Confederated Pioneer Republic

At the end of the Belt War when the Riders withdrew to the Cantina, the majority of the Outer Reach was left abandoned and stripped of it's defenses. This led to a great power vacuum, prompting the people of the Reach to arm themselves and form organizations for their own defense. One of these organizations was the Remington Company, a former CDF ally untouched by the wars of recent history. The Remington Company quickly made strong allies in the Winged Hussars, a mercenary company that worked for the CDF in the Belt War. After fighting side by side in the brief conflict that erupted between these newly formed organizations, these two factions decided to merge forming the Confederated Pioneer Rangers under Colonel Romeo, leader of the Winged Hussars. Later this was changed to the Confederated Pioneer Republic, only a month after forming.

The Republic is widely regarded as home to some of the best engineers in the system thanks to it's roots in Remington Co., and some of the best captains thanks to it's Winged Hussar heritage. Furthermore, it is home to a growing population on Remington Shipyards, which some are now calling Remington City. Remington offers a wide variety of food and entertainment including waffles, drinks, music, and the cheapest cargo berths in the outer Reach. As a result, it's become a popular port of call for freighters travelling to and from the inner system.

## Pre Season 3

With the leadup to Season 3, several minor factions contested for power, while the major powers (Riders, Khans, 1st Fleet Task Force Deliverance) recuperating, restructuring, or setting up their hold on in the Outer reach. With that, the events of the preseason, a short but brief war, that saw the fall of Maxwell Corps, the Valkyrie Pioneer Company forced to retreat back to the inner system, and two faction mergers.

The first being the Winged Hussars, a Mercenary company previously employed by the CDF, and the Remington Company, a CDF organization who stepped out as their manufacturer and separate entity, initially forming the Confederated Pioneer Rangers, under Colonel Romeo, seconded by North R Isle and Benjamin HP. With the forming of a new major faction, the other major powers rose to action, especially after the forming of the Phoenix Coalition from the Phoenix Initiative and Powder Keg Militia.

## Season 3

### Forming and initial actions

With their first official outing, the Confederated Pioneer Rangers would get a strange message sent out from an unknown source, detailing the crash of a EFN stealth vessel, lost during the belt war. Sending a contingent, a small team was sent to investigate the site, but not before meeting the Khans, the EFN crew of the Eternity's Advent, a contingent of Riders, 1st Fleet Task Force Deliverance, and Phoenix Coalition. Sending out scouts, the team recovered one shield generator from a section of the crash, and contacted the Eternity's crew and handing it over for destruction. However, after the attempted demolition of the other half the damaged vessel, and its shield generator, it was found by a lone fighter crewman to be intact, despite attempts to destroy it, which it was recovered, but the Eternity had already left the AO. Records of these events after the fact are.. expunged.

Shortly after, the Riders had called a peace conference to call for the end of the conflict between the Belt powers (WH/PHX) and EATO (MC/PKM/VPC) as the only power remaining, PKM, was backed into a corner. The Confederated Pioneer Rangers would not last for long, however, after this conference. Unrest began when Colonel Romeo's aggressive intentions in the Reach were broadcasted live during the Rider peace conference, when he refused to listen to his 2 2IC who accompanied him on this conference, broadcasting intentions that were not planned or approved. Rapidly people rose up, deposing the Colonel, from an agreement made when the Rangers were formed, if the 1IC of Remington, North, and the 2IC of Winged Hussars, felt Romeo's leadership was either not fit, or caused issues for the new faction as a whole, that he would be removed from his position of leadership. After Romeo was removed from leadership, and the **Confederated Pioneer Republic** was established. Public elections were held both for Chancellor and Assembly membership. The victor of the chancellor election was North R. Isle, who became the first chancellor of the Republic. The Republics ideals are rooted in democracy and freedom, stubbornly clinging to their dream of a better Pioneer.

A call was made out by a neutral mining company, the Outer Reach Minors (ORM), who were under attack by raiders trying to steal a mining claim on a asteroid belt, formed from a larger asteroid cracking that was made for ore gathering. Responding to the call was the Eternity crew, responding to both the ORM and a element of the VPC, who also had put out a distress call. Along with that, the Republic sent a team to assist and investigate, but so did Task Force deliverance, responding to the VPC's request. It was later found out, after fighting broke out, that the VPC were behind the attacks in the first place, then being taken into custody by the 1st Fleet forces of TFD, and ORM securing their mining claims. This secured bonds between the ORM and CPR, with pledged assistance for their help in resolving the issues, and would later have an outpost, formally called the "ORM Fortress" built into the center asteroid of the belt.

### Post Enfield Incident

After about a month of forming, an incident would come to light of a raid on a former CDF drydock, known as Enfield, located in Task Force Deliverance held space, with a hijacking of several former-CDF held vessels, making 2 escape routes; One through the territory of 3B, a neutral zone patrolled by CPR Navy forces, and Rider stealth units acting as an observation force, and the other making a beeline towards Malta, which was held by the Phoenix Coalition. Initially slipping by CPR Navy Forces, the escaping raiders with the majority of the stolen reserve, were reported heading further into Republic space, by Rider stealth ships. The Republic acted, chasing down and destroying the stolen CDF vessels, claiming them to be pirates or PXC forces.

This incident would cause tension, with claims of the Republic and Phoenix Coalition (PXC) being involved, with the PXC not denying they claimed they "found" the Warspite, an Armored Cruiser that was stolen in the raid, within the wreckage belt of Malta. At the same time, the Riders demanded materials from the Republic, suspecting involvement and covering up their involvement, marching a heavy squadron on Borealis, the faction headquarters of CPR.

A deal was made, initially bringing the Riders, Khans and CPR into an alliance, with CPR providing materials towards their allies production.

A few months after the incident at Enfield, it came to light that CPR and PXC had enacted a joint operation to raid the drydock, with both releasing cover stories to shield from the political fallout. This resulted in the loss of all previously captured vessels as they were destroyed to reinforce the CPRs claim. This inevitably resulted in outrage over the wasted lives in the Enfield engagement and the loss of valuable hulls which the 1st fleet had claimed it would use to start a fleet of civilian trade vessels.