History Literature / Frontlines

* HomeGuard: The Lazarus Brigade. it started out as an independent militia force led by ex-NAC military personnel and other supporters fighting against the NAC and its draconian policies. However when the Lankies arrived in the Sol system, the NAC and Lazarus Brigade agree to a truce so that the NAC can focus on the Lankies. Since the invasion of Earth, the Lazarus Brigades has become a sort of government-sponsored military force that helps polices the PRCs while the NAC provides a lot of old hardware so that they can standardize training and equipment.

* StandardSciFiArmy: The NAC Marine Corps and Territorial Army (later rebranded as the Spaceborn Infantry and Homeworld Defence respectively). Both branches has your bog standard light infantry equipped with a plethora weapons, IFVs/Light tanks, and Dropships.

** In Book 8, Pacific Alliance forces arrive in time to rescue the crew of the NACs Washington, who hold up in Capella after a Lanky Seed Ship damages the Washington's FTL drives.

** This is then flipped around past book five. With the chance to build new weapons and every nation working together now, the Humans are able to deal their own blows. A single Avenger in Book 6, the Ottowa, is able to defeat three lanky seed ships.

** No one on the Human's during Operation Invictus (second Battle of Mars) expects the Lankies [spoilers: to be building their Seed ships under their settlements and launch them from the planet's surface.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Jack, one of Grayson's squad members from Detroit, [spoilers: eventually leaves the NAC and joins the Lazarus Brigades].

** The NAC, despite being home to Andrew and his family and friends, is not a particularly nice country. They have no qualms about using lethal military force to put down PRC food riots or stranding a fleet full of troops and 10,000 civilians on an ice moon with not enough food. It is also home to people like the unnamed brigadier general who tried to use his SI troopers to steal civilian food stores. The icing on the cake, however is the fact that NAC leadership abandoned Earth and fled to the Leonidas system with all of the NAC's heaviest warships.

* BookEnds: The first book ends with Andrew and the crew of the Frigate Versailles rescued by the NACs Manitoba from the world of Willoughby with air strikes on the lankies. Book eight ends with Pacific Alliance forces rescuing Andrew and the crew of the Washington from Willoughby with more airstrikes and Kinetic Bombardment.

* Bookends: The first book ends with Andrew and the crew of the Frigate Versailles rescued by the NACs Manitoba from the world of Willoughby with air strikes on the lankies. Book eight ends with Pacific Alliance forces rescuing Andrew and the crew of the Washington from Willoughby with more airstrikes and Kinetic Bombardment.

* DropPod: Special Forces like the SEALs and Combat Controllers of the NAC Defense Corps use drop pods to infiltrate enemy-held planets. The pods themselves are fired out of modified missile tubes. In Book 5 during the Human invasion of Mars, NAC, SRA and EU special forces use these pods to help secure a landing zone for the incoming invasion force.

* Didn'tSeeThatComing:

* DefectoFromDecadence: Jack, one of Grayson's squad members from Detroit, [spoilers: eventually leaves the NAC and joins the Lazarus Brigades].

There are also two novels written in the same universe, ''Lucky Thirteen'' and ''Measures of Absolution'', both published in 2013. A sequel series titled “Frontlines: Evolution” is set to release in January of 2024 with its first book Scorpio.

* StandardSciFiArmy: The NAC Marine Corps and Territorial Army (later rebranded as Homeworld Defence). Both branches has your bog standard light infantry equipped with a plethora weapons, IFVs/Light tanks, and Dropships.

* Bookends: The first book ends with Andrew and the crew of the Frigate Versaillies rescued by the NACs Manitoba from the world of Willoughby with air strikes on the lankies. Book eight ends with Pacific Alliance forces rescuing Andrew and the crew of the Washington from Willoughby with more airstrikes and Kinetic Bombardment.

* StandardSci-FiArmy: The NAC Marine Corps and Territorial Army (later rebranded as Homeworld Defence). Both branches has your bog standard light infantry equipped with a plethora weapons, IFVs/Light tanks, and Dropships.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In book 7, Grayson mentions that the NAC would have willingly nuked a group of 17 Lankies during the early days of the war. Justified at the time as since Lanky bodies are so heavy that they can't be picked up by dropships and Humanity loses most of their major ground battles, they can't easily study Lanky corpses to make weapons until the Battle of Earth. As such, nuclear weapons are one of the few pre-Mars Invasion weapons that can kill Lankies.

--> "Attention, renegade forces. Attention, renegade forces. This is [[spoiler:Major Khaled Masoud of the NAC Defense Corps Special Operations Command]]. The force under my command has just detonated a kiloton-size nuclear charge right underneath [[spoiler:terraforming plant Arcadia One]], five kilometers outside of [[spoiler:Arcadia City]]. The sole power source for your capital city is now a glowing radioactive cloud. This is an order to the leadership of this moon and all troops under their command. You will cease resisting the lawful and proper authority of the North American Commonwealth Defense Corps forces. You will lay down your weapons as of this moment. You will order any and all forces under your control to stand down. If you fail to do so, I will not hesitate to [[DisproportionateRetribution light off every one of the twenty-four nuclear demolition charges]] my teams have planted on this moon. If you choose to continue this fight, I will destroy your planetary infrastructure and your fusion power generation network irreparably. I will turn your stolen little paradise into an irradiated wasteland and leave you in it until the Lankies come for you or you all die of radiation poisoning. This is not a boast or a threat. It is a statement of fact."

There are also two novels written in the same universe, ''Lucky Thirteen'' and ''Measures of Absolution'', both published in 2013. A sequel series titled “Frontlines: Evolution” is set to release in November of 2023 with its first book Scorpio.