(This is a rather quick and dirty summary ripped from an online fact-file, but it's enough to cover what we're doing here. I'll go into more depth on the current situation when we get on-world and have the latest news - Irisz)
The roots of the movement stretch back to the time of the
Terran Alliance and the destruction of the Central Asian Alliance. A repressive
authoritarian regime, the Central Asian Alliance’s demise bought freedom to
millions and was a part of the unification of Terra. In the aftermath of its
destruction the Alliance, it was effectively purged, symbolically destroyed in
much the same way as the Rim Worlds or Word of Blake’s imagery were eliminated.
While to the majority of the population, the fall of the
Alliance was a boon, those who had been among the ruling elites had quite
literally lost everything, even down to their national identity. In the
survivors of those elites and their families, this bread a degree of resentment
and a desire to recreate what had been lost, if not on Earth then somewhere
else.
Colonisation provided that chance. A group of families, largely
ethnic Uzbeks who were descendants from those disenfranchised elites, arranged a
way off Terra, pooling resources to find their own way to the stars while ‘encouraging’
others to join as colonists. Choosing a potential world, they made their home
in a dry, remote district of a world they named Qizilqum (“Red Sands”), creating a new government modelled on what
they had left behind.
