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- "I am responsible for myself and my actions; I shall conduct myself honorably, and live a clean and frugal life. I have responsibilities to my fellow citizens. I shall be loyal to them, and humble, because we are elements of a greater whole, and without them I am nothing, I have responsibilities to our society; I shall understand and respect my place in it, defend it, and work to make it prosperous, so that I may receive society's protection, and that we may hand on safety and prosperity to future generations."
- — The Octus Canon, founding principles of the COG, as handed down by the Allfathers, and recited by every citizen.[7]
The Coalition of Ordered Governments, colloquially referred to as the Coalition, the COG, and later as the New COG, was an authoritarian military alliance that dominated the planet Sera after the Era of Silence.[5][10][22] Although many of its values originated in the writings of the socialist political theorist Alexiy Desipich, the COG itself remained nonexistent until Nassar Embry and the Allfathers united their nations to protect their monopoly on Imulsion—a cheap and limitless fuel source that rendered hydrocarbon energy obsolete.[6][23][24] Initially adopting a decentralized structure granting member nations considerable autonomy over their internal affairs, the COG established a legislature known as the Council of Sovereigns in which representatives of these states debated issues affecting the alliance.[1][25] However, the pressures of near-constant warfare gradually transformed the COG into an authoritarian autocracy dominated by its most powerful member-state, Tyrus.[4] The Tyran capital—Ephyra—served as the headquarters of the alliance from which the Chairman of the Council of Sovereigns dictated alliance policy.[1][26]
In the aftermath of the Imulsion Gold Rush, global economic collapse and resource scarcity resulted in the first major conflict on Sera since the Age of Armageddon—the Pendulum Wars.[27][28] In an attempt to seize control of global Imulsion production, an alliance of resource-poor nations known as the Union of Independent Republics (UIR) waged war against the COG, leaving millions dead over the span of seventy-nine years.[12][29]Neither side appeared capable of defeating the other through conventional means until the COG seized plans for a satellite-based superweapon—the Hammer of Dawn—in the Battle of Aspho Fields.[8] With the assistance of the physicist Adam Fenix, the COG successfully weaponized the technology, deploying the Hammer of Dawn against the UIR at the Battle of Bonbourg and convincing its leadership to surrender.[12][30][31] Although some small holdouts, such as the Republic of Gorasnaya, refused to sign the armistice, the Pendulum Wars officially ended and the majority of Sera experienced peace for the first time in nearly a century.[12] The victorious COG emerged as the dominant superpower on Sera, comprising nearly every nation on the globe.[1]
Ultimately, this new era of peace proved short-lived. Six weeks after the conclusion of the Pendulum Wars, the Locust emerged from their underground strongholds, attacking the surface and massacring nearly a quarter of the human population on a day thereafter referred to as Emergence Day.[12] The Locust invasion crippled the COG war machine—destroying entire nations, capturing major industrial centers, and crippling the global communications network—over the following year.[1][32][33] With COG Intelligence predicting global annihilation within two months, Chairman Richard Prescott recalled the COG military to the safety of Jacinto Plateau and solidified his control over the civilian population by instituting martial law.[1][34] After three days of evacuations, the COG launched Hammer of Dawn strikes against every major population center on Sera in an effort to halt the Locust advance, sacrificing ninety percent of the population to save humanity from extinction.[34] The devastating strikes scorched the surface of the planet and destroyed the remnants of human civilization, but failed to defeat the Locust.[35][36]
After the failure of the Hammer of Dawn strikes, the COG fortified the major cities of the Jacinto Plateau—Ephyra and Jacinto—and waged a defensive war over the following fourteen years.[12][34] In the Second Battle of Ephyra, the COG suffered a major defeat that forced the abandonment of the city and the relocation of its capital to Jacinto.[12] The COG subsequently secured several major victories over the Locust, including the detonation of the Lightmass Bomb and flooding of the Hollow by sinking Jacinto; however, these victories also proved temporary.[13][37] Shortly after the COG established its new capital on Vectes Island, the onset of the Lambent Pandemic scattered its remaining military forces and resulted in the official dissolution of the COG.[15][21] The COG temporarily ceased to exist, but ultimately emerged victorious after Delta Squad deployed the Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon to defeat the Locust and end the Lambent Pandemic.[16][21]
With the conclusion of the Locust War, the remnants of humanity began the process of reviving the COG, repopulating Sera, and rebuilding their destroyed civilization.[8][38] Although often referred to as the "New COG," this iteration of the COG preserved many of the structures and values of the previous regime, including its industrialism, militarism, and natalism.[8][39] From the capital of New Ephyra, the new regime and its leader—the First Minister—followed the example of Nassar Embry in emphasizing the preservation of unity and order, leading to conflict with groups of independent settlers known as Outsiders. Already frayed by years of Outsider raids on COG settlements, relations between these two groups descended into open conflict following the sudden disappearance of COG settlers. The COG only discovered the true source of the abductions after both its own military and the Outsiders came under attack from a new enemy—the Swarm.[5][8]
Formation of the CoalitionEdit
- "We only achieve unity through order."
- — Nassar Embry, Allfather Prime and Founder of the Coalition of Ordered Governments
Prior to the formation of the COG, the nations of Sera fought against one another in a period of endless conflict lasting thousands of years. Although this Age of Armageddon nearly resulted in global warfare, humanity pulled itself back from the brink of destruction, entering into a golden age of peace and prosperity—the Era of Silence. The spectre of warfare continued to haunt mankind, but economic stability and an abundance of natural resources ensured nations rarely engaged in conflict more serious than border skirmishes. Human creativity flourished in this time of peace, allowing for the construction of great monuments, the creation of beautiful art, and the development of new technologies. In the political realm, governments debated their citizens over the nature of liberty, resulting in the creation new political of doctrines. All of these trends contributed to the birth of the COG.
During this period of uninhibited creativity, the theoretical foundations of the COG began to take shape. The socialist political theorist Alexiy Desipich authored a series of works known as the Austere Canon, which eventually served as the founding documents of the COG. The Austere Canon championed eight core values—Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith, and Humility—and challenged its adherents to establish a new world order that promoted these ideals. Despite these grand ambitions, Desipich and his ideas initially received little traction outside of intellectual circles. The widespread prosperity of the era ensured these ideas failed to influence society at-large outside of the creation of a minor political party.
Nassar Embry and the AllfathersEdit
- "We only achieve unity through order."
- — Nassar Embry.[24]
After the perfection of the Lightmass Process, Imulsion was turned into a valuable fuel that few nations had vast reserves of. Unfortunately, this eventually led to a global economic collapse, and a fuel crisis emerged. The Allfather Prime, Nassar Embry, and his fellow Allfathers who were heads of states that held Imulsion reserves united under the Octus Canon and formed the Coalition of Ordered Governments.[40] They wrote and ratified the Octus Canon, and established it as the founding document of the COG.[41][42]
Archipelago WarEdit
- Main article: Archipelago War
The War Archipelago War took place in 130 B.E., fifty years before the Pendulum Wars.[43]
Era of SilenceEdit
- Main article: Era of Silence
The Era of Silence was an era of history in Sera when Humanity started a golden age. Humanity rejected the concept of war and started to believe in ideals of peace and harmony. Many of aspects of society and culture advanced, such as science, the arts, and the economy. Energies channeled more towards improving society, so the quality of life improved. The idea of war was rejected and demilitarization soon occurred, as people focused more on cultural and societal aspects. There were problems that were needed to be solved, which included a worsening energy crisis with oil and fuel resources being depleted. The people of Sera quickly sought to find and exploit new energy resources to continue their successful golden age. At some point later, the solution for the global energy crisis was found; an oil exploration team drilling into the earth discovered a potential new fuel source: Imulsion. At first, Imulsion could not be used as a suitable fuel source, and later, Dr. Helen Cooper developed the Lightmass Process, which allowed Imulsion to be refined into a usable energy resource. During this time, the COG slowly continued to grow as a supranational entity.[42][44]
Gold RushEdit
- Main article: Gold Rush (event)
Following the discovery of Imulsion and the creation of the Lightmass Process, a major economic boom occurred all across Sera. An entirely new industry was established under the use of Imulsion, as oil and nuclear energy resources were soon left behind.[42] Nations saw the economic potential of the new process, and took near-total control of the Imulsion industry, leaving many nations in economic jeopardy. These nations were outraged that they had little resources of Imulsion, and at some point, these nations allied with each other to form the Union of Independent Republics. With Sera divided and teetering on the brink of conflict, this soon led to the Pendulum Wars.
Pendulum WarsEdit
- Main article: Pendulum Wars
The Pendulum Wars was a 79-year conflict between the Coalition of Ordered Governments and the Union of Independent Republics. The war was massive, stretched across nearly eight decades that took place across most of Sera.[45][46]
During the Pendulum Wars on Sera, the COG was responsible for peacekeeping and helping those in need, gaining strength and popularity rapidly, eventually becoming the chief political faction.[citation needed] While the war raged on, the political party issued many decrees and acts that gained them credit as well as widespread fame.[citation needed] During the Pendulum Wars, the COG built a series of hidden bunkers, including Cherrit, to keep cultural information safe and provide safe houses for leaders.[47] The COG also built a secret facility on Azura, where they placed people of great importance and/or use; the COG's elite. The people who were placed on Azura came from all different kinds of backgrounds, including government members and politicians, members of the armed forces, scientists and the social elite, and brought their families with them. The purpose of Azura was to safeguard people, information and historical records, historical and cultural aspects of the COG and technology, essentially anyone, anything and everything the COG considered extremely significant who could potentially help rebuild Sera if it was wiped out in global destruction due to the Pendulum Wars.[48][49]
Locust WarEdit
- Main article: Locust War
Emergence DayEdit
- Main article: Emergence Day
- "Mayday, mayday... something just came out of the ground... repeat, they just came out of the ground!"
- — Unidentified Gear
Six weeks after the Pendulum Wars ended,[51] on one fateful day for Humanity, the Locust Horde emerged from the underground warrens of Sera in a surprise, full-scale, planetary assault what would soon become known as Emergence Day. The Locust Horde invaded almost every single major city, in what was a campaign of rapid dominance. On the first day alone, a quarter of the total human population was killed.[42]
- "...sigh...Though still trying to confirm, it seems like reports...saying untold masses of men, women and children...have been butchered since last night's emergence...are true."
- — Unidentified TV News Reporter the day after Emergence Day
After the first day, reports streamed in that said that untold masses of men, women and children have been butchered since the first day. At first, humanity had absolutely no idea who or what their new enemy was, or where they had come from. COG scientists had quickly begun to attempt to study their new enemy, and their new enemy was now referred to as the Locust Horde.[52] The first image was noted as being taken within forty-five minutes within the first emergence on E-Day.[53]
The COG struggled to take quick action against their new enemy. The Locusts' surprise assault caught Humanity and the COG off guard. They rallied to war only too late, with the Locust already dominating the majority of Sera's urban, military, and industrial centers. Given the Locust habit of looting captured cities and fallen enemies and using their stolen assets in their war against the Humans, COG troops and other nation's troops had a little kit to use to the Locust troops' habit of looting resources and the rapid fall of territory.
Destruction of Halvo BayEdit
- Main article: Destruction of Halvo Bay
The Destruction of Halvo Bay took place six weeks after Emergence Day, and was one of the largest battles to occur during the early years of the Locust War.[54]
Thousands of Gears and Onyx Guard troops began mobilizing across Halvo Bay to defend the city and help evacuate civilians. Defensive lines were set up at notable military locations, such as the Museum of Military Glory, Onyx Point, Halvo Bay Military Academy and Endeavor Naval Shipyard. Evacuation centers were set up across the city, including one at Halvo Bay airport. Originally, Brigadier General D. Rovik was in charge of the COG military forces in Halvo Bay and supervising the evacuation of the civilian population, but at some time during the early parts of the battle, he was killed. Command was assigned to Colonel Ezra P. Loomis. As the battle continued, General Karn, who just returned from his victory in the Republic of Gorasnaya, ordered an attack on the city's airport to disrupt the evacuation process and to spread the COG's forces thin. Onyx Point, the Onyx Guard Military Academy and the Endeavor Naval Shipyard were also attacked, and all fell to the Horde.[54]
Enactment of the Fortification ActEdit
- Main article: Fortification Act
- "As all of Sera has learned, peace is fragile. This new, ruthless enemy has rendered most of Sera's leaders either helpless or dead. This enemy believes Sera is finished. Some in the Coalition of Ordered Governments also seem to believed Sera is finished-a sick, feeble animal waiting for slaughter. But today, citizens of Sera, we- Tyrus, the heart of the Coalition- will take back our planet. To ensure your safety and cooperation, we are reinstating the Fortification Act. All of Sera will be under martial law. No one is exempt. Survivors should immediately start evacuating to Ephyra. These unclean creatures, these Locust, are unable to penetrate Jacinto's granite base. Therefore, in Jacinto, we are safe for now. We won't let this rampage go further or surrender power. The Coalition will employ Sera's entire arsenal of Orbital beam weapons to scorch all Locust-infested areas. For those citizens who cannot make it to Jacinto, the Coalition appreciates your sacrifice. Please forgive us. This is the only way."
- — Chairman Richard Prescott, 30th day of Bloom, 1 A.E., announcing the reinstating of the Fortification Act and the plan to use the Hammer of Dawn
Many of the COG's member nations had fallen to the Horde, with the main political leaders killed off by the Locust. Suddenly, Chairman Dalyell died of a heart attack, which left Richard Prescott elected as Chairman by the Council of Sovereigns.[57] Prescott had begun to contact the remaining leaders of the COG member nations who were still alive, asking them to help him in an attack on the main Locust holes in Tyrus. All of the political leaders had denied his request with the exception of the leaders of the South Islands.[58] Due to these circumstances, Chairman Richard Prescott saw only one solution: a combination of a scorched-earth and asset-denial strategy using the Hammer of Dawn orbital-based satellite array to deny the Locust total victory, and a declaration of martial law through the Fortification Act to organize and rebuild what was left of humanity.
On the 30th day of Bloom, one year after the E-Day attack, the Council of Sovereigns passed the Fortification Act,[42] which was highly popular (in COG controlled areas) but limited personal freedoms, levied all able-bodied men into the military, and Rationed all food supplies.[59] It also allowed the COG Department of Conscription handle all former Stranded, and turned them into conscripts.[59][13] Women that couldn't give birth were placed in either non-combat positions such as pilots, medics or Control operators, or took part in "war work" by working in factories and hospitals. The majority of the women who could give birth entered "breeding farms" and received extra rations for doing their part in repopulating the human race.[45][59][60] The COG leaders also ordered the evacuation of all survivors towards the Jacinto Plateau, a safe-haven from the Locust Horde who could not penetrate it as easily from below due to a base of thick, solid granite. The survivors had three days to get to the Jacinto Plateau, and then the COG would deploy the Hammer of Dawn, a system of orbital-based satellite laser weapons.[55][56]
Hammer of Dawn CounterattackEdit
- Main article: Hammer of Dawn Counterattack
After three days, the COG finally deployed the Hammer of Dawn. Those unable to escape were issued the following message:
- "For those citizens who cannot make it to Jacinto, the Coalition appreciates your sacrifice. Please forgive us, this is the only way."
- — Coalition of Ordered Governments
The orbital-based satellite laser weapons known as the Hammer of Dawn were deployed and fired all over Sera, burning away all Locust occupied areas—and the unfortunate civilians who were unable to evacuate in the three days they were given to reach Jacinto.[61] Humans stalled the E-Day invasion, but at a terrible cost. Nearly 90% of Sera's surface was left a barren wasteland while the Locust, secure in their subterranean cavern homes, survived. The war would continue for over 15 long and bloody years.[62][63] The actions of the COG on E-Day would forever brand them Fascists in the eyes of the Stranded.[64]
Battle of EphyraEdit
- Main article: Battle of Ephyra
With the war at the tenth year, appearing to be at a standstill, the Locust were gearing up and preparing their forces for a massive assault on the city of Ephyra. The Locust started building railways and bridges near the city in order to move troops near the city.[65] The COG sensed a future Locust assault on Ephyra, and readied their defenses around the city. Some, including Augustus Cole, said that the battle would be a big one, and would come sooner or later.
The BattleEdit
- "..KR-Four, Reavers, inbound at...Exchequer...Prince's...at least a thousand."
- — KR Four-Nine reporting the second visual of Locust forces moving into Ephyra. [66]
Eventually, the big one came, and the city of Ephyra was about to face one of the most significant battles of the war. The Locust poured a huge number of their military forces into the attack, which included more than ten thousand Drones and Boomers, at least one thousand Reavers[66] and numerous numbers of Brumaks[67] and Corpsers. The fighting in Ephyra was heavy, and was extremely bloody and destructive, as Ephyra was both the capital city of Tyrus and the capital city of the Coalition of Ordered Governments.
Seismic activity was beginning to be recorded, and Lieutenant Anya Stroud called into all COG units, saying that Locust forces were beginning to come up through the sewer system, and were about one kilometer from Correll Square.
Eventually, the Locust broke through the surface of Ephyra, and soon, the entire city was under attack, and the whole city was on alert. The COG was completely caught by surprise because they believed that the Locust were either going to come up through the sewer system or across land. The Locust came up through the metro stations, using a massive force of plus ten thousand Drones and Boomers, plus one thousand Reavers and many Brumaks and Corpsers. At first, COG High Command and the COG Intelligence Agency believed that the Locust Horde would have been forced to move across the surface in order to assault the city, but since the metro stations were shut down, surveillance and recon was not in effect, the Locust were able to find an open fissure in which to breach through. That fissure also extended beyond the plateau, so it was most likely unidentified by COG intelligence agents and geologists, so the combination between the fissure being unidentified and the metro stations not being monitored gave the Locust an advantage in the fight. The Locust came up through most if not all of the metro stations, which included Old Exchequer, the Museum Plaza, Prince's Street and Forbridge. As soon as the Locust Horde erupted from underground, all communications were lost and the communication networks went down, including the main military network, so the En-COG network had to be set up to be used as the primary communications network.[66][68] At Correll Street, the Locust burst through the ground using a Corpser, and Drones and Boomers followed, and a firefight ensued in the streets. At first, the fight involved small-arms fire, then it quickly turned into hand-to-hand combat. As the fire-fight continued, Marcus Fenix sharply noticed that the E-hole the Locust came out of broke a gas pipeline that ran under the street. Marcus tossed a fragmentation grenade into the E-hole, setting off a massive explosion that knocked back all of the COG soldiers, shredded the street apart and killed all of the Locust. The COG troops reported back to the mobile headquarters and learned that the entire city was under attack by Locust forces and that they were coming up through the metro stations, not from the sewer systems or from across the land. Marcus requested that he and his squad check out the Bank of Tyrus to check for survivors, and after waiting for a few minutes for the King Ravens, Colonel Victor Hoffman, Dominic Santiago, Jace Stratton and Tai Kaliso to head down Almar Street to head over to the Bank of Tyrus.[69]
The COG was pulling back, but they weren't pulling out; they weren't beaten just yet.[70] Eventually, groups of COG forces fell back towards Chancery Bridge, as Locust forces were advancing across the bridge and pushing to take the city. As the groups of COG forces stationed at Chancery Bridge were preparing to defend the area, Colonel Victor Hoffman planned to use the Hammer of Dawn to take down the bridge, which would partially halt the Locust advance across the bridge. During this time, Seargent Marcus Fenix received a distress call from his father, Adam Fenix; the Locust were attacking East Barricade and Haldane Hall, and Adam Fenix was in trouble. Hoffman ordered Marcus to stay where he was, but Marcus disobeyed him, punched him in the face, and called in a King Raven to take him to Haldane Hall. Marcus took the targeting optic for the Hammer of Dawn targeting device with him but left the rest of the HOD equipment back at the head of Chancery Bridge. The COG forces at the bridge were unable to use the Hammer of Dawn, and Hoffman's plan had failed.
- [71] The northern part of Jacinto and several other towns and cities were now the last bastions of the Coalition of Ordered Governments and of humanity.
Lightmass OffensiveEdit
- Main article: Lightmass Offensive
Having completed the Lightmass Bomb, the COG decided to launch the Lightmass Offensive in an attempt to use the bomb to destroy the Hollow and the Locust themselves. Heading this effort was Alpha Squad and Delta-One. After most of Alpha was wiped out trying to use a Sonic Resonator to map the Locust tunnels, Delta Squad, led by Marcus Fenix and incorporating the two remaining members of Alpha, took over the mission, heading to the Lethia Imulsion Facility and then into the Hollow to deploy the resonator. While they were successful, it was discovered that the resonator failed to map more than a small portion of the Hollow, but data on a geobot was discovered revealing that Adam Fenix's lab at the East Barricade Academy held the necessary data. Delta assaulted the Fenix Estate at East Barricade and recovered the data. Taking it to the Tyro Pillar, the train with the bomb, they battled through the Locust who had taken control of the train and retook it, killing General RAAM, the Locust military leader. Marcus Fenix successfully deployed the Lightmass Bomb which destroyed the Outer Hollow and wiped out the Kryll,[72] but failed to wipe out the Locust.[73]
Operation: Hollow StormEdit
- Main article: Operation: Hollow Storm
While the Locust were believed destroyed, they proved that they were not by attacking the North Gate Agricultural Depot, forcing an evacuation and launching traps. This was initially believed to be done by desperate Locust stragglers, but the Locust returned in full force by rebuilding their civilization and numbers and using the awakened Riftworm (awakened by the Lightmass Bomb) to sink the cities of Tollen and Montevado. The Locust then began the Siege of Jacinto, attacking the last remaining COG held city on the planet. Though the COG set up defenses around Jacinto and prepared for future Locust attacks, they saw no other option and knew that they soon wouldn't have anything to defend, the COG decided to launch an all-out attack on the Hollow, Operation: Hollow Storm. The COG started by retaking the city of Landown and used it as a staging area to launch Grindlifts into the Hollow. Despite severe losses, the assault succeeded and COG troops invade the Hollow. During the attack, the Locust High Priest Skorge used the Riftworm to sink Ilima, leading to the Battle of Ilima in which the city was evacuated of any remaining survivors and Delta Squad killed the Riftworm. After learning a way into the Locust capital of Nexus through Mount Kadar from the New Hope Research Facility, Delta launched a beacon while they were inside the city, which allowed the COG to begin the Siege of Nexus, trying to reach and kill the Locust Queen Myrrah. Myrrah escaped and a new plan was developed to sink Jacinto to flood the Hollow and hopefully drown the Locust. During their escape from the Hollow on Reavers, Delta killed Skorge. After Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago cleared a cavern for King Ravens, which they did by riding a Brumak straight into the cavern, an attempt was made to sink Jacinto with a Lightmass Bomb, but the Brumak the two were using mutates into a Lambent Brumak and destroys the King Raven carrying the bomb. However, Marcus Fenix manages to use the Hammer of Dawn to detonate the Lambent Brumak, which sinks Jacinto and floods the Hollow. The plan works and most of the Locust Horde drowns, though some survived and become either the Savage Locust or the Queen's Guard.[74]
Move to Port FarrallEdit
- Port Farrall, but faced attacks from Locust survivors and harsh weather. Eventually Port Farrall was deemed too inhospitable and the COG moved to the island of Vectes which was on the other side of an abyssal trench and thus protected from the Locust and turned out to have a town of a few thousand COG citizens.[citation needed]
Move to VectesEdit
For the first time in a long time, there was hope for the future of the COG. They sacrificed Jacinto to destroy the Locust and mostly succeeded. There seem to only be mostly disorganized stragglers left. After abandoning Jacinto the COG made an attempt to survive in a ruined but not obliterated city on the mainland and failed. Abandoning that plan, the COG moved to Vectes Naval Base on an island safe from Locust incursion due to a deep seafloor trench. There the remnants of humanity were able to rebuild in peace from the Locust with the only threats being Stranded groups in the nearby islands. With the addition of 4,000 more people from the Republic of Gorasnaya - a former UIR nation which joined the COG as part of a deal to join the survivors on Vectes - there was even more hope. While living on the island, they discovered former "Indies", the COG's enemies during the Pendulum Wars. Luckily, these men were only interested in joining the COG, and were allowed to move in, but with some trepidation. The COG's current plan was to rebuild on Vectes and one day reclaim the abandoned mainland from what's left of the Locust.[citation needed]
18 months after the sinking of Jacinto, the Lambent invaded the surface and the COG began to fall into disarray. Chairman Prescott resigned and abandoned his people and the COG was run by Colonel Victor Hoffman, Captain Quentin Michaelson and Commander Miran Trescu. Attacks on Vectes by the Lambent forced the COG to start looking for other relocation sites, but due to Lambent attacks on the mainland, not even Port Farrall was viable. While there were spots such as Anvil Gate where no Locust or Lambent were, there was not one area big enough to move the COG to and it was forced to disband in order to form smaller communities. The communities would keep in touch with one another and aid each other, but there was no way to maintain a central government anymore. The survivors spread out to various locations including Anvil Gate, led by Hoffman and made up most of the citizens of Pelruan and ships at sealed by the CNV Sovereign and Captain Michaelson. Trescu and the Gorasni went their own way to return to Branascu and try to make a living there. The remnants of the COG continued to battle the Locust and the Lambent. The island of Azura, the last-remaining COG outpost where the COG's elite and best scientists had been evacuated to, including Adam Fenix, was eventually captured by the Locust and everyone but Adam Fenix killed. Prescott, who had traveled to the island when he abandoned the COG, escaped and headed to the Sovereign with a message from Adam Fenix to his son Marcus about a weapon on the island that could kill the Lambent and the Locust. Prescott died after delivering the message and a decryption disk for A2897 and after learning of the island's location and defenses, the remnants of the COG and the Gorasni attacked the island led by Delta-One and retook it, using the weapon to finally destroy the Locust and the Lambent as well as all Imulsion.[citation needed]
At some point following the end of the Locust War, the Coalition of Ordered Governments was restored. The Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon not only destroyed the Lambent threat along with the Locust it also vaporized Sera's global Imulsion supply forcing the Serans to use alternate resources, the COG governed a series of walled city-states built by the war's survivors and established a new militia. Those humans who refrained from joining the COG became known as Outsiders. Both the COG and Outsiders would engage into conflict over resources.[75]
However, twenty-five years after the war's conclusion, the Coalition received scattered reports of entire settlements vanishing without a trace. Presuming it to be the work of the Outsiders, a small group of them, led by James Dominic Fenix eventually discovered that the supposedly extinct Locust Horde had awakened, kidnapping humans to be converted into soldiers as part of a new race known as the Swarm.
Government Structure and Type of GovernmentEdit
Government StructureEdit
The COG was headed by the Chairman who is elected by the Council of Sovereigns who govern from the House of Sovereigns in Ephyra city. The position of Deputy Chairman was second in command of the COG next to the Chairman. During the Pendulum Wars Chairman Tomas Dalyell had the legal rights to fight the Union of Independent Republics but did not have the powers of Chairman Richard Prescott during the Locust War who used the Fortification Act to limit civil liberties and personal freedoms. One of the most notable branches of the Locust War-era government is the COG Department of Conscription which handled the conscription of former Stranded.[59][13] The COG also had a civil protection service.[59] The COG Defense Department was in charge and in the authorization of overall defense purposes of the COG, managed the national security issues the COG had and had overall control over the Coalition of Ordered Governments Armed Forces. The Department of Health ran the New Hope Research Facility before it shut down.[76] There were many smaller agencies that were smaller than the Departments of the COG, but some of these agencies had huge, pivotal roles in the COG and its society and military. One agency was the Defense Select Committee, which had the responsibility of drafting legislation pertaining to defense-related issues. They also had the responsibility and authorization of drafting any new weapon, vehicle and/or tool that would be used by the COG Armed Forces.[77] The Defense Research Agency was a government-owned agency that designed and developed new equipment and technology the COG military could use.[78] The Intelligence Agency had the role of gathering intel for the COG, analyzing it, and making official reports on it to COG officials.[79] After E-Day, the COG still was able to manage the day-to-day bureaucracy with Mayor Gerard Leland and Governor S.D. Garrand serving.[citation needed]
Executive BranchEdit
- Main article: Chairman
The COG was led by a Chairman, who was elected by the Council of Sovereigns. The Chairman was the highest executive figure in the global alliances of the Coalition. The Chairman of the COG had authority over all the armed forces of members' states. The second in command and the second highest executive figure was the Deputy Chairman.[80] There was also a Cabinet, where individual Departments were created to support specific areas of the COG. Of these Departments, the head of each of these Departments was a part of the Cabinet; and the Chairman was a part of the Cabinet.
Legislative BranchEdit
- Main article: Council of Sovereigns
The Legislative Branch of the COG Federal Government was composed of the Council of Sovereigns, who were housed in the House of Sovereigns. The Council of Sovereigns of the Legislative Branch had the job of overseeing all day to day affairs of the Coalition of Ordered Governments. The Council of Sovereigns had the notable power of electing a candidate for the position of Chairman.[81]
Judicial BranchEdit
In Tyrus, Jocelin Baird was a Tyran magistrate and in Kashkur, the Aldermans had legal rights to impose punishment based upon the breaking of legal laws.[82][83] Three days after Bloom, one year after E-Day, all Sera was placed under martial law with the Fortification Act given by the COG, a constitutional law that limited citizens' rights and civil liberties, and rationed food supplies, gave the COG Department of Conscription legal rights to conscript all able-bodied men into the military, and forced women to live with the sole purpose of giving birth.[42][59]
The Coalition of Ordered Governments Armed Forces, specifically the Coalition of Ordered Governments Army, had its own judicial laws that can be executed in the field by high-ranking military personnel, including the execution of Geril Atar for stealing food to feed his starving family, in reference to the Military Emergency Measures Act. The Military Emergency Measures Act also allowed officers to impose martial law on cities during the Pendulum Wars.[11] Another example of military law including the sentencing of Marcus Fenix to a forty-year prison term in the Slab for disobeying military orders and the dereliction of duty, abandoning his fellow Gears and post and punching his CO, Victor Hoffman, in the face. Initially, when Marcus was placed on trial, he was sentenced for execution by a firing squad. However, Dominic Santiago testified for Marcus, and instead of Marcus being executed by a firing squad, he was sent to the Jacinto Maximum Security Prison for forty years.[84] Fenix was freed four years later by Dominic Santiago.[73]
Other organizationsEdit
There were several other organizations within the structure of the Coalition of Ordered Government's federal government.
The COG Defense Select Committee was responsible for the legislation and drafting related to defense-related issues. Their role was designated for the acquisition and drafting of any defense-related issue, as well as any specific hardware the COG Armed Forces might have used.[77] The COG Intelligence Agency, or COGIntel was an agency responsible for gathering and presenting information on the safety of the COG, intelligence about their enemies and defense-related issues. The COG Defense Research Agency, or the DRA/COGDRA, was a weapons designer and developer in the Coalition of Ordered Governments that produced military technology for the armed forces. The DRA replicated, redesigned and produced the Hammer of Dawn orbital-based satellite array. Other notable projects included the Lightmass Bomb and the Sonic Resonator. The DRA produced both software and hardware for the armed forces, producing three notable technologies and a systems network for the Hammer of Dawn which was required to operate and fire the satellites.[citation needed]
Laws and DocumentsEdit
Order, law and authorization was a notable aspect of COG society and its government, military and civilian sectors. All of the COG's authorizations were recorded in code-books known as Confidential Books.[85] Every COG department also had contingency plans in case of an emergency, such as off-site recovery drills to move data and equipment to a safer site to set up again.[86]
- Austere Canon: The Austere Canon was Alexiy Desipich's founding document for his political and social concepts. The eight guiding principles were as follows: Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith and Humility.[42]
- Octus Canon: The Octus Canon was the founding document for the Coalition of Ordered Governments, which established the COG as a supranational union, with a socialist society. The Octus Canon established the guiding principles and rules for the citizens of the COG. It was written, signed and ratified by the Allfathers.[41]
- Fortification Act: The Fortification Act was a law that was first written, ratified and established during the Locust War, with principles that were conceived specifically for the circumstances that came with the Locust War. The Fortification Act transformed the Jacinto Plateau into an unassailable fortress, sealing off areas within the plateau from the Locust, and established martial law throughout all COG controlled areas. However, the Fortification Act also limited the basic rights of citizens, rationed food supplies, gave the COG Department of Conscription the right to recruit all able-bodied men into the military, and forced women to live with the sole purpose of giving birth.[42][59] [87]
- Military Emergency Measures Act: The Military Emergency Measures Act was part of the COG Armed Forces military law, was a form of judicial law in the military code. The penalty for breaking the Military Emergency Measures Act was death by execution. An example of breaking the Military Emergency Measures Act was when Geril Atar stole COG military rations from Anvil Gate during the siege that took place there. The result of Geril Atar stealing COG military rations was death, in which Victor Hoffman, a lieutenant at the time, personally executed Atar.[11]
- Open Arms Program: The Open Arms Program was a recruiting program set up during the Locust War that enlisted former UIR citizens and soldiers the opportunity to join the COG, whose respective UIR nations had fallen to the Locust Horde.[88]
Type of GovernmentEdit
Since the Coalition of Ordered Governments was based upon the concept of Socialism and eight guiding principals theorized by Alexiy Desipich, the Austere Canon, the COG was established as a Socialist regime by Nassar Embry and the Allfathers.[89][24] The COG was founded and established upon the Octus Canon, which was similar to a constitution.[41] Besides being an authoritarian regime, the COG was also a supranational entity, comprising of many nations across Sera.
For the majority of its existence, the Coalition of Ordered Governments had a partial fascist (contradicting it socialist side) society, with values being placed on "Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith and Humility," which were the eight guiding principles of the Austere Canon,[42] which was the political document that Nassar Embry and the Allfathers used to base the Coalition of Ordered Governments upon.[80] Along with those eight principles, the unification [89] of the people, society revolving around the military, and in this case, the army, as well as using mass propaganda to motivate the people were important ideas in the COG. Other values include the idea of fraudulent elections, in which elections were not always so fair, sometimes a complete sham and fascist governments may use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.[90] The Council of Sovereigns had the deliberate power to elect a candidate for the position of Chairman.[91]
After Emergence Day happened and the Locust War began, the Locust Horde was threatening to breach the Jacinto Plateau and overrun it. Chairman Richard Prescott was forced to meet with his cabinet and make a final decision. They came to an agreement, and the COG would deploy the Hammer of Dawn and other chemical weapons to scorch all Locust infested areas, but they would give the people of Sera three days to get to the Jacinto Plateau before they deployed the weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, the COG also reinstated the Fortification Act.[55] The Fortification Act placed all of COG-controlled areas under martial law, in which no one was exempt. The Fortification Act limited the freedom of citizens, rationed food supplies, gave the Department of Conscription legal rights to conscript all able-bodied men into the armed forces, and forced women to live with the sole purpose of giving birth.[42][59]
The COG utilized a coin and paper currency system backed up by Gold. The basic unit of currency in the COG was called the Dollar. Dollars were produced in paper and coin increments. The money/financial supply of the COG was managed by The Coalition Reserve. Its primary purpose was the production and management of the COG's financial supply.[92] Financial supply was managed in banks. One notable bank was the Bank of Tyrus in Ephyra.[66]
Some private companies in the private economic sector of the COG included NAS, an armor manufacturing company,[93] [94] Aiglar, a helicopter manufacturing company,[95], Solarro,[96] a solar car company, and Lopus Energy and Griffin Imulsion Corporation were companies dedicated to refining and distributing Imulsion resources.[97]
Since the energy crisis created from the Lightmass Process and rampant speculation,[42] the Allfathers who were head of states of nations with Imulsion reserves united, which gave them a monopoly on Imulsion.[40] After the Pendulum Wars started, Imulsion was being fought for to keep power on in the COG.[98] During the Locust War, the COG's economy mostly fell apart. Trade and business slowed down as the population decreased as cities were lost, and the use of Dollars became useless. However it apparently is reinstated by the COG as its main form of currency some twenty five years after the conclusion of the Locust War.[48]
Society and CultureEdit
- "We only achieve unity through order."
- — Nassar Embry[24]
- "Fenix is here because society is formed from people pulling together, not breaking away into separate groups. Unity. Because no man can exist on his own. No country can, either. That's why we have the Coalition of Ordered Governments."
- — Major Fuller
COG society revolved around the military, especially the army, and was bred into the social fabric.[100] COG society revolved on the policies and ideologies that the COG was founded upon in both the Austere Canon and the Octus Canon. In the Austere Canon, the ideals of "order, diligence, purity, labor, honor, loyalty, faith and humility" were stated.[42] In the Octus Canon, several ideologies and values such as loyalty, respect, honor, responsibility, living clean and frugal lives and the idea that being a part of society and working hard for the greater good will "hand on safety and prosperity to future generations" was written. By working hard, being a part of society and the community, a person was doing their part in the Coalition of Ordered Governments and making a contribution to the existence of the COG and for the existence of future generations.[41] Other ideologies of COG society include the unification of the people and state. COG society also focused on the reliance on people as neighbors and friends, for people to help each other out in hard times.[101] [99]
COG citizens and mostly Tyrans did not normally protest government actions regardless of the actions.[102] Students in East Barricade Academy were more vocal about protesting the Pendulum Wars, which was in fact fought over Imulsion rights and not democracy,[103][98] and some students accused Gears of being "baby killers" for taking part in the war during a Career day event at the campus.[104]
Propaganda was huge in COG society, whether it was for positive effects or negative effects. Propaganda was common throughout all sides of the COG, from the military to the common civilian sector. Many families had a long line of military service and traditions, such as the Carmine Family and the Santiago Family. In COG society, joining the military was a norm and was considered a taboo if one did not. During the Pendulum Wars, there was some anti-war protest among some of the people of the COG, especially among the liberal youth. Some of this anti-war protest ran rampant at LaCroix University and at East Barricade Academy. Military recruitment in the COG Armed Forces also used propaganda as a means to encourage more people to join the military.[104] Although COG society dictated the ideals and policies of unity, order and equality, some military recruiters tried sexist attacks to get women to join the military.[citation needed]
Order was everything in the Coalition of Ordered Governments, and even before its founding, especially in Tyrus. Order not only had to do with the government, military and civilian sectors and society but also had to do with recording, archiving and bookkeeping of records and documents that encompassed everybody in the COG. Every file, document and report was recorded in a ledger and stored away for storage and removal. To Nevil Estrom, this style of archiving and recording everything was "typically Tyran, typically COG." Even when the COG was in a significant crisis, people recorded and kept records of everything that happened.[105] This archiving and filing not only had to do with history, but anything and everything that was a record, including reports, seismograph charts, photographs and aerial recon photos, maps, schematics and technical journals.[106]
The COG had a very diverse culture, from the tribal South Islanders (along with the Northerner immigrants) to the very militarized Tyran people that idolized the Armed Forces. The Kashkuri people's pride and joy was their Silver Era history and Silver Era architecture.
Standards and SymbolsEdit
The Coalition's symbol is a Gear, supposedly to reference its acronym; COG (A cog is a type of gear). The symbol represents the machine and the mutual support that gears need in order for the machine to work and go forward, like Serans in their struggle to survive, cooperate peacefully with each other and to change their war-favoring ways. Another symbol was the eagle sitting on a Gear. The COG flag was colored blue, with a cog at the center with a three-striped wing at both sides of the cog.
One notable holiday in the COG was the Day of the Fallen. The holiday celebrated the fallen soldiers who had fallen in battle during the Pendulum Wars.[107]
Virtually nothing was known about the religion(s) of the people of the COG, although the religions of both the Tyrans and the South Islanders were known.[citation needed]
Ancient Stories and LegendsEdit
In Tyran culture, one notable ancient story was a fairy tale that was popular in Tyran legend was about a girl named Romily. Romily wanted to be independent and break away from the common ranks of her fellow friends and peers. Hoping that she would be admired for her bravery and to prove her independence and bravery, she ventured to the forest, but was taken by a six-legged creature which took her to the Hollows.[108]
There were some notable magazines in the COG, which included Car Gold Magazine,[109] HMT,[110] as well as newspapers such as The Eagle Newspaper (part of the Sovereigns Press Corps, [111] Jacinto Sentinel Newspaper[112] and Sera News.
Fine ArtEdit
The Tyran National Gallery was a gallery museum,[113] the R.L. Sterling Conservatory was a greenhouse conservatory,[114] and the National Museum of Ephyra was a cultural museum.[115][116]
All of the pre-Emergence Day schools in the COG were government controlled,[117] and heavily taught the history of Alexiy Desipich and his political ideology, Nassar Embry and the Allfathers and the founding of the COG, the values and ideals of Socialism, and the core principals of the Austere Canon and the Octus Canon. The schools in the COG taught the concepts of Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith and Humility, especially the concepts of unity and order for both people and nations, which the COG was founded upon. Along with teaching the history and ideals of the COG, basic education was also taught, including mathematics.[118] [42] All students had to wear uniforms to remind them they are all the same, and that everyone and everything is united as one.[citation needed]
After E-Day the only purpose of schools was to keep kids from turning into random gangs on the streets of Jacinto.[45]
List of known COG Schools:
- Bonbourg University (After the Pendulum Wars)
- Olafson Intermediate School
- LaCroix University
- Contemporary Combat Center (Military school)
- Halvo Bay Military Academy (Military school)
- Oracle Academy (Military school)
Human Rights RecordEdit
Though opinionated, the Coalition of Ordered Governments had a record of committing some atrocities which caused some, such as the Stranded, to brand them as "fascist pigs" and as a tyrannical, power-hungry organization.[73] From the Pendulum Wars to the Locust War, the COG had committed several controversial acts during the Pendulum Wars such as the use of POW camps, bombing cities and the tests that took place at the New Hope Research Facility. Controversial acts that happened during the Locust War included the Fortification Act and all of the policies that it laid out, as well as the subsequent Hammer of Dawn Counterattack.
Pendulum WarsEdit
Learan PrisonEdit
- Main article: Learan Prison
The Learan prison camp was one of the many POW camps run by the COG during the Pendulum Wars. Several Gorasni soldiers were held there during the war were tortured by the Gear soldiers' stationed there. One Gorasni had his arm forced down onto a hot-plate that scarred his arm badly, while another Gorasni had his hands cut off. Many of the Gorasni there starved to death, and Gears took pictures of the atrocities there that fell into the hands of some of the surviving Gorasni. Half a Gorasni regiment starved to death at Learan POW camp.[119][120]
Bombing of SikorlaEdit
- Main article: Bombing of Sikorla
During the Pendulum Wars, the COG bombed Sikorla. The Gorasni viewed that action as a war crime.[120]
New Hope Research FacilityEdit
- Main article: New Hope Research Facility
Chairman Monroe approved the opening of the New Hope Research Facility sometime before the Pendulum Wars. Numbers of people who were infected with Lambency who had worked on or around Imulsion refineries during the Gold Rush were brought to the New Hope facility.[121] The true reason for the opening of the New Hope Research Facility was so COG scientists and researchers could find a cure for Lambency.[citation needed] The research at New Hope was classified, and only a few knew about it.[122] At New Hope a 15-year-old Ruth along with other children were experimented on and an early form of Lambency took hold, resulting in the creation of the Sires.[123][124] At some time later, the media began to question the reason for the remote facility, so Chairman Monroe ordered the shutdown of New Hope and the "children" to be sent to Mount Kadar by foot. After the shutdown, New Hope was classified and documents pertaining to its existence have reassigned the status as top-secret information.[125] As for the group that went to Mount Kadar, they delved deep into the mountains and over time, the mutated Sires evolved into the first Locust. Inadvertently, the COG actually created the Locust race and paved the way for the massive war that would come almost a century later.
The information regarding New Hope was only declassified during Operation: Hollow Storm. Only Chairman Richard Prescott knew of New Hope and what was going on there and kept his Chief of the COG Defense Staff, Victor Hoffman in the dark. Dom Santiago theorized that New Hope was a POW camp or internment camp.[125]
Ordered execution of civilians at Aspho FieldsEdit
Two years before E-Day, The COG Intelligence Agency discovery that the UIR had won the race for Orbital weapons while the COG satellites were still only computer simulations. Chairman Tomas Dalyell and his military advisors including then Major Victor Hoffman and Adam Fenix debated a possible raid and seizure of the Hammer of Dawn technology. Adam Fenix recommended that the civilian scientists should be executed to stop the UIR from rebuilding their lost technology, while Hoffman could not stomach the idea of killing innocent people. Adam Fenix replied that these civilians could lead to the deaths of millions of COG citizens.[46]
Locust WarEdit
Hammer of DawnEdit
- "Ah, Fenix. Son of mass murder."
- — Gorasni captain to Marcus FenixThree days after Bloom in 1 A.E (one year after E-Day), the COG was forced to use the Hammer of Dawn deny the Locust Horde from using the Human's own assets and resources against them. The Hammer of Dawn vaporized 90% of the Seran surface, killing millions of COG and Gorasni citizens. Both the newly created Stranded and the remnant of the Gorasni people viewed this event and the decision of the COG as mass murder.
Birthing FarmsEdit
- Main article: Birthing Creche
After the Emergence Day attacks and the Hammer of Dawn Counterattack, the human population dropped to near extinction, forcing Chairman Richard Prescott to begin a Birthing Creche program. Having all fertile women placed in the "farms", so they could breed with superior Gears and theoretically give birth to genetically superior soldiers. Young girls under the age of ten were placed in the farms and treated as prize breeding animals, and the women with the healthiest children received the best treatment. At the age of ten, the girls were given hormones to begin the process of ovulation and prepare them for giving birth. Most of the woman and girls were artificially impregnated, but some of the girls where impregnated the "old ways" by Gears, to help with their morale, and in the hope, the girls would give birth to genetically superior soldiers. One of the most notorious farms was the one at Jilane. Women who could not give birth were declared "Barren" and sent to the frontlines to fight as Gears or as a support soldier, such as working in the Coalition High Command, or the Combat Information Center.
Rough Questionings of CiviliansEdit
Jacinto Sentinel Newspaper reported that the COG denied the rough questioning of civilians by COG soldiers.[126]
Stranded InsurgencyEdit
Execution of StrandedEdit
After the sinking of Jacinto, the COG discovered the remnant of the UIR nation of Gorasnaya. The two former enemy states joined under the banner of the COG, and moved together to the island of Vectes. During this time the Stranded Insurgency claimed many COG and Gorasni lives, leading Miran Trescu of the Gorasni navy and now high member of the COG to captured three Stranded, and execute one of them in hopes of finding where the Stranded get their supplies and reinforcements.
Armed ForcesEdit
- "I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition. I will defend and maintain the order of life as it was proclaimed by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus Canon. I will forsake the life I had before so I may perform my duty as long as I am needed. Steadfast, I shall hold my place in the machine and acknowledge my place in the Coalition. I am a Gear."
- — Oath of the Coalition, sworn by all recruits.[127]
- Main article: COG Army
List of Branches:
- Coalition of Ordered Governments Army
- Coalition of Ordered Governments Air Corps[128][129]
- Coalition of Ordered Governments Navy (NCOG) (En-COG)
- Coalition of Ordered Governments Engineering Corps
The Coalition of Ordered Governments had its own armed forces, spread over all of its member nations. There were four branches of the armed forces: the army, the air corps, the navy and a logistics branch known as the Engineering Corps. The entire Coalition military was commanded and supervised by Coalition High Command. High Command itself supervises the daily operations for all branches of the COG military and directs the war effort.[citation needed] The COG command structure and leadership was based in the House of the Sovereigns, located in the city of Ephyra, capital of both Tyrus and the COG.[129]
Pre-Pendulum WarsEdit
The Gear soldier predated the Pendulum Wars.[42]
Pendulum WarsEdit
Infantry, Weapons and VehiclesEdit
During the Pendulum Wars, the COG had numerous soldiers: ranging from elite commandos capable of operating both on the front lines and behind-enemy-lines, to standard Gears who fought on the front lines. The Coalition possessed vast land armies, a small but capable navy, and a skilled air corps. During the Pendulum Wars, both men and women served side by side in the 79-year conflict. Every Gear had the necessary weapons, armor, equipment and rations to support him or her on the field. Ground vehicles used by the COG Army such as the Centaur, Armadillo, Packhorse, the COG Tank and the COG APC were each used for a variety of roles, but all were used for general combat against UIR military forces. Both the COG Army and the COG Air Corps possessed various air vehicles, such as the King Raven, Corva and the Tern. The King Raven was a multi-purpose, fixed-rotary helicopter, became the workhorse helicopter for the COG Armed Forces after mass production began and it was deployed onto the battlefield. As for the COG Navy, the Navy possessed various vessels including the covert-ops Seabass Model, the Raven's Nest Class Class One Heavy Battle Aircraft Carrier, and the COG Battleship, as well as smaller vessels including the Landing Craft Tank and the Marlin. The Coalition numbers were boosted by volunteers, the Pesang people, and troops from vassal nations.
- "A military life attracts young people for many reasons - duty, comradeship, purpose, the opportunity to test life to the limits, to learn a trade, escape from home, adventure-even patriotism. But for the youngster lacking a stable caring home, it provides family, with all the security and meaning that goes with it. They crave the structure, approval, attention, and clear rules that their parents should have given them; and we can supply it.
- — Colonel Gael Barrington[130]
Military recruiting was a type of recruiting used to collect suitable numbers and reliable people to be a part of the military. Recruiting was used in the COG military for its existence because there was no known draft.[citation needed] A military life attracted many for a number of reasons, such as duty, comradeship, purpose, the opportunity to test life to the limits, learn a trade and many other virtues.[130]
Support from the GovernmentEdit
A number of government agencies supported the armed forces in one or more ways. The Defense Select Committee and the Defense Department both supported the military in a variety of ways. The Defense Department was in charge of the overall defense of the COG, and was in authorization of and directed the military in terms of command, funding and attention.[131] The Defense Select Committee was responsible for the authorization over and the legislation relating to defense-related issues, including the draft of any hardware, equipment, weapons and/or supplies that would be required by the military.[77]
Military Doctrine and Political/Societal RelationsEdit
- "Infantry, armor; artillery-we're all about guns, bigger guns, ships to carry even bigger guns, and aviation to support those guns and the Gears carrying them. We've never moved much beyond the model of the primacy of land forces; we've grown comfortable with the war: The time's coming when we'll need to work smarter; to develop aviation and maritime assets in their own right, and maybe even move onto the turf the intelligence community guards so jealously. We've got to be more flexible to be ready for whatever the future might throw at us. Because the next enemy may not think like us."
- — Professor Adam Fenix, addressing Defense Procurement Executives at a seminar at LaCroix University[132]
During the Pendulum Wars and for a long time before then, the Coalition of Ordered Governments Army was the main center point for the Coalition of Ordered Governments' armed forces, as well as COG society and the COG's authoritarian regime.[100] In addition, the Navy and Air Corps was deprived of military funding and attention from the government, specifically the COG Defense Select Committee and the COG Defense Department.[95] During the Pendulum Wars and for the time before since the COG was first established, COG military doctrine had revolved around land forces, warfare and tactics, with naval forces, air forces, special forces and the intelligence community being a side show.[133] [134] This had been the case until Major Victor Hoffman and his Commandos stormed the Aspho Point Research Facility during Operation: Leveler. The Navy and the Air Corps were newly supported just as much as the Army was with the proper hardware and equipment resources, necessary logistics support and political attention.[citation needed]
Locust WarEdit
- "It was tough not to feel disappointed. Three weeks out in the field, and we'd only found one Gear. One survivor. The APC was packed with ammo and supplies, but still...we needed people a lot more than we needed supplies."
- — Jace StrattonOne year after the E-Day assault, the Coalition was forced to deny their enemy the advantage, and scorch the planet with the orbiting Hammer of Dawn satellites, destroying nearly all civilian and military centers and killing about 90% of the population. After the retreat to Jacinto Plateau and leaving millions to die and large amounts of civilian and military hardware behind, the COG's Engineering Corps were forced to get creative with little "kit" they had left. Even with the death and destruction going on all over Sera, the COG was able to produce mass quantities of the Mark 2 Lancer Assault Rifle when Professor Adam Fenix designed the weapon during the early years of the Locust War.[80]
By the 14th year of the Locust War the Coalition only had a few brigades of troops, the population of a medium-sized city, and an undernourished engineering corps.[135][136] With Stranded conscripts from Operation Lifeboat unable to boost the shrinking COG army force, High Command was forced to pardon hundreds of thousands of prisoners, levy the sick, young and the old into the Armed Forces, and order all women to repopulate the rapidly decreasing population.[137] The COG Department of Conscription was created to deal with former Stranded.[59]
Before Operation: Hollow Storm, the COG gathered as many soldiers as possible to attack the Locust stronghold and finally destroy them in an all-out attack as the COG would not be able to hold out much longer. The attack was a success, but Jacinto was sacrificed to flood the Hollow, which succeeded in drowning most of the Locust Horde.
Due to increased rations, Gears were loathed by part of the human population for being fed more, while, for the most part, humanity was starving. After the sinking of Jacinto, and after the move to the islands, the former inhabitants of the islands disliked the COG Gears because of their violent tendencies, and because they believed that the COG would just cause them more trouble with the Stranded, and survival in general.
Remnant During the Lambent InvasionEdit
After the sinking of Jacinto, a new threat began to emerge: the rapidly-evolving Lambent. The armed forces defended the COG as best as they could, but eventually, the COG was forced to disband after Chairman Prescott abandoned it and Lambent attacks on Vectes began to overwhelm the defenses set up against them. The remaining COG forces were assigned to protect the scattered new settlements with a reaction force led by Delta-One operating out of the CNV Sovereign going to settlements under attack to defend them. Also, Colonel Victor Hoffman, led much of the remaining forces to Anvil Gate to settle there and defend it. Eventually, the Sovereign was destroyed by a Lambent attack soon after Prescott returned and before dying, he revealed that the island of Azura, a secret COG outpost where the COG's elite and best scientists had been hidden away (including the believed-dead Adam Fenix) had been captured by the Locust. After making their way to Anvil Gate and defending it from a Locust and Lambent attack, Delta made their way to Azura, gathering much of the remnants of the COG's armed forces and the Gorasni and launched an attack on the island. The combined COG and Gorasni force managed to retake the island and Adam Fenix and Delta Squad finally destroyed the Locust and the Lambent with Adam Fenix's Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon.
Members StatesEdit
Most of the Coalition's member nations had governments that had existed as Monarchies.
- Tyrus (founding member)[42]
- Dushin
- Kashkur
- Ingarez
- Sarfuth
- South Islands
- Pelles (joined the COG after the Pendulum Wars)[80]
- Ostri Republic (joined the COG after the Pendulum Wars)[80]
- Gorasnaya (joined the COG after the sinking of Jacinto)[80]
- It is unknown what kind of civilian Judicial system the COG had, but some information on Military law is explained including the execution of Geril Atar under the Military Emergency Measures Act, the sentencing of Marcus Fenix to 40 years in Jacinto Maximum Security Prison, and the trial of Kilo Squad.
|Coalition of Ordered Governments
|Military: Coalition High Command · COG Army · COG Navy · COG Air Corps · Engineering Corps
Civilian: COG Merchant Navy
Government: Civil Protection Service · Council of Sovereigns · Defense Select Committee · Department of Conscription · Department of Health · Intelligence Agency · Defense Research Agency · COG Defense Department · COG Casualty Information Bureau · Ministry of Settlements
History: Alexiy Desipich · Nassar Embry · Allfathers · Austere Canon · Octus Canon · Fortification Act
Society: Socialism
Economy: Socialism · Coalition Reserve


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So, the miles and piles of snow lingering in town might not realize the calendar says it's spring, but anglers in the Valdez Halibut Derby do. Justin Hoppe of Valdez is one such man; he hit Prince William Sound on board the charter boat Dan Orion and returned with a 97 pound halibut last Sunday to take an early lead in the derby. Shawn Shipman of Whitehorse was also aboard the Dan Orion and she picked up a 70.4 pounder.
Hoppe and Shipman are now leading the derby and are in line to win the weekly first and second place prizes in the Halibut Derby. That's if their fish stay atop the leader-board until the derby week closes Saturday.
Greg Davis of Westminster, Colorado weighed in the first halibut in the Valdez Derbies on Saturday.
"He was visiting from Colorado and really excited about his fish", said Bonnie Woods, weight-in coordinator for the derby.
Word from the harbor says that charter captains in Valdez are preparing for a busy season as anglers are lining up with high hopes of winning the derby's $15,000 first place prize. A ticket costs $10 for the day or $50 for the season and must be purchased before heading out on the water. The limit for halibut in Prince William Sound is still two per person and weigh-in for the derby is open 3-8 p.m. at the derby shack, kitty-corner from the harbormaster office.
Ticket holders with the three largest fish with win the grand prize of $15,000, second place prize of $5,000 and $2,000 for third; there are also three weekly winners.
The derby will also award a 4x4 F-150 truck at season's end to one lucky ticket holder. Every $10 spent on a ticket is an entry to win the truck – even if you never catch a fish. A season ticket gives its holder five entries.
The Halibut Hullaballoo runs June14-23 and the angler catching the largest halibut during that time period will win $1,000 cash. That is in addition to the weekly prizes and any overall prizes they might win.
The Silver Salmon Derby has the same prizes as the halibut derby, including a chance to win the truck. It begins July 20; the highly popular women's derby is slated for Saturday, August 10. The ever-growing Kids Pink Salmon Derby is set for July 20.
There is also a $500 prize for the vendor and operator selling the winning derby ticket in both derbies.


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Santiago Lucero
Executive creative director,
I still haven't made that many friends in London and yet here I am about to do one of the most annoying things a creative can do: sit down and criticise someone else's work without taking into consideration all those things that got in the way of the idea along the way.
Anyway, I promise I'll at least write with love and consideration, if not great English.
Jammie Dodgers. Anything with singing biscuit-monkeys selling jam-filled biscuits should be great for me.
I have to admit, I smiled when I first saw the biscuit-monkey playing his white piano. "Great!" I thought. Quirky, funny, crazy and stupid (stupid is good for me too).
And then, another biscuit-monkey, and another one, and another ...
and it was too much. Somehow, the magic was lost and I stopped watching funny biscuit-monkeys and started seeing a TV ad selling jam-filled biscuits.
Fortunately, I found out there's a place where singing monkey-biscuits live happily in a simpler, funnier and less "ad-y" way, on their web page.
Stella Artois Cidre. This has my respect for being another elegant, clever, smart and funny piece from Stella Artois. I know I'm judging this on its own, but it's almost impossible to view it without considering the campaign as a whole. It's part of a great Italian family (should be French, even Belgian; but, for me, great families are Italian families).
Anyway, this ad talks about Stella's premiumness (is that a word?) and its quality without betraying Stella's style and values. It probably won't change the world, but I just liked it.
Thinkbox. Something weird happened to me with this one. I spent the whole spot watching it, and enjoying it a bit, and thinking to myself "interesante, interesante ..." (I think in Spanish).
You know ... a dog, a catchy song, a puppet, no product ...
Was looking good, and it was. Not great. Not bad. Good. There was only one problem with it. The TV was powerful enough to save the rabbit in the spot, but not to make me believe in the power of TV advertising. I don't want to become too strategic or boring or anything like that, but I feel we need to emphasise the fact that TV is ready and able to stand up to the social networks out there.
Ribena. It's really hard for me to talk about this one. Privately (and this is Private View), I am not a big fan of this kind of advertising. I love animation if there's a great idea behind it but, in this case, I feel there isn't. Simple as that. It's another brand trying to be young, fresh, loose and engaging and, from my point of view, not getting there.
Ambrosia. OK, I got it. It's creamy and naturally low in fat. I can't say they didn't deliver the message. I can't say I liked it, either. Sorry. It's just that, when you have a bizarre combination of a spoon, a piece of pastry, a thermos and a boiled egg with eyes and mouth, you'd hope they would say something odder than merely "it's creamy and naturally low fat".
Carphone Warehouse. This is probably the result of a client falling in love with the deal it has to offer, and the agency knowing that this love is strong and impossible to take apart.
I understand that, but I tend to believe (and perhaps I'm too naive) that there are always more creatively clever, sharp or beautiful ways to talk about price than literally just showing a price. Aldi is doing it well at the moment. Tesco used to do it well in print. "Surprisingly ordinary prices" ...
"Reassuringly expensive" ... you get the idea.
And that's it.
I hope I still make friends in London.
Daniel Kleinman
Rattling Stick
Most of these commercials have a retro theme - this must be the current zeitgeist as, strangely, the one ad that seems the most contemporary and has no retro-irony is the one that feels most old-fashioned. Perhaps we have become so sophisticated and ubiquitous with our special effects, have made so many fantasies realistically believable, that the way to be different is to have a naive approach to the visuals?
Ambrosia reaches the furthest back for its creative inspiration - the black-and-white, silent-era special effects of Georges Melies, now in colour, still give an amusing, surreal impression. Eggs and spoons with faces feel like a scene from Lewis Carroll as well. Nice.
I think the idea with Jammie Dodgers is for kids to get "involved" online and vote for which monkey with a Jammie Dodger head is making the best music video. I like the setting: a bored kid waiting for the parent to try on clothes in a depressing-looking clothes shop, the bizarre Monkey Dodgers coming to the rescue with mad entertainment. The puppetry, endearingly retro, seems to be inspired by early Gerry Anderson - Supercar, perhaps. Nice.
Difficult to be impartial: if I had a choice in front of me of a glass of Ribena, a pot of Ambrosia, a Jammie Dodger or a Stella ... not being a kid, I'm personally most likely to like Stella Artois Cidre (3), and I do. The most knowingly retro-ironic, it's nicely done - a sort of cut-glass Miss Moneypenny is tutored by a frog in specs, back projection, excellent picnic case and the line "er, er, er, re, re, re" sounds humorously like the gaseous repercussion of drinking the beverage itself. Nice.
Thinkbox continues its former great work with Harvey the dog demonstrating, via a "commercial" on TV, why its master shouldn't throw away its disgusting toy, and it does make you think "don't do it" at the end. The look of the commercial is decidedly retro-ironic - 70s, I'd say - very flatly graded, but all the better for it. I like the song, and it's a good performance from the dog. The ad Harvey shows is on a TV that stays visible the whole time on our TV - this makes it a bit static, but it's probably to emphasise the idea that this is to promote TV ads and it fits with the 70s style of photography. Perhaps there should have been a scene of the dog and its toy watching home movies of themselves on TV on the TV on our TV. Anyway, nice.
Ribena has no retro allusion I can see and perhaps, because of that, and although impeccably created, staged and executed, this is the one that feels more old school. I'm sure kids may like it and parents get the vitamin message. Niceish.
Carphone Warehouse is unabashed in its retro-ness, using the irritating 70s children's characters The Wombles in its press work. I didn't like The Wombles when they first came out, I hated them when they started releasing crap records in the 70s, jumping about in grubby velour on Top Of The Pops; they even made me rethink my admiration for Bernard Cribbins. Early proponents of recycling, these Wombles seem to be hoovering up and wheelbarrowing away piles of money, to be recycled by the shareholders of Carphone Warehouse, no doubt. I get the irony, though. Nice enough.


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Training made Tavares one of League's top skatersby Dan Rosen
In three seasons since the New York Islanders made John Tavares the first pick in the 2009 NHL Draft, the center has gained a reputation as one of the strongest skaters in the League. He's blowing by defenders because of his proper posture, long stride, great power and improved speed.
Tavares has effectively married his skating with his skill to become one of the League's top-10 scorers and an All-Star -- one of the best overall players in the game.
Tavares training for a better shot
In addition to skating, New York Islanders center John Tavares has devoted a lot of time over the past two summers to improving his shot. And, no, it's not as simple as going out on the ice and firing pucks at an empty net.
Tavares and trainer Richard Clark have developed exercises geared toward the muscles that go into a slap shot.
"He is doing something with a 20-pound medicine ball, where you laterally shuffle toward the wall at a high speed, plant your front foot and laterally throw that ball as hard as you can against that wall," Clark told NHL.com. "It's not 100 percent the same as a shot, but you're skating toward that net, you plant that front foot, the back foot comes through, the hip rotation comes through and you explode with that shot. Well, we do similar things to that."
At Tavares' request, Clark purchased a machine made by Keiser that he uses to strengthen his midsection through rotational exercises.
"I think it has made great improvements," Tavares told NHL.com. "In the game of hockey there is a lot of twisting, movement of the body, a lot of awkward positions that you put your body in that aren't normal for other athletes, say a sprinter or a football player. You put your body in a lot of positions that are very unique -- and there is a lot of rotational, twisting, pull work. We've used a rotational machine made by Keiser where you do rotational lifts. That has been good for us because you are rotating through your shot -- to do that you need your core work."
Tavares also installed a shooting pad on a synthetic ice surface in the back yard of his home in Mississauga, Ontario.
"One of the biggest differences I found when I came into the League is how good the goaltending is and how much quicker you need to be not just in the way you skate but in the way you shoot the puck," Tavares told NHL.com. "That's why I have been working to improve both."
-- Dan Rosen
Success so early in his career probably shouldn't come as a surprise considering the almost unfathomable amount of hype that followed Tavares into the NHL. However, for people who remember watching him closely when he was a teenager, there may be a twinge of shock only because Tavares was never one of the strongest or fastest skaters in any game he played.
Skating may have been his only weakness during his junior career, but it was an obvious one.
"John had a very awkward, clunky, some might have said slow stride," Dawn Braid, a renowned skating instructor out of the greater Toronto area who has worked with Tavares since 2008, told NHL.com. "He was very off-balanced."
Tavares was what is commonly referred to as railroader -- someone who looks like they're skating with legs as far apart as railroad tracks, burdening themselves with short strides that require too much energy to get from point A to point B. Tavares knew that in order to be a great pro he would have to improve his skating in all aspects.
Enter Braid. Enter his longtime athletic trainer Richard Clark. Enter Tavares and his insatiable work ethic.
Together they worked to create the player who scored 81 points in 82 games last season, the player who has other players and coaches around the NHL marveling at his skating.
"He's picked up a step," Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Dion Phaneuf said. "His game is at a different level, and he's making some unbelievable plays."
Tavares used to be the picture of potential for Braid; now he's the picture of near perfection, so much so she uses still images of Tavares from 2008 and 2012 as examples for her other clients.
She used to show Tavares pictures of Mike Gartner.
"It's unbelievable the difference my skating has made. It's instrumental," Tavares told NHL.com. "It has changed my game to not just be a skill player, but to be an overall player, a more dynamic player."
The key -- Tavares recognized this even before the Islanders made him the top draft pick in Montreal three years ago -- was to make sure what he did in the gym with Clark made a difference when he got on the ice with Braid. Any other way would have been counterproductive to what Tavares, Clark and Braid were after.
Working together was easy because Clark and Braid are colleagues. Clark owns the gym, the Athlete Training Center, and he hired Braid as ATC's director of skating development.
"That is where the training has evolved over the years, understanding we need to train my body a certain way so when I go skate I'm able to put myself in those positions that Dawn has wanted to put me in to make myself a more powerful and efficient skater," Tavares said. "Dawn always says, 'If you didn't train properly and do the certain things you need to do, you're not going to be strong enough to do the things I want you to do.' "
Tavares' first challenge was to improve his core strength and his posture.
"I needed to develop much better range of motion through my hips and [gluteus] strength. I was weak in those areas," Tavares said. "So we (Tavares and Clark) did a lot of exercises in warm-up and strength exercises and running and sprints -- developing my fast-twitch muscles to become much quicker and much more dynamic. Training those parts of my body really helped on working on things like my stride and crossovers."
Clark, who is quick to say he's not a hockey expert -- "I'm a basketball and football guy," he said -- always thought Tavares was a powerful skater, but he agreed with Braid that he wasn't the most fluid.
"He's explosive now," Clark told NHL.com.
It was a process, though.
Tavares spent the better part of three straight summers working on his stride, posture, power and speed. Clark said by the end of last summer the difference was noticeable, not only on the ice but on the track inside Clark's gym.
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"He was finally beating the guys that are four years older than him in 10- and 12-yard sprints and in reaction drills, where you have to mirror a guy, do a lateral shuffle and cut to a sprint," Clark said. "We thought he was just going to explode. Now people are saying he's one of the elite skaters in the NHL."
This summer, Tavares moved on to the next phase of his skating: footwork. He's working on his stops, starts, transitions and pivots.
Tavares calls them "gamelike situations."
"It's how to put my body in good positions to protect the puck, to gain speed from stops and starts, from turns," he said. "It's getting more specific because of how much I have been able to transition into a better skater."
Braid said, "I think in a couple of years they won't even question putting him on a penalty kill as a result of those pivots and transitions. I've already seen a huge improvement."
Again, the improvement wouldn't be possible without the work Tavares puts in with Clark every day. They've been together since Tavares was 13 years old and not only is there a strong trust between them, there is a familylike bond.
"It's almost like he is an Uncle Rich," Tavares said.
Tavares is close friends with Clark's son, Wes, who is the director of player development for the Saulte Ste Marie Greyhounds in the Ontario Hockey League. Clark's gym in Mississauga, Ontario, affectionately referred to as "The Dungeon," is where Tavares finds a lot of his closest friends.
"They train like animals and they push one another," Clark said. "There is a real drive and a friendship among that group, but John has evolved. He has always had this great work ethic, but every year he's getting better.
"John is our family here. He could have went to the YMCA and still been a great hockey player, but we're just here to help John."
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Preparing for Rootstech (Elyse's Genealogy Blog-Elyse Doerflinger)
Road Trip to Rootstech (The Armchair Genealogist-Lynn Palermo)
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Newspaper Articles:
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Dallan Quass - developer behind WeRelate
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Capers McDonald - Exec in Residence and faculty member of John Hopkins University
Amy Johnson Crow - Certified Genealogist and manager at Archives.com
Robert Lee - Working on Masters in technology at BYU
Daniel Horowitz - My Heritage Chief Genealogist
Tevya Washburn and Kurt Francom - LifeHacker.com
Devin Ashby - Community Advocate for FamilySearch
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Rootstech 2012 Live Streaming Schedule (Roger's Ramblings-Roger Moffat)
Rootstech 2012 Live Streaming (Bella Online Genelogy - Tina Sansone)
Watch Select Rootstech Presentations Online - FamilySearch Tech Tips
Rootstech Notes-Live Broadcast (Genealogy Star-James Tanner)
Rootstech Unconferencing Schedule
Genealogical Society Webmasters - Rootstech 2012 Unconference
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Genealogy Idol:
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Genealogy Idol Finalists
Vendor Posts about Rootstech:
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Let's Get Happy and Bump at Rootstech (For Your Family Story-Caroline Pointer)
Who Will Be The Next Genealogy Idol? (Elyse's Genealogy Blog-Elyse Doerflinger)
I'll Be At Rootstech (Behold Genealogy - Louis Kessler)
Post Conference Webinars:
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