The Tri-System Confederation (aka the Confederation) is the government in charge of the Tri-System a remote and isolated three-star region in the Vidur Sector of space colonized by humans who had colonized Anhur (the 'cradle of humanity'). It is ruled by the Universal Government, and kept secure by the Central Intelligence Service (CIS). All travel in the three systems is confined via the short-range jump gates Anhur's scientists had developed a few millennia before. A fourth system may have been destroyed by the DEDFLASH a space/time cruiser.