Pelepos Union Marine Personnel

Pelepos Union Marine Personnel, or PUMPs, are the main infantry unit of the Pelepos Union. They are a volunteer fighting force and are considered one of the best in the universe having taken on the Juvian Empire on multiple occasions and won. They are trained for around six to eight months in large groups, nearly battalions at a time in a single base. The PUMPs are outfitted for long campaigns and are trained to withstand mental and physical torture if captured by the enemy.

Brief History
The PUMPs are an adaptation of the original Pelepos Union Army Group, who were disbanded and reformed into the PUMPs of today in 3287 due to corruption issues and issues with possible rebel groups. The PUMPs were trained and outfitted with the best tech of the era and have been continually done so. The PUMPs first major battle and war was in the First Pelepos-Juvian War in 3296, in which they acted incredibly effectively and managed to push the Juvians into their own territory, though in the course of the war the PUMPs and the rest of the Union military would be pushed back all the way to the Jokla System. They held in the Jokla system for nearly a year before the Juvians negotiated an armistice and the First Pelepos-Juvian War came to an end on 3307.

They were again put into action in 3322 when the rebels in the Gomorrah System revolted looking to install a communist rule in the system and join the United Soviet Worlds (USW). The rebellion took nearly three years to quell and PUMPs were leading the way nearly the entire time. Things began to calm down in 3325 after Operation: LEONIDAS, in which the Pelepos Union suspended the right of habeas corpus in the Gomorrah System and launched a full out police and military offensive effectively wiping out the resistance. The PUMPs wouldn't be seen in an offensive action until the Second Pelepos-Juvian War in 3348.

By 3348, the Pelepos Union had had enough of the Juvian Empire occupying their claimed space, having taken it from them in the First Pelepos-Juvian War. In Operation: TRIDENT the PUMPs were sent in via orbital drop to take back the old Hermes System from the Juvians, thus instigating the Second Pelepos-Juvian War. The war would be fought hard and long and would not end until 3351 with the Fall of Olympus in late May, in which the entire planet of Olympus in Juvian space was destroyed, the soldiers killed, the civilians captured, and the entire planet burned via plasma arrays. The Juvian Empire feared for the rest of their planets and thus signed a peace agreement with the Pelepos Union.

Equipment
The PUMPs wear the Pelepos Standard Infantry Armor Mark VII (PSIAM VII) a heavier set of armor made up of a titanium alloy, light enough so that the wearer is not too bogged down by the weight.