Union of Independent Republics

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Union of Independent Republics
Political information
Head of State	Chairman Daniel Vari (lead the UIR in the 62nd year of the Pendulum Wars)
Head of Government	Chairman
Historical information
Date of reorganization	Absorbed into COG after Pendulum Wars
Date of dissolution	Six weeks before E-Day

The Union of Independent Republics or Independent Alliances was the main antagonist of the Coalition of Ordered Governments during the Pendulum Wars for many natural resources. Little information is known about the Union other than that several famous members of the UIR were from the Ostri Republic and Pelles. The UIR used a mix of tactics to fight the COG, ranging from sabotage attacks on Imulsion pipelines in Sarfuth, to a fully mechanized army that fought COG troops at Aspho Fields. The UIRs greatest achievement was the creation of the Hammer of Dawn technology, which Chairman Tomas Dalyell wanted to capture and use to end the war. It is confirmed that the UIR were defeated by the COG, and the people of Sera enjoyed a new era of peace. The war was ended when the COG stole the Hammer of Dawn technology from the UIR and used it as a threat, therefore the Union of Independent Republics were forced to surrender, although it still took several years. The peace between the UIR and COG only lasted a few weeks before Emergence Day. But some nations refused to surrender and resorted to Guerrilla warfare. Unknown to the COG, some 4,000 UIR citizens survived Emergence Day and the Hammer of Dawn strikes and survived by moving around the continent by sea. They possessed a submarine, a tanker, a frigate and some patrol boats as well as an Imulsion Rig. They never joined the survivors at Jacinto as they didn't think it'd be any different there, but they met up with Jacinto's Remnant near the island of Vectes and joined them there. Part of the deal was that they join the COG in order to move into there, and they did at the agreement of Commander Miran Trescu, ending any possible future hostilities with the surviving members of the UIR.

History

Pendulum Wars

After Dr.Helen Cooper used the Lightmass Process to turn Imulsion into a valuable and limitless fuel, the global economy collapsed and Era of Silence with it. Only a few nations held vast Imulsion reserves while others had none of the new fuel. Two superpowers formed and began a seventy-nine year long war over the fuel source.

Eastern Front

Gorasni troops fought the Duke of Tollen's Regiment at the Eastern Front, where many Gears where captured and sent to the Ramascu camps.

Ostri Front

Thirty years into the Pendulum Wars, both the COG and UIR engaged in trench warfare across the Ostri Front.

The Kashkur breakthrough

On western borders of Kashkur, a COG aligned nation, the UIR and COG were engaged in a stalemate, until the neutral county of Vasgar economy collapsed and paved way for Furlin "peacekeepers" to march through and attack southern Kashkur and hitting the city of Shavad and the fortress of Anvil Gate. The UIR advance all the way to Ragani until the 26th Royal Tyran Infantry was able to stop their advance into the country.

Aspho Point

Two years before E-Day, the Pendulum Wars was still at a stalemate until Ostri scientist named Mauris Ivo made a breakthrough with satellite technology. That forced the COG and the UIR into armed race with satellite based weapons, the UIR was winning until the COG decided the break the mold of warfare and started using commandos to fight their wars instead of massive armies. The COG inserted a team at Aspho Point while C company of the 26th Royal Tyrans defended Aspho Fields from Ostri troops. The raid ended with the COG gaining the UIR satellite technology and turning the war in the COG's favor.

Surrendering to the COG

After the final battle of the Pendulum Wars, the armistice was signed.

Holdouts

Even after the armistice was signed, few nations like Gorasnaya refused to surrender and continued a guerrilla war.

E-Day

Holdouts like Gorasnaya were attacked along with every other country across Sera. The Gorasni mainland was overrun and the remnant of the UIR held ports on the Seran mainland. The Gorasni, the last remnant of the UIR, was able to survive E-Day and the Hammer of Dawn Counterattack, since the Locust could not sweep across the whole mainland. But the Gorasni remnant would lose the cities of Chalitz and Meschov to the Stranded, forcing the UIR to fight both the Locust and their fellow Serans. The UIR remnant rallied around naval commander Miran Trescu who led the remaining 5000 Gorasni citizens from the ashes of the mainland.

Fighting the Stranded and Unification with the COG

Fifteenth years after E-Day, the UIR remnant was settled in the Lesser Islands chain, they faced a sea based Stranded pirate group lead by Darrel Jacques. Darrel raied several UIR ships forcing Commander Miran Trescu hunt him down and starting a war between the COG and Stranded. Trescu was able to track down Jacques who was in a prisoner swap with the Tyran-COG remnant, Trescu waited for the COG to give Jacques, and had his submarine the Zephyr to attack Darrel's ship. Killing all the Stranded on abroad. Trescu then made contact with the COG and in negotiations. The Zephyr entered Vectes port and Trescu disembark to enter negotiations with Chairman Richard Prescott and Chief of the COG Defense Staff Col.Victor S. Hoffman on the UIR population. Trescu agreed to joined the COG as citizens and abandon the UIR for safe passage and giving the COG the access the last Imulsion platform left on Sera the Emerald Spar Imulsion Platform. With a handshake the last of the UIR was gone and joined the COG. But Trescu and his people would continued acting independent and treated their soldiers as a second army and ignored the COG chains of command and formed their own ghetto in New Jacinto. Eventually the COG disbanded due to the Lambent Invasion and the Gorasni returned to their own homeland, but still honored their alliance with the remnants of the COG and came to Delta Squad's aid in the Second Battle of Azura that ended both wars.

Viewpoint on lesser Nations

"The UIR never admitted to having colonies or invading poorer countries that had something they wanted. They Always "protected" the lesser nations they walked into."

—Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant

The UIR was known to invade weaker nations of Sera that had some value to them, such as the South Islands or the Lesser Islands chain, the latter of which was rich in Imulsion. The UIR took advantage of Maranday neutrally to attack the coalition nation of Sarfuth. When the Vasgar government was unable to resolve their economic problems and collapsed, the UIR sent "peacekeepers" into Vasgar and invaded Kashkur.

War Crimes

"And the UIR interrogate and execute commandos as spies. No P.O.W. status under the Bombourg Convention."

—Major Baxter, to Cpt.Victor Hoffman before his commando team goes on a mission.

The UIR nation of Gorasnaya housed several labor camps, most notably the Ramascu camp, where Gears from the Eastern Front were sent to. A large number of Coalition soldiers died in the camps including members of the Duke of Tollen's Regiment. But Major Toly and Cpt.Benoslau from the Independent Republic of Furlin would allow the civilians of Anvil Gate to escape the warzone and send wounded Gears to military hospitals rather than P.O.W. camps.

Known UIR members

• Independent Republic of Furlin
• Pelles
• Ostri Republic
• Republic of Gorasnaya
• Republic of Lauczi
• Vasgar (Occupied)

Behind the Scenes

• The UIR troops wore armor that looked similar to the COG's standard issue armor but was black/gray instead of blue, and seemingly had slightly different helmets.
• In Issue #7 of the Gears of War comic, the UIR soldiers are shown to have very different armor than the COG soldiers. It may be these Indies are from a different country to those seen in the opening cutscene of Gears of War 2. It is likely that Epic did not feel it necessary to create character models for the UIR in Gears of War 2 seeing as they would only be on screen for less than a minute.
• In Gears of War: They Also Serve, an Indie tank gunner was also seen, and he didn't wear either armor type.