Victorian Independent Military

The Victorian Independent Military was the armed forces of the Victorian Independent State. Formed in by an act of the new administration under Karl Afeld, the VIM was from its outset designed as a self-defense force to root out and stop pro- partisans on the planet. As a result of this stated goal, and the population's disdain for a standing army after the UNSC's years of martial law on the colony, the size of the military was also limited to 4,000 personnel. As a result, the Independent State began a rapid recruitment and training initiative that lasted until about, when it began to reach its personnel limit.

From on, aside from local skirmishes with pro-UNSC fighters that frontier militias needed aid with or airstrikes on isolate holdouts, the VIM saw little real combat until Operation: TRIUMPH, when it underwent full mobilization after all rebel militias on the frontier were forced to retreat or were wiped out completely. The ensuing battle took the lives of nearly half of the VIM's personnel.

Finally, during the Battle of Agley, the VIM, still reeling from from TRIUMPH, was almost completely wiped out in street-to-street fighting, with those who remained either taken prisoner or forced into hiding.