Perūnian-American Peoples Party

The **Perūnian-American Peoples Party** (**PAPP**) was a Perūnian international political resistance movement and separatist militant organization that engaged in combat and other forms of direct action, often violent in nature, in protest of cooperation with the United Nations, anything the organization deemed "anti-American" and generally against the rise of socialism and leftism in the advent of the Alekian Partition. It was founded in the province of West Alékos sometime in the early 1st century XTE. It's founding can be most attributed to a rise in anti-UN sentiment and political strife caused as a result of the Alekian Partition. As of 102 XTE, with the deaths of most of its leaders in the Perūnian Counterinsurgency and a fall in separatist sentiment, the group became defunct.

## History

### Foundation and operations under Free Perūn

PAPP was founded by American exiles in early 1st century XTE, acting as an anti-UN, pro-American, paramilitary group. They underwent many changes in personnel and leadership, though the main premise of the group remained the same. Like other nationality-based paramilitary groups, PAPP was generally composed of exiles and fugitives fleeing or being removed from United Nations territories. The group presented itself as a nationalist and patriotic organization that wished to end the United Nation's reign over solar territories and resettle Terra for the American people. The founding members of PAPP fought in the Second Terrean War for a number of different groups defending Terra from United Nations forces. After the war, they fled to Perūn where the PAPP was formed.

PAPP was most active during the Second Terrean War (2-44 XTE) but remained politically active in the rural provinces of Perūn for decades after. At the height of it's power, it claimed to have over fifty chapters in operation. Prior to the founding of modern Perūn, members of PAPP associated with some of the largest criminal syndicates and mobs that ran protection rackets and controlled large parts of the colonies.

### The Perūnian Insurgency

PAPP cells operated clandestinely and consisted of smaller groups of various right-wing ideologies. Though leadership of the group posited that it had no direct link to ethnonationalist or separatist movements, it was revealed in a 35 XTE data leak that various entities, committees and militias ostensibly associated white nationalist and Perūnian separatist ideology provided a major amount of funding to the founders of the organization. Though the perpetrator has never been revealed, militia leader George Clarke claimed to have unequivocal proof that members of the Perūnian Armed Forces were behind the leak. This unsubstantiated claim was sufficient enough evidence for the leadership of the PAPP, (then a council of 7 members) who unanimously agreed on September 17, 35 XTE to begin an armed rebellion against the government of the Sectoral Republic of Perūn. Within a week, PAPP mustered between 4 and 5 thousand rebels in rural West Alekōs and placed them under the command of George Clarke.

### Decline and evolution

Hope for resettling Terra waned after the Second Terrean War due to UN patrols and a lack of communication signals from the planet. A growing number of exiles began to promote reconciliation between the UN and the new intersolar states as well as potential peaceful methods of change on Terra. Some of the less politically extreme members broke off and started a group known as The Terralliance which promotes interplanetary cooperation to purge Terra of destructive groups and begin peaceful immigration to the planet.