[hider=The Lunar States]

Nation Name: Lunar States
Flag: [hider= The Bromhel Collective][img]http://masseffectuniverse.ru/universe/organizations/bluesuns/bluesuns1.jpg[/img] [/hider]
[hider= Dead Vacuum] [img]http://i.imgur.com/QcXMURZ.png[/img] [/hider]
[hider= Popular Front][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_the_Popular_Front_(Spain).svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Popular_Front_(Spain).svg.png[/img] [/hider]
[hider= Regulum Solaris][img]http://images.unurthed.com/Bertrandt-Solaris-art.jpg[/img][/hider]
Government Type: Pirate Republic
Leadership: Lead by a council of four elder captains. 
Persons of Importance(Optional):
Captain Lucien Von Bromhel ( The Bromhel Collective)
Captain Varrik Klare ( Dead Vacuum)
Captain Lourdes  ( Popular Front)
Admiral Ingvard Van Duurk ( Regulum Solaris)
Homeworld(s) of Origin: The Lunar states have no homeworld but exist on a multitude of orbital stations. Its citizens mainly come from the Aurolian Federations and the Concordant.
Holdings: The Lunar states hold a collection of large to small space stations orbiting the Jaruin moon. The territory between these stations are heavily monitored and are regularly patrolled by pirates. 
Population Demographics: 
-80% Human
-15% Ishkaan 
-5% Other

History: When government authority erodes in a region, enterprising groups will try to fill the power vacuum. This has been proven by different groups throughout the history of evolution and the Federation was no different.
	The stations were already a refugee focal point, a place to go if you did not have the wealth to get to Aurolia or the Concordant. The poor, fugitives and ex-convicts made up the populations of the many service based stations. Work was mostly hard labor based and the pay was less the adequate, making life on the stations prison like and inhumane at times. The stations have always been isolated and self reliant, most were run properly and their inhabitants enjoyed a adequate quality of life. As the civil war started on Aurolia, supplies and aid stopped reaching the lunar stations. The situation was made worse when more refugees fleeing the violence arrived, stretching the nonexistent supplies the stations had.
	Anarchy followed and Omega station, a raw materials processing plant, was taken over by a group calling themselves “Regulum Solaris”. Made up of mostly disgruntled miners and military deserters, they established power quickly under the command of Ingvard Van Duurk. Once word of the coup reached the other stations, citizens revolted and the took control of their respective stations. The stations acted independently for a little bit until the initial problems of famine and disease came up again. The need for cooperation was obvious and it didn’t take long for these groups of refugees to seek each other out. Factions were formed, the Regulum Solaris grew and new factions like “ Dead Vacuum” and “ The Bromhel Collective” were formed. These new factions acted as nations and traded both externally and internally. 
	Everyone was expecting these factions to tear each other apart over territory and resources. As pirate activity increased in the region, the possibility of war between the factions became even more feasible. One man, the Ex Federation Captain Lourdes, formed his own faction and offered to establish a pirate republic. The other faction leaders, who were also very aware of the resource problem, agreed and the region surrendered to the collective rule of the four factions. 

Military: The Lunar states relies on an army of privateers to defend the area, these forces can be as limited as a gunboat or as diverse as an balanced armada with landing forces. Due to the diversity of the population, tactics, procedures and from both The Federation and the Concordant can be expected. 

Other: The Popular Front faction is the only Semi-legal faction in the Lunar States. This is also the only faction that trades with other nations, the rest of the states trade exclusively on the black market. 
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