Sympathisers

"Give the Confederacy her deserving freedom and end this war tomorrow!"

- A Sympathiser cry

The Sympathisers (often nicknamed simply the Traitors, Confederate Subjects, Confed Betrayers, the Enemy within the Gates, Rebel Wannabes, Zarkan Slaves, as well as the more simplistic Cowards by Unionists) were citizens of the Union of Earth States who opposed the Union's war against the self-declared Confederate States of Earth. Sympathisers were named as such because most held sympathies for the Confederacy, and wished for their own nation to abandon their efforts to restore Union control over the nations of Confederacy. However, many Sympathisers weren't outright Confederate symathisers, some simply wished for hostile action to end and peaceful negotiations resume.

Despite earning the ire of Unionists, a significant number of Union citizens were Sympathisers, especially in the Union's border nations with the Confederacy, such as the Republic of Wekland, where Confederate sympathies were strongest.

In these border regions Sympathisers made up a larger portion of the population, and were thus able to go about their campaigns in relative peace, in more Unionist areas such as Nortalia Sympathisers were often abused by Union nationalists for their pro-Confederate views, or were imprisoned as traitors by the authorities.

"Go bow to your Rebel queen, you slaves of Jane Zarkan!"

- An angry Union nationalist counter-protesting some Sympathisers

On the whole, however, Sympathisers were largely successful in their goal, many citizens in the Border regions refused to join the war, even after the Union government effectively forced them to with the passing of the Union National Conscription Act, following which they rioted, of the biggest riots being the Union City riot, there was extremely low morale and support for the Union cause in the regions, and the significant lack of support for the Union's war in the Union border regions may have contributed to the relative short duration of the war.

Under William Crest's Earth Empire former Sympathisers were heavily punished for their treason, even those who didn't outright declare their support for the Confederacy, and merely wished for peace.