A map made by the UED depicting the Chimeran invasion of Europe.
The United European Defence (UED) was a European intergovernmental military alliance and a security component of the European Trade Organization.
History[]
The UED was founded sometime in the 1930s to serve as a united, defensive response to the threat of isolationist Russia.[1] The UED was responsible for creating the Military Defense Commission, a research and development branch that focused on developing advanced weapons. The UED had a close diplomatic relationship with the United States, having previously established increasing international trade between them during the Roosevelt administration.[2] However, in 1949, under the presidency of Noah Grace, the U.S. severed its ties to the UED and ceased providing weapons and aid.[3]
Since the late 1930s, the UED had grown concerned by the possibility that Russia would invade Western Europe after reports of towns and cities along the Russian border had been completely depopulated, which European officials mistakenly took as evidence of Russian chemical or biological weapons testing.[4] For a decade, the UED prepared for war against Russia. However, their preparations came to naught in December 1949 when the Chimera breached the Red Curtain and overwhelmed the UED through the decisive combination of numerical and technological superiority.[2] European static defense positions were overrun or circumvented by the Chimera's flawless coordination and unprecedented speed. UED soldiers were badly demoralized by the unnatural appearance and actions of the Chimera such as in the Siege of Genoa during which Italian soldiers killed themselves rather than fight.[2]
Stretched to the limit by refugees and the Chimera's rapid advance, the UED fell apart and what remained of the European nations were reduced to desperately fighting against each other for military resources and time.[1] In one incident, the UED went as far to halt British VTOLs to confiscate their supplies, as well as secretly murdering their crews, in retaliation for the British redirecting resources from Europe to the Avalon One colony in Australia.[3]
After the fall of Europe, remnants of the UED continued to exist and operate through an underground splinter group, the Maquis.
Trivia[]
- The United European Defence is similar to the real-life North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
References[]
- ^ a b Toaster Shortage
- ^ a b c Timeline retrieved from the official Resistance website.
- ^ a b Sky High Treason
- ^ Resistance: Fall of Man, campaign level York