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Kusari understood the critical importance of food. According to the Ancient Earth philosophy of Confucius, civilization would not survive without agriculture. Even in the harsh neo-feudal society of early Kusari colonial history, the so-called ‘peasantry’ was a protected class second only to the army and nobility. Kyushu is the only world capable of maintaining large scale agriculture, cementing the status of farmers who were also the landowners as critical and important building blocks of society.

When Kusari’s gift and a curse was an overabundance of water, Rheinland had to cope with harsh conditions of its cold homeworld. Discovery of Stuttgart, a planet to this day regarded as world most hospitable to humans in the entirety of Sirius Sector, proved to be salvation for Rheinland. WVS - Rheinland’s farmer union successfully lobbied for the planet's protected status and subsidies for agriculture. Local sourced food became affordable and cheap for a regular citizen for the first time in almost one hundred years.

None of that was to last. Rheinland’s colossal gambit in the 80 Years War had failed, ruining the economy overnight. In the dying breaths of the Imperial government - and later upheld by the newly born Federal Republic of Rheinland - all support for local industries dried out, and workers rights were massively scaled back. Kusari followed soon after. To pay off debts incurred by Kusari’s costly adventures in border worlds and most notably such colonisation of Hokkaido, the Empire had to relent and open up its hermetic centuries-old closed food market to outside competitors in exchange of monetary support.

Synth Foods took the opportunity. Synth Foods began selling its products at absurdly low price, far below actual production and shipping costs to stamp out the competition with nearly inexhaustible funds amassed over centuries. Worst of all, it's already cheap, flavourless plant from Los Angeles took root in Stuttgart. Synth - by extension of Liberty bailing out Rheinland’s wartime debts - over time seized most of the arable land on the planet, and began the process of terraforming to stamp out local crops under the guise of making the planet more suitable for affordable and efficient food production. It would not go unpunished.

Farmers Alliance, bankrolled by Samura to fight off its foreign competitors, and LWB which was able to establish itself with help of their own assets and at-the-time allies within Red Hessians, fought the same battle without ever having met each other. These kindred souls would however be historically united in 827. Beginnings of this union were bumpy and not without challenges. However in 830, a new front emerged.

The group has two components. The Council is composed of Rheinland and Kusarian landowners who decide the further course of movement as a whole. Each Councilman vote counts as much as their contribution to the war effort, ensuring that only the most committed get to the position of power. A short but effective constitution protects against lobbying away from Farmers' stated goals in an attempt to stamp out potential for corruption within their own ranks.

Its armed front is a mixed-nationality unit that combines original FA and LWB forces. To strengthen unity, the armed struggle front had adopted officially the English language for several but not insignificant reasons. It was a tongue not native to both Kusarians and Rheinlanders, secondly it was already established as primary trade language in Sirius. Emphasis was put that English is in fact a Bretonian invention, to further spit on Liberty.

Membership is not limited to just Farmers only. To further diversify its appeal in pragmatic need to increase its manpower, Farmers Alliance had made moves to recruit from other disenfranchised backgrounds such as miners and labourers. Most success was met with the Artisanal Guild, which represents the consumer goods sector. This had put FA at further odds with Liberty as a whole, where cheap slave labour is used to produce consumer goods by the LPI for export.

Para-military is loosely structured after the land army. With single seat spacecraft being most prevalent, individual, guerilla and small unit tactics are preferred over nomenclature and fleet manoeuvres more fitting the Space Navy. Larger, multi-crewed assets are organised organically as support vehicles of the ‘army corps’ rather than dominating set pieces as would be more in line with a capital-centric navy. Largest warships available are the inherited LWB’s ‘Zerstorer’ flotillas, alongside any further ‘Hel’-class cruisers acquired after the fact.

Farmers of both nations used to be - if not influential - highly respected and comfortably middle class. Historical turmoil however, such as the cultural and economical shock of opening up Kusari, as well as consequences of the 80 Years War had caused them to level with other socio-economic groups, especially in Rheinland. Farmers are traditional, however not to a point of blind fanaticism and some of their policies already had a socialist angle. As a consequence of the LWB merge, this left winged influence is more emphasised and had spread to Kusari proper.

Farmers Alliance cherrypicks policies from the entire range of political spectrum. To the right, assertive nationalism and xenophobia against Liberty is commonplace and encouraged. Hogosha are natural allies in Kusari: Formed out of disgraced, poor and the disowned, they care about their House in their own way without falling into either extremes such as militant isolationism or Liberty’s perfidious brand of ‘internationalism’. The Council is not stupid: it fully realises that not all trade is demonic, however under no circumstance it can supplant what can be made realistically in-House.

To the left, there is great deal of sympathy to socialist movements across Sirius born out of shared struggle over the past century. The only thing that took root deeper than hate of Liberty is the rampant unchecked capitalism it represents. Farmers desire more than all social security and improvement to quality of life to constituent citizens of their respective Houses. Anti-corporate agenda of Unioners, Bundschuh and Blood Dragons has certain appeal - Alliance members are encouraged to recruit the aforementioned individuals if it is safe to do so for their goals are not entirely exclusive affairs.

Alliance is staunchly anti-drug. First-hand witnessing what cardamine does to a person, as well as traditional dislike of addiction makes them a natural enemy of the Outcasts and their extensions such as Golden Chrysanthemums. Otherwise, there is no qualm about other forms of crime so long it perpetuates their goals, including but not limited to: smuggling, piracy, mercenary side jobs.

FA-Name.Surname / Callsign - Fighters, Bombers
FA-Z-Shipname - Farmers Alliance Destroyer (Rhein. Zerstorer)
FA-H-Shipname - Farmers Alliance Gunboat (Ku. Hokan)
FA-L-Shipname - Farmers Alliance Logistic Freighters and Transports. -Maru suffix optional

- Gain hard and soft power

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Improving standards of living for the general populace of Rheinland and Kusari in the long term. Maintaining the high social, political and economical stance of Farmers and aligned movements to continue being a force to be reckoned with outside of our armed struggle. For that purpose, we will lobby, assassinate our enemies and align ourselves with other state actors that are sympathetic or outright friendly to our cause.

- Removal and complete and utter destruction of Synth Foods

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It will never be over until the greatest threat to our movement will be eradicated thoroughly. Even if we manage to gain significant victories, Synth Foods may still return. If not tomorrow then in a hundred years. Their coffers are virtually inexhaustible, their execs greed and patience knows no boundaries. For this end, we will involve cross border raids into Liberty (Galileo, Hudson, Bering) to bring the fight to them if practical to do so.

- Financial independence from Samura

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Samura may have had and continues to fund our government but they never had our best interests at heart. We shall strive to make ourselves self-sufficient by means of piracy, smuggling, grassroot support and allying with other actors that view the world the same way as we do.

True Allies
People who understand our plight. Our brothers and sisters in arms.


Friendly
Our partners in crime or perhaps an old overlooked treaty. We will trade and do business cordially.


Neutral
We have little to no information about them. Perhaps they are so far removed from our plight with their orange-lemon worldview and mentality it is simply better to simply leave each other alone. Or perhaps more mundanely, they are not worth our time.


Targets
Any unlucky soul on this list would be a target of extortion.


Nuisance
We were not looking for a fight. Perhaps in better circumstances we would have been close allies. Either way, fate had set us on different sides of barricades due to reasons beyond our control.


Enemies
Our nemesis. Antithesis for everything we stand for. Enemy to our way of life. Spare no quarter for none will be given to us.

There might be others as the list is not exhaustive, but these are focal, most critical points of importance to our movement.

Kagoshima Depot


Darmstadt Depot


Pacifica


Newport Station


Noshima Freeport