Shipclass
The Union Class Dropship is one of the most common Dropship classes in the Inner Sphere, used by most Successor States and even some Mercenary Companies. A Union can carry a full company of twelve Battlemechs plus two Aerospace fighters in its bay. For a dropship in the medium class, its armament is impressive. The ...

A group from the Wing Commander universe
The Union of Border Worlds is a collection of a number of systems along the Confederation frontier that, while accepting Confederation rule during the Kilrathi war, never signed the Articles of Confederation. After the war was over, they tried to gain independence, a decision which met strong opposition among the confederate senate....

A vehicle/ship class from the Lensman universe
The Lensman series features several unique ships, particularly for Civilisation. The Z9M9Z, Dauntless, Velan and Britannia are all one-off ships that were never (in the books) repeated except to replace the original one (eg in the case of the Dauntless).

A group from the StarCraft universe
The outgrowth of the United Powers League on Earth, the United Earth Directorate in StarCraft: Brood War sent a massive expeditionary force to take the Koprulu Sector under its rule, an attempt which, in the course of the events of Brood War, ultimately failed. The UED is an authoritarian socialist regime which controls all the resources...

A group from the Space: Above and Beyond universe
The combined might of the various Earth militaries of the mid-21st century; the US military appears to be preeminent, but only as 'first among equals'

A group from the Gundam Wing universe
The UESA is a repressive world government. At first it was an alliance to enforce peace, but it became too powerful. It has tremendous military power, and is begining to supress the space colonies. However, the Alliance was disliked, and eventually overthrown.  There was considerable dislike of the 'Specials' and the regular military f...

A group from the Alpha Centauri universe
The force behind the creation of the colony ship Unity, with the financial backing. Due to declining conditions on Earth the UN sponsered the attempt to colonize Planet. With the death of the ships captain, the crew split with only one faction still dedicated to the principles of the UN- the Peacekeepers, lead by Lal.

A group from the Halo universe

A group from the Alien / Predator universe
The USCMC are the armed forces of the United States Colonies, their main objective being to protect the colonies from any military threat, foreign or domestic. There are four USCMC divisions, of wich two make up the Marine Space Force Sol, whose main purpose is to protect Humanity's home system. One division makes up the Marine Space Force...

A ship from the Alpha Centauri universe
Large, nuclear-powered starship, launched by Earth in the mid-21st century. It was capable of traveling at slower-than-light speeds, with its crew in cold sleep. It crash-landed on Chiron, the planet featured in 'Alpha Centauri,' in 2100. It carried a complement of scout choppers, mining lasers, and exploration foils. It was completely una...

A group from the Lensman universe
This lists the various technologies in the Lensman universe that are used by both Boskone and Civilisation.

Universe
The universe of the UN Protectorate (for want of a better term) is found in the three Takeshi Kovacs novels,  Altered Carbon, 2002Broken Angels, 2003Woken Furies, 2005 It's the 26th century and humanity has progressed to the stars, bringing with it the technological wonders, corporate power-lusting, government corruption...

Universe
The Unreal series of computer games consists mainly of two single-player geared games (Unreal, Unreal II: The Awakening), and three multiplayer games similar in style to Quake III: Arena and Counter Strike (Unreal Tournament, UT2003, UT2004).  There is also an expansion to the original Unreal game, as well as X-Box games Unreal Championshi...

Universe
Book series, where sentient species are valued by whether they have 'uplifted' (artificially helped to achieve sentience) any other race or not.

A book from the Red Dwarf universe
The inflight magazine of the JMC Red Dwarf. Issues of this magazine are distributed in lift cars throughout Red Dwarf, and are also present as part of the emergency gear in the Starbug transport craft. The sheer mind numbing mediocrity of the various articles acts as an anaethestic in the event of a crash. Articles include 'Wines of Esto...

A group from the Star Control universe
HISTORYThe Ur-Quan race has a sad history. It began about 25,000 years ago, when the then relatively primitive brown-colored Ur-Quan race was contacted by another race, called the Taalo. The Ur-Quan already had space travel at the time, but it was presumably limited to slower-than-light travel, and subsequently, they would have had only a few ...

A group from the Star Control universe
The black Ur-Quan variant, this species follows The Eternal Doctrine, which calls for the complete eradication (by means of genocide) of all non-Ur-Quan sentient life in the universe. According to their own word, The Kohr-Ah managed to eradicate at least 5000 sentient races before their eventual defeat. Some of these races are the Yuptar, the Gg an...

A group from the Star Control universe
The Ur-Quan Kzer-Za are the green-skinned offshoot of the original brown-colored Ur-Quan (now extinct). They are the ultimate rulers of the Hierarchy of Battle Thralls, and unquestionable masters to all other Hierarchy races. Physically, they resemble huge, 10-meter long caterpillars, colored green. PSYCHOLOGYOriginally, The Ur-Quan w...

A character from the Trigan Empire, The universe
Ursa is the sister of King Kassar of Hericon, the main power rivalling Trigan in terms of size and wealth. Trigo opens relations with Hericon and Kassar sends his sister, Ursa to Trigan City on a combination exchange visit/cultural exchange. Six months later, her and Trigo are married. Ursa's marriage to Trigo...

Group
The crew of the USS Cygnus, in contrast to the USS Palamino is a lot larger. At the time of the vessels launch the crew was all human. Although numbers are never given, it is assumed that there will be a lot more personnel needed solely from seeing the duty stations on board the Cygnus. The Control Tower itself, when fully manned would probably ...