system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Starship Troopers] I'm writing a paper for my Moral History class.

It's about the history of the Terran Federation, I've been instructed to use FedNet for information.

How did the Terran Federation form, what size territory does it control, and what caused the formation?
gpt
Nobody really can say where the terran federation came from it just kinda grew. See at the end of the XXth century many governments were collapsing and this created a vacuum of power which the veterans stepped in to fill. The first known case was in Scotland when some veterans got together as vigilantes to stop rioting and looting they had to hang a few people (including two veterans) and decided not to let anyone but veterans on their committee because they didn't trust anyone else. What started as an emergency measure became constitutional practice in a generation or two.