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Basics of the Alliance is an introduction to the pan-universal organization featured in the five-volume Felis Alliance Series. For readers of the first book of the series, Sun Killers, it may be difficult to imagine how something as massive as the Alliance (its proper name is the Felis Alliance) could ever exist, but it must be understood that it is less about being a civilization that spans over a thousand planets and more about being a massive company, sort of the AT&T of mining organizations. The Felis Alliance came into being in order to create wealth, a wealth which it derives from the mining of stellar bodies, and this has allowed it to develop into an organization unlike anything else in the known universe. Rather than seeing the people living throughout the Alliance as a means by which their wealth is created, the Alliance takes a different view of the creation of wealth and views each person as an integral part of the system, a part that should be respected, and rewarded. As such, the leaders of the Alliance went to great lengths to make it possible to free their Citizens from the drudgery of most labor, thanks to the development of Synthetic Intelligent Living Systems, or SILS as they're more commonly known, which were invented by Doctor Lostru, on Synthalys Prime.

It would be easy to dismiss the entirety of the Alliance as a "Welfare state" gone awry, if things had gone awry, but that was not the case. Mining of stellar bodies has created a tremendous amount of wealth, and the Alliance has more than enough to support every one of its Citizens. As such, they enjoy lives that are far longer than any other humans living in the universe, some living as long as one hundred thousand years of age, thanks to the Advance Genomic Manipulation Program, which was developed, in part, thanks to the Genomorphs of Tarlos II, who are capable of living even longer, sometimes in excess of one million years.