Road to Freedom

The Road to Freedom is not an organization, it is a movement ; a collective name for the various groups and movements that seek to bring down the Service Unionist Party. They are regarded by the Service as little more than terrorists and oppertunists.

Ideaologies and Aims
The Road to Freedom is not an individual group, or even a proper organization. Rather, it is a collection of multiple groups and sub-organizations that band together to achieve a common goal. The Sergiet Republic is sympathetic with the aims of the RTF, and has been known to send operatives from Teznak, the Sergiet special forces, into Service-controlled cities to assist the Road to Freedom.

Organizations within the RTF can range from the docile to the extreme. For example, some members of the Road to Freedom are actually workers in hospitals who make sure that any patient who arrives after substaining injuries from the State Police or State Guard is protected from further harm if their assailiants decide to "visit", to the RTF fighters who break into the homes of Service officals and kidnap them. It is also widely believed that there is several undercover operatives within the State Police who do what they can to make prisoners comfortable during their containment, and sometimes even manage to release them. If an operative is found, though, he will most likely be seen the next day, hanging from Traitor's Row.

The majority of the RTF frowns upon the taking of any human life, even if it is someone as insidious as an OverSeer. Therefore, groups will usualy try to constrain rather than kill, although it is sometimes necessary. Of course, as with any organization there is rouge elements, and some groups such as Blue Horizon are known for attacking and murdering Party officials, such as former Service Army leader, Harluas Gruberstein. In general, however, the activities on the RTF are focussed upon the activities of the underground.

The final aim of the Road to Freedom is the complete and utter destruction of the Service Unionist Party and all it's organizations. Many, even some of those involved in the movement, see this is an impossible task, but yet they still choose to resist - the popular mentality being that they might not win, but they're not going to make it easy.

Activites
The activites of the groups range from the simple - handing out food discreetly, tearing down propaganda under the cover of night, to extremes of encouraging riots in the streets. Riots are actually incredibly common in Service-controlled cities, with about one happening each month.

Most of these organizations have equipment and materials that are incredibly rare for Residents to have - ranging from radios, to firearms - sometimes, if they are exteremely lucky, a working car. Teznak supplies the groups with what they can, but there's only so much they can get into the cities without the State Police noticing. To supply themselves to function, the groups often find themselves, relucantly, having to co-operate with various gangs.

The vast majority of these gangs are violent oppertunists - many of them based around the remains of drug cartels, criminal rings, and former political parties, and many of them hold an inventory that would be useful to the RTF movement. A huge percentage of these gangs are unwilling to co-operate with RTF-affiliated organizations unless they can offer something in return. This may be a sum of tokens, drugs and stimulants, or sometimes, trading some of the inventory that they already have.