LSF Operational Guide

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

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The Union of Gallia is a relative newcomer to the Great Houses. Centuries of preparation

for a war with the Houses ended in ten years with a forced withdrawal to beyond the Taus.

The Kingdom of Gallia's last monarch was Charles XI, and the order to fall back was issued by the Duke of Burgundy. The Gallic Royal Enclave was established in the Edinburgh System until the Bretonia Armed Forces and Gaians finally forced them into the Taus. The war with Kusari saw the two blocs forced to band together to ultimate crush the Naval Forces in Burgundy. Despite being crushed militarily, the Kusari managed to have the Tau Decree repealed, leaving them a relative diplomatic victory. The few remaining Enclave holdouts have since re-branded to the Royalists, and the Confederacy re-form into the Gallic Union. The Confederacy of Gallia, and the Union that has succeeded it, was much more allegedly democratic, although most people still voted along the lines of the interests of the local power holders.

The Gallic Navy is a mix of the Royal Navy personnel who survived the war crimes tribunals, former Council members, and the latest crop of enlistees. A large portion of the former Council members have since dropped out of the Navy because they attained the goals they took up arms to achieve, leaving the Duke of Burgundy's loyalists mostly in command.

The Gallic Royal Police were subsumed into the Navy to form the Gendarmee. Before their absorption, they were a core of corrupt incompetents, several of whom were on the payroll of the local flavor of Gallic criminals. It is in part thanks to them that Gallia has no equivalent to the Lane Hackers; they would just straight-up sell the data to the Brigands themselves.

Gallic National Intelligence is a reasonably competent intelligence service. The surviving Gallic Junkers were subsumed into the GRN to become the Gallic Royal Intelligence. Their effects on the war were minimal, except for their backstab of the Republic of Dublin during the retreat from Bretonia. After the Kingdom became the Confederacy, the GRI became the GNI, and functionally operates as a unit of the Navy; their economy sees little to no H-Fuel or MOX imports and so the GNI tends to operate Gallic civilian and military craft most of the time.

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EFL Oil and Machinery is a conglomerate equivalent to Ageira and DSE. Their absorption of Solar Engineering saw them become the greatest "hardside" commercial concern within Gallia. They partnered closely with IDF Shipping. The Gallic Crown owned a majority stake in their company, and it is likely that those shares have reverted to the current head of state of the Gallic Union.

R&D is part of EFL's portfolio: EFL corporate security is somewhat lax, information may be more easily pried from them than the GNI.
EFL is harsh taskmasters: EFL employees still see no shortage of abuse from their superiors. The reasons change but the workload remains the same.
EFL hates Ageira and Interspace: Ageira is EFL's primary competitor within Sirius. Interspace Commerce is the primary financier for any entity seeking their services. This goes both ways; Ageira is forced to offer competitive bids instead of naming their price. As EFL and any major construction they engaged in was property of the Crown, they just did it; their monopoly was not as profitable as it was for Ageira and its four free markets.

Solar Engineering was an up-and-coming engineering firm that sought to compete with EFL. After a few centuries of competition, and supposed siphoning of resources to hostile powers, all of Solar's assets were seized by the Crown and distributed to its companies, EFL and IDF.

Most assets went to EFL.
It is postulated that some Solar holdouts were sighted in the Vespucci system, but these are unsubstantiated. They were likely absorbed by the Commonwealth if such claims are true.

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Ile-De-France Shipping is the premier shipping company within Gallia.

Their partnership with EFL is a profitable one, and it is an IDF transport that is likely to deliver EFL and GMS goods beyond Gallia.

The Outcast and Crayter disruption of IDF convoys through the Taus did more damage to the Gallic war effort than the repulsion of the Southampton Trio, or so experts claim.

IDF is property of the Gallic Union. The Gallic government owns a majority share of IDF, although it is treated as a private company instead of a public office.
IDF has strong ties to the nobility. The CEO was once considered part of the Royal Household.
IDF is to Gallia what Universal is to Liberty: Disruption of IDF convoys is an excellent side objective should operations be conducted within Gallia; it is likely goods with no Liberty corporate involvement and so we lose nothing if they are intercepted.

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The Gallic Metal Service was a Council-sympathizing company that specialized in the extraction of raw materials.

This put them in conflict with the IMG in the Taus when Gallia overran them in their invasion of Kusari and Bretonia.

GMS is pretty cool. GMS pilots, despite some slapstick antics, are generally better-disposed to Liberty than anyone else. This is likely because of their Council connections.
GMS was punished for their disloyalty. GMS pilots are unlikely to be privy to state secrets. Former regime loyalists tend to look down on them. The Council has won, but it likely that GMS has lost.
GMS has little competition with Liberty's corporations. GMS is most likely to play ball with Liberty.

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The Unione Corse is a "legitimate" business within Gallia, organized along family lines.

Their closest equivalent in Sirius would be the Hogosha, and they mostly perform along the same lines.

Unlike the Hogosha, who deal in Artifacts purchased from the Corsairs, the Union Corse maintain a monopoly on the production of the drug Nox, synthesized in drug labs somewhere in the Minarchy of Provence. Usage of Nox is widespread in the Gallic criminal underground, affording the Corse's senior members a great deal of personal wealth and sway.

Corse are underworld aristocrats The Corse demand respect.
Corse are largely loyal to the regime Corse robbery of Gallic corporations is minimal; they tend to prefer targeting foreigners, both for bounty claims and piracy.
Corse will sell outsiders out for a fee. The Union Corse is easier to play ball with, but their silence cannot be guaranteed.

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The Brigands are to Gallia what the Rogues are to Liberty:

A loose assortment of petty criminals, organized robber gangs, and smugglers. Until recently, they were joined at the hip to the Council, but as the Council has since become part of the ruling class of Gallia and they are still common criminals, it is likely that arrangement is terminated.

Brigands like Nox. The Brigands poison of choice is Nox, not Cardamine; the difficulty of breaching Gallia means that Cardamine addicts are in crippling debt in short order if they're lucky.
Brigands are in it for the money. The ideological types tended to throw in with the Council, leaving the ones who don't care about ideology to be petty bandits.
Brigands tend to stay within Gallia. The loss of profit from supplying the Council as well as a side-effect of the Orange Hammer has seen the Brigands largely restricted to Gallia.

The Union Corse is as likely to supply Brigands as prey upon them for bounties from the authorities. The Brigands mostly have to put up with this, as the Corse has exercised an almost complete monopoly on the production and distribution of Nox.

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The Maquis are the remaining hardliners after the Council achieved its goals.

Not content with the King deposed, they are seeking the heads of the nobility and any former regime loyalists as well.

For obvious reasons, they are locked in a bitter conflict with the Royalists.
Maquis are a fertile ground: LSF agents are likely to be warmly received by Maquis terrorists, especially if they come bearing supplies.
The Maquis are idealists. They believe in a free Gallia. They believe Gallia is not free yet.
The Maquis are greatly reduced. The Council becoming part of the new ruling elite of Gallia meant they took most of their hardware with them. The Maquis continue to fight the power with what they were able to make off with when the Council that did not join the Confederacy lumped in with them. Most of them were, after all, ex-Council thrown out for being "too extreme".

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The Royalists are the remaining loyalists to King Charles XI.

Reduced to a projected strength of a few capital assets, their numbers were further bled with the Kusari invasion, as large swathes of their forces accepted a pardon and re-instatement to defeat the KNF again.

They are as diplomatically isolated as they get.
Royalists have been fighting for years: The Enclave, then the Royalists, have been locked in total war for close to ten years. Those who have survived are tough as nails.
Royalists have not degenerated into a pack of bandits. The Royalists have resisted the temptation to become a pack of bandits. Their discipline keeps them focused.
Negotiations are likely impossible The Royalists despise the House of Liberty. As their aims are largely restricted to Gallia, they are not in a position to launch terrorist attacks within Liberty, and so pose little threat to the nation at this time.

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The Treaty that ended the first Gallic Civil War saw the Normandy separatists sealed off in the system with a vast fleet.

The Kingdom of Gallia sealed off the two Jump Gates and left large battlefleets in the system just in case they returned. That they have not rejoined Sirius after the Council, who it was speculated they were supplying, achieved its goals troubles the few who follow such events.

These Normandy Separatists have yet to re-emerge.
It is believed that they may have been cut off from the Jump Hole network by the Blackout.
Their fleet capacity is speculated to rival every House combined, should they re-emerge.

All other information is unknown; those who can talk, won't, at least not to us.