Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition
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| Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition | |
|---|---|
| State Profile | |
| Founding Year | October 3151 |
| Capital world: | Arc-Royal[1] |
| Controlled system(s): | 5 (in May 3152)[1] |
| Government | |
| Head of State | Grand Duchess[2] |
| Military | |
| Army | Kell Hounds |
The Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition was a proto-state created by Arc-Royal Grand Duchess Callandre Kell and her Mercenary group, the Kell Hounds.
History
After the fall of Arc-Royal under Clan Jade Falcon hands, in 3146, the Kell Hounds, reduced to a short battalion, began a guerrila war in the Falcon's occupation zone, led by the last known member of House Kell, Grand Duchess Callandre Kell. Unknown than, in 3151, the Falcon's Khan, Malvina Hazen, had taken almost all his Clan's touman to fight in the Battle of Terra, Callandre, after rebuilding the hounds' forces, decided to began their way to free Arc-Royal.[3]
Their first strike was on the planet of Santana, but their landing was unopposed. The Falcon's have deserted the planet, so Callandre, after assisting to clean the system of bandits, decided to strike at Arc-Royal with all her forces. As the Hounds cannot find the Clan Wolf-in-Exile forces, went to Arc-Royal alones, in August of 3151.[4]
After a short space battle, the Hounds began their landings. As Arc-Royal has key industries and training centers, they still have an important Falcon's garrison, though mostly of young sibkos, castaways and Solahma. Under the leadership of Star Colonel Riss (Clan Jade Falcon) were rebuiliding their forces.[5]
The Hounds began attacking the isolated targets, destroying the Falcons units one after another... until October. Then, Riss gathered all their forces around Old Connaught, the planetary capital, and began executing civilians to force the Hounds to flee or surrender. But he only managed to enrage them, and the 2 October, the Hounds attacked with all their fury. After making crash a DropShip in the middle of Falcon's line, and Callandre killed Riss in a duel, the surviving Falcons ceased fighting, and accepted to leave the planet. Arc-Royal was free again.[6]
The 12 October, Callandre, in a meeting with Arc-Royal's authorities, proclaimed the foundation of the Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition.[7]
Ini9tially, the Coalition only had Santana and Arc-Royal as planet members, but it began growing quickly: after informing the Hounds which were far from Arc-Royal of their success, small groups of the Hounds launched strikes to liberate the planets of Zanderij, Great X and Sargasso in February of 3152. On the first planet, a group of new recruits of the Hounds, led by Callandre's ex husband Keith Langenhaas, assisted the local rebels to crush easily the last Falcons paramilitaries.[8]
On Sargasso, the Hounds found a ravaged planet, but managed to crush the Falcon's last base. On Great X, a company of the Hounds was saved from the defeat by the arrival of the Black Cats infantry mercenary unit, which joined the ARLC eillingly after the planet's liberation.[9]
The June 3152 found the ARLC well established, already composed by five planets, and becoming stronger every day, and receiving recognition and embassies from their nearby states.[10]
Diplomatic Relationships
The Coalition had received offer of alliance both from Vedet Brewer of the Vesper Marches and Sarah Regis from the Tamar Pact, but, to the date, hadn't bothered to even answer them. In fact, Callandre's past history with Brewer, and her loyal service with the Commonwealth makes very doutbful she agreed to join forces with him against Trillian Steiner.[11] The past history with Kell with the Falcons make them natural ennemies of the Clan Jade Falcon Remnants. When an official emissary of Trillian attempted to convince Callandre to rejoin the Commonwewealth, the Duchess answer to the veiled threats was a single word: "NUTS!". Anyway, Callandre never officially broke with the Commonwealth.[12]
Military
- The Kell Hounds (mercenary).
- Black Cats (mercenary)