Eastern Alliance

The Eastern Alliance is a fascist party committed to the complete rule of Terra and her colonies. It is comprised of humans who may not have been descendants from Colonials; the connotation is that they are somehow related, most likely indirectly, to the Thirteenth Tribe.

The Alliance is responsible for committing war crimes on a large magnitude and were embroiled in a bitter war with the democratic Nationalists. Like their enemy, their technology is below Colonial standard and are not likely able to utilize extensive star travel as the Twelve Colonies had prior to their destruction.

Background

After encountering the sleeper ship with Sarah Fowler and Michael, the fleet (notably the crew of the Galactica heard of the brutality of the Alliance). After allowing the sleeper ship to leave, Starbuck and Apollo (who provided escort to the unarmed ship) encountered enforcers from the Alliance on the planet Paradeen -- a planet whose inhabitants were destroyed by a biological attack unleashed by the Alliance. This encounter allowed the Warriors to understand the limited technology the Eastern Alliance utilized; Commandant Leiter, commander of said craft, was astonished by the size and magnitude of the last suriviving Colonial battlestar (Greetings from Earth).

Later on, Sire Geller and the Quorum of Twelve attempted to broker a peace with the Eastern Alliance, believing that the Alliance patriots were mistreated by the Warriors. This fig of peace was later broken, as eleven of the Quorum members walked into a trap, instead of a peace conference. Only then was the council willing to reinstate Commander Adama's full authority over the Fleet, as well as his own ship. While Leiter's destroyer escaped (Baltar's Escape), the ship was tracked to one of Terra's lunar colonies.

The Galactica and her fleet discovered Terra. Instead of establishing contact, a Viper patrol was sent on reconnisance. However, a Being of Light intervened during this mission and gave Apollo the ability to appear as the lost Nationalist Colonel Charlie Watts. Due to Apollo's odd lines of questioning and behaviors, he was almost unsuccessful in thwarting the Eastern Alliance's plan to commit genocide upon the Nationalists in an all-out thermonuclear attack. After the Galactica destroyed the inbound warheads, the Alliance reconsidered its fight with the Terran Nationalists (Experiment in Terra)

Re-imagined Series definition: battlestar landing bay mechanism that arrests a landing Viper, Raptor or other small craft (TRS: "Final Cut")