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Commonwealth of Liberty
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| Capital | Planet Guadalajara, Vespucci | ||||
| Official languages | English (american) | ||||
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| Founded | 822 A.S. | ||||
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The Commonwealth or The Commonwealth of (House) Liberty, is libertarian-socialist breakaway state that oppunent the Republic of Liberty. Their military arm is the well known Hellfire Legion. The Commonwealth is shorted by TCL (The Commonwealth of Liberty) and is shown as Solar Engineering on Space's Navmap.
The motto of the Commonwealth is same as from the Legion: "Our home within the flames"
History
Pre-History
The first stepts of the commonwealth was gone by Drake Thastus; a former Liberty Navy officer and commander of the LNS-Ragnarok - the first Ship of the new Spyglass-experimental ship. It is not clear why he fell out of favor, but one day he and his crew were attacked by Liberty's Navy ships who ordered them, to get arrested. By Lane Hacker's help the Ragnarok and its escorde fled into the Independent Systems between Liberty and Bretonia.
The Exiles arrived the Vespucci-system and formed the Hellfire Legion with Thastus as the new supreme commander of the Legion. They build up new weapons and a large fleet by selling Liberty military secrets to other peoples and factions like the Order. After 14 years of rebuilding Thastus made the chooise, that their time for revange is now and the Legion attacked California. The Navy was allmost beaten by the exiles but at least the Navy was able to figth back by help of reinforcements from Bretonia and Colonial Republic. Drake Thastus is missing since this battle. After this battle the Legion was weakned, but not killed an another time of rebuilding and gurilla-warfare has started.
Around 818 A.S started the next phase for the Legion by dividing themselves from the Lane Hackers and the rest of the Liberty pirates. The Legion have become an idological movement more and more that does not tolerate the piracy and attacking of Liberty civilians anymore. In 818 the remaining Hackers tried to recapture the Vespucci system and were beaten by the Legion's new weapons. The Legion also allied themselves with the Xenos.
Decleartion of Independence
In 822 A.S the Legion has around 140.000 people on their lawn and created an own law, an own economy and own institutions. In the 822 their concile came together and elected Isaac Stone to their president and he decleared the independence from the Republic of Liberty.
Controlled and contested space
The Commonwealth controlls Vespucci and Kansas only and owns parts of Magellan, but is not able to hold that because of the invasion by the Gallic Royal Navy. The Commonwealth claim all systems of the Liberty Republic for themselves.
Government and politics
" The Commonwealth's stance on the policies and governments of other houses is largely non-interventionalist, in favor of other nations handling their own problems internally. The Commonwealth does, however, condone and consider to be legitimate any entities who wish to secceed from their house, for example, the Mollies. They have also been known to indirectly support populist movements within other houses, such as the Hessians and Blood Dragons, but ultimately only offer their word and do their best to distance themselves from these internal conflicts. [...] The Commonealth has a firm stance on offenders who turn to piracy and other criminal means to make a living, and also consider bounty hunting to be a criminal offense. The Commonwealth empathizes with the Xenos cause due to their recognition of the issues Liberty faces and have taken a stance against them in an effort to change things, rather than simply taking what they want in wanton disregard for human life of well being. If the Republic is ever overthrown, the Commonwealth intends to give these all people the chance to live off of UBI or make an honest living working for Liberty. Any remaining outlaws forfeit the chance to appeal in a court of the law and be executed on the spot by the Legion. " Michelle Sarno, Secretary of State, Commonwealth of Liberty
The Commonwealth has an radical left-liberal* ideology combined with (international) autonomy aspirations. They dream of a land with allmost no rules, so that everyone can live on their own by a maximum of liberty just limited by the basic rules that are needed. On the other hand the Commonwealth is also a care state of an almost socialistic level.
- left-liberal in an European view; this is very different from the American defintion of this word. Americans often understand under a left-liberal ideology a social-democratic-ideology that can be found in the Democratic Party (USA). The European definition of left-liberal just includes the personal-liberties (f. e. freedom of speech, freedom from state surveillance...) but not the economy-liberties. An Excample of a left-liberal (but not radical like the commonwealth here!) party is the European Free Alliance.
Economy
The Legion have not a large industy yet but it has larger asteroid fields of Copper and Silver that are mined by DSE in licence. The export of Silver Ore and Copper Ore makes around 70% of the Commonwealth GIP. Of course the Commonwealth has got some own traders mainly working from America Freeport. Planet Guadalajara is a jungle like world with larger animal herdes, so that leather become also an main export producte from the Commonwealth. OS&C was also invited by the Commonwealth and have sent the Luxury Liner Barbados to Vespucci where they sell Synthetic Marijuana. The Commonwealth do not allow drug trading but they do not define Synthetic Marijuana as a drug like the republic does.
Foreign relations + Crime and dissent
The Commonwealth is recongnized by no one as a legitime state except the Xenos. The Liberty Republic sees the Commonwealth at rebels and terrorist and has an open war with Commonwealth. The cooperation of Liberty like DSE or OS&C are trading with and in the Commonwealth what causes problems with LPInc and the LN. Bretonia and Crayter are hostile to neutral to the Commonwealth. They trade with them and allow their not Legion's ships to enter their lawn but will fire on each Legion's ship they may entcounter. The Commonwealth accept all breakaway states and all people that seek for their idenependence from any other mayor house like the Mollies or Dragons. TCL does not allow or tollerate piracy, smuggling or drug trafficking anywhere. The Legion will arrest everyone that was seen by one of this. Because of that TCL has a very hostil realtionship to Crete, Malta, Junkers and the Liberty Rogues; just the Lane Hackers are tollerated in the Commenwealth as long they do not act in piracy or smuggling, because of their shared history. The Gallic Kingdom is seen as an enemy and invader of Liberty lawn. The war between Gallia and Liberty is one of the less things that combines the Republic and the Commenwealth.
StarshipsThe Commenwealth productes only warships for the Hellfire Legion so far. Civilians and also the Legion normally uses Border World Ships. The Legion's ships are a mix of Border Worlds and Liberty Tech. However the government also licences some Tech for other. See here for more information.
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