The Western Alliance was an old-Earth superpower formed from the ancient European and North American national states. The alliance would unite Western civilisation into a single, supranational organisation with the primary intent of solidifying its position as the dominant world power. During the Fossil Wars, the Alliance suffered a civil war after plans to leave the Earth with the Exodus Project became publicly known. In the following years, the alliance collapsed, and the CEG annexed most of its remaining terrority. The Western Alliance's legacy was the Starship 'Eridonia' which would discover the system of her namesake, forming the first extra-solar colony in human history in 2205 A.D, and the subsequent formation of the Unified Terran Nations in 2238 A.D. The descendents of the Western Alliance would go on to form the most powerful nation state in human history.