GCA| Gran Canarian Army

[Backo]

Gran Canarian Army
Being Zoners means we're guilty so we're guilty one and all!
Tag: GCA|
Affiliation and ID: Zoners

About us (public information)

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The Gran Canarian Army (GCA for short) is a militant and revolutionary movement that was formed shortly after the bloody Bretonian conquest of planet Gran Canaria in the Omega-49 system. The movement's forces consist mainly of Zoners native to Omega-49 and the planet therein as well as outsiders who had considered Gran Canaria their home prior to the Bretonian invasion.

The violent and unlawful nature of the Gran Canarian Army has earned it bad reputation among some Zoner circles that believe diplomacy to be the proper way to handle the situation regarding their now occupied planet. In return the GCA considers them as traitors to the idea of freedom and self-governance that the Zoners represent.

The GCA's zone of influence is highly focused on Gran Canaria (hence their name) and the Omega-49 system itself. Operations outside of this area are rarely ones of aggression, but rather to spread propaganda as well as to secure logistic shortages that the movement is facing. Inside the limits of Omega-49 the policy of "yield no ground" is often promoted by the revolutionaries, albeit in reality due to their shortages of combat assets this is often far from the reality due to the uneven strength of the two sides in the conflict.

In their fight against the Occupational Forces, the GCA has not shied away from using terrorist tactics such as burning and bombing of buildings associated with the Bretonian Crown as well as murder of civilians, considered associates or moles of the Bretonian Occupational Government. They have also voiced their threat to assassinate Governor-General Commodore Elizabeth Hall, should the Bretonians not agree to their demands for a free and Zoner Gran Canaria.

Origins

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The 21st December of 826A.S. was a dark day for the Zoners of Gran Canaria. The Kingdom of Bretonia, pressured by the Gallic advance from the Taus, proclaimed the annexation of Gran Canaria in the name of the Bretonian Crown. The natives of the planet were given mere minutes to prepare for the conquest from the incoming Stirling fleet bringing over 1.8 million soldiers. Initial resistance by any Zoners, Mollys or Corsairs planetside was quickly crushed by the much better organized and pre-planned annexation forces. The Coalition's betrayal of the Zoners was another stab into the back of the then peaceful Zoner population of Gran Canaria.

Anti-Occupational graffiti sprayed in a still majority Zoner neighborhood.

Seeing the hopelessness of the situation, a lot of the Zoner groups and factions quickly gave up and accepted the fate of Gran Canaria as a lost cause. This form of defeatism and pacifism albeit was not adopted by all of the Gran Canarian population. Together with some of the Mollys and Corsairs that still remained planetside, some Zoners formed rebellion units that continued to resist Bretonian authority. By early 828A.S. a lot of these units were united under the singular banner of the provisional Gran Canarian Army.

With each passing day the crackdown by the Occupational Forces of Bretonia on any resistance on Gran Canaria forced a lot of GCA members and sympathizers to flee the planet and move their resistance from the planet's surface to the cold and vast vacuum of space.

Assets and tactics

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Unlike the Bretonian Occupational Forces, most of the GCA's assets are re-purposed civilian tools, vehicles and machinery. This handicap when it comes to hardware has forced the only feasible approach of resistance to be guerrilla tactics. The GCA avoids direct conflict with the bulk of the Bretonian forces and instead picks on less defended targets of opportunity with the aim to mainly cause material damage to the Bretonian Crown with the hopes that the Occupational Government of Gran Canaria would reconsider the further colonization of the planet financially unfeasible for the Kingdom's current post-war economy.

Masked GCA rebel throwing an improvised incendiary bomb at a violent protest.

Much like their planetary counterpart the space division of the Gran Canarian Army also focuses on hit and run tactics against Bretonian logistics as well as lightly defended combat assets. Due to their shortage of man and firepower the GCA does not look away from siding with foreign forces hostile to the Crown, such as the Corsairs and the Mollys. The Coalition while now hostile to the Bretonians again is still remembered as backstabbers that betrayed them when the invasion began due to their interest in evicting the Corsair influence from the system. As such the GCA is much more reluctant to side with the socialists of Omega-52.

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[Omicron]

Diplomacy? I mean, every guerilla should have an ally para trooping surplus guns to you.

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[Shiki]

The format template is kindly provided by Loyola Group Limited. Loyola Group, the main sponsor of the GCA and Zoner resistance.

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[Vitoniz30]

Imo, would be better to name "Gran Canarian Resistance" since Zoners cannot have their army

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[Backo]

A big thank you to @Shiki and Loyola Group Limited for providing the visual accessories (known as BBCode) for this modest faction info page.

Diplomacy? I mean, every guerilla should have an ally para trooping surplus guns to you.

I've been away over the last half an year or more so I need to catch up on all events that perspired in the Omega-49 conflict as such I've yet to write a detailed diplomacy page. But an easy TL;DR you can have is - BRETONIAN MAN BAD! Everything else is treated as fairly neutral if not friendly (except perhaps the Coalition who are seen as filthy communist traitors).

Also should the Zoner Militant ID get updated to serve the Omega-49 conflict I would gladly adopt it instead of the generic Zoner ID.

Imo, would be better to name "Gran Canarian Resistance" since Zoners cannot have their army

The GCA is very Provisional as it is not recognized as an official army of the Zoners.

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[Nika]

This is, like, contradicting everything Zoners stand for. But suit yourself, i guess. Have fun, and good luck.

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Peace, being the distant dream it is, comes inevitably, and goes hand in hand with justice.
Cursed be the war.

Heroes never die! @Vitoniz30 @Connor

[Omicron]

Still better than OSI just silently accepting everything that happened in Canaria to not be FR5'd from even mere a percentage of the global market they can access without repercussions with 5k'ers and powers to FR5 everyone who pirates them. If GCA was anti-Order or Core, everyone would just outright say it is justified.

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[Chuba]

very cool and good i am totally not biased.

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[Lucas]

Do we really need armed zoners

[Nightowl]

To the ID, look here:
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=176176

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