Fiction:Unified Alliance of Enlightenment/Freelancers

"I'm sorry, sir, you must have me confused with someone else. I'm not a criminal, I'm a legitimate businessman with legitimate business intrests. I can show you, see here, for this document says so."

- Freelancer Captain to an member of the UAE's police force who accused him of being a criminal.

Freelancers are private fleets of ships used by the UAE to attack enemy ships and outposts, sacking and looting them for resources, weapons, treasure and technology. Freelancers are considered outside the laws of the UAE and can attack any enemy ship or the ships of those the Alliance has a hostile relationship with if the enter UAE territory. Freelancers also partake in salvage and smuggling operations as well as assisting the Alliance's Explorers in their various missions.

Freelancers tend to be a grim bunch of individuals most Companies being made of a collection of mercanaries, smugglers, former criminals, failed or disgraced Koatria, rogue traders, and various other outcasts and undesirables. It should be noted that Freelancing is a private enterprise, so anything that the Freelancer Companies attain from their raids is theirs, though they are expected to share any new technology they find.

Ships
Freelancer fleets are a mix of their own specialized ships and ships from the various members of the UAE. Scalawag-class Strikecraft= Scalawags are the main Freelancer strikecraft. They are fast and quick easily able to outmaneuver most other ships, but don't have much armor making them easily destroyed. They are armed homing missiles and light shields.
 * Name - Scalawag-class
 * Length - 5 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Light Shields

Cultivator-class Assassin= Cultivators are used by Freelancers to take out high priory targets from a distance. The are armed with a pinpoint precision Turbolaser and a cloaking device, as well as twith the standard homing missiles.
 * Name - Savage-class
 * Length - 25 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Turbolaser, Cloaking Device

Savage-class Fighter= Savarges are the main fighter of Freelancer Companies, used to engaged enemy strikecraft and other fighters. The are armed with homing missiles, drill rocket cannons, and medium shields.
 * Name - Cultivator-class
 * Length - 50 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Drill Rocket Cannons, Medium Shields

Racketeer-class Bomber= Designed to attack larger enemy ships, the Racketeer is the main bomber of the Freelancers. They are armed with homing missiles, cluster bombs, and medium shields.
 * Name - Racketeer-class
 * Length - 75 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Cluster Bombs, Medium Shields

Buccaneer-class Corvette= Buccaneers are used by Freelancers for all around combat as well as boarding ships. They are armed with homing missiles, drill rocket cannons, cluster bombs, railguns, and heavy shields.
 * Name - Buccaneer-class
 * Length - 200 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Drill Rocket Cannons, Shatter Bombs, Heavy Shields

Picaroon-class Frigate= Picaroons are used as flagships by Freelancer fleets when the Lance-class Cruiser is not available to lead a fleet. They are armed with homing missiles, drill rocket cannons, cluster bombs, railguns, and heavy shields. However, theit most notable and dangerous weapons are their pierce harpoons, barbad harpoons that can be fired to piecre the hull of enemy ships before dragging them close to the Picaroon and allowing for easy boarding actions.
 * Name - Buccaneer-class
 * Length - 500 meters
 * Armament - Homing Missiles, Drill Rocket Cannons, Shatter Bombs, Heavy Shields, Pierce Harpoons

Lance-class Cruiser= Lance-class Cruisers are the capital ships of Freelancer Companies and where Freelancers get their name from. Lances would be best described as a massive gun with more guns attached. They are designed to be fast, stealthy, and heavily armed as well as easy to maintain. They are named for their long thin shape and the tendency for their Companies to attach ramming ends.
 * Name - Lancer-class
 * Length - 1,000 to 25,000
 * Armament - Varies from ship to ship.

Rules and Regulations
For the most part Freelancers are not restricted by any sort of laws and regulations, but there are a few. For instance, while Freelancers are allowed to attack enemy ships anywhere they find them, they can only attack the ships those with which the Alliance has a hostile relationship with and only if they violate the UAE's boarders, and ships of neutral, frienly and allied nations are strictly off limits. Also while Freelancers are allowed to keep whatever they attain from their raids if any new technologies that are found the UAE must be informed off, also any weapons of mass destruction found must be handed over as soon as possible. Failure to comply with these rules will result in the Freelancer Company who disobeyed them being branded a traitor and evicted from the UAE if not outright destroyed.

Companies
Companies are Freelancer fleets headed by a captain and named after their Lance ship.

Justice Without Borders

 * Captain - N/A, high ranking individuals include and Oji'b
 * Lance Ship - Heart of Chaos
 * Colors - Green, Dark Green, Pink and Purple
 * Symbol - Green sun looked at through a scope
 * Motto - A sence of duty when the need is high! Never a shot in the dark!

Probably the first of all Freelancer companies, the Justice Without Borders started out as the the Green Suns, a private proection company that was actually a merc band in disguise, headed by none other than. However, when he rejoined the Waptoria, the Green Suns were disbanded and their records effectively deleted from history. Many members, most notably the Daxur Trio, considered this treason on the part of W'tze, and even broke with his former leader completly, vowing to work against him from then on. However, during the Nebulorian War, Averil had a reunion with W'tze, who explained that he secretly had been planning the Green Suns, now as a Waptoria-funded true private protection company that still was allowed to gain their own income and work with whoever they liked as long as it was morally acceptable. Renamed Justice Witout Borders in this honor, they effectively became the very first company of what later would become the UAE's Freelancers.

Rather than focussing on raiding, Justice Without Borders rather focusses on assassination and protecting certain sites of intrest of their employers, who mostly are the Waptoria Alliance of Species themselves.

Favoring stealth, supression and "intelligent" ways of combat, this copmany often uses a mix of sniper and riot gear, and often uses close-quarter troops armed with riot shields to keep oponents pinned in one psot as their snipers and marksmen take them down. Furthermore, Justice Without Borders also tend to use certain elemnts of the Waptorai's armies, including Bio-Horde, Bio-Stalkers and Bio-Rangers. Members of this company are primaly Violaven, Raptoranean, Raptorian, Karogon, Perius, Angaroo and Orgaat.

Black Locks

 * Captain - Lufner Ahab
 * Lance Ship - Hyena of the Stars
 * Colors - Black, Secondary Varies from Vessel to Vessel
 * Symbol - A White Eagle With a Black Jolly Roger in the Middle
 * Motto - To the Galaxy's Edge and Treasures Untold!

Formed to help with fast attacks against stranded Dominatus fleets and loot as much technology as possible, the Black Locks are basically pirates disguised as Hegemony super soldiers. They are very unique in the fact that they operate in independent raiding squads that come back to Crowe's world to load up their vaults with plunder.

They have some special weapons as well. There high powered "flintlock" bolters are actually single shot breech loaders, but they hit like a truck and shred apart enemies on impact. They also use special electrocorosive sabres that are laced with a normally unharmfull fluid, but when the weapon is activated, electricity will zap around it's hilt, electrolizing the fluid into a deadly, steaming poison.

Due to them being all Hegemony Supersoldiers, they are composed of Hegemony species only, but are considered the most elite of Freelancers.

Cassius Company

 * Captain -
 * Lance Ship - Cassius (Avine for Jeweled Spear)
 * Colors - Black, Green, Silver
 * Symbol - Silver dragon coiled around a black rose with an emerald at the center
 * Motto - Take what you can, give nothing back!

The Cassius Company was created when their captain Seerkar's mate Akanri was kidnapped by the. Seerkar was unable to get help from any of the UAE's forces, since going after the Singularity would mean entering territory, which they considered suicide. Instead, Seerkar was able to gather together a crew of various desperates, moqtly failed Ultra Commandos, with nothing to lose and nowhere to go. When their mission was successful, the crew did not disband and instead stuck together, becoming one of the first modern Freelancer Companies, with Akanri joining in as Seekar's second in command, sharing the duty with a failed Gish Koatria.

As well as typical Freelancer activities, Cassius Company often assists the UAE's Koatria teams since Seerkar and Akanri have friends and a daughter that are Koatria and transporting Warrior-Hunters since they have another daughter who is a Warrior-Hunter pilot.

Due their high amount of former Ultra Commandoes, they use essence and power weaponry a lot more than other Companies, while also use mechs for fire support at times. They also tend to be more disciplined than most other Companies. The members of the Cassius Company are primaly Vanara, Boyk, Liev, Globlings, Wolflings, Gish, and Antroth.

Their Lance Ship is the Cassius, an Avine word mean Jeweled Spear. The Cassius is jet-black Lance ship with silver and green trim. The ship has a large spear-shaped head with ramming end that can split in two to reveal the Cassius's two stage mega weapon. The first is a EMP blast used to disable the enemy ships, and the second is a powerful, neon green and purple, radioactive ectoplamsa beam used to utterly annihilate enemy ships.

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