Federation High Command

Federation High Command
AKA	Crystal Kingdom
Type	Headquarters
Years Active	AC 332+-432+
Location	Federation Core States
Actions	Oceanian War Cascadian Conflict Operation Guillotine Operation Anticipation Second Battle of Presidia Cascadian Conflict Ceasefire
Appearances
Project Wingman (mentioned)

Federation High Command (HIGHCOMM), callsign Crystal Kingdom, is the supreme command outfit of the Federation Military Forces. It issues top-level priority orders that all Federation forces and other command staff obey.

History

Federation High Command supervised Federation subjugation actions in Oceania during the Oceanian War. For reasons undiscerned and later criticized, they chose not to bring down every mercenary involved in the conflict.

During the Cascadian Conflict's Operation Guillotine on April 17, AC 432, HIGHCOMM raised threat alertness to DEFCON 2, authorizing the deployment of Federation Peacekeepers from other theaters of war to the Bering Strait in the form of Crimson Team, seeing as the furball was going badly for the Federation Air Force and was threatening Magadan - Federation Core States territory. They proved insufficient, however, and HIGHCOMM ordered a full retreat when excessive losses, including five Crimson members, were sustained.

The hour after the battle, contact with HIGHCOMM was lost for unknown reasons and the Federation's highest echelons became disorganized, which plagued Federation coordination for over a near-month near the day the Cascadian Independence Force launched an amphibious invasion of Magadan. The chaos was enough that PK Steel was deployed late to respond to the rebel landing. HIGHCOMM was successfully restored, and they started diverting Federation military units from Asia to fight the invading rebel forces; however, they estimated that without the reinforcements on the Cascadian mainland, they would lose the country in one month.

After numerous plan drafts considerate of the tides of war, HIGHCOMM decided to send Driver, leader of Air Reserve Division K-9, into a tunnel flight through Highway 1 to wipe out the CIF Marine command post coordinating the invasion; though they put faith in his abilities, Federation Special Forces noted the "crazy" gamble they were taking and how it was the only way past the fortified rebel frontlines. The mission succeeded, and the Cascadian rebels were pushed all the way back to Point Refuge, where their invasion began. They denied an evacuation plea near the end of the battle and ordered resumption of hostilities until the entire invasion force was annihilated.

As the mainland war situation turned against the Federation, HIGHCOMM concocted a plan to terrify the CIF into surrendering by luring them into Prospero and pulverizing their forces using cordium-tipped cruise missiles. In advance, they ordered all Federation units to shelter in place. Concurrently, with CIF General Faust, supreme commander of the botched invasion, remaining in Magadan to pursue her own genocidal agenda, HIGHCOMM assigned K-9 to launch and terminate her before she destroyed Base Station Zero through her Cascadian White Fleet. It was because of this that the geothermal facility engineers worked to neutralize as much cordium on-location as they could to prevent catastrophe from befalling Magadan or even the Federation; unfortunately, the resultant rise of tectonic pressure in other parts of the Ring of Fire, exacerbated by the missile strike on Prospero, led to the Prospero Disaster and in turn, the Cascadian Calamity Event - in a way accomplishing Faust's objectives anyway but setting her nation aflame as well.

By the closing month of the war, both HIGHCOMM and Independence Force HQ were working on a secret ceasefire, trying to consolidate as much territory as possible before it was signed. HIGHCOMM specifically ordered that at least Presidia part of be held before then, though it was all for nothing, especially as the Presidian Disaster occurred.