Yaman Rebellion
Invoking the name of a lost people of the Pentagona System in the Zuvorg cluster, the Yaman Rebellion is perhaps a more grandiose name than the faction deserves - in truth, it comprises a handful of ships and their crews, resolved to stopping the Zuvorg Alliance's goals for Earth by any means necessary, united only by the fact that their enemies are united in turn.
Finding themselves in unfamiliar space, the nascent Rebellion, fresh from a major defeat at the Pentagona world of Mizun, are fighting from the back foot - the Zuvorg Alliance has already made inroads with multiple factions around the Earth Sphere and has good publicity, meaning that the Rebellion has to work to find friends and allies in this unknown region of space.
The disparate groups that form this coalition have an ad-hoc council of ship captains and fleet commanders, who determine the Rebellion's most salient courses of action. These subgroups operate their own ships and are defined mainly by their leaders: The group who fly the Turner shuttle, under Daba Myroad, hail from the Pentagona System and concern themselves mainly with Oldna Posaydal and her Extra Thirteen elite forces, while the group known as KISS (led by Villagulio De Metrio Lu) boasts the strongest naval complement of the group, their Polyhedron vessels and Ovids comprising the majority of the Rebellion's materiel; meanwhile, the group led by Chirico Cuvie pursues answers to the conspiracy seemingly entwining the Balarant Union and Gilgamesh Confederacy, and the man known only as Van pursues vengeance against a single man whose influence seems staggeringly outsized.
While these specific objectives pull the Rebellion in often-contradictory directions, they all agree that the threat posed by the multiple groups allied under the Zuvorg banner must be opposed decisively and as a singular whole - splitting up to pursue their own goals, in the midst of the unfamiliar territory of the Earth Sphere, is a death sentence for all of them. They are stronger united than they are apart, and must remind themselves of this constantly.
Major Characters
Daba Myroad - the lost heir of the Yaman clan, Daba Myroad pilots the Heavy Metal L-Gaim and acts as one of the leaders of the Rebellion, with his own team of trusted accomplices behind him. Daba's mission is the destruction of Oldna Posaydal's empire in the Pentagona System and to ensure that the tyrant who annihilated the Yaman clan is put down for good. Daba is a canny, guileful sort who nevertheless cares deeply for the people who follow him.
Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu - The former crown prince of the planet De Metrio in the Polyhedron Group, Villagulio is dedicated to thwarting the ambitions of Le Garite's King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si by acquiring the powerful Prehistoric Super-Civilization mobile weapons known as 'Vox' in order to prevent Dizelmine using them to destroy his homeworld. To that end, he leads a gang of outlaws known as KISS to oppose Le Garite's operations on Earth.
Chirico Cuvie - A former member of the Gilgamesh Confederacy's Red Shoulder unit of Armored Troopers, Chirico Cuvie has an uncanny knack for surviving the brutal operations that involved those machines. Declared a traitor by his own side after being assigned to a unit ordered to steal secrets from Gilgamesh, Chirico pursues answers, and the distant possibility of a peaceful future.
Van - A man of many cognomina and a dreadful taste in condiments on his meals, Van pilots the Original Seven Armor known as Dann of Thursday. Of all those in this association, his mission is singular and all-eclipsing: To avenge his wife Elena he will hunt down and kill the man known only as The Claw.
Key Questions
- Are we entering this story at a misleading point?
- How do we meaningfully strike against such a large conglomerate of tyrants?
- Who do we turn to for aid in unfamiliar territory?
- Whose of our own interests should take primacy in our operations?
Tension Points With Other Factions
Gaia Sabers: The Gaia Sabers have already cut deals with many of the Yaman Rebellion's enemies. Daba Myroad and his associates were doomed in the possibility of forming a relationship with this side of NUNE basically upon arrival.
Space Assembly League: While officially it has to do with their status as unlawful combatants bringing a totally unrelated war into the Earth Sphere, the long-term goals of the SAL are mostly incompatible with the ideals in the Yaman Rebellion.
Cathedra: While dialogue between the Yaman Rebellion and Cathedra isn't impossible, especially if the rebellion chooses to seek weapons or funding from Cathedra, there's not a lot that suggests the two would meet each other with a terribly warm welcome. Too many unknowns exist for Cathedra, and they probably look too authoritarian for a lot of the assembled rebel allies.
NERV: Time will tell, huh? Admittedly, "We're aliens with weird technology and we're tracking mud into your house" is not a great starting point.
Grand Glorious Guard: Slightly less unfriendly than above owing mostly to the small scale of the Yaman Rebellion. However, the burden of proof is a little bit on the rebels here to prove that they're not every bit as much "a big space war spilling out into the Earth Sphere" as the AECF.
Terminal: No opinion and no known obstacles. Honestly, Terminal might be some of the best friends that Daba Myroad and Chirico Cuvie could make, especially since they already share many enemies.
Dawn of Fold: This relationship shares a lot of mutual enemies; it could also easily lead to the two of them getting closer and Dawn of Fold's relationship with the AECF becoming much worse very quickly if they decided they were true-blue pals.
Satellicon: Again, there's actually a lot of room for mutual cooperation here. The rebellion has its share of people who operate more or less like Satellicon does.
BioNet: BioNet could play ball with the rebellion for a little while to get access to its technology; however, sometimes you just smell the bullshit on the other person too strongly.
Anti-Earth Cooperative Federation: Much like with Gaia Sabers and Dawn of Fold, this is a relationship of pure, direct opposition and fundamentally incompatible understandings of reality.