The United Defence Directive is the standing defence force of the colonies throughout the Unity Protocol, serving as

Having being around for as long as the Unity Protocol has been gathering wayward species and their ways of life, the United Defence Directive incorporates centuries of combined technological and strategic knowledge to create a defensive perimeter around the planet Traveller and its many colonies. In particular, the Defence Directive has been the first line of defence against hostile alien invasions on the colonies. They also serve as

Recruitment patterns have been diverse. Like-minded people or species will be sorted into units which suit their needs.

The following units, divisions, and theatres are notable within the United Defence Directive:

The UDD allows colonies to run a citizen's militia in hostile areas, if the local politics agree with the idea. UDD Militia are considered the bottom rung of the Defence Directive, made up of concerned citizens and weekend warriors who have a bare minimum of training necessary for combat. They are rarely sent abroad, and are supported more often by local resources than the larger logistics scheme of the Defence Directive, bringing their own weapons, armour, ammunition, and vehicles to the fray.

For GMs	Consider UDD Militia to be the first responders to an alien or pirate invasion making landfall on a colony. They are often the first to get their noses bloodied, and report the news higher up the chain.

The ground force of the Defence Directive includes footsoldiers, powered armour, light combat exoskeletons, and smaller mecha. Their motorpool includes various tanks and logistics trucks.

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Currently disbanded in the wake of scandals involving the use of the EAD as a means to eliminate political rivals, the Emergency Assault Division was formerly a group of individual specialists. EAD employed beings such as combat-oriented spellcasters and psions,

The elite force for piloting mecha between twelve to eighteen metres tall and higher, Bashkarl-Altiers Mobile Force serves as UDD's best and brightest for large scale mecha combat in space, and urban environments. Named after the piloting duo who stopped an orbital colony from dropping on Shade, Robert Bashkarl and Altiers 334.

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