All Hands to Battlestations!

A space opera mostly centered on the Solaria Concordat's struggles as a rump nation, hemmed on one side by an authoritarian confederation of alien powers known as the Ywu'ick Baglo Senate, and blocked on another by an ancient, powerful, but oddly friendly machine intelligence that feeds the Concordat information, technology, and ships in order to keep it afloat as a buffer state.   Far across the Galaxy, other large nations duke it out in centuries-old political dramas, and occasionally wayward ships find their way traversing the space lanes of the Solaria Concordat, giving its citizens a brief glimpse into the wider galaxy.