Cascadian Independence Force

Cascadian Independence Force
Type	Secessionist rebels
Years Active	AC 432+
Location	Cascadia
Leader(s)	Independence Force HQ
Members	Cascadian National Guard rebels
Actions	Cascadian Conflict
Appearances
Project Wingman

The Cascadian Independence Force was a rebel group fighting for the independence of Cascadia from the Pacific Federation during the Cascadian Conflict. It was made up of pro-independence Cascadian National Guard elements, militias, and citizens under the leadership of Cascadia's surviving civilian cabinet and generals.

The Independence Force sought to maintain a conventional war against the Federation rather than resorting to guerilla or "revolutionary" activity as commonly seen in the Periphery, believing that this would increase their legitimacy in international opinion.

History

The CIF was formed just as the Cascadian Conflict broke out and was the largest anti-Federation group recognized by the Cascadian government. In the early months, it was able to take over various strategic locations from the Federation as quickly as it could, only for it to be pushed back and lose 30% of its active forces and into the brink. Having hired mercenaries beforehand, they were able to maintain a conventional frontline long enough even with Federation forces flooding into the country over the coming weeks and seizing their capital. They also encountered issues with Cascadian partisans seeking the same goal as them but refusing to cooperate.

The CIF was able to recover after a series of supply line raids over the following days, as well as stealing a Federation battleship for their own and naming it the CIFS Eminent Domain and sending out mercenaries to destroy the Solana Communications Array, which had been a bane on the IF's war effort for a while. Notably, the IF's most resilient troops had been of the Wild Boar Regiment, mainly comprised of Oceanian War veterans including and led by Morgan Elizabeth, himself part of Independence Force HQ.

Because of the array's destruction, the IF was able to score its first conventional victories and employ their own countermeasures. A massive furball that spiraled from a transport intercept mission by some patrols decimated Federation air superiority in Cascadia, giving the rebels the upper hand. They launched an offensive spearheaded by mercenaries and others, received defectors and prisoners nonstop (though also occasionally executed surrendering troops) and even invaded Magadan for a while before being pushed back. The worst was yet to come, however; on June 2, AC 432 while liberating Prospero, they were bombarded heavily by cordium-tipped cruise missiles and took mutually heavy losses with the Federation.

Because of the subsequent communications breakdown, they and the Federation were forced to switch to non-electronic-powered means of communications and suspend military operations for two months. The CIF, with mercenary support as usual, was able to regain the initiative and eradicate recovering Federation forces, pushing all the way to Presidia and retaking almost all of it just in time for the Cascadian Conflict Ceasefire. Unfortunately for them, they lost almost the entirety of their operational units in the process, mainly due to the Presidian Disaster decimating their combat-effective forces.

The CIF's ultimate fate after the war is uncertain, perhaps disbanded after having achieved its objectives and reabsorbed into the National Guard.

Gallery

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  Canon but unused Cascadian Independence Force emblem concept

Trivia

As of Patch 2.0.11, the subtitle identifier for this group was changed, replacing "Allied" in "Allied Ground Unit/Pilot/Ship" with "Cascadian." All major rebel characters also have "Cascadia |" as a subtitle prefix in general.