Faction name:The Atrum Exercitus, (Black Army - Latin) Tag:AE| Identificator:Pirate ID Affliation:Freelancer
Story of their beginning...
It all started when the Gallic Royalists invaded Bretonia space and unleashed the war, which caused trouble for many citizens of Bretonia, Gallia and Liberty. War gradually made a lot of them homeless, without work, provision and water. During the Leeds intervention, a large number of Bretonians left the planet as fast as they could with the hope to at least survive and fly beyond Bretonia. Another part of the inhabitants of Leeds, who have practically nothing to lose, decided to take control of the situation and created a lot of partisan detachments. Some of them were able to fly and meet opponents in the atmosphere and in the orbit of the planet. However, bretonian wings were strongly outweighed by number, skill, and more modern warships and equipment. After, some witnesses might call this "massacre". There were only few survivors who managed to escape from Gallic blockade and successful went to Tau space, surviving only due to robbery on the traders and miners who were ambushed. Pirates were few and separated, they have not a leader, permanent residence and survived at the expense of the sympathetic miners IMG, who at their own peril and risk allowed to spend the night at their own miners enterprises in Tau-31 and Tau-23. As gratitude, the pirates not only did not touch the IMG ships, and sometimes under the guise of freelancers accompanied in places where rogued groups of Brigands or Outcasts could ambush them.
Gallia totally occupied Leeds and began to arrange regular attacks in the Magellan system. The Liberty felt threatened and joined up with Bretonia, trying to knock Gallia out of Leeds. Freeport 4 was overloaded by refugees from Leeds, not counting people from trading corporations Liberty and Bretonia, some of whom had already lost their business, and the rest of the business had covered the shadow of the Gallic threatness. Several businessmen at different time, giving their property for a pittance to random people, fled from the Freeport to the Barrier Rim and from time to time made attacks on traders-adventurers who smuggling and doesn't want to show themselves to others using alternative routes, jumphole, hiding in clouds and asteroid fields.
By the middle of 821, cases of desertion and unexpected disappearances had become frequent among the fleets of Bretonia and Gallia. Deserters enrolled both ordinary rank-and-file officers and officers of various rank and status. Unlike the Bretonia Armed Forces, the Gallic Royal Navy had one huge problem: they could not find places where they would be welcomed. Furthermore, they were sometimes received with a pointed pistol on they hands. The only place where Gallic refugees could settle was a large hidden station, which was located deep in the Barrier Rim.
January 24, 822 was a significant date for all of the people, counted above. For a month they accepted an anonymous message, which briefly indicated the meeting place. One entrepreneur from Leeds followed the activity of the pirates during the last six months and noted with whom it is possible, and with whom one can not deal and approved received an invitation, the purpose of which was to create a group, which could ease the lives of those who escaped, as well as terrify and sow fear among corporations and lone freelancers. His name - Reinard Morris.
The first half of 822 was full of dangers in the Magellan and Cortez systems. Cases of undermining trade lines and attacks on convoys of shipping companies, such as Universal Shipping and Border World Exports, which were considered as titans in their category, became more frequent. Losses amounted from 100 million to billion credits per month, which included destroyed large merchant ships, lost expensive cargo, moral damage to the families of those killed at the hands of terrorists. Corporations lost stability, which was achieved by those who called themselves "Atrum Exercitus".
Suddenly attacks were completely stopped by unknown reason. They were not associated with increased protection, nor with a reduced number of convoys, nor with the gradual advancement of the Gallic Navy in Magellan. The terrorists simply disappeared and did not appear for two and a half years. It was rumored that they were ambushed by the Liberty or Bretonia Navy and were shot. Hearing among the residents of Freeport 4 and plying merchants dispersed very quickly. But these were just rumors ... The Black Army studied the activities of Liberty, Bretonia and Gallia and their corporations to plan operations to destabilize and provoke collapse the economy of the Houses, including Gallia. All this required a lot of effort, time, resources and connections. Pirates got information, both from single informers from Lane's Hackers, and from other people who had eyes and ears on the same Freeport-4.
But Gallia, as always, spoiled everything...
824 year distinguished himself by an active confrontation between Liberty and Bretonia against Gallic aggression. Those who scornfully called "frogeaters" and "Le Baguette" gradually penetrated deeply into Magellan, successfully began to invade Cortez and Liberty Borders. In addition, Freeport 4 was destroyed as a result of the daring attack of the Battleship Carcassonne. This act seriously destabilized an economy establishes between Liberty and Bretonia and forced a change of route towards the Cortez system. This should be at hand for pirates and Liberty Rogues because the Cortez was located much closer to their positions. Again Atrum Exercitus began to show their little activity, but the pirates themselves did not like this alignment, which forced them to shift their positions to Tau Sector. The leader and his immediate circle decided to concentrate on the Gallia. How merciless and cruel the pilots of the Black Army were earlier, but the Gallic expansion in Liberty can completely destroy both Liberty and Bretonia. Millions of people will die, even more will be left without a home.
Tau-31 and Leeds (which under the control of the Gallic fleet), EFL and IDF became places of constant action by the Black Army, who did their best to make life as difficult as possible for Gallia in Leeds. Pirates did not hesitate to simply blow up a merchant ship, or a ship carrying supplies for the fleet. The observation station in the Tau-31 was a kind of obstacle for pirates on the site between the Tau-23, Tau-29 and Leeds systems. Several times fresh tradelanes, built by Gauls from Tau-31 Jump Gate to Stokes Mining Station were blown up, which caused delays in the supply of supplies and weapons to the Gallic fleet. There have been several incidents of attacks on the Gauls patrols.
The Black Army was disliked by the military of Bretonia and Liberty and vice versa, it does not hesitate at times and arrange rare raids on them, but they hate the strongest reason for their troubles and grief - Gallia and everything connected with Royalists. Pirates, and informally - the rebels, will do everything to Bretonia and Liberty were able to kick the Gauls out from their land.
Atrum goals and tasks
Next Goals considered as Primary:
1. Disrupting Gallic supplies to make Royalist's life harder, destroying or grabbing cargo at will
2. Sneak attacks and ambushes on Royalists beyond Houses.
3. Survival! Being alive, we can get more benefits for resistance and Liberty-Bretonia frontline.
Next Goals considered asSecondary:
1. Establishing relations with groups and persons who can make a harmful influence on Royalists, doesn't matter what exactly influence.
2. Keeping piracy on Independent traders, smugglers, Kusari corps. Do not destroy their ships if these acts aren't necessary.
Civilian, Borderworld and Blackmarket CNOS/CNOU Engines
Naming regulations
AE|Callsign-[I] - only for Immortui wing
AE|Callsign-[L] - only for Lux Tenebris wing
All callsigns must use Latin names
Areas of Operations
Red zones shown as Primary zonewhere pirates are most active and traders have a high chance to meet with them. Area includes Taus, Leeds and Liberty-Bretonia borders where Gallic Corps can be definetely trapped.
Yellow zones shown as Secondary zone. Pirates doesn't forget about Bretonian traders, freelancers, adventurers and others, which cargo can be stolen. Meeting with Atrum Exercitus in yellow area is more rarely but it doesn't means they can't capture lonely trader somewhere in cloud by disrupting tradelines.
Actual information about Diplomacy
Persons, loyal to Atrum Exercitus
Crayter Republic
Bretonian Armed Forces
Gallic unauthorities
Independent Miners Guild
Everyone not listed
Generic unlawful
The Commune
The Apostatas
Hellfire Legion
House Military, Police and Intelligence, except Gallia