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children.
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build a small army within the Republic. This army, the Legion del Cid, was initially about the size of a
reinforced brigade though differently organized. For reasons of internal politics, Hennessey began to use
his late wife's maiden name, Carrera. It was as Carrera that he became known to the world of Terra Nova.
The Legion was hired out to assist the Federated States of Columbia in a war against the Republic of
Sumer, a nominally Islamic but politically secularтАФindeed fascistтАФstate which had been known to have
supported terrorism in the past, to have used chemical weapons in the past, and to have had a significant
biological warfare program. It was widely believed to have been developing nuclear weapons, as well.
Against some expectations, the Legion del Cid performed quite well, even admirably. Equally against
expectations, its greatest battle in the campaign is against a Sumeri infantry brigade led by a first rate
officer, Adnan Sada, who not only fights well but stays within the rules and laws of war.
Impressed with the Legion's performance (even while loathing the openly brutal ways it has of enforcing
the laws of war), and needing foreign troops badly, the War Department of the Federated States offered
Carrera a long term employment contract. Impressed with Sada, and with some of the profits from the
contract with the Federated States, Carrera likewise offered to not only hire, but substantially increase,
Sada's military force. Accepting the offer, and loyal to his salt, Sada revealed seven nuclear weapons to
Carrera, three of which were functional and the rest restorable. These Carrera quietly removed, telling
no one except a very few, very close subordinates.
The former government of Sumer had a cadre and arms for an insurgency in place before the Federated
States and its allies invaded. In Carrera's area of responsibility, this insurgency, while bloody, was
contained through the help of Sada's men and Carrera's ruthlessness. In the rest of the country, however,
the unwise demobilization of the former armed forces of the Republic of Sumer left so many young men
unemployed that the insurgency grew to nearly unmanageable levels. Eventually, Carrera's area of
responsibility was changed and he was forced to undertake a difficult campaign against a city,
Pumbadeta, held by the rebels. He surrounded and starved the city, forcing women and children to
remain within it until he was certain that every dog, cat and rat had been eaten. Only then did he permit
the women and children to leave. His clear intention was to kill every male in Pumbadeta capable of
sprouting a beard.
After the departure of the noncombatants, Carrera's Legion continued the blockade until the civilians
within the town rebel against the rebels. The former he aided to take the town. Thereafter nearly every
insurgent found within Pumbadeta was executed, along with several members of the press sympathetic
to the rebels. The few insurgents heтАФtemporarilyтАФspared were sent to a ship for rigorous interrogation.

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