Rally

Rally is the current Human homeworld, settled after the United Earth Confederacy was destroyed by the Compact of Species. Not long after landing on Rally, the planet was bombarded with asteroids, then saved by a civilian Compact exploration fleet. Shortly after, humanity became one of the Compact's client races. The planet is currently the home of most of Humanity, with a population of approximately four billion people. It also hosts a population of around a billion Tribunes. During the last two decades, Rally has also hosted a population of envoy children from Vara.

The planet was originally discovered by a particularly rich (and eccentric) human explorer years before the Compact-Confederacy War. It was so far away that it was his descendants that finally returned with the data they had gathered, with their two major findings being Rally and another that remains unspecified. This data was, at the time, notable but not of much use to humanity given the insane distances anyone would have to travel to see these discoveries, but became much more important as contingency planning began in case the Confederacy lost the war.

Rally is located between the Perseus Arm and the Outer Arm

The planet is the subject of an unspoken accord between the Compact and the AI of the Confederate Dreadnought Nemesis, Red One. The agreement is that if the Compact do not exterminate the remains of Humanity, Red One will not escalate her attacks on Compact facilities. Conversely, if Red One were to escalate anyway, the Compact would destroy Rally.

It is the birthplace of all modern humans, notably Grace Proctor and Adrianna Leblanc.