ColoniesIn 2090, the US spreads through a total of 10 colonies, on 6 star systems.
The recent ones, Feronia in the Ursae Majoris system. Feronia have now a total of 9 million colonist and its terraforming operations are finished. A research complex is already present and the industrial activities verge on the building of an Iron Dome planetary cannon.
Efforts are made for the foundation of the eleventh colony, Minos, in the Hip systems, but the operations proceed slowly waiting for the 3rd Construction Brigade (1st Engineer Division) to recover the abandoned installations that the precursor civilization that once inhabited the planet (classified as the Federation of Nedyn).
Jump gates are also built between Cygni and Struve system, as Cygni will be soon colonized thanks to its enormous sources of minerals along with Struve with a garden world available in the second star of the binary star system.
The total annual income of the Union for the last year is estimated to be nearly 458.000 billion credits against and expenditure of approximately 85.550 billion.
The expenditure balance can be summarized with the following table:
| Research | 55% |
| Purchases from private sector | 33% |
| Starfleet (refitting, maintenance and shipbuilding) | 5% |
| Installation Construction | 2% |
| USLF (Land Forces) | 2% |
The big hit of the research on the budget is allowed thanks to the ultra positive budget, allowing the US to have a total available funds of 18.248.430 billion credits available. An enormous sum.
The eleven biggest private shipping lines had in the last year a total income of 4.691 billion credits, with the biggest, the Philen Container Limited that ammasses a total income of 711 billions, with a fleet of 5 ships for a total tonnage of 142.850 t and the current share price of 5.48 cr.
MilitaryThe only notable changes in the Starfleet for the 2090 is th econstruction of a new Jump Scout, the USS Hawking. The Hawking (JSC-002) is a Challenger Class Frigate that was built to support explorations of new star systems and will travel along the GTG-02 (the second gravitational survey fleet), in the Cygni sector.
The First Cruiser Squadron is now stationed of Artemis, in the Alpha Centauri system, after the discovery of the alien jump gate that connected Alpha Centauri to the Losarn system. The squadron is composed by the cruisers USS Metropolis (CA-001) and the USS Berlin (CA-003), the destoyers USS Bastogne (DD-003) and the USS Ypres (DD-004) and the Early Warning Frigate USS Guardian (AEW-001). All the ships are on alert state and keep their active sensor on.
The USLF is planning to deploy of the 3rd Garrison Brigade (1st Colonial Division) on th esurface of Minos when the archeological operations will be finished.
