Ectogenesis: The creation of human life within artificial wombs. Wide-spread use within  the Pact has allowed both the federal and local governments as well as the Pact military to create vast standing armies of warriors that have little or no rights as citizens. A vast underclass within the military, these supersoldiers(also called “tanks”) has suddenly become a serious liability within the increasingly fractured Pact military as they have no political or social loyalties.

Enzyme Reaction 42: A highly lethal plague which spread in the core worlds of the Pact nearly 80 years ago, this mutation-prone virus killed nearly 340 billion people before the cure could be found(in a orchid in the Mayanmar System). Outbreaks occur sometimes in distant Clusters but are usually contained by Pact Viral Teams, which are funded by the central government on Old Terra.