The Federated

The Federated is a loose collection of corporations, bureaucracies and unaffiliated criminal gangs. The nebulous regulating committee, known as The Senate, control the outfitting and recycling of ships and have ultimate approval of assigned personnel. By the time of Against Me, Will they are notoriously lax. It's rare for a captain to get a refusal even for criminal history and mutiny, depending on the ship. Older ships in danger of becoming a liability are routinely mismanaged and lost in a way that people rarely are brave enough to call deliberate.

The least famous Federated ship is the Guantopolis.