Nothing is Inferno cannon unless I say it is.
It can't be cannon as
1. It doesn't entirely match what I have planned. Especially the introduction times of EA ships.
2. It won't work under the new modpack.
There was a war between the colonies and the GTA remnants, the GTA was replaced by the militaristic EA. However it didn't turn into a dictatorship. The GTA was overthrown due to fear and bad handling of the collapse of the Sol node. The EA government encountered by 2401 is nothing like the one that took down the old GTA.
We might do an official expansion for this time period one day, so I don't really want to go into much detail.