Hispania Armored Forces

This is an unofficial player group. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Corsairs.

Hispania Armored Forces
Origin
Alignment	Unlawful
Profile
Date of founding	unknown
Founder(s)	unknown
Base of operations	Tripoli Shipyard, Omicron Gamma
Primary role
Defending Corsair space

Description

The HAF is a military kind faction from the Corsairs. Its primary rol is to defend the corsair territory from hostile attacks and other menaces, controlling the space traffic and making strike missions against the enemies of the Corsairs, outside the Corsair space.

Our main base is Tripoli in Omicron Gamma, due to the build of the first HAF fleet on this base long time ago, as it is explained latter. There, is the place where the remains of the HAF fleet are returning and regrouping as the new 817 A.S. HAF and that is why “Base 1” becames home.

But as a military Corsair faction, HAF patrol the area around the Corsair and uses all its bases when required (except those reserved for other Corsair factions, in which case they do so under its permission).

History

The Hispania

The Hispania house was formed by several mediterranean and latin countries. Hispania was called in honor of the former province of the Roman Empire in Iberian peninsula. The majority of countries that were allied to create this ship were Hispanic, but not all, there were also some Arabs, Greeks, Italians, Balkans, etc... Apart from the Spanish and American countries. Therefore, many bases from the lost children of Hispania were named as mediterranean and other location places.

By the year 2100, along with four other sleeper ships, they broke through the Coalition blockade and headed to Sirius. The 5 ships travelled with the intention of creating 5 large houses, Hispania, Kusari, Bretonnia, Rheiland and Liberty.

Unfortunately, the coalition had managed to sabotage the Hispania and almost all of its engines exploded when the Hispania passed thrue Omicron Alpha, leaving the ship half destroyed in the middle of the space. Settlers traveling in, awoke early and half of them decided to continue the journey starting in the escape capsule that had assigned to Omicron Gamma, and founded a colony on the planet Crete, which was the origin of the so-called Corsairs. The rest of the settlers from the Hispania, managed to reach, in the escape capsules, a planet that remained close to the Hispania and founded a colony on the planet that was called Malta, and they became the Outcast. Since then, there is great hatred between the two factions of Hispania, since both were accused of causing sabotage on the sleeper ship. Despite the fact that time after it was discovered that the the sabotage was made by the Coalition, the hatred between the Corsairs and Outcast never entirely disappeared, and sadly, today they are still at war.

Then, was when the first seeds of the current HAF born, formed by the descents of old members from the Earth´s HAF, that foght in the Solar system war against the Coalition, they tried to create a naval force to defend the Hispania space, Corsair or Outcast, like the rest of the big houses did.

Long ago was discovered in Malta the way to process the cardamina, that is in the whole planet enviroment, making an orange dust that had allowing the Outcasts to travel outside the planet without a sure death. This drug does not take too long to spread throughout Sirius as a plague, thanks to the cartels that controlled their distribution.

Over the years, and financed by the large benefits from cardamina commerce, moved using dark paths into the planets of Liberty and the rest of big houses, cartel heads occupied the main public and politicians seats in Malta helping them to rule all his people.

The HAF decided to help their astrayed Outcasts brothers to liberate themselves from the tyranny of cartels, facing the Malta´s Congress. Finally, an opportunity arises. A confidant of the HAF in Ruiz base report that the cardamina cartels were preparing a large shipment, the business which would flood all Sirius with cardamina, cleaning the way of the cartels to became the wealthiest and most powerful faction. The HAF informer offered the possibility of end the hegemony of the drug at a stroke. To do so, the HAF should be used to fund, he said. The HAF came with all its power and the ships darkened sun of Omicron Alpha. The strike against the tyranny of the cartels was ready.

But the HAF did not suspect that the confidant was a traitor, which had led them to a trap. A huge Outcast fleet, aided by Kusari pirate groups, treacherously attacked without warning the HAF fleet. In the first two hours, two thirds of the HAF fleet had been destroyed and the rest withdrew, leaving behind a trail of heroic blood, jumping into holes that meant salvation. The day was called the weeping day in the history of the HAF, although those who remember and not forget, they prefer calling it the Day of Betrayal.

The remains of the HAF fleet, where crowded civilian ships with thousands of families of the military killed in combat, which finally concentrated in the Omicron Theta system. There, a Corsair fleet gave them coverage and began to counter attack the outcasts and Kusary pirates pursuers. In this way, finally reach his home planet Crete in Omicron Gamma.