What is the difference between Star Fleet and the Star Corps?
Star Fleet and Star Corps are the two arms of the Federation’s Stellar Services, and are broadly split between military and non-military. More specifically, Star Fleet are both the police and the army of the Stellar Federation. They are responsible for policing interplanetary matters, patrolling space between member planets, defending them against hostile forces, exploring new star systems and surveying new planets for potential exploitation, and First Contact situations. Star Corps takes over from where Star Fleet leaves off. Once Star Fleet has done the basic survey of the new planet and determined that it is (1) not inhabited or already claimed, (2) not inherently unsafe, and (3) suitable for exploitation, it is signed over to the Star Corps for development. Depending on what it’s suitable for, they then handle full-scale exploration and mapping, identification of resources and how best to exploit them, and for worlds suitable for colonisation, preparing settlements, colony teams an
