Maior Exército Brasileiro

## Lore Overview

The **Maior Exército Brasileiro (MEB)** is the military force of the Brazilian Republic (BR). It is the main backer and supporter of the People's Republic of Tidewater (PRT) and its military, the People's Republic of Tidewater: Military (PRT:M). Compared to the PRT:M, the MEB is vastly superior in terms of firepower, technology, equipment, and training, but offers spare equipment to them. Occasionally, the MEB can be seen assisting the PRT:M in battles against the United States of America (USA) and its military, the United States Military (USM). However, their main rival remains the Royal Commerce Organisation (RCO) and the Royal Army (RA), both deriving from the United Enclave of British Counties (UEBC), over dominance in the Caribbean and Americas.

### Formation of the MEB

The MEB traces back to the 2032 during the Flash, where like the government, many important military leaders would flee to underground shelters to protect themselves from the United States who, in fear of Brazil becoming the emerging superpower in the Americas, decided to destroy them as well in the nuclear exchange between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Asian Continental Military Force (ACMF). However, by the late 2030s and into the 2040s, the remnants of the Brazilian military would go forth in re-establishing control of major cities that were not as damaged by the Flash.

Into the 2050s, Brazil had been fighting to regain control of numerous swaths of its former territory, but at a cost of many lives doing so. However, many were eager to join the military. By this point, the military was able to retake more territories and standardized equipment, training, and pay, and eventually reach to the pre-Flash standard of what the Brazilian military once was. In the middle of the 2050s, the military was reformed into what we now know as the Maior Exército Brasileiro, or MEB.

Into the 2070s, after the formation of the Brazilian Republic in 2071 after it had reclaimed its pre-Flash borders, the MEB assisted the country's military junta heavily and enforced its authoritarian and secretive nature. However, clashes later down the road in the late 2070s between Brazil's defense alliance MERCOSUR and its rival, La Gran Unión del río Plata (URP), would bring the MEB to enforce the agenda against the URP. It was the MEB's involvement during numerous skirmishes that allowed leverage for the establishment of an autonomous zone inside the Itaipu Dam, forging a reputation of the military's power. The MEB would also be of valuable important in enforcing a trade embargo of the URP on its ships from reaching North America.

### Atlanta Crisis

With a relationship between the Civilian Defense Front and the Brazilian Republic established, the MEB would also support the group militarily by providing arms and other military equipment for use. However, in 2096, the MEB would send troops to play a key role in assisting much of the CDF in an attack against its Pro-US CDF and the United States Civilization Preservation Force (USCPF) in what is now known as the Atlanta Crisis and its eventual reformation into the People's Republic of Tidewater. Throughout the course of the Atlanta Crisis and following Second American Civil War, the MEB would play a majority support role for the PRT and its military, refraining from fighting the USCPF directly when possible. However, the navy has been widely active in combating the RCO and UEBC in the western hemisphere to maintain dominance.

To this day, the MEB remains one of the strongest militaries in the post-Flash world, with many advanced technologies and professionally trained soldiers within its ranks, bolstered by its modern equipment. Just like it did during the Atlanta Crisis, the MEB continues to support the PRT:M and defend the country and its government from external threats, and plays an active role in combating the UEBC's spread in the Atlantic and countering the US from rising to prominence as it once held before the Flash.

### Equipment

The equipment of the MEB is much more advanced than their American or Tidewaterite counterparts, every soldier is equipped with body armor as standard, soldiers also have more readily available access to advanced equipment such as HUD's and PDA's, their personal weapons although are on-par with they're USM counterparts there are still of higher quality than the rifles fielded in the PRT:M. The vehicles of the MEB are also of overall higher quality in comparison to those of the PRTM's and on par with their American and British counterparts. They field a vast quantity of varying advanced equipment, including large and well-equipped ground force and air force.

The reason for the MEB's advanced and high-quality equipment is due to the highly developed industrial and scientific base of the Brazilian Republic which allows them to produce the higher quality equipment of the MEB. This is also aided by the fact that the highly militarized society of the Brazilian Republic means that more resources are diverted to military production over civilian based industries. However, the recent economic crisis may lead to a reduction in the amount of equipment and supplies being produced for the MEB.

#### List of Equipment of the MEB

##### Small Arms

Pistols

Submachine guns

Shotguns
 Modello-50

Rifles
 Para FXL90
 IA3

Machine guns
 Debandado
 Cupsidor

Sniper Rifles

##### Vehicles

Light Vehicles
 Sentinella VCOM
A: Base model, no added armor
 Marruá Pickup
 Xiuhcoatl
A: 4x4 configuration, baseline truck
A1: 6x6 configuration
Comms: 6x6 configuration, communications station

Armored Vehicles
1x Coaxial Cupsidor Heavy Machine gun
1x Debandado Medium Machine gun
 BP-52
1x Cupsidor Heavy Machine gun (
 B2032 Moraes
1x Debandado Medium Machine gun, roof mounted or coaxial

Aircraft
 AMX Veredito 2M
8-10x MAA Modelo-89 bombs
2x IMBEL-270 30mm Autocannons