The Federation's Seat on the Oversight Council First Filled

In 2791 UCSD the Federation of Sentient Beings first fills its seat on the Star Rangers' Oversight Council: a seat that hears every inquiry, may put questions to the Triumvirate and enter a dissent on the record, and carries no vote. It comes within a generation of the Federation's first contact with the Rangers and after the first renewal of the material-support compact.

The year of first contact itself is not fixed by the record, which places it only decades after the 2723 UCSD charter.

Canon facts:

• The Federation's is the longest-held of the non-voting seats.
• Its delegate is appointed by the assembly and replaced at each renewal of the material-support compact, which the assembly renews by vote each generation.
• The seat buys the Federation no influence over Ranger conduct; the Rangers' neutrality applies to it as to every polity.

See: The Oversight Council, The Federation of Sentient Beings.