Editing Lancer: Iphigenia at Midnight (section)

==The Factions==
Armory Legionairres: Purview forces have been fighting alongisde the CDF for ten years, and has a close relationship. As of the current year, the PVC-GC Enyo (a Farragut-class gun-armed carrier), is the primary station and force for the Armory forces in the system; commanded by Group Captain Akemi Hirayama. Local Legion forces as a whole are under the supervision of Legion Major Conall Hawthorn.<br>

Legion Forces have been heavily mauled during the initial attack on the system, and have been forced back to Lebaea. The primary Legion presemt is Legion IV Myrkviðr, (pronunciation: meerk-whither, roughly; meaning: "Serpent's Teeth" ) and are eager to get back into the fight; as a result of that tundra world's culture of military pride and Purview honor, with many pilots seeing it as their personal responsibility to raise the crimson banner and avenge their dead comrades-in-arms. The wide plains, deep forests, and open skies of their home cultivate a hardy breed, especially when the snows lie deep across the planet for three-quarters of their long years; it is after the World Serpent that holds up this forbidding orb and its aspects that they tattoo themselves at coming of age and name their formations at war. This conflict is but the latest of the capricious twistings of the Serpent as it writhes in its slumber<br>

The local Armory detachment primarily operates HA Sherman, Saladin, Napoleon, Iskander, and Genghis chassis fitted for counter-insurgency roles<br>

Union Navy: The UNS-LS Okhotsk, commanded by Captain Gabriel Delgado, only recently arrived to the Choral Worlds after its long transit from the nearest blinkgate. Its main guns have been stripped back to host an expanded hangar bay and intelligence annex, which respectively host detachments of Union Marines and Auxiliary mixed chassis in event of a worst-case scenario (most notably the Union Marines 600th Battalion 1st Squadron, "Dark and Stormy"); as well as various legal and investigative minds from the Union Adminsitrative Department to look into the referndum. The Burning of Patrae has changed the mission from an observational to a defensive one.<br>

Currently, the Okhotsk is over Coroneia preparing to act in defense of that world, the first serious test of Captain Delgado's fortitude in combat in years; its pilots, on the other hand, have been deployed to Lebaea in order to assist in evacuation and defense of the world from the oncoming threat. Due to the comparative size of the Union detachment to the CDF a nd the local Armory forces, it's stretched perilously thin, 0 but this is precisely the sort of engagement many have been waiting for – and, given the enemy reemerging from Union's own past, an opportunity to strike at one of the most ancient enemies of the Third Committee.<br>

The Union detachment primarily operates GMS Everest and Chomolungma, SSC Swallowtail, HA Saladin, and IPS-N Tortuga and Lancaster chassis.<br>

Choral Defense Forces: Successors of Union Auxiliary Forces and Marines during the Second Committee, the CDF has a strong military tradition severly impacted by centuries of isolationism. While they are a proud force, complacency has been bred across all divisions; and nepotism and favoritism remain the quickest ways to obtain high ranks.<br>

The conflicts against the pirates and terrorists in recent years have been forcing change into entrenched attitudes, and lately, elite units of the Choral Army such as the 12th Queen's Royal Dragoons, 5th King's Hussars, or the 1st Queen's Own Cavalry have fought in engagements far from their star's own light, however, and acted in defense of the worlds themselves from pirates and mercenaries in the last ten bloody years. Due to remaining in contact with Union at large through omninet infrastructure since the Revolution and possessing mechanized chassis as a result of Coroneia's manufacturing world status, the Choral Worlds retained their own ability to manufacture chassis and a tradition of their operation.<br>

In terms of the forces stationed on Lebaea at present time, the most prominent would be the 1st Queen's Own – arguably the most capable chassis unit in the CDF, directly descended from the 412th Union Marines and with a long history featuring combat from the birth of the mech on Hercynia to the Choral Secession itself. The unit is commanded by Lance-Colonel Arnold Lucas and features mostly small operations groups of three to five mechs drawn primarily from CCU Stiletto, IPS-N Nelson, IPS-N Caliban, and HA Tokugawa lines produced natively or under license, as well as small numbers of HA Napoleon chassis. Their identification colors are deep sea green and dawn-solar gold accompanying standardized camouflage.<br>

Since the early days where their call was "For Union" through the days of "In the Crown's name" and to the modern "For Crown and Commune," through isolation and austerity, the CDF has survived. By your actions, hopefully it will survive for many more years yet.<br>

Freelancers: The primary freelance pilot group in the Choral Worlds is the Mirrorsmoke Mercenary Company 383rd Detachment "Lighthouse Keepers," under command of Detachment-Leader Rafe Campagna, a long-time Company veteran (and, by half-approving, half-grousing words of his own mercs, "a complete hardass"). The Choral contract has been exceptionally lucrative for the Company since its inception, though some allege that MSMC detachments have played both sides of the conflict on behalf of Harrison Armory. More well-proven is the friction between MSMC and CDF elements in the same theater – the ancient pedigree and royal patronage many CDF cavalry units take pride in meshes poorly with the 383rd's rough and working-class attitude. Many have been the stories of what would've been friendly ribbing within the Company after a joint operation turning into a bar fight.<br>

As expected for Freelancers, there is no typical unit formation or standardized chasis.<br>