Union of Anti-Communists

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*Hammers and sickles on banners of red*

*Hammers and sickles would see freedom dead*

*Our children’s tomorrow they’d like to destroy*

*Yes, hammers and sickles make very poor toys!*

- *Hammers and Sickles,* from the British children's show, *The Magic Roundabout*
The **UAC**, The **Union of Anti-Communists** in its official title, is an Alliance based paramilitary international organization dedicated to the destruction and erasure of Communism and its influence in the world, with its current headquarters in London. Making use of upgraded weaponry from the past decade coupled with new developments from the UAC's own science divisions, the UAC is prepared and well supported with its goals, although there are hints of something much darker going on within their ranks, and the regions that are lousy with them.

## At A Glance

 **Motives** | Nationalism, Capitalism, Anti-Communism, Revenge

## Background

### Red Dawn Rising

*“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”*

-General MacArthur in a rallying speech to the newly formed UAC, 1934.
The fall of the continental United States to the tide of Communism was perhaps one of the most important events in the history of the early 20th century, for better or for worse. The effects of such a monumental change on the world stage, perhaps only challenged by the rise of the Fascist Alliance of Free States or the rippling effects of the First World War, have created many wondrous, and often destructive, linked events or organizations to rise within its wake. It was from one of these political ripples that the Union of Anti-Communists arose from the ashes.

In 1933, General Douglas MacArthur, after a failed putsch and the following American Civil War between the Whites and the Reds, fled with his White army to the island nation of Cuba, accompanied by thousands of scared civilians, American Fascists and other white supremacy groups that were no longer welcomed in the newly formed UASR, such as the Second Klan, the Silver Shirts and the Sons of Liberty. While President MacArthur’s control over Cuba and Puerto Rico was set with help of his loyal soldiers, coupled with help from the sympathetic Fuller and the British Royal Navy, the General knew that he needed to form a cohesive and structured defence group, an organization along the lines of Fuller’s Black Watch, that could help defend the US remnants in case of a Communist invasion. So, within a couple of years after their exodus to Cuba, the Union of Anti-Communists, or the American Anti-Communist League as it was known before 1939, was formed.

Officially, from their headquarters in Havana, the AACL pledged to defend the shores of Cuba from Communist attacks and support the republican government as it entrenched itself even deeper into their Caribbean empire. Unofficially, the group acted akin to a secret police, rooting out any suspected Communist sympathizers and spies that would see MacArthur fall like DC, and to detain them at their secondary, unofficial headquarters located in the Guantanamo bay region, where the first advances into the infamous PHS technology were made in the late 1950’s.

Many of the members of the AACL were made up of average Americans, loyal capitalists who had fled the march of the Red Horde, who were given basic military training and surplus weapons that the American White Army found to be outdated for their use, as well as funding directly from the central government. Other members had already been apart of previous paramilitary or military trained militias, so they often rose to a position of command within the fledgling organization. Loyal, brave and now with limited military training and support, the AACL portrayed themselves as one of the last bastions of a free America, defenders of the sacred US constitution, and the enemy of Communists everywhere.

The AACL soon became demonized by the UASR, as many of the things that the AACL stood for was both against the UASR's Communist rhetoric, and as some pointed out, the AACL was even more extreme than that of the ‘regressive’ conservatives that had plagued Congress and the previous American Government since the end of the First Great War. Many in the AACL declared any form of social welfare as an obvious Communist ploy in order to overthrow President MacArthur, and many of the high ranking members of the AACL urged MacArthur to form even closer ties with the forming Alliance in Europe. Many in the USAR, and later the International, found their hardline Conservative views as repulsive when compared to the blossoming liberties that the Comintern boasted, to say nothing of their support for the abolished Jim Crow Laws. The AACL stated that they championed the new American-Cuban middle class, embedding themselves into the very narrative of the nation, while policing what would have developed into an underclass of Socialist poison, if you listened to the popular rhetoric that they used. Posters and propaganda declaring American superiority rained over the island nation, often declaring that the Communist serpent would be defeated off the back of the likes of the AACL.

Many UASR, and a few of MacArthur’s government, believed the AACL to be little more than a poor excuse for a joke, a leftover remnant from a metaphorical dark age in American History. And maybe, if the AACL stayed in Cuba and Puerto Rico, they might have been on to something with that assumption. However, it wasn’t just in Cuba that Anti-Communist movements began to form. Over in the United Kingdom, a similar organization began to form, one that would help change the AACL forever.

### London Calling Havana

*“Communism, my fellow citizens, is the first refuge of incompetence and the first step on the road to ruin. We must not allow any Communist to corrupt our Empire, at any cost.”*

-Aaron Ford Roman, founder of the British Anti-Communist Organization, in a speech in 1931.
During the 1920’s and 1930’s, the British Empire went through many changes. The victors of the First World War, the rulers of the largest Empire the world had ever seen, and the birthplace of what would eventually be the Alliance of Free States, it was a melting pot of ideas, both good and bad. It was in this Empire that the British Anti-Communist Organization was formed, on the 25th of June, 1931.

Founded by the young Irishman Aaron Ford Roman, the BACO claimed to do everything that the current British government was too scared to do. As an imperial nation, and one founded on almost a millennium of nigh continuous royalty, the very thought and idea of Communism scared many in the British Isles. Spartacist revolts in the 1920’s in Germany and the growing socialist movement in the once proud USA caused many to fear that the very same could happen to the United Kingdom, which Roman and his inner circle used to gain a measure of control. Based on a pledge to never let the British Isles fall to the Communist Empire, and even making promises of defending the sovereign right of Europe and its colonies to not have Communism forced on them, the BACO caught the interest of the public, and of one John Fuller himself, who befriended Roman on his way to becoming Prime Minister.

Many BACO regional Headquarters were established in the poor, run down regions of London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, with the intent of rooting out Communist infiltrators and sympathisers from the British shores. While many members of the BACO were just simple militiamen that had no formal military training, Roman was smart enough to appeal to veterans of the Great War, claiming that their blood in the Trenches would have been worth nothing if Communism ever came to power in the UK, a line that many believed in his powerful rhetoric.

When America fell to Communism off the back of MacArthur’s failed putsch, Roman and the BACO were the first to cry out to help the fallen General. When Fuller came to power in 1933, the BACO swore allegiance to the new fascist leader, and petitioned to be allowed to support the Cuban based American Remnants. Roman was very interested with the developments in Cuba, as he saw potential, like-minded individuals that could be used to further the goals and campaigns of the BACO, in their never-ending fight against Communism.

Fuller agreed with Roman, and arranged for him and several high-ranking BACO members to go along with a diplomatic party to Cuba in the spring of 1934, in order to properly show how much the British Empire took the plight of the Americans seriously. In a now famous picture, often used by many in the Alliance and UAC to show their unity, Roman and MacArthur shook hands following Roman's private meeting with the President. A few months later, MacArthur announced the plans to form the American Anti-Communist League.

Meanwhile, in the UK, the methods of the BACO began to grow more extreme, as Fuller’s fascist rhetoric began to seep into BACO’s high command. Government funds and even surplus weapons began to find their way to Roman, in a situation that was now beginning to mimic that of the rise of the AACL in Cuba. Over the next few years, the BACO and the AACL grew closer as techniques and even new technology developed by the two groups were shared. By 1938, primitive machines that would one day be the K-9 drones could be occasionally seen on the streets of London and Havana, although they lacked the sophistication of the later models, and every new report from Guantanamo about the interrogation system and the methods that would become PHS always ended up Roman’s hands in little over a week of being written. MacArthur and Roman kept up a private correspondence, discussing new methods for the two groups, and collaborating on their views of how to combat the Communist menace. While the details of these letters are known only by a handful of people on the planet, the one thing that can be gathered from them, is what happened in 1939.

In 1939, Roman, MacArthur and several high ranking members of both the BACO and the AACL, met in a conference hall in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.It was a monumental conference, for multiple reasons. Firstly, it was the first time that MacArthur had left Cuba since 1933, and such a meeting, many in the forming Alliance would argue, could potentially change the game in the brewing war, depending on the outcome.

Little over four hours after arriving at the conference hall, Roman and MacArthur declared that the BACO and AACL would benefit more, and be a greater weapon against Communism, if they joined as one large supergroup, now named as the Union of Anti-Communists. They pledged to destroy Communism, with MacArthur as the supreme head of the UAC and direct leader of the Cuban branch, and Roman being his second-in-command, and direct head of the United Kingdom Branch. The paramilitary forces of both groups were merged into the UAC Defense Forces, with the general idea to be judge, jury and executioner to Communists, although whether they meant that literally or figuratively would not become clear until the mid to late 1960s, when Roman succeeded MacArthur.

The Cuban Senate and Fuller’s Britain applauded the pro-active actions of the new UAC in the war on Communism, and funding, weapons and training increased, as the two governments believed that the likes of the UAC could be a lynchpin in the upcoming war against the International Comintern. Public support for the UAC only continued to grow, flooding their ranks with newly forged Anti-Communists.

With only a little persuasion, Spain, France Atlantis,, Germany and Italy all formed their own branches of the UAC, all answering the Havana and London. Portugal, the Low Countries, and even in the likes of Brazil and the Middle East soon followed with joining the UAC Defense Forces, and multiple smaller Anti-Communist groups that had existed in the era of the AACL and BACO were simply absorbed with a word here and a political assassination there if the leader of such a group decided that the UAC was too regressive for their tastes.

Soon, over the ten years as the world hurtled towards the October 31st, 1950, the UAC only grew in support and power. They, like the rest of the International, were ready for War.

### Run, Commie, Run

*“Gentlemen, we are now at war with the Communist Empire. I repeat, we are now at war with the Communists. All UAC personnel must report to their nearest headquarters for further instruction from Havana and London. We are at war. We shall destroy Communism. ”*

-The radio broadcast by Aaron Roman on the 31st of October, 1950.
By the mid 1940’s, both President MacArthur and Aaron Roman knew of the looming war that Fuller was brewing, and they both increased their efforts with recruiting and building up the UAC in the few years they had left to prepare. MacArthur hoped that the Alliance would crush the UASR and that he would be able to transform the Continental US back to what it was before 1933, but Roman was a lot more cautious and less inclined to think of what he’d do when Fuller won, and more on how to make sure Fuller would win. Roman organized UAC troops to French Indochina, the Germanic Nations, and of course, all throughout Canada. While Roman would never say it at the time, he had doubts of the Alliance’s power against nations such as the USSR, UASR and even the war torn Communist Chinese. But, despite his doubt, he was determined to make the Comintern bleed for every inch of ground that they’d try to take, and he wanted the UAC to be the ones to do that.

And so, the War went on. As the Alliance swamped Eastern Europe and marched through the American Midwest, the UAC slowly followed, sweeping aside any remaining Communists and taking them to UAC manned detention camps that were constructed in the wake of the Alliance’s blue wave. MacArthur’s Cuban branch assisted in the conquest of the smaller mesoamerican socialist states, and the Asiatic posting of several UAC branches marched into China to assist the failing Kuomintang that had allied with them. Things were going to MacArthur’s plan, but Roman still held his reservations about the war. He knew that, eventually, the reds would fight back.

And fight back they did. By the middle of the war, most theatres of war had turned into massive meat grinders, neither side wishing to cede any ground to their hated of enemies. Atrocities were carried out on a daily basis by Alliance forces, and the UAC were often assistants to these, claiming that they were only do what was needed to root out and destroy Communism once and for all. The UAC was used to police captured territory, freeing up more Alliance troops to fight directly against the International, although Roman was concerned about this. The UAC’s resources, despite being plentiful before the war, had become increasingly stretched by 1953, and Roman found that stretching the UAC’s forces over the multiple theatres of Eastern Europe, South and North America, Africa, the Middle East and Southern China, was leading to an almost complete collapse of the UAC’s ability to properly combat the Communist enemy. Roman faced a tough decision, and one that would change the UAC forever.

He ordered many of the UAC’s troops to retreat to territory held by the Alliance before the war, and this was not done a moment too soon, as a few weeks after this order, Japan and their African Allies rose up to aid the Comintern. MacArthur was outraged by Roman’s orders, and demanded that the UAC’s Central American branches continue fighting against the Communists, who complied, but many of the European and Colonial branches followed Roman’s orders instead. The UAC helped the French forces retreat from Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam as the Communist-supported Vietminh rose up against the Alliance. The Soviet push into Germany was slowed considerably by the entrenched UAC troops, all of whom would gladly give their lives before they saw Berlin fall into Communist hands. The Suez Canal, the vital lifeline for the Alliance saw some of the heaviest UAC defences, as Alliance troops marched to hold off the Communists sweeping through the Middle East, as well as African insurgents that wanted to see the Alliance banished from the Continent forever. What limited counterattacks the UAC could assist the Alliance with helped, but everyone knew that a quick end to the war was all but shattered.

Back home in the British Isles, the Socialist backed Phoenix Front rose to fight Fuller’s fascism, and in the second most difficult decision of Roman’s life, ordered the UAC to fire upon, capture and kill his countrymen that he once loved so dearly. Not only would this action put Aaron Roman at the top of the Phoenix Front’s hit list and aggravate the Irish Troubles for years to come, but it also haunted the man, who would later write to MacArthur saying that the Irish situation was his “*greatest regret in this life. If only things could have been different.*”

In 1956, the writing was on the wall for the Alliance, as Comintern and their allied troops fought tooth and nail against the Fascists and the UAC. By this point, Central America was once again completely lost, and MacArthur was forced to retreat back to Cuba, bunkering down with the UAC and White American Army as the might of the ravaged UASR was about to bear down on them. Still, the UAC would never surrender, even as Havana, London, Paris and Saigon were reinforced and Roman awaited the Communist Juggernaut on England’s shores.

But that day never came. The Comintern wanted peace. They withdrew from the now ravaged pre-war Alliance territories, and both Fuller, MacArthur and Roman could breath a collective sigh of relief, knowing that they had been able to escape punishment for what crimes they had unleashed on the world. Roman, almost immediately, set about seeing how the UAC could be improved, and studying their field reports for what could be improved in any future battles with the Communist Superpower. MacArthur was less collected about the situation, cursing the Alliance for not being able to retake the US, and, over a series of meetings with Roman in the following months, almost completely blamed the defeat of the Alliance on Roman’s hesitation to commit UAC forces to the different theatres, and called his withdrawal of UAC troops in certain theatres as almost treasonous. However, neither Fuller, nor the people of the Alliance saw Roman as a traitor. To Fuller, he was useful, and if not for his assassination in 1957, it is likely Fuller could have seen to Roman as a potential successor, while the people lauded the UAC as heroes, complete and true, and in some circles, even stated that they were the only ones that stopped the Comintern from destroying the Alliance once and for all, both of which forced MacArthur to keep his criticism of Roman to his private circles, but it was clear that the two friends would never be on the same terms again.

But, over the next few years, the UAC would see some of the biggest changes yet, it terms of the Thornley administration, and the new leadership of UAC in 1960.

### When in London, Do as Roman Does

*“Order, Mr. Roman. We are the last vanguard against the destruction of human civilization. We are Order, and Order is the Union of Anti-Communists.”*

-Walter Erin, at Aaron Roman’s acceptance conference for the role of UAC’s High Commander, 1960.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Roman saw that the UAC needed to vastly change its tactics and form if it was to properly combat the Communist threat, although this was marred by many things, slowing the progress that Roman would have otherwise made. Firstly, the rift that grew between Roman and President MacArthur due to the former’s conduct in WW2 only got larger, as Roman wanted to move away from MacArthur’s plan of building up UAC forces on Cuba, and more on rebuilding a ravished Europe. MacArthur and Roman soon found themselves arguing, and the other regional UAC leaders were starting to worry if they needed to choose a side. However, the assassination of Fuller, in 1957, saw the arguments between the two leaders silenced, although only temporarily, as the Alliance got adjusted to the new, slightly more liberal Thornley administration.

While Thornley was arguably less enraptured with the UAC than Fuller was, the new leader still saw the potential in them, seeing them as yet another weapon to use, much like Epsilon was. Roman continued his planning and redesigning of the UAC, supporting efforts in the Indochina and closer to home in Ireland. While the War was over, there were still a lot of fires that needed to be put out with the rise in Socialist Guerrilla activity across the globe.

In 1959, a newly joined member of the UAC caught Roman’s eye, and the two quickly fell into conversation. The man was Walter Erin, a fellow Irishman like Roman, and one who had claimed to have supported the UAC since its earliest days, although the overall tension in Ireland had made it impossible for him to join the UAC without gaining the ire of the Phoenix Front and other like minded Irish groups. Within a few months, Roman had seen to it that Erin had risen through the ranks of the UAC, and was quickly announced as Roman’s right hand man in the UAC. While many, at first, considered it unusual and borderline deviant for such an unknown to rise through the ranks like this, these doubts were silenced when, in 1960, President MacArthur announced his withdrawal from the UAC and Roman, the highest-ranking member in the UAC after MacArthur, was declared as the new leader of the entire UAC, and he was assumed the role with almost complete universal acceptance in the UAC for this role.

Now, Roman could set his plans into action. The international base of the UAC was moved from Havana to London in the summer of 1960, and Roman secured funding and scientists from Thornley in order to set up their own scientific research departments. All experiments with PHS technology were removed from Guantanamo, and instead, the new PHS research base was established in the Isle of Dogs in London. Money was funneled into developing and refining drone technology that had stagnated after its promise in the 1930’s, and smaller scale particle accelerators, known as Betatron Accelerators, started to be built, amongst other things. The majority of these new technologies were kept under lock and key, as Roman had misgivings about some of the other branches of the Alliance, most notably, Geoffrey in Epsilon, and was concerned about letting the more dangerous UAC technology fall into such hands. While Thornley threw money at masses of new, strange super weapons, such as Spectrum weaponry and Iron Curtain technology, and that’s ignoring all the top secret government projects Epsilon were conducting, the UAC kept their science divisions busy with simpler, but just as effective, technology.

By 1970, Roman and Erin realised what was going to happen. Thornley, much like his predecessor, was building for a war against the Communists. Erin managed to convince Roman to step up the UAC for the coming war, and the UAC began to expand once again.

The UAC had seen a massive influx of numbers in the post war years, as many citizens saw them as brave, loyal soldiers who would defend the world against the ‘Communist Empire’. Many fell in with their rhetoric, and even more came for the chance to defeat Communism in UAC’s way. More and more promises of the defeat of Communism rose, and many in the UASR felt threatened by the lines that Roman was laying against them. And this is to say nothing of the treatment of perceived Communists by UAC.

Anybody who even breathed about Socialism or social liberties were likely to be taken away by the UAC, never to be seen again, or if they were, then they would be almost completely different to when they were taken. In groups like the Phoenix Front and the Vietminh, rumours began to spread of something being off about the members of the UAC, that they were different to normal people. Often, these rumours could be boiled down to ‘there’s just something wrong with these people’. But, in the Alliance, people loved the UAC. They were heroes. Roman was a national hero, one who could be held up as a representation of everything that the Alliance dreamed of, and so much more. Even the mysterious Erin, the wildcard in UAC’s deck, was seen as a charming and decent representative of the organization, gaining as much a rapport with the common Alliance citizen as Roman did.

But, as things began to spiral, as they did prior to the Second World War and as the world began to move faster and faster to the sounds of the Third World War, the UAC became even more prepared. Guns were stockpiled, armour made for the troops. The old tanks, helicopters and boats that the UAC used were all refurbished and the weaponry upgraded. New forms of drones and scientific weaponry were stored in secret in UAC warehouses across the globe, and Roman and Erin sat down to devise a plan.

The Alliance would be focused on the Comintern, and Thornley was too narrow-minded to consider other possibilities. Erin reminded Roman of Japan's and Africa’s involvement in the Second World War, and he made Roman realise that the likelihood of the two returning to fight were high. In the Pacific Alliance states and India, more UAC troops were deployed, keeping a close eye on China as well. Whatever forsaken French and British colonies in Africa also saw a sharp increase of UAC deployment and activity, most under the pretense of clamping down on Communist insurgents. However, Roman and Erin didn’t stop there. Other factors, like the Guardian’s of Monarchy, who had stayed out of WW2, needed to be watched, and Roman order the UAC’s spy program to begin investigations into Geoffrey and Epsilon, as Roman feared that such an organization could either be the saviour, or the killer of both the Alliance, and the UAC.

Soon, there was little to do but sit back and wait for the Third World War to start. And, on the 3rd of January, 1982, the War began.

### Dance With the Devil

*“**BETTER DEAD THAN RED, COMMIE!**”*

-UAC graffiti seen throughout Alliance Occupied Territory during the Third World War.
The Third World War was perhaps the greatest, most destructive war that the Earth had ever fought, and the UAC played an instrumental role in assisting the Alliance and Thornley with the war effort. The attacks were quick, powerful, and wherever the Alliance marched, Roman’s troops followed. The Cuban branch of the UAC spearheaded the American White Army’s assault on Miami and the Mexican Gulf, while other branches in the Integralist Bloc aided their march though mesoamerica. In Eastern Europe, the UAC found itself marching through Kiev and Minsk, capturing and killing Communist resistors to the will of the Alliance, and the likes of the Phoenix Front teetered on the brink of destruction as the newly formed Irish UAC launched localised assaults against their positions. Soon, both the Alliance and the UAC stood on the threshold of Moscow, and as the USSR’s high command prepared to fall back to Uralgrad, the whole world looked like it would fall to the might of Fascism.

But of course, even the best laid plans go awry. In the fall of 1983, the newly dubbed Field Marshall and head of UAC, Aaron Roman, learnt of a truth that he had long feared. His spies reported that all documentation about Geoffrey and his role with Epsilon were in fact, faked. A realization dawned on both Roman and Erin, and they set out the call to mobilize what they called, ‘Plan Q-67’. Immediately, the call for London’s UAC members to safeguard the hidden warehouses and the Isle of Dogs research labs was sent out, and the UAC’s command hub in London set about feverishly to warn the other UAC branches of the impending danger. Less than twenty-four hours later, Epsilon rose against the Alliance.

The armies of Epsilon had access to the powerful weapons and psychic powers that they had researched, but not access to the science of the UAC. With the betrayal revealed, and the infamous Psychic Dominators set to activate all over the world, Roman and the UAC moved against the Epsilon forces in London. A Psychic Dominator was discovered to be in London itself, and a nearby Alliance garrison had all been forced under the mental thrall of Epsilon. Roman ordered Plan Q-67 into effect, and the ace up UAC’s sleeve was revealed to the world: The newly developed Q-67 Combat Drones and the Q-62 Anti-Vehicular Drones rolled out of the previous secretive UAC warehouses, and Betatron weaponry was quickly distributed amongst the UAC troopers and commanded straight at Epsilon’s London force.

The battle was intense, with UAC’s Drones and what Alliance soldiers remained assaulting Epsilon's base. The action of the UAC took both Geoffrey and Thornley by surprise, as neither had realized what Roman’s scientists had been working on. While many of the Q-67’s were destroyed, their immunity to Epsilon’s psychic abilities allowed the joint UAC and Alliance soldiers to shut down the Psychic Dominator, and free London from the immediate threat of the Dominion.

However, things soon went from bad, to worse. With Epsilon’s legions carving both the Alliance’s troops and the Comintern’s workers to pieces, the discovery that the Communists had allowed the Alliance to burrow too deep into their territory in a strategy to weaken them, and possible action being taken against Roman and Erin for the secretive development of the Q-67, things looked bleak for the UAC. But then, the Axis rose, as Roman and Erin had anticipated, at least, partially.

As Japan swamped over the world, the Africans rose in the colonies, and the Guardian’s of the Monarchy striking at anywhere they passed, the Alliance was caught unprepared, but the ever vigilant UAC wasn’t. As UAC’s Amazonian regiments fought in Brazil, the Vietnamese UAC reinforced Saigon and the Colonial Branches attempted offenses in the Congo, Roman set his limited fleets against areas the Majestica Inclusive and Pacifica Traders conducted their raids. But UAC was becoming stretched again, and Roman could only rely on the support the citizens of the Alliance showered on him for his actions in London for so long. This war, a war that was meant to be as simple as red against blue, was soon becoming a mix of orange, purple, grey and every other colour known to man. It was chaos come to life.

Thornley drew troops from the fronts with the International to battle against the Axis and Epsilon, and Roman ordered UAC to follow. The UAC saw extended action in the Battle of Tokyo against the Axis, and there were even Artic troopers from UAC assisting the Alliance in its monumental assault against Epsilon but, by the time the war had entered the closing stages however, the Alliance had been pushed to its pre-war borders, despite the Axis now suing for peace and Epsilon suffering heavily as its Antarctic base was under assault. Thornley declared that the Alliance could beat the International once and for all, and began plans for a brand new offensive. But the UAC, and others, had decided that the war needed to end. At the end, the UAC threw its lot in with Manning’s Coup, unknown to them that the Comintern supported it as well. Thornley jettisoned himself into space, and Manning took control as the new head of the Alliance. Roman, Erin and the rest of the UAC swore allegiance to Manning, and peace was settled between the four sides. UAC began the long road to helping rebuild the Alliance nations.

In the short time since the Third World War finally ended, the UAC has been working hard, in multiple ways. With the rise of organizations such as the infamous World Liberation Army, UAC’s Middle Eastern Branches fought against them. Similar situations arose all around the world, wherever anti-Alliance insurgencies took place. Vietnam and Ireland saw increased UAC action, although there are rumours that Walter Erin is trying to convince Roman to withdraw the UAC from the Emerald Isle. Meanwhile, the UAC has been rebuilding its drones, under the watchful eye of Manning, who began to demand that all research conducted by branches of the Alliance to be shared, lest a repeat of Epsilon happens. While the UAC keeps its drone work on the table, the leaps and bounds that they made into PHS technology during the Third World War were kept under wraps, a decision many in the UAC felt was the right one.

Meanwhile, the UAC has also had to deal with anger at it from the Comintern, accusing them of lacing the water supplies of UAC occupied nations with soporific drugs and using them as a test bed for strange experiments to do with the mind. Accusations of the UAC being directly linked to the rise in diagnosed cases of Dissociative Identity Disorders in territory that had seen massive increases UAC activity during the war, and even citing rumours of the same thing happening in Alliance territory with high UAC presence. Roman denies these accusations, claiming that the tainting of the water supplies could just have easily been an Axis or Epsilon ploy, and that mental disorders tend to increase during wartime.

But, now, the UAC wait and plan. They have access to one of the greatest industrial bases in the world, and money flows into UAC’s London Headquarters at an increased rate, helped by the fact that the Alliance now doesn’t need to waste money on Epsilon’s petty experiments anymore. On a daily basis, UAC representatives from Paris, Havana, Saigon and elsewhere meet with Roman and the ever present Erin, to discuss the plans they have for the future. Everywhere that the UAC is, the people march to their orders. The UAC and Roman are seen as heroes, more so than they were in WW2. Citizens that would lay their lives down for the UAC, and would loyally help maintain and support the UAC’s Defense Forces in preparation for the next conflict. With more and more support growing within the Alliance for the UAC, Roman and Erin march forward with their self-appointed mission.

The mission to eradicate Communism, to make the UAC the saviours of the world. UAC will be first, second and third. UAC will be the order to drive the chaos of the Earth into the dirt. UAC will be *forever*.

## The UAC Defense Forces

### Nationalist Recruits

Unlike the well trained and disiplined troops of the UAC, Nationalist recruits tend to be less well armoured and armed, but also much, much cheaper. These troops are used as stop-gaps until funds are enough that the UAC's real infantry can march on the field.