Triquetran League

The Triquetran League is a small interstellar nation. It is made up of the human descendants of a splinter group of the United Earth Confederacy who left shortly after its unification, and occupies a small area of space centred around its home planet, Nibiru.

History
After humanity's discovery of the shock drive, the newly-formed United Earth Confederacy set about unifying the colonies formed from previous generation and sleeper fleets. Many colonies joined willingly, but several others did not; leveraging their industrial and technological advantage, Earth was eventually able to strong-arm them into cooperation. However, this did not change the opinions of many of the people among the colonies that had refused, and they remained bitter about their annexation by Earth. One of these people was a man named Henrik Siegland, a political idealist and firebrand who had a large number of like-minded supporters among the colonies.

Once FTL-capable ships were available to be purchased by willing buyers, he and a large number of his supporters formed the Siegland Expedition, a fleet of fourteen colony ships that would set out beyond the borders of the nascent Confederacy to find a new home planet, far enough away as to be outside of Earth's potential future influence where they could live in peace.

However, the Expedition did not stay as a like-minded group for long. Adoration for Siegland among the tens of thousands of crew turned to religious fervor, and in the minds of many, Chairman Siegland became Prophet Siegland, the man who would lead them to the Promised Land "Nibiru" through the "visions" he received. Open hostility erupted between the "devotees" and "agnostics" shortly after the discovery of a habitable planet when a communications officer named Mariah aboard the flagship Defiant Voyager stabbed a petty officer to death for suggesting that the hundreds of probes the fleet had launched throughout the decades were responsible for finding the planet, rather than Siegland's visions.

By this time, Siegland himself was only kept alive by the efforts of a team of personal physicians, intermittent bouts of cryosleep and a moving life-support unit and respirator, and could only be charitably described as the "wreckage of a once-great man." Most of the first-generation colonists, the people who had signed up for the journey, were in cryosleep themselves, leaving the ships to be run by their children and grandchildren; second- and third-generation colonists, respectively. Siegland's status as prophet was not limited to one generation or another, but the number of people among the devotees and agnostics was roughly equal.