Overview
The Unified Home Guard is the newest branch of the UCR's armed forces, and is also possibly the most unique. Established following the disastrous Third Civil Conflict, the UHG is intended to provide an coherent and ever-present security force to resist occupations. The UHG is composed of professionally trained, part-time soldiers, who in their everyday lives come from a very wide range of backgrounds. Lawyers, doctors, police officers, parents, college kids, laborers: anyone who wants to enlist in the UHG can, provided they meet the physical and psychological standards. These persons are then trained alongside enlisted members of the FLCF, going through the same trials and rigors as their full-time counterparts. This model is intended to ensure that in the event of an invasion of the UCR, every planet will have fully-trained soldiers essentially undercover and on standby.
As part of this inherent guerilla-warfare model, UHG members are additionally trained in asymmetrical and urban warfare. The goal of the UHG is to harass and resist enemy occupiers until such a time as the FLCF or UCN can arrive and liberate the planet. To this end, the UHG maintains stockpiles of weaponry at classified locations on almost every planet, to be accessed by the local UHG soldiers in an emergency. But the branch goes a step further, and has developed a multitude of weapons that are simple enough to be created at any commercial or private nanoforge, and easy enough to use for anyone who needs to. In this way, UHG soldiers can arm local populaces, swelling their ranks if need be; alternatively, civilians under occupation can arm and defend themselves using military-grade weaponry.
As part of this inherent guerilla-warfare model, UHG members are additionally trained in asymmetrical and urban warfare. The goal of the UHG is to harass and resist enemy occupiers until such a time as the FLCF or UCN can arrive and liberate the planet. To this end, the UHG maintains stockpiles of weaponry at classified locations on almost every planet, to be accessed by the local UHG soldiers in an emergency. But the branch goes a step further, and has developed a multitude of weapons that are simple enough to be created at any commercial or private nanoforge, and easy enough to use for anyone who needs to. In this way, UHG soldiers can arm local populaces, swelling their ranks if need be; alternatively, civilians under occupation can arm and defend themselves using military-grade weaponry.