In my sights....

When I think of guns I automatically think of the awesome C2-Sniper and the deadly RK-14A Sniper. These rifles are the pride and joy of one Jaster Mereel. Well that and his ship and his other guns and his armor and his other armor and his mech and his knives and his sword and his jetpack and his cool artifact that he has no clue what is does and I'm done.

Anyhoo, I got some more story information. It's on a group of people who started the whole thing.

The 12

The 12 are a secret group of highly placed individuals who originally planned the Terran Civil War, the fall of the Empire of Order, and the birth of the United Terran Republic. The 12 actually began as The 6. At the Terran Order’s Academy for intelligent children, 6 students who had been taught secretly by their parents to undermine the Order and help restore freedom to the people decided that the time had come to plan a “reordering” of things that included the utter destruction of the Empire of Order. They came up with numerous ideas but dared not share them with anyone else. The fear of losing their lives for thinking against the Order, made the 6 swear by a code, that no one could know about their plans without the others consent. The 6 came to the conclusion that the only way to defeat the Empire was to attack from the outside and inside at the same time. After scheming for years and avoiding the secret police’s investigators (who are placed at schools to stop the chance of rebellion fermenting with the brightest of students), the 6 graduated top of their respective classes and joined organizations best suited for their coming role in the galaxy. The original 6 were Ivente Helos, Ithany Nova, Kel Arkan, Greken Cassius, Jace Cassius, and Vessen Tacitus. They were later joined by Kenso Auriss, Herran Kast, Marto Randon, Jaggel Von Kellor, Zek Terol, and Char Anvale. By the time the gathering of the 12 was complete the Civil War was in full swing.

The 6’s plan was simple and complex at the same time. Kel Arkan would secede from the Order with his loyal men and found the Arkan Freedom Federation in an attempt to start a war of attrition with the Empire of Order. Ivente Helos, Lord Marshal of the Order, would order troops to attack pre arranged locations and would fight using strategies that both he and Arkan conceived earlier to draw the war out. Grand Admiral Ithany Nova was charged with leading, mostly reining in, the brutal and bloodthirsty Death Head’s Legion, the most feared independent Imperial fleet. Greken and Jace Cassius were charged with possibly the most difficult mission of all; take charge of the Emperor’s private weapons research and development system, Kron, and use the new technologies to help the 6. Finally, Vessen Tacitus used his family’s already considerable wealth and prestige to begin forming an economic powerhouse whose main business was constructing starships. The 6 hoped that the war would unite people who wanted change and kill off the hardliners who would never stop believing in the Empire.

Some civilians immediately saw what was happening and secretly tried to contact General Arkan. The first successful civilian contact was Herran Kast. Herran Kast became a member of the 12 after he was successful in starting a group of insurgents, known as “The Kast’s Dozen”, that would start inciting rebellion on worlds all across the Empire. Another civilian contact who became a member of the 12 was Kenso Auriss. Auriss was brought in by Jace Cassius after the two designed and built the Ventross Prototype War Suit. Auriss was told that he needed to use his companies massive financial reserve to aid the 12 and he secretly arranged for the transfer of the money himself. Civilians weren’t the only ones chosen by the 6 to help them realize their plans. Three military officers were brought in by Ivente Helos and Kel Arkan over a period of two years. The first and probably most important was High Admiral Jaggel Von Kellor. Kellor was convinced by Helos after Kellor discovered that the tactics Helos was employing were being read by Arkan and vice versa. Von Kellor approached the Lord Marshal and demanded an explanation. In light of the demand for more information, Ivente Helos broke the Code and told Kellor their entire plan. Helos knew that the risk was huge but the payoff was even larger. The High Admiral agreed and became part of the 12. Von Kellor’s task was similar to Helo’s own, he had to help plan strategies and battles that would keep both sides in a deadlock until the final preparations had been made. The next member had a tragic event happen to him. Captain Marto Randon was commanding his ship, the Implacable, when he learned that his wife of 10 years had died in an operation mishap by the Order’s supposed top doctors. Marto, furious at the Order, swore vengeance and secretly contacted Kel Arkan. Arkan accepted his offer to spy and helped Marto eventually defect with his whole squadron of ships. He was brought into the 12 after the defection and was given the task of using his squadron to pirate enemy cargo and supply ships.

The last military member to join was Colonel Zek “The Terror” Terol. Terol is the best friend and personal advisor to Ivente’s son Peren Jace Helos. Zek was brought into the 12 after discovering their plans on his own. He confronted Peren who contacted his father and together they convinced Terol of the right in their plan. Terol agreed and was tasked with guarding both Helos and acting as a personal messenger between the 12. Last and certainly not the least is Char Anvale. Char was born on Kron V in an experimental cloning vat that was bombarded with Willpower energies during all phases of growth. He is the first of the two surviving brothers of the ill fated Anvale Experiment. The Willpower energy and advanced experimental training that Anvale continued to receive until his growing ended at 18 left the scientists with an incredibly powerful and unpredictable being who resented being raised the way he had. With the special training that Greken Cassius instructed him with, Char knew that the Empire had to fall. When the Emperor came to visit his two new warriors, Char sensed a powerful evil conscience dwelling in the back of the Emperor’s mind and it had an incredibly strong Willpower presence. Since the scientists limited knowledge of Willpower couldn’t help explain the feeling, Char decided that the only way to stop the evil that lurked in that mind was to kill the Emperor himself. After Greken and Jace Cassius explained to Anvale the 12’s plan, Char agreed that it was the only sensible solution to the problem that was the Order. Char was tasked with taking the Kron system and using its resources to destroy the Emperor.