The Freedom Army (FA)

The Freedom army, or FA, is a military organization funded by the governments of the Free Worlds. In turn, it protects the current government of each world from attacks by other worlds or by their population, maintaining a carefully balanced status quo in which no political power can gather enough strength to upset the whole system.

 The forces of the army are made up of soldiers, ships and technology contributed by the various worlds. It had many troubles due to the great variety of training and cultural differences, a problem only very capable leaders could smoothen. The FA’s main base is a huge space station hidden in deep space. The FA also trained its own leaders and soldiers in an academy on the space station, but most soldiers were still a mash-up of mercenaries, criminals, people forced into service by their governments, professional soldiers and pilots and many more, including warrior monks and swordsmen. The Freedom army is organized with a system of ranks that narrows to several generals, usually about seven, who make the main decisions. It is a huge military power at odds with the military power of the State.

 The FA was created during the war with the state, after it had suddenly risen up to expand and was taking over planet after planet to establish its regime on them. The weak, scattered worlds were unable to stop the State, with its fanatically loyal people and resources of many conquered planets, just as they were unwilling to ally with each other. As the solution, they all created one military, the Freedom Army, that would liberate them from the State’s regime. The war raged endlessly, until the FA had driven the State off all planets except three, and the two sides agreed to peace which was actually a state of cold war. After this, the FA, lead by several generals without affiliation to any particular planet, assumed the stance of a protector of peace. It forced the governments to contribute money, soldiers, ships and technology under threat of abandoning them; it eliminated all alliances and multi-planet governments and prevented their appearance in the future; it allowed militaries only for the purpose of training soldiers for the FA. This made the worlds too weak to pose any threat to the system and allowed the FA to focus on counteracting the State.