Phoenix Coalition

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## Overview

### PXC

PXC is a conglomeration of EX CDF forces, both Civilian and Military, PXC is strife with internal discourse, largely between the Cairo Military and the Malta Civilians. After the PHX-PKM merger many civilians were left unhappy with the new structure they found themselves in, no longer able "make their own way" and subject to PHX law. before the merger PHX was largely a military force consisting of CDF Senior staff , with the goal of creating a sustainable replacement in the stead of the recently destroyed CDF. PXC's Stability is inconsistent and largely relies on a symbiotic relationship of trade between Malta and Cairo. Cairo offering stability, protection, and structure where as Malta offers much needed resources and man power. Civilians looking for work often find themselves working under the PXC naval banner.

### Mission

PXC's Goals are not all dissimilar from Civilian Defense Force although there are key areas of difference, PXC exists to create stability, however the lengths PXC is willing to go through are often a lot more than its predecessor. PXC is no stranger to asserting its will for peace by force when deemed "necessary". (This Area will be expanded as the Season goes on)

### Demographics

PXC's Demographics consist of Military, Civilian, Privateer, and Refugee. PXCs largest demographic is Civilian followed by Military, Privateer and than Refugee, Most Military constituents are from PHX and to a lesser extent small amounts of Exiled Khans. The Civilian population is largely a vestige of Malta, some of which are EX CDF junior staff. Refugees are fairly rare in PXC, numbering somewhere in the double digits, largely those seeking refuge from war or those who are sympathetic to the cause that decided to leave their home factions.

## Notable Ships

### Active

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* BL Apollyon's Fury
* BC Vindicta
* DW Inquisitor
* CL Harsh reality
* CA Alysium
* CA Warspite

### Inactive

* DD Diamondback
* DDG Hottentottententententoonstellingdetweede

When the Civilian Defense Force fell at Malta loomed there was still a considerable amount of Junior and Senior staff left willing to fight, Admiral Mallard initiated Condition Orange, under Commodore Scipio remaining CDF forces gathered. many had Fled to the Riders or to the inner system, however those who stayed and remained loyal to the "CDF" bided their time, eventually when the war ended these Loyalists emerged and formed the Phoenix Initiative, Determined and willing to use force to assert its goal of civilian protection.

#### PKM

After the Belt war Malta was abandoned in the wake of factions retreating to their home tiles, in this wake civilians, raiders and merchants moved to fill the void of power, Powder Keg Marauders was a loose agreement between salvagers, merchants and mercenaries, living to the essential rule of "Finders Keepers", While this group was not afraid to bear it teeth when required, they were largely externally harmless and were content minding their own business. Eventually a more stable system of governance emerged, with this came the decision to merge with the Phoenix Initiative for mutual benefit.

The formation was formally announced in early Season 3, after an intense preseason.

## Pre Season 3

In the leadup to Season 3, several minor factions each vying for control of territory left vacant by the death of the CDF, the Riders returning to their core territory, and the Khans being defeated and turning inwards to reform into a more peaceful nation. But the peace made after the belt war didn't last long almost immediately spiraling into a war between two alliances Phoenix Initiative (PHX), Winged Hussars (WH), and Remington CO (REM) versus Valkyrie Pioneer Company (VPC), Maxwell Corps (MC), and the Powder Keg Marauders (PKM) that lead to the fall of the VPC and MC. Following this brief conflict the PHX started to distance themselves from their former allies and start to align ideals and goals with PKM, shortly after WH and REM would Merge into the Confederated Pioneer Republic (CPR), PHX and PKM would follow suite forming the Phoenix Coalition with the goal of protecting civilians within their small territory's.

## Season 3

### Aftermath of Operation Falling Star

After the chaos known as *Operation: Fallen Stars* the Riders invited all factions present in the Outer Reach to a conference in 2A to sort out just what had happened during the operation and the events leading up to it. At the conference the aggressor during the previous war was reprimanded by the EFN for plunging the system into war so soon after the Belt War had ended. It was during this conference PHX and PKM formally announced their intentions to merge into a single larger power.

### Raid of Enfield Drydock

Immediately after the 2A conference CPR and PXC undertook *Operation: Urgent Thunder* also known as the Raid of Drydock Enfield. CPR assets detected a large amount of activity at the former CDF facility, a facility that represented a large number of CDF reserve assets seized by 1st Fleet in the waning days of the Belt War. CPR and PXC command deemed the potential mobilization of these assets by the 1st Fleet was to large a threat to ignore.

PXC and CPR assembled a formation under the flag of BHA consisting of 2 Destroyers, and 3 Small Craft alongside a sizable detachment of marines intended to seize and retreat functional vessels, and destroy anything else. The 1st Fleet not expecting the incursion into their space were caught unprepared alongside a small contingent of EFN crewmembers and were quickly overrun leaning to the capture of 2 Frigates, 3 Destroyers and the Armoured Cruiser Warspite which was previously presumed destroyed during the Belt War. After escaping from Enfield's immediate vicinity PXC and CPR leadership present at the raid went about distributing the spoils with PXC personnel stealing 2 Destroyers and 1 Frigate, while CPR personnel stole 1 Destroyer and 1 Frigate. PXC Personnel also stole the Warspite but waited to embark a significant number of the raiding team before attempting an escape. In the end after an intense stand off on the bridge of the Warspite between PXC and CPR forces they parted ways with CPR taking the destroyers and frigates while PXC left with the Warspite.

After the raid 1st Fleet would formally announce that an attack had taken place and that several warships had been stolen, along side EFN requesting assistance from a Rider stealth squadron located nearby in tracking down the stolen ships.

### Leadup to The Enfield War

After the Rider stealth assets revealed the location of the stolen vessels the 1st Fleet would demand their return from the factions who had them both initially denying allegations that they attacked the drydock, PXC would claim that they found Warspite adrift without power and with its drive assembly greatly damaged, but not buying it 1st Fleet officially declared war on PXC.

Around the same time CPR committed to destroying all evidence of the stolen ships using Atlas Squadron to destroy the ships in a staged battle before the Riders showed up to conduct an investigation into the incident.

### The Enfield War

The Enfield war would consist of 2 battles both fought on the tile of 1C just outside of Malta space as the EFN was participating in the evacuation of civilians at Malta Station, during this Evacuation the Pioneer Freedom Front would reveal its existence to the powers of the outer reach. The first battle was fought between 1st Fleet *Escalade* and PXC *Shipbreaker* and was the first combat deployment of the Battleship Apollyon's Fury in the battle two 1st fleet Destroyers would be destroyed. Not Deterred by the failed attack the 1st Fleet send a 2nd Squadron to attack the PXC *Daring* Daring Squadron consisted of the 1st Fleets own Battleship Iron Will two Light Cruisers and a Destroyer 1000. The battle would be fierce with the 1st Fleets DDK getting caught out early and being forced to retreat, undeterred the remaining vessels tried to gang up on the PXC ECM Destroyer only to be foiled by PXC's only Light Cruiser present which had to retreat shortly after, it was at this point that the Iron Will which had been sustaining considerable damager over time would get its jump drives jammed and would then be subsequently destroyed following which the 1st Fleet Light Cruisers would retreat.

After this 2nd battle 1st fleet would sign a tense peace with PXC which effectively ceased open hostilities but dint solve the underlying issue of the war.

### Inter-war Period

During the period after the Enfield War PXC would strengthen relations with the Khan United brokering a deal to use their shipyard to produce vessels, the Khans would also invite PXC alongside RR to an alliance with the goal of defending the system from the the newly revealed threat of the EDF. However due to miscommunicated intentions between CPR and PXC, the Pioneer Military Alliance would decide that CPR was to large of a wildcard on their backlines during a potential EDF invasion that a decision had to be made.

### Supremacy War

##### Turn 1

After a week of discussion it was revealed that the CPR knew that PMA was discussing a way to reduce its power and as such the PMA committed to dismantling the CPR launching attacks across 60% CPR controlled space and while the PXC was successful in taking 1B and sinking the CPR Battleship Remington the overall assault was a failure, with the Riders losing a battle in 3B, and two battles in 4B losing the entirety of Imperial Squadron which included the Battleship Ravager.

##### Turn 2

After this unsatisfactory opening turn to the war it was subsequently made worse by the 1st Fleet forming the Inter-System Union with CPR and entering the war against PMA. 1st Fleet would subsequently lock down PXC Shipbreaker squadron on 1C by attacking Malta with Crucible squadron. Meanwhile Dauntless squadron would defend 1B from CPR Gungnir while KU and RR assaulted the CPR HQ tile with KU Shiver Squadron with the addition of the Rider Light Cruiser Aroura, destroying 2 Light Cruisers at the cost of the Aroura. However a Failed attack by the Riders against 3B and CPRs own assault on the Rider Shipyard left the Riders in a poor spot and dividing the PMA forces in two.

##### Turn 3

The Following turn saw much of the same with a joint PMA squadron that contained the Warspite repelling 1st Fleet reinforcements from breaking the blockade of the CPR HQ, a squadron formed of all available PMA frigates retaking tile 3A from the retreating CPR squadron. The heaviest fighting occurred in the North with PXC Dauntless, and 1st Fleet Escalade swapping locations leading to PXC Wolf squadron with the Armoured Cruiser Alysium to retreat from 1B, and the CPR Gungnir squadron on 2B retreating back to 3B after battling PXC Dauntless for a 2nd time. The final battle of the turn saw 1st Fleet Daring and PXC Shipbreaker meet once again at Malta proper this time, and after early hits against 1st Fleet Light Cruiser Stygian Iron crippling the vessel for the remainder of the fight, a brief duel between PXC ECM destroyer Inquisitor, and 1st fleet Destroyer Gwain with the latter being destroyed, the CPR destroyer Stavanger getting picked off by RR frigate Gemini and PXC Light Cruiser Harsh Reality, the PXC vessel quickly closed in on the remaining 1st Fleet Light Cruisers with Battleship Apollyon's Fury delivering blows that split the Light Cruiser Brazen Drake in two destroying it, with the odds now stacked against them the ISU squadron commander allowed their fighter pilots to ram Malta in suicide runs which lead to minimal damage, seeing the writing on the wall the crippled Stygian Iron surrendered to the PXC after ensuring that their ship would not be salvageable leading to a total squadron loss on the side of 1st Fleet.

##### Turn 4

Continuing the momentum of the previous turn PMA sent a RR squadron to attack Remington Shipyards and cut off the supply of CPR warships ending in success, KU Pravada Squadron destroyed 2 vessels from CPR Astraea, and PXC Resurrection squadron beat back a 1st Fleet offensive into 2B by Crucible Squadron, and PXC Wolf and 1st Fleet did a drive by trading places with PXC taking 1B and 1st Fleet 1A.

##### Turn 5

It was meant to be the beginning of the end PMA forces were in prime positions to siege the CPR HQ to end the war, but discontent was growing in PMA the Khans United wanted to end the war then and there to put a stop to the violence with a peace treaty that neither satisfied the RR or the PXC this lead to a split in the PMA with the KU joining ISU and damning all hopes of ending the war quickly. With this new development PXC Wolf continued its pursuit of 1st Escalade which was making a break for KU territory and relative safety, PXC Dauntless would repel 1st Fleet Searing squadron destroying The DDK Two Strikes Silent and another destroyer in the process, PXC Resurrection would strike 2C destroying the FOB and crippling Crucible Squadron while losing one destroyer and then retreating when accumulated damage was to great, and then finally a PMA squadron consisting of four Frigates assaulted tile 3B defeating a weakened CPR Astraea consisting of two destroyers and two frigates, the Riders also repelled a similar attack by CPR on 3A but with a much heavier squadron. However the KU moved its heavy squadrons Pravada, and Shiver to enact a siege of the Rider HQ.

##### The Siege of The Wild Cantina

As the previous turn was winding down, the KU assault on The Wild Cantina began, Rider Notus squadron bolstered with the arrival of PXC light cruiser Revenant with several fighters met and ultimately defeated KU Pravada with no losses while destroying all four KU vessels, at the same time four RR destroyers met KU Shiver and were annihilated. After its defeat the KU started a retreat but not wanting to let an opportunity escape them Notus followed Shiver and began a Battle that was cut short by the arrival of the Pioneer Freedom Front, who up to this point had been a regular pain in every factions backsides with multiple vessels that outgunned the joint PMA-KU force, they were however saved by the swift arrival of the EFN Eternity's Advent who had been on a mission to capture the PFF leaders in the asteroid bent between tiles 4A and 4Z.

### Aftermath

In the aftermath of the Supremacy War and EFN sponsored and enforced peace deal was made, CPR would occupy tiles 3B, 4B, and 4C, 1st Fleet would be pushed back to tile 3C, RR would end up with 2Z, 2A, 3A, and 4A, KU would occupy 1Y, 2Y, 3Y, 4Y, 3Z, and 4Z and finally PXC would receive hat it desperately wanted and sought after a shipyard that would be built with the assistance of EFN and the other powers of Pioneer, and would occupy tiles 1Z, 1A, 1B, 2B, 1C, and 2C.

## Pre Season 4

### Post Supremacy War

Early in the aftermath of the Supremacy war 1st Fleet would see a civil war breakout between their forces in the Outer Reach Task Force Deliverance, and 1st Fleet Proper over a false flag attack intended to cause a war between the Riders and Khans United. After the situation between KU and RR was defused members of RR not happy with its leadership broke off taking the CH Amunet and occupied tiles 2Z, and 2A forming the Free Riders. The Pioneer Military Alliance would also disband due to rising tensions between RR and PXC, followed by FR and PXC breaking off relations after FR leaked plans between TFD, KU, and PXC to the EFN, CPR, 1st Fleet, and RR.

## Trivia

* The Phoenix Coalition were the first faction to kill a battleship in standard play and the only faction with 2 battleship kills on record.
* PXC is a **Stratocracy** meaning the military command is directly integrated with the governance of the faction.
* Cairo does **not** serve as an HQ but rather a large FOB, with a excess of Block Count and Weapons, Malta Operates as PXC's HQ.
* PXC one of the founding members of PMA and as of Season 3's end, still a member state.

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