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Post by The Green Flame on Feb 8, 2023 14:46:46 GMT
9th Lunar Defense Unit “The Amman Hellfighters”
Irish-class Battleship, Rattler (Captain Harold Rutherford, NPC)
9th Lunar Defense Unit, “The Amman Hellfighters”
The Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite and the inspiration for mankind’s century spanning dreams of space exploration. The formerly desolate hunk of rock would be among the first destinations to be successfully colonized in the early days of the Universal Century. By the 70s of the Universal Century, its surface was covered by the lights of human expansion. Von Braun, Granada, Aires City, Anaheim, Amman and more dotted the moonscape, marking mankind’s first permanent forays beyond the Earth. Largely under the umbrella of Zeon influence during the One Year War, the Moon would swing back to Federation control by the war’s end. However, by U.C. 0087, the political alignments began to once again sway wildly. With an increasingly lax Federation refusing to hold the Titans accountable for their crimes, the Moon would be among the first bastions of spacenoids to rally together and form the Anti-Earth Union Group or AEUG. Among the cities to openly support the AEUG was the city of Amman, itself hosting several factories owned by mega-corporation Anaheim Electronics that would be instrumental in forming the AEUG’s fleets and homegrown mobile suit designs such as the MSA-003 Nemo. It was support that would ultimately be its undoing.
In the lead up to the AEUG invasion of Jaburo, the city of Amman would find itself square in the Titan’s sights as they hunted the battleship Argama. Following a series of skirmishes among the lunar craters, the Titans would make a final attempt to destroy the Argama and a sheltered fleet from launching for a future rendezvous with other AEUG vessels. With both newly christened Nemos and even Petite Mobile Suits thrown into the firefight, Amman would succeed in sending off their allies but not without great loss, the city itself bombarded to a crippling state by the Titans. In the end, however, the city would prove resilient and those who survived would go on to be considered symbols of the AEUG’s struggle. These very patriots would find themselves lifted up from the rubble of Amman and reformed into a larger AEUG defense unit that would intercept the Titans wherever they deigned to show the gryphon emblazoned on their equipment. Officially named the 9th Lunar Defense Unit and led by Captain Harold Rutherford, the men and women of the AEUG informally dubbed them “The Amman Hellfighters” in deference to the hell that was wrought upon the city of Amman.
As a unit centered around the defense of the lunar cities, the Amman Hellfighters dock amongst the various cities that support the AEUG but are most often docked within Granada.
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Post by The Green Flame on Feb 8, 2023 14:50:25 GMT
4th Autonomous Mobile Corps “The Helios Corps”
Kilimanjaro 8th Rapid Response Force Daksha
Garuda-class Large Atmospheric Transport Ship, Vinata (Lieutenant Colonel Rikard Price (NPC) MS Team Commander
Flight One
Alexandria-class Heavy Cruiser, Rhodes (Captain Lawrence Banis, NPC)
MS Team Commander
Flight One
Flight Two
Killed in Action
4th Autonomous Mobile Corps, “The Helios Corps”
In the early days of the Titans’ existence, their most frequent foe were the many Zeon Remnants and pirates that continued to plague the Earth Sphere in the aftermath of the One Year War. With some of the best pilots and equipment at their disposal and up against an enemy with both aging assets and dwindling veterans, the Titans enjoyed a time of near total dominance against their foes. Since the war with the AEUG began however, the Titans have found their forces gradually strained against an enemy who could match them (and even surpass) their efforts. In these unfortunate circumstances, the Remnant and pirate elements of the Earth Sphere were quick to take advantage of the Federation’s vulnerable status and have staged frequent raids on Federation patrols, supply stations and even civilian installations. Ill-prepared to deal with constant harassment in the midst of a war with a more powerful enemy, the Titans’ leadership arrived at the decision to form several units whose primary purpose would be to hunt down the Remnant wherever they appeared.
One such unit is the 4th Autonomous Mobile Corps, designated as “The Helios Corps”. Led by Captain Geralt Dunsbach, the Helios Corps is considered something of an experiment among the Titan units. Following the Council vote to provide more authority to the Titans, the Helios Corps is one of the first units to merge Federation personnel with those from the Republic of Zeon, the autonomous successor nation to the old Principality and now ally of the Earth Federation. Created both out of necessity and as a social experiment, the men and women of the Helios Corps have high expectations to meet not just from each other but those high above to fulfill their mission.
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Post by The Green Flame on Feb 8, 2023 14:53:53 GMT
1st Advanced Recon Fleet “The Cavaliers”
Endra-class Light Cruiser Zandra (Captain Johann Waltendorf, NPC) - Ensign Sebastian Steyr, MS-09SS Dowas Custom (NPC)
1st Advanced Recon Fleet “The Cavaliers”
While the Earth Federation was in the midst of sliding back into a new conflict, the ghosts of Zeon were far away from the chaos of the Earth Sphere,preparing to make an entrance that would shake the Federation to its very core. Holed up within the mining asteroid of Axis and supported by both the knowledge of surviving veterans of the war and resources mined long ago, the men and women of Axis did what was thought impossible: Eke out a living in the hostile asteroid belt and build an army to bring the Federation to its knees. Led by the sole heir of the Zabi family, Mineva Lao Zabi, and her young and charismatic regent, Haman Karn, the soldiers of Axis set out on a journey back to the Earth they left so long ago, one that would take nearly two years to complete.
However no matter how powerful the forces of Axis may be, the inhabitants of the asteroid have been out of the loop for some 8 years and much had occurred. Spacenoids once again found themselves trampled beneath the Federation, subject to its atrocities. The patriots of the Principality, continuing to fight the One Year War for the past 8 years, were besieged on all sides by the Titans. The Earth itself, already reeling from the last war, had suffered yet more destruction and neglect from those who ruled it. In such dire times, the people of Earth needed a herald to show them the way. The 1st Advanced Recon Fleet, dubbed “The Cavaliers”, would be that herald. Armed with the latest in Axis technology and made up of young, yet no less eager, men and women, the fleet was given a very simple objective: To rally the colonies and those who would support the heir to the Zabis and bring forth a new age of rule.
As the Recon Fleet has advanced into the Earth Sphere ahead of Axis, they currently have no dedicated base. However, they have been known to frequent the Shoal Zone of Side 5.
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