United Earth Congress

The United Earth Congress also kown as UEC was an unicameral legislative body that began in 2091 on Terra (then known as Earth) after The Guardian awoke and dissolved all the previous nations. The later Union Assembly is based in part on the UEC.

Early History
It's first meeting was on a cruise ship off the shores of Antarctica with one representative from each of the pre WWIII countries. In it's first decade, as a result of redrawing the boundaries each Congressperson represented the significance of the obsolete national borders was reduced further.

Some of the resolutions made in those first sessions were as follows:


 * to declare Antarctica as the Center of Earth


 * A decision is made to build "Capitol City of the Earth" there .  Three individuals were chosen to work on the general design of the city, and once their general plan was given the go ahead, this committee was held accountable for the day to day process of building the Capitol City.
 * Project Raid was approved.
 * Initial steps were taken to preserve Terran Human culture if Project Raid were to fail.  The thinktank created to discuss the ideas produced several short term projects (both by the UE government and by private individuals): Project Last Hope, Xunx Invasion Contingency plans, Deep Sleepers, Ark Einstein.  It also set the stage for what became known as Second Exodus.

Extra Terrestrial Colonies
As colonies from Earth on other celestial bodies reached a certain critical number of individuals, they were allowed to send representatives  to the UEC. Outside of colonies that had a "No Contact" clause, most colonies that reached the minimum number of individuals chose to join United Earth.

Dissolution
When the Union was founded in 2222, United Earth was formally dissolved with it's members becoming part of the new United Stars of the Galaxy. The UEC was used as one of the basis for the Assembly.

On Terra, and some of the larger colonies local versions of the UEC remained to deal with purely local issues.

