Republic of the Free People

Emblem of the Republic of the Free People

## Other attributes

### Fourth

Other territorial holdings: Luna, hundreds of settlements across the asteroid belt, number of moons of Uranus, and also the de facto owners of LEO.

### Fifth

Parent Earth Nations: Indonesia, India, The Phillipines, and Pakistan

The **Republic of the Free People (RFP)** is a political entity that was established after the Cataclysm-induced evacuation of Earth. It is a coalition formed by several sovereign states, primarily including Indonesia, India, The Philippines, and Pakistan. The RFP serves as a governing body, headquartered on Mars, with settlements spanning across the asteroid belt, Luna (Earth's moon), and several moons of Uranus. They also have control over Low Earth Orbit (LEO), being the faction closest to old Earth. While other factions have settled in the outer planets and engage in conflicts over the resource-rich moons of the gas giants, the RFP has limited influence in those regions.

## History

The RFP was formed following the evacuation of Earth after the Cataclysm. Although many of the former sovereign nations of Earth attempted to coherently reform off world, all of them dissolved in the chaos of the aftermath. During the beginning of the Republic's formation, ideological differences between the constituent states threatened to destroy it. Such an alliance could only be held together by the Cataclysm - and the threat of extinction of the entire human race.

The population of the Republic was initially composed of the evacuated masses launched into LEO (low Earth orbit) by the skyhooks of India and Pakistan, inside of what amounted to human sized sardine cans. Ultimately, this method of ferrying people off world was cheaper than any other technique by nearly one quarter of magnitude, and huge amounts of citizens from across the planet flocked to Indonesia to get a chance to escape Earth.

As the years went by, and the chaos of evacuating an entire species off of a planet subsided, the coalitions discovered that they were far more coherent as governing bodies than their constituent nation states, and that they often consisted more of people from different nation states than of people from the original nations. As a result, the coalitions remained in place, and have, more or less, over the years, as humanity has spread from LEO and Luna to the rest of the solar system.

The Republic itself is now headquartered on Mars, and has hundreds of settlements across the asteroid belt. Other major claims include Luna, and a number of moons of Uranus. Additionally, they are the faction closest to old Earth, being the de-facto "owner" of LEO. Unlike most of the other factions, the Republic has very little influence in the outer planets where most of the other factions have settled, constantly fighting over the resource-rich moons of the four gas giants.

## Trivia

* Though the mission briefings in the campaign are late to explicitly say this, they make it unsubtly clear that the RFP's military conduct is indefensibly immoral, illegal and unethical - there are few taboos not breached by the President, player character, or briefer in the campaign. The only defense ever offered by the briefings for these offenses is the allegation that they are in some way necessary, though it is not clear why these would be necessary; campaign managers often make the decisions of admirals. The only taboos unbroken here are that despite the nepotism, the war is not clearly personal and that the player character usually spares civilians.

## Ship Names

* Terraborn
* Frozen Fission
* Scorched Polaris
* Earthset
* Fusion Flower
* Singularity Petal
* Aleph Wavelet
* Gamma Rarefaction
* Forever Pulse
* Stairway to Infinity
* Dipole Hourglass
* Evanescent Frequency
* Deuterium Snowflake
* De Broglie Rainbow
* Mach Wave
* Naked Singularity
* Halcyon Memory
* Fissile Wave
* Solarsong
* Magnetic Winter
* Solar Tempest
* Heliosheath
* The Unshock
* 506 Kelvin
* Plasma Wake
* Planetshine
* Magnetic Star
* Electric Frost
* Townsend Avalanche
* Maxwell's Demon
* Sonic Diffractor
* Laputan Machine
* Shock Diamond
* Hedera Queen
* Fortress Echo
* Jenny Haniver
* Boson Golem
* Timelike Tacheyon
* The Never Event
* Epithermal Resonance
* Eternal Equinox
* Ultraviolet Thunder
* Ne Cede Malis
* Impending Phoenix

### Flagship Names

* Gravity's Rage
* Young Obsidian
* Null Horizon
* Black Sun
* Autumn Supernova
* Termination Shock
* Hellfire Impeller
* Aye Mak Sicur