The Articles of Solar Confederation was the instrument by which the Confederacy of Free Systems organized itself in 41 BSC — eight years after Ganymede, Kamijing, Dosijing, and Freitaika achieved semi-autonomy from Asteroidal Industries, Inc.
The road to ratification began in 49 BSC, when the four platforms secured a trade agreement with Mars wholly independent of Asteroidal Industries — the first act of genuine self-determination in the outer system. Over the following years they issued a common protocurrency in promissory notes, began aggregating resources independently, and formed small industries of their own. Tension with the company grew until a demand for full political autonomy was made in 42 BSC. The Confederacy was organized as a formal economic union one year later.
The Articles that emerged from the First Confederate Congress were notable not for what they commanded, but for what they deliberately refused to command: no regulation of commerce, no income tax, no central authority over the internal governance of member systems. They were written by spacers who had spent their lives under corporate administration and who trusted neither states nor companies to run their affairs.
The Great Space Age, made possible by the workers and scientists of both the Soviet Union and the United States and the Peoples Republic, and all humanity, under the leadership of the United Earth headed by Sebastian Myrcenae McRae, overthrew capitalist and landowner rule, broke the fetters of oppression, established the dictatorship of the proletariat, and created the spacer society, a new type of society that shall be the basic instrument for defending the gains of the scientific revolution and for building a multi planetary species. Humanity thereby begins the epoch-making turn from groundfaring life to space faring.
After having achieved victory in the Great Revolutionary War and achieving man's domain on the moon, the Soviet, American, and People's governments carried through far-reaching social and economic transformations, and put an end once and for all to exploitation of man by man, antagonisms between classes, and strife between nationalities.
Now, at this present time in history, a new age is upon spacers; an age of self-sovereignty, general goodwill, and prosperity. The unification of the several spacer platforms and inhabited systems multiplied the forces and opportunities of spacers throughout Sol System in the building of a space faring society.