Agora for simplicities sake. It's fractured nature precluded introducing their own, pre existing currencies, in any case.
Human minted Talents are generally made of a Celestial Gold and Silver alloy, known as Electrum. They have a burnished gold hue. Other common materials that make up lower denominations are copper, terrestrial gold, and iron.
To govern humanity, the Authority acts as a sort of senate. On paper, the Authority is just the overarching structure, and it sacrificed much of it's hard power to unite the Gentes that it found. Through it's construction of the modern human government, however, it's interweaving of goodwill, favors, and backroom deals, it constructed a shell around itself that allows it to maintain governance without radical change.
While much of this has come to light in the intervening period, the time spent within the Authority has solidified the overall structure. Much of the Gentes independent streaks have mellowed, though not completely disappeared.
The motto of the Authority; "Grasp the stars, but think of home.", was written by the poet Malchus within his poetic epic, The Girl that Cried the Eclipse.
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