Battlefleet Bahala

"''“I don’t care about human rights, believe me.’” — Gregorio 'G.I. Joe' Iglesias"

Battlefleet Bahala is a coalition of pirate fleets and warbands in the Mera starzone, claiming the rogue planet of Hungihong and various surrounding uninhabited systems to be a part of its effective control. Battlefleet Bathala is most commonly known for its exploitation of profitable trade lanes in the southwestern periphery of the Coalition of Congressional Republics to help expand its ever expanding grand fleet.

Battlefleet Bahala's history can be traced back in 2658 during Meran War when the heavily damaged ICSN Expeditionary Strike Group VII that was stranded in an unknown rogue planet, now known as Hunghihong, had its officer corps experience mutiny from Lt. Gregorio Iglesias and other discontented naval personnel. With the aftermath of the Meran War, the ICSN Expeditionary Strike Group VII would later be de jure separated from CFA Bureaucracy after being rebranded as Battlefleet Bahala.

"Give me salt and vinegar and I'll eat his liver."

—Gregorio "G.I. Joe" Iglesias

The grand fleet is decentralized and organic in its organization, with admirals having equal and shared power with the de jure and ideological leader, Gregorio Iglesias, in launching autonomous operations or creating new fleets despite being a de jure subject to the Bahala Code. Recruitment of new members are usually voluntary, with a large portion of its lower echelons being composed of peasants from underdeveloped peripheral worlds, unemployed workers, escaped convicts, and debt-trap victims.

Battlefleet Bahala also upscaled its activities recently from trade lane looting to direct planetary scale raids and atrocities. The most notable example of such activities is the Massacre of Mera.