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Starfire field map6/12/2023 but also planted the seeds of a future conflict. This also finally shocked the Lib-Prog party enough to never allow this to occur again. General Directive 18 was almost invoked but the strong stand against it by both Ivan Antanov and elder statesman Howard Anderson prevented this. Admirals such as Ivan Antonov and Hanna Avram would be the standard to which the navy would be measured for years to follow. Only luck and the Federation's technological advantage over the Thebans kept the Thebans from winning the war. Deprived of it's ability to invoke the Treaty of Valkha and with the destruction of much of the battle fleet, the TFN paid heavily for its years of atrophy. This would come to bite the Federation badly when the Theban War broke out. The Lib-Prog party assumed that it would always have the Grand Alliance to call upon if a war was to occure once more and thought nothing more of it. Despite heavy efforts by the then President Emeritus and lifetime Assembly member Howard Anderson to keep the Navy properly funded, it would become a ghost of it's former self. In actuality, it was the Liberal-Progressive party of the Federation not wanting to spend money for what they saw as an outdated tool. The long peace allowed the Assembly to cut the TFN's budget for new warships and refits out of the policy of 'making the navy lean and mean'. The long peace between the close of the Third Interstellar War and the start of the Theban War would see the TFN cut nearly to bone. The Third Interstellar War would see admirals such as Jennifer Wu and Minerva Waldeck, admirals that rivalled the capability of Howard Anderson, Horatio Spruance, and Irena Riva y Silva during the First and Second Wars. As a dark harbinger of the future, it also saw the creation of General Directive 18, the order of extermination of a sentient species. It would see the TFN allied with the KON, something unthinkable just a few years prior. The Third Interstellar War would see the TFN in a struggle against the Rigellian Protectorate for survival and see the TFN joyfully adopt the strike fighter into it's order of battle. It would also see the early stages of the eventual alliance between the Terran Federation and the Ophiuchi Association. This same cycle of strangulation of the TFN by the corporate worlds would be repeated time and again. Again, it was the genius nature of the TFN's flag officers and it's technological superiority that saved the Federation. This put the TFN in a less than enviable position when hostilities with the KON resumed. The interwar years between the First and Second Interstellar Wars would see the TFN strangled by the Terran Federation Assembly. The First Interstellar War would see it's ups and downs for the young TFN but always it's reserve of skilled admirals kept it on top of it's opposition and ultimately it's winner. It's first encounter with the Khanate of Orion would see the Terran Survey Command rapidly evolve into the TFN in response to the First Interstellar War. During this era, the proto-TFN was known as the Terran Survey Command. The origins of the TFN could be traced back to the days preceeding humanity's first encounter with the Khanate of Orion. The TFN was created by Howard Anderson in ISW-1. One of its sub branches is the Survey Command. It has long been the most powerful navy in the known galaxy. The Terran Federation Navy (TFN) is the space combat branch of the Terran Federation.
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