LSF Operational Guide

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Liberty Security Force
Department of War Operations Planning
OPERATIONAL GUIDE - BRETONIA

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The Kingdom of Bretonia has multiple interests within it. All are subjects of the Queen, Carina I Windsor.

The Bretonia Police Authority is a strict bastion of men and women with a reputation of incorruptibility and competence under duress. They have been stretched thin with keeping order within Bretonia, causing them to have formed the Civil Defense Initiative, which gave any punk with a gun in the Omegas a badge. The effort has mostly kept order on Sprague.

The Bretonia Armed Forces are mostly demobilized now, focusing on containing terrorist attacks by both the Gaians and the Mollys, as well as repulsing Corsair raiders. The Essex notably enforces a blockade upon the Republic of Dublin. However, they maintain a large mothballed fleet in case the worst should happen.

The Bretonian Intelligence Service is all right. They do their jobs well enough, and have caused no notable trouble in Liberty. Our respective agencies enjoy a fruitful cooperation.

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Borderworld Exports is the premier shipping company within Bretonia, owned by the Crown, like its sister company, Bretonia Mining & Manufacturing.
They are the more genteel, aristocratic types, should you meet them.
Bowex is likely to quote a higher price for more prompt delivery of goods.
The majority of Bowex profits go towards paying the Bretonian war debt.
Bowex has a rivalry with Gateway and the IMG that is likely to have turned to violence at least once.

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Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing is the source of the majority of Bretonia's domestic woes, especially related to their mistreatment of workers.
As a cost-cutting measure, they once replaced the food rations they served their workers on Leeds with cattle feed, reasoning that the severe pollution had sufficiently degraded their taste buds to where they could not have noticed the difference. Synth Foods was quite upset to hear that. That, and other abuses of their workers directly led to the Founders Day Revolt and the subsequent founding of the Republic of Dublin. Recently, the Molly terrorists were able to effectively drive Bretonia out from the Dublin system entirely barring sporadic raids.

Bretonian heavy industry turned the Leeds system into a polluted hellscape even before the Gallic War. Those who visit now are either on their way to Kusari, or are staying in only long enough to either purchase or mine the Uranium from the local deposits.
BMM is prideful of its industry.
BMM and the IMG hold a bitter rivalry in the Omegas and Taus, over Cobalt and Niobium, respectively. BMM was driven out of the Taus by the Kusari, then Gallic War, leaving the IMG the last man standing.
BMM and Bowex, both owned by the Crown, make for a strong partnership, holding the majority of the Bretonian economy.

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Planetform, Inc. is the leading experts on terraforming the worlds within Sirius to make them fit for human habitation. They are almost an honorary Liberty corporation for their work on California Minor and Atka.

Planetform, Inc. collects lavish contracts from foreign Houses to make the worlds within their borders more supporting of human life.

Planetform has earned the ire of the Gaians for doing what they claim to be irreversible ecological damage to worlds.
Planetform tends to work over centuries.
Planetform remains a vital partner to the Republic of Liberty in the terraforming of Atka and California Minor.

Planetform produces their terraforming gasses in Bretonia and distributes them to their operations Sirius-wide. They also purchase Sigma alien organisms from the Sigmas to speed the terraforming process.

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Gateway Shipping is Bowex's primary competitor, holding a fraction of the shipping the Crown's company does. They partner with the Independent Miners Guild to export materials from the Omegas and Taus, and have a strong rivalry with Bowex, one that has likely seen weapons fire exchanged.

Their existence in competition to the Crown's companies does not exempt them from Molly reprisals or Gaian terror attacks.

Gateway's partnership with the IMG was strained in the Aland conflict, but it did not break, and from all indications, they've returned to an uneasy business as usual.

They are also the "crass" to Bowex's "genteel", but they hide it better.

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The Mollys are the informal name for the forces of the Republic of Dublin. While further down, we will discuss the Republic of Dublin proper, this refers to forces operating within Bretonia.

Mollys operating within Bretonia are usually piratical. Mollys raiding will prefer to rob random people instead of terror bombing outright.
Molly terror attacks have largely subsided. The conflict with the Corsairs within Dublin takes a higher priority to their leadership. Various Molly gangs still operate paying lip service to Dublin, but these squadrons are one step removed from pirates and smugglers.
Mollys make up the majority of prisoners on the Newgate. The Newgate prison holds most Mollys arrested by the BPA; the BAF does not tend to make arrests of Mollys.
The Mollys really don't like Gallia The loss of Belfast to the Embrun's surprise attack and the subsequent reclamation of Middlesbrough put a damper on the Molly movement's industry for years. Their destruction of the New London Gate is likely the only reason the movement has been able to survive in a meaningful capacity.
Molly gangs have in recent years come to distrust the Sirius Coalition, previously one of their best allies.

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Gaians are the radical arm of the Green Front, a movement in Bretonia dedicated to environmentalism, especially protesting the corporate exploitation of Planet Gaia. Given the nature of Leeds pre-Gallic War, they might have a point. After years, they drove the Gallic Royalists and BMM from the planet, and have since shifted their efforts to lodge their protests of Planetform's terraforming with weapons fire elsewhere.

Gaians absolutely despise Planetform.
Gaians can work agricultural wonders on existing ecosystems: The Gaians leadership hails from a background of agricultural experts on Cambridge, give them a planet and they'll give you a garden.
The Gaians are involved in the Artifact trade. The Gaians cooperated with the Corsairs and the Kingdom of Gallia in the Gallic War against Bretonia. After the war's end, they still work with the Corsairs in seeing their dream of an ecological Bretonia.
The Gaians clash with the Mollys. The Mollys have been forced to turn to heavy industry to survive, a move that angered the Gaians. The Gaians already being rich genteel types, the working class Mollys already hated their guts.