FWC Article interest...?

[Braden Campbell]

Well;

now that I have returned from Open House, and have finished playing out the entire Good Hope Rebellion (spoiler: the Rebels won with the help of the pirate captain, James Radnar)... I have been thinking about doing a short Rifter article on the Free World Council.

It would follow the same format as the other powers which are elaborated upon in the upcoming Phase World Spacecraft... almost like a section that was cut from that book. It would detail the Rebellion, and the years that followed, the death of Michael Klass, structure of the FWC government, and finally, how they managed to put together a real military (not just a bunch of mujahadeen fighters).

Since we all agree that the FWC has some kind of internal manufacturing capability, it would also detail at least one starship entirely of FWC design. Also, uniform and heraldry notes, one notable NPC (current leader of the Cadre?) and one notable planet (not Good Hope or Axis-5 as they have already been mentioned)

thoughts?

[Braden Campbell]

Why isn't this written yet?

Because I wanted to play out the Rebellion with live people first...

[Braden Campbell]

Wouldn't take me long, since I now feel like I know the place intimately.

Only real question is: what OCC should Rachel Klass (current leader of the Cadre) be... Freedom Fighter, or something with a bit more training (I was thinking Gunfighter)

[Braden Campbell]

No, your group wouldn't have been able to meet her, since the events you guys were playing out all tookplace 100 years ago. Rachel is the grand-daughter of Michael Klass, the man credited with founding the FWC.

He is assasinated 25 years after you guys robbed the Good Hope Planetary Reserve Bank... oddly enough, around the time that the money runs out...

[Braden Campbell]

Sorry, sorry. Mistook you for one my players.

[taalismn]

By god, yes! We need more info on the FWC, so we all don't simply regard it as another Star Wars-like Rebel Alliance! We did to give it a distinctive, Palladium, character!

So write, and submit! Or post, and let us all in on it!

[KLM]

Wouldn't take me long, since I now feel like I know the place intimately.

Only real question is: what OCC should Rachel Klass (current leader of the Cadre) be... Freedom Fighter, or something with a bit more training (I was thinking Gunfighter)

If the Imperial Legionaire and the Freedom Fighter is the equvalent
of the CS Grunt, she is the rough equivalent of the CS Military Specialist.

Or the CS Technical Officer.

Or - maybe - she is not a "Man at arms" OCC, but more like
the Rogue Scholar. Remember, we do not have any indication
of her military career.
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As for FWC types... Well, we have data about the FWC using
Draygon fighters, "surplus" Proctor heavy fighters, NE hardware.

So, they probably need something which acts as a fighter carrier
(or mothership/tender), can slug it out with a Berserker or two.
Probably they have Hunters for the job, but adding another
frigate to the picture would be nice.

(Not to mention, that - as far as I know - the TGE has
only one standard starfighter, one frigate, one cruiser
and one dreadnought class... )

Adios
KLM

[Braden Campbell]

Only real question is: what OCC should Rachel Klass (current leader of the Cadre) be...

UPDATE: She's a 7th level Freedom Fighter... and a pretty screwed up one at that.

[Braden Campbell]

No, I mean screwed up. Her PB is only 10.

She is paranoid to the point where she sleeps in a closet. Her Grandfather was assassinated, her father was killed by Kreeghor, her mother and older sister were blown up by Silouette assassins.

And now that she is trying to disband the Freedom Fighters and form a regulated army (as per the OCC in Three Galaxies), the more militant fighters are calling her a sellout and calling for her head.

[Braden Campbell]

I've also been pouring over the books, gathering up numbers for the FWC space fleet: it looks like one converted Doombringer, 24 other ships Imperial that were captured, and about 200 or so pirates acting as a privateer fleet.

Their population should be about 1.25 billion, plus pirate transients. Just have to work out how many soldiers that equals out to...

[Braden Campbell]

UPDATE: :lol: You guys are going to love this thing! Why was Michael Klass assassinated? Because he was trying to find a peaceful end to the fighting.

Axis-5 is the Vietnam of the Three Galaxies, and the military/industrial complex doesn't want it to end...

[KLM]

UPDATE: :lol: You guys are going to love this thing! Why was Michael Klass assassinated? Because he was trying to find a peaceful end to the fighting.

Axis-5 is the Vietnam of the Three Galaxies, and the military/industrial complex doesn't want it to end...

Not bad, but my experience of separatist movements,
especially when the separatists are a much smaller
body, than the "mother" cannot really talk their way
out.

I mean the in the USA-Britain or in the India-Britain affair
(or even the Hungary-Austria, just to be local ) was
between roughly "on one scale" power.

However, the Basque-Spanish, Chechen+Lithuanian+Estonian+
Latvian+the former Warsaw Pact vs. the Soviet Union couldn't
be solved without outside pressure.

Also, a more apt paralell is Afghanistan. When the mudjahedin
rebelled against the Soviet occupation, they weren't
a, wanted to talk
b, were helped from outside,

Much like the FWC.

(OK, mudjahedin somehow turned to taliban, from freedom
fighters to terrorists... But that is yet again a phase, that the
FWC has yet to reach).

Adios
KLM

[gaby]

Well a Freedom Fighter fights in the Borders of ther own countries.

Terrorists do not want Peacefully Coexist,they want to keep others to fear them so much,that no one will try to stop them when they cross a line and genocide people who they think have NO RIGHT TO EXIST.

Look at the Sudan,in darfur Muslins are killing other muslins,but no countries do any thing about it,they known if they go in ther will Terrorists attacks against them.

But The left das not see that.

[Braden Campbell]

I have it set up now that the (first) battle for Axis-5 lasted five years and ended up killing off all of the former Legionnaires who had turned against the TGE in the first place. With no experienced or properly trained soldiers left, the FWC was going to fall.

So... the GSA sent in deep-cover operatives to train the locals how to fight, make bombs, and set up Freedom Fighter cells. They also smuggled in HI-laser weapons and the like, aiding the Contras... uh, I mean the FWC.

Then, 24 years ago, the TGE and the CCW fought a boarder war in the Anvil Galaxy (Phase World Sourcebook). The CCW won, and the Kreeghor got a new emperor... one who used a new treaty to effectively isolate the FWC from Consortium aid. So the Free Worlds have been on their own for the past two and a half decades.

Knowing they were now pretty screwed, their only hope was to organise themselves into something that actually resembled a coherent nation. They started a regular armed forces, and folded in many of the Freedom Fighters. They stopped (officially at least) blowing up Imperial soft targets like space ports, freighters, and public transit.

Not everyone fell in line. In fact, the Human Alliance (without permission from the the Consortium Congress) gave the remaining Freedom Fighters a ton of used Naruni guns, and used the profits from that sale to build a new line of dreadnoughts. They're under investigation now.

Phase World can be a convoluted setting at times.

[Braden Campbell]

heh. Funny how art imitates life, eh?

[Aramanthus]

Sounds pretty interesting. I'd love to see more info on FWC!!!

[Braden Campbell]

UPDATE: Article's done. Whipped it up in 3 days... can't believe it.

Short, only 9 pages, but it fleshes out the history of the FWC, and hints at some problems to come. Also, the Fredom Fighter OCC can now make homemade explosives (IED's)... maybe a bit too real world, but that's why I like it.

[Greyaxe]

Why isn't this written yet?

Because I wanted to play out the Rebellion with live people first...

Your welcome...on behalf of the 20+ people who participated in the games.






Play tested and approved for Player Consumption. Way to go Bray.

[Braden Campbell]

Rifter...with new title comes the pressure to keep submiting stuff...

[Aramanthus]

Congrats Braden! I hope they can get it out really soon!