Fulcrum Tactical Oversight Committee - Yulea

The **Fulcrum Tactical Oversight Committee - Yulea** was an armed military and political organization formed in early 1960 in the wake of continuous Fulcrumite losses in the War of the End-Times as well as the Johninian Project: Permanence. Despite its committed military efforts against the SRJ and Continuity Fulcrum, as well as successful dialogue with numerous ICO Security Council members, the Rygard Pact would force their dissolution by the end of the conflict.

## History

The Committee declared its ‘independence’ shortly after the failed March Plot, where republic-sympathetic Johninian officers and Fulcrumite military officials attempted to assassinate Anton Styl, then seize Axiom and other key military sites.

Following the Plot’s failure, the Committee declared a “Caretaker Government” run by high-ranking civil servants in the Council of the Heads of State of the Fulcrum and made diplomatic overtures to ICO/Rygard Coalition forces, which were largely ignored. Rogue forces under the Committee began insurgencies in occupied Gresia, Vestrax, and northern Ospalar, with most support coming from Motezor. Fulcrumite sympathizers in Airolia, Kanoria, the Di’Aamascene Accords, Duchies of Lyrinae and Aquilon, and elsewhere rose up under the banner and loose command of the Committee. Committee regulars were made up of security forces from the FAII, FNC, FSEC, and various defectors from Fulcrum member-states.

They were initially centered in the Fulcrumite Mikhaelican colony of Neveau-Equilibrium, a small-scale semi-permanent (but not self-sufficient) outpost, but Rygard security forces stationed on a separate colony achieved an immediate Fulcrumite surrender by threatening an assault that the Committee would be unable to repel. The headquarters was then moved to the Orbital Scientific Centre, then moved once again to the FAII Central Auspice–which was currently under siege–then again to FAII Ontogeny & Analysis, before that too fell under enemy control. By then, much of the caretaker government had been captured by either Continuity Fulcrum or Coalition forces, and the Fulcrum Joint Ground Command assumed ‘civil governance’– though, due to the insurgent nature of the Committee, this was little more than symbolic. After the fall of Ontogeny & Analysis, the Committee was divided into numerous cells, councils, and military juntas loosely under the control of a moving capital.

In 1961, prolonged contact between the Committee and ICO was made, and it was agreed that ICOEF I would supply Committee forces. A ceasefire was negotiated and plans to recognize them as the official successor government to the SRJ had made substantial progress due to continuing Fulcrumite sympathies in Airolia as well as the partially-democratic nature of the rebels. However, the Rygard Pact vehemently blocked and prevented any efforts to allow Fulcrumite Socialism or its vestiges to exist in a post-war world, and the (then in-exile) Republic of Ospalar declared the Committee ‘one step away from another genocide’. While Committee forces would assist ICO/Rygard advances on numerous occasions, most notably in the Battle of Equilibrium, Rygard opinions would remain entirely static throughout the war.

The Treaty of Courentia mandated their immediate disbandment, disarmament, and their branding as a terrorist organization. The fates of Committee leaders varied, with cells in Rygardist occupation zones being completely disbanded and their leadership hanged or imprisoned. Cells who surrendered or were captured in ICO or Airolian occupation zones were often disarmed and made to renounce their loyalty to the Fulcrum and Fulcrumite socialism and then allowed to be let free. Several high-profile Committee members, or their descendants, would later end up as police chiefs, politicians, or international bureaucrats in the region. Many former soldiers would be recruited to ICOPOL forces in the ICO occupation zone.