The Liberators of Aragon

The Liberators of Aragon are an organization operating out of Aragon, a pre-war region of Spain. The Liberators are heavily inspired by former occupiers of Aragon, the Regional Defense Council of Aragon, a force that claimed all of Aragon (and Spain by proxy) as their land during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The Aragonese were able to find records of the RDC from historical textbooks in public libraries, schools, etc. The Liberators operate as essentially a form of settlement protection, roaming the lands of Aragon, protecting it against outside threats. These outside threats, which used to extend only to raiders and imperial powers, now extends to The Brotherhood of Steel.
== History ==
In the time before the LOA, the lands of Aragon were populated by bandit kingdoms that operated by claiming a settlement as essentially a vassal, forcing them to pay taxes in supplies and the local currencies of the area to continue the kingdom's operations. The bandit kingdoms were ruled over by overlords, essentially having the power of feudal kings in the old medieval days of Europe. The settlements were forced to live under the rules of the overlords, with revolutions being near impossible due to no settlement having the arms to rise up on their own and connections between settlements being forbidden. This was due to each settlement of Aragon being occupied by their own bandit kingdom, and the overlords didn't want their rivals gaining power from trade.
The bandit kingdoms managed to rule over all of inner Aragon for around a century, with their rule being entirely unchallenged. The kingdoms were brought to their knees eventually in the year of 2217 by several militias that had formed in the outer areas of Aragon that had not been occupied by kingdoms. These militias mostly consisted of exiles from the kingdoms, feeling a sense of vengeance towards the overlords and wanting to put a stop to their rule over the towns of Aragon.
Tensions had been brewing ever since the early signs of militias being formed, as the overlords sensed a proper threat to their reign over the land. However, the overlords had grown overconfident from their decades of rule over Aragon with not a single true challenge, so they brushed it off as an issue that will die out in short time. The militias, with no challenge to their growing organization, continued to grow in power as they had essentially surrounded the bandit kingdoms. Militias raided Spanish military bases from before the great war allowed them to arm themselves with weapons greater than simple patchwork guns and melee weapons.
After around 7 years of the militias growing in strength, they began to enter into inner Aragon, slowly picking off the kingdoms one by one. Each overlord they managed to get their hands on was hung in the respective settlement they occupied in public, a message of the death of the bandit tyranny to the settlers. After an era of war for 3 years, Aragon had been entirely liberated by the militias. After the death of the final overlord and the extinguishing of all bandits in the area, the militias met in the city of Calatayud. The leaders of each cell united their armies into one defense force, which would then be named "El Libertadors en Aragón".
After the formation of the Liberators, they began to structure their "rule" over Aragon. They had minimal involvement with the lives of the settlers in the inner cities of Aragon, offering their services to act as police or security guards. The Liberators preferred to allow the settlements to operate alone and simply live their lives as the guardians of Aragon, controlling all entry into the area as to protect the cities from bandit threats. They have been in a state of isolationism, not wishing to expand their dominion outside of Aragon, and existing solely as a defensive force.
== Relations ==
* Brotherhood of Steel ( Iberian Chapter )
The Liberators are actively hostile to the Brotherhood, repeatedly sending threats and ordering the Brotherhood to stay out of Aragon in the rare times they attempt a patrol into the area, which before the presence of the Liberators was known, was deemed as an unoccupied territory. The Brotherhood is directly mentioned in their motto, being the conquerors to the west.
* Second Spanish Empire
The Liberators intend to gun down any soldier of the Second Spanish Empire that dares set foot in Aragon. They are also mentioned directly in their motto, as one of two of the imperialists to the south and east.
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