Waterloo Revolution Has Teeth!

The rebels in Waterloo have struck a blow against the forces of Emperor Wolfe Wellesley by capturing the important trade planet of Ager, at the junction of the Farming Spur and the Waterloo Trade Route. The series of determined rebel attacks against the badly trained forces of Emperor Wolfe Wellesley showed that the revolution has power. Also on Thursday, rebel forces captured the grain and bread planet Rus Ceres, hauling of thousands of tons of bread and chanting “Down with the Emperor! Down with the Consul!” Meanwhile, on Waterloo state television Emperor Wolfe Wellesley himself ranted against the protesters. “These are paid insurgents trying to topple our government! They are here to make us look bad and disrupt our social institutions!” When military troops under the command of Principis Arrhabonem defected, one of the most elite units in the Waterloo Army joined the rebels. Arrhabonem himself started a training camp in Orpor. The trained rebels also received a cache of weapons from the defecting troops. Andaran Masnav, 31, is one of the organizers of the revolution. “We started this revolution through Comsnet and Macaw,” he says. “From the start, we have built on a steady base of support. People are tired of having an emperor rule over them and only a façade of democracy. We want real democracy.” Ager, only 75 light-years from Waterloo, was a nexus of the rebellion before it was taken over by the rebels. After peaceful protests by Holy Wolfes aiming for more democracy and the fall of the absolute monarchy turned violent after Waterlooian troops fired on protesters, the supporters of democracy have turned from protests to an armed revolution. The move to revolution was hastened by defections of Waterloo Army officers to the new rebel organization, the Waterloo Freedom Army and the Waterloo Freedom Party. The rebels goals will stay the same through all of this: topple the Emperor and bring democracy to Waterloo.

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