Mission Loyalists
Mission Loyalists by SMACSid Meier's Alpha Centauri Fac Pack Discussion thread |
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| Economy | -1 |
| Police | +1 |
| Probe | +2 |
| Robust | Efficiency |
| Anti-Ideology | Fundamentalist |
| Ideology | Police State |
| Starting tech | Doctrine: Loyalty |
| Council votes | ×2 |
| Extra drone per 4 population | |
| File:Missing leaderhead.png Commander Marie du Lac |
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| Personality | Aggressive |
| Interests | Conquer Build |
| Emphasis | POLICE |
| Gender | Female |
Summary
The Loyalists have rallied around the remains of the Unity command staff in order to reunite humanity on Planet. Their air of legitimacy combined with their ruthless tactics in crushing dissent makes them a formidable foe, but their oppressed people show little of the spark of initiative that makes for a truly vital culture.
Backstory
Finally, one of the colonists aboard succeeded in triggering a wakeup sequence for the command staff and security personnel, who awakened to a ship in chaos under the functional control of mutineers. Security personnel were organised to attempt to seize weapons and put down the mutiny, with a ship-wide announcement of martial law declared. As the command staff attempted to reclaim the ship, combat intensified, with mission security fighting corridor to corridor against Society of Free Thought fighters and the impromptu militias of other factions. Captain Garland died early in the fighting, leaving the mission loyalists under the command of his executive officer, Marie du Lac, a Frenchwoman with prior military experience. Her temperament, already authoritarian, was deeply affected by the chaos on the Unity, and she resolved that it was necessary to restore order to the mission- no matter the cost. In the final days of the ship, the fighting inflicted heavy internal damage, entirely depressurising one of the eight landing pods, with fighting only coming to a halt when factional leaders desperately called a ceasefire as the dying ship approached close enough to Chiron to jettison the landing pods and make planetfall. Six of the seven remaining pods were claimed by the six factions that had formed on the ship, while the seventh was packed with desperate, leaderless colonists hoping to escape from the doomed ship with their lives. While the landing pods claimed by the six factions had managed to salvage enough tools and supplies to ensure that the factions would survive the first few years on Chiron, the supply situation on the seventh pod was far more marginal, and the colonists of this group suffered massive deaths in their early time on Chiron.
The mission loyalists, on landing, had their state of martial law reconfirmed by Commander du Lac, who declared herself head of mission 'for the duration of the crisis'. Commander du Lac rapidly moved to quash any dissent, placing the colony under her command on a permanent war footing until all the human colonies on Chiron were once again brought under United Nations authority. Every aspect of life under du Lac was monitored and subject to the strictest penalties, while the infrastructure for a permanent totalitarian state was laid in place. Commander du Lac had declared war against 'chaos'- and any hint of dissent soon grew to be synonymous with chaos in her eyes. The United Nations Colony, the Mission Loyalists, became an engine that would help bring war to Chiron, its Commander and her apparatus of war and control ready to crush enemies within and without the colony.
FutureWorks
Civics, Order, and Insurrection is notionally written as advice to an absolute ruler- presumably as a primer for du Lac's successor whenever she finally dies. That would hypothetically make its intended audience very small indeed. In practical terms it has been circulated amongst much of the leadership of the Mission Loyalists and makes a moral argument for the necessity of the totalitarian system they enforce. The general populace of the Loyalists are not particularly encouraged to read it in full, although simplified versions of some arguments reframed for mass appeal are well known. Without order there is anarchy and terror! This is well-known!
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