For the governments of the countries in the Alliance, and even their military counterparts, stripping an officer of their commission was an almost impossible feat.
The story begins at the founding of the Alliance.
At that time, nobles both great and small within the Republics, unwilling to abandon their privileges, raised their banners in armed separatism.
Smoke from the battles covered the lands around Senas Bay, and the nascent Alliance flickered in the wind, its fate uncertain from day to day.
It seemed as though the republican government might meet its end no sooner than it had begun.
But there was still one army in the Senas Alliance, an army led by Ned Smith. At that time, there were no divisions into separate Republics, and the people of Senas simply called this military force "the Allied Army."