For the progress of sentient life everywhere, the monstrosity known as VoidCorp must be expunged from the galaxy. -Joshua Kanar, September 2388

The Dreth Commonwealth, for all intents and purposes, is no more. It is one of many stellar nations whose existence as a political state came to an end in the middle years of GW2 at the hands of Rigunmor naval vessels and the treachery of VoidCorp. Yet the memory of great days and great dreams lives on. Through music, poetry, and stories, the Dreth remember. On Dreth worlds occupied by their hated enemies, in marginal settlements of Dreth in Concord space, and in a small system at the edge of Human space, the Dreth remember.

Generally, the development of the stellar nations followed one of two courses. Either a corporation, government, or private individual sponsored their creation, as is the case with the Thuldan Empire, VoidCorp, and the Orlamu Theocracy, or the nation formed through consolidation, confederation, or conquest. Various forms of this model can be found in StarMech, the Orion League, the Nariac Domain, and the former Dreth Commonwealth.

The Dreth Commonwealth occupied space that includes most of present-day Insight and some sectors within the Rigunmor Star Consortium. But before the Dreth Commonwealth existed, there was only the planet Dreth, colondied by several hundred thousand people in the latter half of the 22nd century. The original expedition was sponsored by one of the nations of Earth that had fled to Jupiter's Ganymede after the formation of Earth's six superpowers. But by the time the Dreth colony was up and running, this nation had been absorbed into the European Union, one of the same growing superpowers of the Sol system.

The loss of a patron didn't worry Rachel Dooley, the prime minister of Dreth at the time. After all, the colonial star system contained a rich new home and room to grow. The colonists had found no fewer than three beautiful, Earthlike (Class 11 worlds within the biary star system; Dreth was only one of them. Over the next few decades, the colony grew and expanded under Dooley's enlightened leadership. She championed a great number of freedoms and personal liberties for the inhabitants of Dreth, allowing local leaders to address most needs without national intervention. Attracted by the prospects in the region, thousands-and eventually millions4 additional immigrants made their way to the Dreth star system as well as others nearby.

As the largest colony, it fell upon the Inhabitants of Dreth to take a leadership role in the area. They formed a confederate state, first including all settlements in their star +em and eventually an expanding radius of star systems. Officially, the Dreth Commonwealth came into existence, recognized as a colonial government by the Terran Empire, in 2258. Meanwhile, since the Dreth had no strong ties back to Earth, none of Commonwealth's neighbors saw the Dreth Commonwealth as a force of oppression.

By the star+ of the First Galactic War,the Commonwealth had grown to include almost two hundred colonized star systems in its sphere of influence, and thousands more unsettled stars within the region of space it could claim as its own. The seat of government had been moved to Adalcus, closer to the center of Dreth space. Yet entanglements with the increasingly aggressive b a n Empire had bred a strong suspicion of centralized government into the Dreth dure and body politic. Even as the Commonwealth grew in size, its individual systems and planets offered up less and less a&ty and responsibilty to the mal government

Meanwhile, more than a century of independence had begun to mold the Dreth character. Where once the people of this fledgling stellar nation had little in common, some shared cultural traits began to emerge among them. The first and most important of these was a dnve for the p e r fection of the individual. The Dreth became enthralled with the notion of personal achievement, and the socieiy gave birth to this new philosophy, akin to humanism, but inviting itself to all sentients in the egalitarian Commonwealth.

Just what that idealistic quest meant depended on each person's own desires. Some strove for athletic perfection, others intellectual, and still others looked to reform whole sodeties and find new ways to enhance cooperation among peoples and maintah the greatest possible individual freedoms. Outside of the Commonwealth, foreigners often characterized the Dreth as dreamers and romantics, with all their talk about perfection of the body and spirit. For the Dreth, however, perfection was all about action, and no dream of bettering oneself or the world was worthwhile until put into motion.

Now leading one of the ten largest stellar nations, Sean Barnes, Dooley's successor, became actively involved in the coalition to oppose the Terran Empire, joining the Thuldan Empire and others to combat Earth-based vanny. Victorious, the Dreth Commonwealth nonetheless sustained heavy losses throughout GW 1, not only against the Terran Empire, but during occasional skirmishes with both of its neighbors:VoidCorp and the Fiigunmor Star Consortium. Connick with these two nations were a ,I=*!, prophecy of the terrible days to come