"Alliances and Deals: The Family Politics of the Solar Cluster"

People's POV :

The Solar Cluster is a politically charged environment, dominated by the eight most powerful families :

1. The Rutherford Family from The United States Of America, was raised to their peak strength after the establishment of the Rutherford Empire.

2. The Winchester Family from the Americas, this family has a string of wealthy financiers to their name.

3. The Alvarado Family from South America, the family got powerful due to their monopoly in trade and supply.

4. The Windsor Family from Europe, the family consolidated its power by using the power of alliances.

5. The Zhang Family from China, the family came into the power polls by mastery in the production of semiconductor chips.

6. The Petrov Family from Russia, came into the power polls due to their invention of War Cyborgs.

7. The Hemsworth Family from Oceania, became powerful due to their intelligence capabilities.

8. The Kenyatta Family from Africa, became powerful due to their intelligent advancements in the field of science and research.

All these 8 families together divide the worlds present in the solar cluster and play it at the back of their hand.

The history of power struggles between them is significantly hindering the progress of humanity.

Earth started conquering the planets that are habitable in the Solar Cluster of our Galaxy and found about 50 planets inhabitable, Earth has conquered all of them.

After conquering them, The Pedigroove Hall or the Pedigroove Auction House demanded a referendum to be held on who will inhabit these worlds, and in a historical moment in Cairo, Egypt the committee formed by The UN (United Nations) declared that these worlds shall be sold off to the highest bidder at the next auction conducted by the Pedigroove Hall.

Some families immediately formed alliances in order to get the most gains, especially the Windsor Family.

The Alvarado Family and the Kenyetta Family made deals, the Kenyettas will contribute to new modes of Spatial Trade and the Alvarados will handle the trades.

The Hemsworth Family, The Rutherford Family, and The Petrov Family formed a pact and came forward as an intimidating military presence as the families were military-ready at any time due to their combined capabilities and power.

The Winchester Family fueled the power struggles between the families and benefited from War-Profiteering, they also invested in families which made the most amount of gains in any field of human endeavor.

The Zhang Family has always been neutral and only focused on the improvement of humanity, the way we live, and innovation or so they tell the public. Nobody knows what are the family happenings of the Zhangs as they are secretive in their internal affairs and external affairs.

The worlds which weren't chosen by the families to control had their own governments some autocratic, some democratic, some communist, etc.

There are 27 worlds/planets currently which is ruled by governments like these. The stability of these worlds wasn't much, some were good and some were bad. The main reason they weren't chosen was that the families did not see a way to make a profit from them. And even the good ones were prices of higher value and affording a planet is not something everybody can do as it is not a material possession.

Let's talk about which families hold the number of worlds :

The PHR pact has four worlds (PHR stands for Petrovs, Hemsworths, and the Rutherfords)

The Alvarado and Kenyatta Family Alliance have two worlds that have become the trading and research hub of the Solar Cluster respectively.

The Winchester Family has three worlds that have become the financial hubs of the Solar Cluster.

The Zhang Family together with the Windsor Family got hold of 5 worlds, The Zhang Family neared bankruptcy due to this deal and is in a steady state of decline.

The leftover one more world is the Lithium Ero Zone, the families use this place for their proxy wars. This world is treated as a wasteland and a disgrace by humanity. Now we face the consequences for our actions as the weird dumping of uranium and semiconductor waste has created a chemical reaction in the biological processes of the animals that were brought here during the mapping of the world/planet.

These animals have hardened skin and a thirst for blood 24/7 even though this planet has become a wasteland, vegetation still thrives, and trees as wide as 50 Feet and as tall as 100 Feet grow in this terrain.

Scientists are still mind-boggled and continue doing their research on this planet, but most of the time this planet is consumed with war and chaos, in this planet people live under inhuman conditions. After the report made by Dr. Amara Kenyetta the other planets experienced widespread protests, the protest only lasted a short while and died down due to the Kenyetta Family making Dr. Amara Kenyetta say that her report was a fake one and was made only to garner attention.

Nobody to this day knows why The Kenyetta Family did that...