Fiction:United Free Peoples Coalition

The United Free Peoples Coalition, UFPC or FPC for short, is an emergency coalitionary government set in place by freed slaves of the Drakodominatus Tyranny in the Andromeda Galaxy. It contains thousands of former Drakodominatus colonies and a similar number of species assigned to work them. Absolute power over the Coalition is held by the Coalitionary General, a position currently occupied by its founder, Gustavus Ikeben.



History
Prior to the Tyranny's invasion in 2791, the sectors that would later become part of the United Free Peoples Coalition were as diverse as any other, harboring thousands of different species in various stages of development. None of these were strong enough to resist the Tyranny as it rampaged through Andromeda, enslaving trillions to service its massive war machine. As the defenses of these worlds fell, most of their populations were embedded with a control chip meant to make them subservient to their Dominatus overlords. Some managed to escape being chipped and formed minor resistance groups, but these were too ill-equipped to cause any real damage to their oppressors.

Revolt
Main Article: Attero Dominatus

The first slaves to be freed were those present at the Battle of Quaran, where the Lazeroth Unity put to use a method of remotely disabling their control chips. Days later, that technology became obsolete when the main Dominatus AI malfunctioned, causing a cascade failure of all of the control chips in the Tyranny. The result was an insurrection on a massive scale: everywhere, individuals regained their senses and rebelled against their oppressors. Quickly, resistance groups began to reach across the stars to one another, exchanging valuable information regarding the Tyranny's weaknesses and methods by which they could be exploited. The Lazeroth quickly intervened and launched an improvised offensive that came to be dubbed Operation Thrall, an effort to render aid to the revolting slaves. Salient in the subspace chaos, the Quaranians took on a leadership role, broadcasting encouragements and directing the Lazeroth to planets they might have otherwise overlooked. When the dust finally settled, the Quaranian leader, Gustavus Ikeben, contacted other resistance leaders and offered his assistance in return for theirs. Eventually, this entente would evolve into a quasi-formal alliance headed by Ikeben.

Reconstruction
Ikeben now faced the challenge of providing clothing, food, shelter, and protection for his newfound dependencies. On the subject of food, he began by organizing armed foraging parties on his homeworld and advised the other leaders to do the same. If he could teach his people how to use weapons to fend for themselves, he reasoned, he would have an easier time organizing them into an effective fighting force later. It was in this manner that they survived for a while before being secretly approached operatives from the Draconid Imperium who showed him exactly how he could repurpose and reprogram the Tyranny's machinery to provide food, clothing, weapons and ships for his people. He lost no time in sharing this information with the rest of the Coalition leaders, though he kept the means by which to make weaponry to himself for the time being. Now that the Tyranny's food replicators were back online, Ikeben was able to put his people back to work in the Tyranny's factories making starships. While he waited for the first ships to be churned out, he went about the creation of the People's Liberation Army, the military wing of his flourishing coalition. Being a former military officer, Ikeben personally attended and often conducted the training of his new soldiers. Though service was voluntary, many joined to escape their mundane lives as factory workers. The enterprise would take months. In the meantime, he bought several starship designs from the Draconis, having none of his own to rival the Tyranny's firepower, and commenced the construction of the Coalition's first carrier, the Aegis. By the time it was finished, however, Ikeben was able to crew it with competent personnel. Once the PLA was in space, Ikeben announced the official creation of the United People's Coalition and offered membership to any world formerly belonging to the Tyranny. He offered protection, supplies, and stability in exchange for their loyalty and obedience. Many many worlds flocked to the Coalition's banner, and a centralized government, presided over by Ikeben, was established. Under his direction, the Tyranny's industry was refitted with the Draconis program and put to use building starships for the People's Liberation Navy. Within months, the PLA swelled from tens of thousands of personel to billions spread out across their vast territory. Ikeben boasted that his army could now not only stand toe-to-toe with a Tyranny invasion force, but that it could join its Lazeroth allies on the offensive in those sectors of Andromeda the Tyranny had managed to hold on to.

First Offensive
When Ikeben was satisfied that his armada was ready to take the fight to the Tyranny, he issued a rallying address meant to galvanize the other nations into supporting his attack. In this speech, he tried to appeal to their sense of self preservation, insisting on the fact that "[the Tyranny] is an unstoppable war machine whose thirst for bodies and territory will never be quenched." In the closing sentences, he formally declared war on the Dominatus, and encouraged others to do the same. To show that he was a man of his word, Ikeben launched his invasion of the Tyranny. He lead his armada, composed of thirteen battlefleets, into Dominatus territory. Unbeknownst to him, spies had been feeding information about the attack to the Tyranny. They were ready for him when Ikeben came, and were preparing to close their trap around him when he realized that they were defending worthless targets. Immediately, Ikeben recalled the armada, only to be confronted with a moderately sized Tyranny attack fleet at the emergency rendezvous coordinates. In that instant, it became clear to him that he had been betrayed, as he had arbitrarily chosen the coordinates minutes before the battle started. Only an officer in the armada could have had access to those coordinates and then broadcasted them to the Tyranny during the battle. It turns out that in recalling the fleet early, Ikeben had foiled the Tyranny's plan, and had only to hold off an inferior force while he waited for his ships' jump drives to recharge. They escaped just as the Tyranny's reinforcements arrived to encircle them.

Scorched Earth Campaign
Main article: Scorched Earth Campaign Having failed to destroy Ikeben's armada, the Tyranny immediately launched a two-pronged invasion of Coalition space. The first prong chased after the retreating armada with orders to destroy it, while the second remained behind to pacify coalition planets, presumably unhindered by the PLA. In response, Ikeben dissolved the armada into hundreds of small task forces which were ordered to jump back into contested space while he kept the pursuing Dominatus fleet busy with a sizable fleet of his own. The task forces were given various assignments meant to disrupt the Tyranny's movements. Some were instructed to jump ahead of the invasion force and drop off a contingent of marines specially trained in guerrilla tactics in the midst of the civilian population on a planet. Once the Tyranny invasion force arrived, those marines caused them no end of grief. Those planets whose capitulation to the enemy was inevitable had their infrastructures sabotaged, rendering them useless to the invaders. Other task forces were sent behind the Tyranny's lines to intercept shipments of fuel and supplies to the invasion force, effectively stranding them in the Coalition's territory without resources. As the Tyranny's ships began to run out of fuel, the Tyranny's Commander desperately looked for a decisive battle with Ikeben's forces. The General was careful not to accord him one. He harassed his opponents from all sides, forcing them to chase after him until they had exhausted their fuel supply. When they floated, defenseless and without power in the depths of space, Ikeben finally gathered his armada and attacked. In the ridiculously one sided battle that ensued, the Coalition was able to destroy the entire Dominatus Mark 2 fleet while taking no losses, an unprecedented disaster in Dominatus military history.

Territory
The Coalition's main holdings lie in the Exterioris sector of the Andromeda Galaxy. With roughly 50,000 systems under their control, it is the second largest power in the region after the Drakodominatus Tyranny.

The Coalition is divided into thousands of administrative regions that are then grouped into blocks. Most of the population lies in the first block, a region of space previously home to a number of burgeoning stellar empires before the Drakodominatus occupation. Once one heads away from Quarania, as the first block is called, the population slowly thins until one reaches what has come to be known as "The Barrens," a desolate region of space stripped of life during the Scorched Earth Campaign.

Though the Barrens is a region devoid of inhabitants, the Coalition has claimed it as its own and has insisted that it be marked as such on maps, and has taken measures to secure its border. By 2793, the Ministry assures that it will have a string of fully functional stations lining the edge of Coalition space.

The Coalition has also laid claim to Drakodominatus territory in Andromeda it has yet to conquer.

Government
Main article: United Free Peoples Coalition Government

The Coalition can be considered to be an absolutist military dictatorship, where all legislative, executive, and judicial powers are concentrated into the hands of the Coalitionary General, an office currently held by Gustavus Ikeben. Based out of Quaran, the Capital city, the government employs hundreds of thousands of personel to adequately manage its burgeoning territory. On Quaran, the government is divided into the Foreign Office, dealing with diplomacy and espionnage, and the Ministry, handling internal affairs.

Local Governments
The Coalition is split into sectors, each with its own capital, regional governor, and armed militia led by a Governor General. To harbor some semblance of Democracy, Regional Governors are elected by popular vote to oversee civilian affairs but de facto hold little power. The Governor General is sent over from the core worlds to head the militia and to ensure that order is being kept, that production quotas are being met, and that the Regional Governor is playing his part as the regional figurehead. Each sector is responsible for providing a given amount of production materials (namely starships, military equipment, uniforms) and drafted recruits to the Capital each month, and for raising and maintaining its own militia.

Economy
The wartime Coalition economy relies greatly on centralized planning. There are no markets and no private businesses; everything, the factories, the mines, the replicators that provide for the people, belong to the government. For the most part, essencial goods are allocated evenly to the populace, though many say it is not enough to be fed and clothed. One could say that there is no freedom: one must show up to their allocated job at a given time and toil away in dangerous conditions for long hours. To not show up is to forfeit the day's bread.

Industry
The Coalition inherited the Tyranny's massive planet-based infrastructure, though it could not be put to use until a way was found to circumvent the Dominatus AI that had everything in a stranglehold. Such a way was eventually found, allowing the Coalition to field starships with the same speed and ease as the Tyranny had before them.

Military
Main Article: People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army is the mainstay of the Coalition's armed forces. It is composed of the Liberation Marine Corps, the Liberation Air Force, and the People's Liberation Navy. Each of these are under the direct control of the Coalitionary General. Separate from the professional army, each sector is required to levy and maintain a militia of a given size depending on its population. Thanks to the infrastructure left in place by the Tyranny, the PLA was able to acquire tens of thousands of ships within span of a couple months. These, Ikeben demonstrated, are capable of rivaling the Tyranny's firepower when used en masse, a fact that was proved multiple times during the Scorched Earth Campaign.

Allies
"Together, we will triumph!"



Neutral
"What do you want with us?"


 * Blue face.png Drodo Empire - We fight against a common foe.
 * Yellow face.png Lazeroth Unity - We fight against a common foe.
 * Orange face.png Mardor Empire - Disgusting...
 * Orange face.png Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth - We have reason to believe they seek our destruction.
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 * Orange face.png Draconid Imperium

At War
"We will destroy you, or die trying."


 * Red face.png Drakodominatus Tyranny - Even weakened, they are dangerous. They would wipe us all out in an instant given the chance.