Unified Martian Federation Trooper By Imperator-Zor Watch

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In 2092 (Year 1 of the Martian Era) Earth experienced a Thermonuclear War between it's major power blocks which laid civilization in ruins. Billions died in the exchange, billions more died from disease, starvation and general disorder in the aftermath. After that warlords emerged and pushed their way across the continent. One bastion of civilization was spared in the fledging Martian colonies. By international treaty no nation was to bring nuclear weaponry to Mars though some defensive laser systems were allowed while interplanetary ballistic missiles were ranked a low priority by the militaries of the time. What few weapons that were sent to the red planer were intercepted en route. In the aftermath of the war, the seventeen human settlements on the Red Planet signed a treaty to form a single unified government to ensure that such a disaster did would not happen again (although the Indian and Korean Settlements were brought into the fold at gunpoint). They made an effort to bring in what survivors there were elsewhere in the solar system, though fear of biological weapons prevented them from recovering survivors from earth.



Though there were hardships in it's first generation, the UMF's population expanded from just over 150,000 to 20,000,000 (a process which was aided by artificial gestation) between 1 and 150me (2374ce, the Martian Calendar is in Martian Years). As it's population grew a political movement gained strength which called for the reclamation of earth by force. As such from 120 ME onwards resources were dedicated to preparing an invasion force. Geneticists managed to devise treatments to protect against diseases descended from bioweapons, transport ships were constructed, soldiers were given drug therapy trained on torus stations in earth gravity and equipment and material were assembled to ship out to deal with the warlords of Earth on the 150th anniversary of the UMF's establishment. That was six years ago



The standard Martian Federal Army trooper is clad in a powered exoskeleton equipped with two arm mounted weapons. In this case it is a pair of railguns firing 5mm projectiles at 1.25km/s. It also supported heavy armor that could take fire from most of the primitive firearms used by the locals. These are backed up by similarly advanced martian vehicles, tanks, artillery and other such systems. Even so the reconquest of earth has been problematic. Though they are largely limited to early to mid 20th century technology there are some 500 million people living on earth while the total manpower of the MFA's terrestrial expeditionary force is about 300,000 men and women (though this has been supplemented by some 300,000 Terran Auxiliaries). The reconquest of earth has mostly focused on Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Madagascar, which are among most developed areas on the planet though plans are being made for further expansion are under way to systematically bring the entire population of earth under UMF rule despite resistance from badly equiped if passionate individuals. However one quality which the Martian People have developed is an ability to persevere on difficult projects for distant long term gains.

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