Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/The Minutemen Survivors

"War... War Never Changes..."

- The voice when the Survivors is selected in the Conquest mode.

The Minutemen Survivors are one of the twenty-one core factions in Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict. This faction relies on guerilla warfare and stealth tactics at first then slowly transition to a traditional army as they upgrade their aging equipment by "acquiring" modern technology and calling in more advanced machinery to turn the tide.

History
At the start of the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War, another war had been raging in full force for nearly 30 years. Embry was in the grip of civil war, torn between the forces of the New California Commonwealth and the Redline Union. As the war continued all over Gaiaterra, Embry veteran armies clashed on bloodsoaked fields. It was a conflict unparalleled in brutality, bloodshed, and scope, and one largely ignored by the rest of the world.

Driven to desperation, the people of Embry had exhausted every possible method to defeat their enemy, throwing millions of lives away in battles, committing countless atrocities in the hopes that it would bring them a bit closer to final victory. No person, however sick, young, or old, was exempt from the war effort. Every last scrap of ore and every last drop of oil was torn from the land to feed the war machine. Science advanced rapidly, but only where it could be applied to war, and too often it took vile and nauseating directions. The Embry Civil War had gone on so long no one expected it to end.

But then, 1957 V.C. came. A discovery was made, one with the power to bring the war to a screaming halt. A scientist in the Elsword Empire uncovered the secret of atomic fission. Within months of the discovery atomic bombs were being made in the hundreds and sent sent towards one side with to help them win the war, and to field test the lethality of the nuke, and a spy on the other side stole it. Or perhaps both sides made the same discovery at the same time. and no one can forget what happened next.

No one knew who stuck the first blow, but Lexington and (insert) were annihilated within a day of each other. More rational governments might have realized they were teetering on the brink of annihilation, but the two Embry had been at each other's throats for too long to accept any outcome but the complete destruction of the other side. Too much blood had been spent for any other outcome to be palatable. For the next two weeks, both sides flew hundreds of flights, saturating the country with atomic fire. What began as an attempt to force an end to the war became revenge strikes, and finally degenerated into desperate attempts to obliterate the other. The rolling blasts could be seen from orbit. When the bombs finally stopped falling, the Civil War was over, and both sides shattered.

From the ashes of the war, a strange movement began. The Commonwealth had associated themselves with blue, the Union with red. This new faction associated itself with the (insert colour), the old colors of Embry before it was manipulated by eight nations into fighting each other. Even as bandits and warlords continued to fight over the scraps, the Minutemen preached a new message, a call to all Embry survivors to unite under a single banner. Salvaging technologies left over from the war, they created an army of guerilla fighters to subjugate those who refused to bow to their rule, armed with old but improvised weapons. The remnants of the Commonwealth and the Union tried to crush this new upstart, but they were spent by decades of fighting and barely clung on to power.

Under the Minutemen, Embry would stop looking inward and look outward. Those who had perpetuated the war to its fiery conclusion would be brought to justice; Aquila, Voshkod, Alliance, Andora, Zemuria and Ascalia. They would be made to account for their crime and they would be punished for it. And the Minutemen would be the one to judge them.

When Maxim Leonidovich Moskvin was captured and brought before the Minutemen court, he asked who was the ruler of this new Kingdom they had created. Before his execution, they answered his question. They explained that they were not a state like he understood them, just the vengeful shadow of the great civilization he had damned, hoping to find a way to rebuild from the ashes. As he was escorted to the gallows, he learned the true nature of the Minutemen.

"Ghosts have no need for kings."

Despite rejection by the appropriate authorities, many Ranger Scout cars have been spotted in some parts of Hawke. These rumors could be the result of an antique car fan club, or secret invasion. The seizure of Patton and Sherman tanks with Aquilan flags painted on the sides has also been denied by the highest Aquilan authorities. Reporters also making claims of minor skirmishes in Eorzea and Ascalia have strangely disappeared, though whether the Minutemen were involved at all is suspect.

Whether the Minutemen will risk an open war on the Guardians is unknown, but one thing is sure- their guns are cocked and men ready.

Lore Articles

 * The Embry Archipelago
 * The Embry Civil War
 * The Embry Archipelago after the War
 * The Factions of the Waste
 * The Wasteland Survival Guide
 * The Mutated Flora and Fauna of the Wasteland
 * Survivors Network
 * The Vaults
 * Minutemen Strategies And Tactics
 * PAWI Story
 * Spiral Technology
 * Seismic Technology
 * Deck Of 52
 * Minutemen Characters

Relations

 * Necromunda Insurgents: At War
 * Aristocracy of Encantadia: ???

Notable characters

 * Piper Wright: Survivors EVA
 * Yes Man
 * Robert Edwin House
 * Joshua Graham
 * President Tandi
 * Max Rockatansky
 * Preston Garvey
 * Anna
 * Harold
 * Imperator Furiosa
 * Marcus
 * Fawkes
 * Sam Taylor
 * Lilian
 * Strong
 * The Mechanist
 * Deacon
 * Desdemona
 * Nick Valentine
 * Curie
 * Cait

Legendary Generals

 * Benjamin Carville: General of the Aquila Remnant
 * Arthur Maxson: General of the Brotherhood of Steel
 * Tratos: General of the Forgotten
 * Sviatoslav Konstantinovich "Miller" Mel'nikov: General of the Voshkod Exiles

Commandos

 * Courier Six: Aquila Remnant Commando
 * Dixie: Brotherhood of Steel Commando
 * Umagon: The Forgotten Commando
 * Artyom: Voshkod Exiles Commando

Sub-factions

 * Aquila Remnant
 * Brotherhood of Steel
 * The Forgotten
 * Voshkod Exiles

Arsenal
Main Article: Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Survivors Arsenal

A Settlement Needs Help
Civilian structures can be converted into Minutemen structures by Dozers, allowing a Minutemen base to be easily hidden amongst any place that people congregate and making rooting them out entirely an incredibly difficult task

No-tiering
Uniquely, the Survivors are one of the few factions that lacks a tier system, allowing them to get specialized units much faster compared to others. But their vehicles are initially overpriced for their power, requiring global upgrades to be equal to their equivalents, and their commandoes are noticeably weaker, being more support focused and will lose to other commandoes. Combined this with their faction's bad economy means that casualties must be kept at a minimum

Global Upgrades
The Survivors are unique in numerous aspects, Global Upgrades being one of them. Global Upgrades, once researched, will affect Survivor vehicles, ships, and aircraft. A force of Survivor vehicles, once fully upgraded, is just as good if not better than a comparable force of any other faction. These upgrades are for free, but each requires three minutes to develop. While it is being developed, it locks off all other options; you cannot build a dozer or start research on another upgrade without cancelling the one currently in progress.

Structures
Basic Structures Defense and Support structures

Trivia

 * A frontal close up of a Brotherhood Paladin head on with a Beagle in the visor, this Survivors box art for Elysea's Conflict inspired by the box arts of Fallout 3 and Fallout 4
 * All of their buildings and some of their vehicles and infantry designs are based off Red Alert 1/Tiberium Dawn units and structures.