Cooperative Colony

Also known as Co-Cols or CoCo's or CC's, Cooperative Colonies are planets settled and often terraformed by several independent or sometimes governmental sources and work together to build a unique and usually often sovereign world composed of multispecies settlers.

The Galactic Confederacy has its own Department of Colonisation known as "Concorde" that establishes and terraforms planets, the first world it colonised was named Concordia and represents Confederacy Territory.

The Imperial Federation also have a colonies program but are said to be very conservative on how its colonies are managed and there are very few Federation Co-Cols with Imperial Federation species preferring their own species' colonies.

Smaller independent cooperative colonies however are sovereign autarkies, exist within freespace and outweigh the governmental Co-Cols in the galaxy; however these can be open to attacks by pirates, raiders or Haze members and many must fend for themselves.

Haze colonies are often aggressively built, sometimes occupying existing colonies and Haze invasions are one of the biggest threats Co-Cols face; if they are small enough the Haze will seek to take over the world for resources, slaves and not least a show of power, although it is also common for single species within the Haze to compete with other Haze members to show other members how powerful their kind can be.