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==Technology==
===Anti-gravity===
The development of anti-gravity technologies within the League are recent, having been introduced within the last century by the Hilam to help make interstellar travel an easier process for them. This was a major revolution in the understanding the fundamental forces of nature, and paved the way for a way range of new technologies that open up greater control over the environment within League space. At the moment, anti-gravity technology has only been improved and incorporated into few areas of League life, notably for military troopships to make long tours of duty bearable for the troops, as well as for many void habitats of large size, with about a dozen new habitat designs within the need for a rotating section for the residents. Consequently, these habitats have grown in size as the mechanisms for a rotating habitat no longer form a soft cap on the size of a habitat. As of the present, only about 8% of all voidships within the League possess an anti-gravity generator, with the main limitations being the power supply of the ship itself, its physical size (and thus the network of connected anti-gravity units), and the age of the vessel's superstructure.
Because of the nature of the technology and the resources required to sustain anti-gravity fields, most new voidships specifically designed to accommodate the generators as a central part of their structure. The old vertical decks most League vessels possess are gradually being phased out of service in favor of the new horizontal designs permitted by the introduction of anti-gravity technology; however, given the vast fleet of ships the League's civilian and military institutions possess, this process will take decades if not a century or more to complete. The overall truth of the matter is that anti-gravity technology remains an incredibly expensive luxury, and the nature of the shipbuilding and artificial habitat design has meant that adjusting to incorporate this technology will not be a quick process. Vertical ship decks are built to fit the existing concepts that were held throughout most of League history, and would require a vast number of new ship designs to replace the old ones. Modernization of the older vessels to incorporate the new technology would be prohibitively expensive or entirely pointless, as this would necessitate pulling entire decks out of a ship and refitting them with horizontal decks. Some ships such as troopships may benefit from this, while others such as warships will not, due to the location of weapons, crew quarters, and supplies.
Void habitats as they are currently known will be entirely outmoded by the advent of anti-gravity technology. All utilize some form of rotation to support the permanent population onboard, and their entire structure is designed to facilitate this function. All levels of a habitat are built around the walls of the superstructure, and as with voidships, it would be entirely implausible to simply rebuilt the stations with the new technology incorporated with horizontal decks. In many ways, the existing vertical system is more beneficial, as it allows for more space within the interior of the station, and allows for a wider range of ships to dock within. It will take decades for corporations to design new habitats that provide many of the benefits stations with artificial gravity now possess, and given the nature of the corporations themselves, they will no doubt seek to avoid having to do so for as long as they can reasonably get away with. On a more terrestrial level, anti-gravity has opened a number of doors for civil engineers and architects, who are now no longer restrained by the effects of gravity upon buildings and facilities. However, at the moment, the technology remains far to expensive for them to use on a small scale, and will likely remain so for many decades.
==Economy==
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