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Colonel Hanse Castillo

2022-11-07T23:55:34Z

ValorousHeart:

=== Background ===
[[File:Hanse.JPG|thumb]]
Colonel Hanse Castillo, [[Humanity First]], was born near [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Arroyos Tres Arroyos], Argentina.

Enlisted Paratrooper in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War Falklands War], awarded for bravery at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Longdon Battle of Mount Longdon] in 1982. Trained U.S. Army School of the Americas, 1985. Served as a line officer or adviser with various anti-communist special operations units and militias in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Colombia in the late 1980s and 1990s. Worked in Pentagon’s Latin America policy arm in 2000s. In 2015, briefly imprisoned in Buenos Aires on war crimes charges stemming alleged activities during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor Operation Condor] in the early 1980s; acquitted in 2016.

=== Personality ===

Jingoistic, xenophobic and uncompromising, Colonel Hanse Castillo is the only reasonable leader in the game and represents majority of player base. Also he's hot. His only character flaw is that he is a little plain.

Likes: war, terrorism, Magneto, guerilla warfare, Fiona Ayouade, property squatting, plundering, technology

Dislikes: aliens, alien sympathizers, Star Trek, communism, being unprepared

=== Quotes ===

* 'They are not 'lifeforms' or 'xeno-sapients.' They are demons incarnate. They and the traitors who support them will face our judgment.' - faction blurb
* 'Humanity First forces have have deployed a biological weapon in the alien wormhole, slaughtering most of the species. What few alien forces remain cannot carry on the fight.' - during declaration of faction victory conditions.

==== Research ====
* "What the doctor means is that he has convinced atoms to emulate a Spartan phalanx. Just as those ancient warriors locked their shields together to protect one another, these atoms combine into unbreakable armor." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Touring a classified R&D facility, somewhere in Tierra del Fuego
* "One grabs a weapon. Another offers a hand to negotiate. A third falls prostrate, and a fourth runs. Only one of those chose the right, best response; what we're trying to understand is how to ensure we induce that response when the time comes." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Staff meeting with Humanity First morale officers
* "How could one so young, coddled as you are by the modern world, begin to understand what war is? I did what had to be done. Closing your eyes and wishing the monster away only makes you an easier meal." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Closing statement from his trial for alleged war crimes during Operation Condor
* "This is not a war over resources or politics. This is a war to determine the future of humanity. It is imperative that we show them - show anyone - what it really means to fight us." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, comments at the launch of the <i>Indómita</i> spacecraft
* "Maybe you've seen the films. Sadistic drill instructors demanding the impossible of poor, good-hearted men. You think it's inhumane. You think it won't be like that here. But by God it will, because even one weak link gets everyone killed." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Training rebels in guerrilla warfare techniques in Nicaragua
* "Sure, I've seen those shows too. All those starships politely doing whatever some distant admiral tells them to do. All those worlds quietly minding their own business. It's all a dream, boy. Nothing but a foolish dream." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, In an email to his 14-year-old nephew
* "We need men who know no fear. We need men who don't let wounds slow them down. We need men who don't need sleep. Most of all, we need men who don't ask questions." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, In an email to the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
* "Sun Tzu said: 'The art of war is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.' Soon, very soon, we will follow this road across the stars, and face our final destiny." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Troop address, prior to Operation "Crack of Doom"
* "It is not about who hits hardest. It is about who moves fastest. Though even that will get you killed if you have not planned exactly what to do once you get there." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, In an interview with the U.S. Southern Command magazine Diálogo
* "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake Sir Francis Drake] didn't defeat the Spanish Armada by building even bigger ships. He won by overwhelming them with smaller, lighter boats. It's as true today as it was in 1588: if your ship is too slow to turn, you're doomed." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, From a letter to his uncle, during the Salvadoran Civil War
* "You'd be better off surrendering than sitting around on your backsides, waiting for supplies from home. If you don't know how to use what you find in the field, you've lost before you've even begun." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Quoted in his official biography "Five Moves Ahead," (cancelled before publication)
* "Technically, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_(Marvel_Comics) he's more of a super-villain], but he's still my favorite. He's a survivor, he's uncompromising, and he does whatever he must to achieve what he believes in. Cool helmet, too." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Responding to a text message from his 12-year-old nephew
* "I'm not interested in baby steps. Our enemy isn't going to wait for us to catch up. What I want from you is the most devastating force you can possibly imagine, placed in hands of our soldiers today." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Weapons facility inspection, location undisclosed
* "We laud the Romans for assimilating rather than exterminating other nations, but we should not forget that their siege weapons were terrible things to behold. History is littered with accounts of opponents simply surrendering as they watched Roman catapults approaching their walls." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, From a guest lecture at VNGRD Engineer Officer Candidate School
* "Do not seek to be the elephant. Become instead the mosquito, which pierces its mighty hide, which laces its blood with disease, and which cannot be swatted away by its feeble tail. — Colonel Hanse Castillo, As quoted in his (unpublished) biography "Five Moves Ahead."
* "If it isn't ours, it's somebody else's. And if it's somebody else's, sooner or later they'll use it against us. That's why we have to take it, whether we need it or not." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Quoted in his official biography "Five Moves Ahead," 2015 (cancelled before publication).
* "Stop your hypocritical hand-wringing! You think only of the minor threat at the time I quashed it, and not of the insurmountable threat it would have become had I not." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Statements made during his war crimes trial
* "The simple truth is that any spaceship is just a large, metal balloon filled with air: Once pierced, it has lost all its wonder." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Fundamentals of Orbital Warfare
* "The trick is not to look directly at what you're trying to see. Offset your focal point somewhere to the side of where you think you noticed the movement. At night, the center of your vision doesn't work as well as during the day. I won't try to explain the science to you. What matters is you'll see whatever is out there before they see you."<br/>Hanse Castillo, Chief Training Advisor, To ACDEGAM conscripts; Antioquia, Colombia
* "It's not about who has the biggest gun. Sometimes it's not even about who's got the most guns. Often, it simply comes to down to who can reload fastest." — Colonel Hanse Castillo, Quoted in his official biography "Five Moves Ahead" (cancelled before publication)

==== Science ====
* The Roman Empire took nearly as long to fall as it did to build. They bent and creaked and snapped under the weight of overreach. Learn from their hubris, and devise a way for us to extend further without breaking apart.
* You know they're faster. You know they're stronger. You might even think they're smarter and moan how unfair this is. But nature is survival of the fittest, not fairest. Find our edge, sharpen it, then cut their head off.
* It may look great on a screen but it would never work in the field. If you're designing gear that's meant to take a hit, you're doing it wrong. I want armor that keeps our troops mobile and hidden.
* The ocean of history is littered with armadas sunken by the weight of their purported power. I'm not interested in a massive battle axe, I want a perfectly balanced knife.
* Let me be clear: To win this war we need more than just weapons, spaceships, and soldiers. We need information about the enemy, so that we can strike first where it hurts them most.
* As academy graduates, you are the most dangerous personnel on the battlefield -- to your own side. You believe the theories you studied have practical application. Best case: you only get yourself killed. Lean on your sergeants, learn quickly, and perhaps you too will live long enough to despise inexperienced cadets.
* Understanding your enemy will only go so far. Just because you understand their motivation and goals doesn't mean you can beat them. You also have to turn that knowledge into an advantage.

[[Category: Leaders]]

The Protectorate

2022-11-06T19:26:48Z

ValorousHeart:

{{Faction
|faction_name = The Protectorate
|faction_icon = [[File:FAC_AppeaseCouncil_128.png]]
|faction_ideology = Appease
|faction_description = Protect humanity by appeasing the aliens
|faction_ideological_position = [[File:Terra_Invicta_Ideology_Map.JPG|600px]]
|faction_leader_photo = [[File:Kiran.jpg]]
|faction_leader_name = Kiran Banerjee
|faction_leader_title = Commissioner
}}

== Faction Ideology ==

'''The Protectorate''' is initially optimistic and idealistic, viewing the aliens as likely to be both friendly and a way to help solve humanity's problems. Eventually, the Protectorate becomes more cynical and manipulative, turning into a propagandistic collaborator organization complying with the aliens to the letter and beyond.

== Faction Leadership ==

The Protectorate is a group primarily composed of government officials, diplomats, and various leaders united by their desire to start a diplomatic exchange with the aliens and use their knowledge to help solve humanity's problems. As the Protectorate's goals shift, many of its members become disillusioned and desert, with executive power in the faction ultimately being concentrated in the hands of three individuals.

=== Commissioner Kiran Banerjee ===

{{:Kiran Banerjee}}

=== Chief Security Officer Lavrentiy ===

{{SpoilerBox}}

[[File:Lavrentiy.jpg|100px|thumb|Lavrentiy]]Advisory board member of extraterrestrial origin who joins the Protectorate sometime between the landing of the first UFO and the first diplomatic exchange. Lacks cultural awareness.

{{SpoilerBoxEnd}}

=== Unnamed commissioner ===

Operational leader of the Protectorate, representing the player's perspective.

== Story ==
{{SpoilerBox}}
Kiran and his colleagues are the first to arrive at the UFO landing site, having an explicit goal to get an alien as a member of their organization. They get what they want, cover the traces of the alien's escape, and spend the next few months covering up abductions and other covert actions performed by aliens.

When it becomes obvious that aliens aren't friendly, they decide to organize a public diplomatic meeting with aliens. Lavrentiy is allowed to organize it. The meeting goes not according to plan; Lavrentiy tries to enthrall the diplomats, but some of them turn out to be resistant to pherocytes, which leads to some attendees getting killed and many others escaping the ensuing struggle. Kiran mourns the loss of life but refuses to blame Lavrentiy for the incident.

The Protectorate manages to apprehend everyone that survived the events of the meeting, and prevent word of the incident from reaching the public. The next diplomatic exchange happens remotely without any aliens in the room. The aliens declare their demands: to turn over all of humanity's weapons of mass destruction, to build military platforms on Earth's orbit, and to provide soldiers for alien military operations on demand. Despite the loud protests of most attendees, Kiran accepts all the demands on behalf of the organization.

The aliens start sending blueprints and materials for Sentinels, orbit-to-land weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, members of the Protectorate start defecting, sabotaging the construction, and leaking information to other factions. Kiran grows increasingly paranoid and starts concentrating executive powers in his hands.

When the construction of the Sentinels finishes, the Protectorate decided to do a demonstration of them to the UN. It is agreed that Sentinels discharge into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; however, one of them fires at New York, where the remaining members of the Protectorate's advisory board are meeting with the UN delegation. During the ending cinematic Kiran talks about successfully ensuring humanity's survival and the importance of sacrifice to protect the things you value. After that, he thanks the unnamed commissioner for saving humanity, and claims that the destruction of New York is a malfunction, but he already prepared a PR campaign to cover up the truth of the incident, remarks that tens of millions of soldiers leaving Earth will help solve overpopulation, and retires to India, leaving Lavrentiy and the unnamed commissioner in charge.
{{SpoilerBoxEnd}}

== Interaction with Other Factions ==

=== Factions with Similar Ideology ===

The Servants see the Protectorate as power-hungry opportunists, while the Protectorate sees the Servants as lunatics.

Aliens and Protectorate have the same goal. Despite this, as of 0.3.29, aliens may occasionally commit acts of aggression towards the Protectorate, although it's unclear whether this is intentional or not. Alien administration always accepts alliances with Protectorate-led nations.

=== Factions with Conflicting Ideology ===

The Initiative calls the Protectorate quitters, regardless of current diplomatic status, while the Protectorate sees the Initiative as 'ignoble vampires' and 'leeches'.

Exodus sees Protectorate as irrelevant.

The Academy and Protectorate agree on their goals to protect humanity via diplomacy, but the Academy disagrees that the ends justify the means.

Anti-alien factions consider the Protectorate to be collaborators, traitors, and scum.

== Faction features ==
If the Protectorate isn't seen by aliens as a threat, it may receive resources from them for free. This includes exotics.

Protectorate has access to [[File:ICO_sentinel_on.png|24px]] [[Missions#Alien_Missions|Dominate Nation]] mission if it owns at least one Sentinel module. This mission allows them to take over one control point in any human [[Nations|nation]], regardless of its size, protection, councilors protecting the region, and orbital defenses. If this mission fails, CP ownership change happens anyway, but the country loses some population and GDP. This mission has 30 noise, which means that councilors performing it are almost guaranteed to be revealed to other factions, making them vulnerable to assassinations.

[[Category: Factions]]

The Initiative

2022-09-28T21:55:24Z

ValorousHeart:

Back to [[Factions]].
{{Faction
|faction_name = The Initiative
|faction_icon =
|faction_ideology = Exploit
|faction_description = Exploit the alien arrival to gain power
|faction_ideological_position = [[File:Terra_Invicta_Ideology_Map.JPG|600px]]
|faction_leader_photo = [[File:Soren.JPG]]
|faction_leader_name = Soren Van Wyk
|faction_leader_title = Chairman
}}
== Faction Ideology ==
'''The Initiative''' conspires to gain wealth and power by exploiting the chaos of the aliens' arrival.

The motto of The Initiative is: <blockquote>Every circumstance is an opportunity. Our test is to recognize and seize it.</blockquote>

== Faction Leader ==
The leader of The Initiative is '''[[Chairman Soren Van Wyk]]'''. He has held various positions within arms manufacturer Western Armories from 2004 to present, including chairman of the board since 2014. Holds a minority ownership stake in DWKY Industries, which has diamond mining partnerships with the governments of Botswana and Namibia. He is occasionally criticized in activist media for labor practices of his various interests, but no formal investigations are known to have taken place.

== Interaction with Other Factions ==
=== Factions with Similar Ideology ===
Contrasting the defined stances and values of other factions, people who support The Initiative are either opportunists like the faction’s leadership, or in possession of false beliefs about the aliens that serve The Initiative’s ends. Accordingly, they find the most 'common ground' with Undecided humans, who, having no particular bias towards supporting or opposing the aliens, are easier for the equally apathetic Initiative to induct.

=== Factions with Opposite Ideology ===
The Initiative is most directly opposed to the equally neutral yet more idealistic [[Project Exodus]], who wish to use the funds and resources of Earth to build a starship and flee the Solar System altogether.

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The Initiative

2022-09-28T21:47:39Z

ValorousHeart:

Back to [[Factions]].
{{Faction
|faction_name = The Initiative
|faction_icon =
|faction_ideology = Exploit
|faction_description = Exploit the alien arrival to gain power
|faction_ideological_position = [[File:Terra_Invicta_Ideology_Map.JPG|600px]]
|faction_leader_photo = [[File:Soren.JPG]]
|faction_leader_name = Soren Van Wyk
|faction_leader_title = Chairman
}}
== Faction Ideology ==
'''The Initiative''' conspires to gain wealth and power by exploiting the chaos of the aliens' arrival.

The motto of The Initiative is: <blockquote>Every circumstance is an opportunity. Our test is to recognize and seize it.</blockquote>

== Faction Leader ==
The leader of The Initiative is '''[[Chairman Soren Van Wyk]]'''. He has held various positions within arms manufacturer Western Armories from 2004 to present, including chairman of the board since 2014. Holds a minority ownership stake in DWKY Industries, which has diamond mining partnerships with the governments of Botswana and Namibia. He is occasionally criticized in activist media for labor practices of his various interests, but no formal investigations are known to have taken place.

== Interaction with Other Factions ==
=== Factions with Similar Ideology ===
Contrasting the defined stances and values of other factions, people who support The Initiative are either opportunists like the faction’s leadership, or in possession of false beliefs about the aliens that serve The Initiative’s ends. Accordingly, they find the most 'common ground' with Undecided humans, who, having no particular bias towards supporting or opposing the aliens, are easier for the equally apathetic Initiative to induct.

=== Factions with Opposite Ideology ===
The Initiative is most directly opposed to the equally neutral yet idealistic [[Project Exodus]], who wish to use the funds and resources of Earth to build a starship and flee the Solar System altogether.

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