Varian Scott: Difference between revisions

'''Varian Scott''' served as the [[President of the Federation|President]] of the [[Federation]] infrom the3144 3140sto 3152.<ref name="KBFM">''Elite Dangerous'' Knowledge Base > The Federation > [[Knowledge Base#Military 2|Military]]</ref><ref name="EE">''[[Elite Encounters RPG]]''</ref>

Elected in the final years of the [[First Thargoid War]], President Scott endedleveraged the threat posed by the [[Thargoid]]s to end military budget restrictions championed by the late Governor [[Raul Santorini]] of [[Tau Ceti]] in 3022, and launched a project to expand and modernizemodernise the [[Federal Navy]]. Scott also removed the requirement for military actions to be approved by a vote in [[Federal Congress]] from the military decision-making process in order to improve reaction times to future conflicts. These actions spurred the [[Empire]] into modernizingmodernising its own [[Imperial Navy|military forces]].<ref name="EE" /><ref name="KBFM" />