The HPL, or Homeworld Preservation League, is the
rival Noqtuar faction to the FNA.
The HPL has a slight edge in the conflict in terms of military size, funding,
and medical technology. This is offset by the tenacity of the FNA forces,
creating a very evenly matched war. Due to the greater resources of the
HPL, they have purchased slightly more advanced weapons from Lobic
Arms than the FNA, but Lobic Arms has no intention of letting one side
win the war completely, as thier interests are better served by allowing
the conflict to continue indefinately. The HPL military is organized very
differently from that of the FNA. Since the HPL represents the big, all
powerful (or so they'd like to believe) home planet, plus a few dependant
colonies, the attitude is that the central League Fleet should provide
all of the military support for every member of the League, without relying
on the inferior colonies to provide any sort of militia. This is not to
say that the League Fleet (which actually consists of all arms of the military,
including the army, under one military council) doesn't use any colonists
from friendly colonies, they do, it only means that they don't trust their
allies to know how best to defend themselves. This overbearing attitude,
which is common amongst Noqtuar from Noqtin itself, was one of the major
causes of the war, and has served to alienate even most of the colonies
that remain allied with the HPL. Amongst these colonies there are still
groups of fierce HPL loyalists who are very vocal, but the majority of
the population tends to wonder why they are fighting and dieing for a homeworld
that doesn't trust them to look after their own affairs, and yet shows
little interest in looking after their affairs for them, except in matters
where there is a clear advantage to be gained by Noqtin. Over the years
the size of the groups of loyalists has been gradually dwindling, and though
the HPL president (a hereditary title now, and not representative of a
democracy) and League Fleet are blissfully unaware of this growing anti-HPL
sentiment amongst their allies, it could eventually cause the HPL to fall,
and the colonies to be liberated. A clever band of PCs who arrived in the
Nethin system could very well use the HPL's own allies against them in
order to stop this terrible war.
Some vehicles used by the HPL: R-95,
R-98, R-104