"Did you know," said Aya to Corwin after the waitress brought
their pancakes, "you probably prevented a civil war?"
Corwin looked faintly confused.  "Pardon?" he asked.
"Not an Earth civil war," Aya clarified, "a Federation one.  I
was ready to commit a full carrier task force to rescuing your
friends, especially the Princess and Kate.  We would have lost ships
in that rescue... Earthforce would have lost more... Starfleet might
have gotten involved... and with that start, you have Corellia and
Salusia at each other's throats, the WDF against Starfleet, the
Klingons trying to choose a side, GENOM doing Buddha only knows what,
and the Romulans and Cardassians swooping in to pick the bones."

So in a Fedreation civil war we'd have EarthForce, Starfleet and Corellia on one side and hte WDF, Salusia and probably the CFMF and the Gamlion Empire on the other. While I think about it the Minbari, the Narn, the Centauri and the Vulcans don't seem to like the Earth Alliance very much, especially the whole Psi-Corp deal, and I think Genom would either be pro WDF or neutral. And with the Lucent (that is the new name of the AT&T, right?), the Wayward Son, the Concordia, the Dicordia (If it's still canon) and the Yamato-class battleships the WDF has probably the highest Omega-Class-Weapons-Per-Ship rate in Known Space, and they also have Dreadnought-class Stardestroyers, probably with phase shields, too. And I think when things are going realy bad tha WDF could probably even get help from Asgard. Anf ofcourse there are caiptains like Picard and Sheridan, who'd probably leave EarthForc&Co, with there ships, and joind the side of the WDF, and EA colonies that want to be independent.
Looks like EarthForce has some serious gearing up to do.

Just my 0,02$.

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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

The Lucent isn't in commission; it's somewhere in the Sphere, largely dismantled.

--G.
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