Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26535281-20170602161229/@comment-26084195-20170602165436

Name: The New Republic of Mars

Leader: General Markus of Haven

Background/Info: When the collapse happened all those years ago, Mars splintered into chaos. From that chaos rose the despotic tyrants and warlords which now rule the surface. These groups occasionally sort of fight one another, but each is more concerned with maintaining the status quo. However, some Humans are a bit unsatisfied with the way they're treated. Some of them know, despite their rulers and their efforts to destroy all traces of the past, that things were better once. And a few like-minded people got together. Thus was born the New Republic of Mars.

The New Republic is a disparate group of rebels united in the common goal of liberating Mars. However, they are outnumbered and outgunned in their wars, and have to resort to the use of guerilla tactics.

The tyrants of Mars have labelled the New Republic as a terrorist organization which wishes to destroy all governments and cares not at all for civilian lives. They are also often portrayed as savages, as opposed to the cleanly and dignified subjects of the local emperor. This could not be further from the truth, and the New Republic goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.

Still, the New Republic's effectiveness cannot be denied. They possess but one city, and you would have to stretch to call it a city. They founded it themselves, a place called Haven, in an underground cavern with liquid water and even some plant life. Its location is top-secret, but the New Republic has bases in strategic locations in various spots across Mars. These rely on secrecy rather than actual miitary power for defense. Each time a tyrant's forces have located and destroyed a base and thus believed their enemy crippled, they were often sent reeling by a series of counterattacks. The fluidity and adaptability of the NRM is frequently underestimated.

A recent victory for the NRM came when they travelled to Colak, the capital city of a self-proclaimed Khan of Mars. They were able to infiltrate the city with their agents, which planted marker beacons next to military and security installations. With these locator beacons, camoflauged mobile artillery pieces outside of the city were able to take out military targets without collateral damage, allowing NRM strike teams to enter the city, evacuate many civilians, and even assassinated the Khan's top advisor.

Culture: The NRM are a somewhat ragtag group of rebels, and they are a definite melting pot. All sub-species and branches of Humans are welcome. In a war like this, they have no time for discrimination. They consider themselves the last keepers of lost ways. There is a saying in the NRM: "Our only members who aren't wearing armour are dead."

Strengths: Excellent skills at stealth and sabotage, hit and run and guerilla tactics, improvising destructive weaponry from whatever's on hand, and many members are truly battle-hardened veterans.

Weaknesses: One city, little in the way of other settlements, no spaceships at all, a limited amount of proper military equipment.

Quirks/Other: Many of their weapons and vehicles look very ramshackle and improvised, as they have a limited amount of true military equipment, and what they do have is precious. However, their tendency to improvise armaments often leads to some truly imaginatively destructive weapons.