Humans for Extraterrestrial Freedom and Tollerance

Humans for Extraterrestrial Freedom and Tolerance was a group of pro-alien Humans on Earth during the years following first-contact in the spring of 2130 after a joint effort between NASA and ESA, (which later became IASA) successfully testing a hyperspace-capable manned vessel, the Hyperion.

When first contact was established officially by the K'tarn and Mahju, IASA proposed defence forces in light of the previous Zelturian Empire, particularly in that a great deal of the Human population already believed they were not alone in the universe and the Zeltura and Ga'n's images circulated Human popular culture for centuries before contact, with stories and urban legends telling of abduction and mutilation. As such there were many Humans who reacted negatively to aliens on Earth, some scared of diseases they may bring to the world, others of losing jobs to aliens who could work longer shifts.

HEFT was established shortly after the summer of 2130 by renowned astronomer Leon Thatcher and his wife Amanda Thatcher and aimed to prevent "speciesism" on Earth.

HEFT had a number of opposition groups that came about at the same time such as Cobalt Blue who were extremely violent and not opposed to killing aliens, to the Earth Independence Party that had a purely political, although clearly anti-alien agenda.

In the following years HEFT grew and acquired many agents of the Flarestar mercenary group for protection from Cobalt Blue and other anti-alien groups, but when the pro-EIP Proteus Corporation began to take power in the 2280's and via the Earth Independence Party, turn Earth into a global corpocracy, countries ruled by Proteus shoved aliens out into slums in Asia and Africa and much of Flarestar turned against HEFT and became ProForce; Proteus' privet militia.

Instability created inner-turmoil within the cities led to the 2281-2283 Asian and African Slum-Wars that killed thousands of aliens and Humans.

After these events the Middle East erupted in violence and religious wars that resulted in the nuclear self-destruction of Palestine and the surrounding areas in 2285, bringing fourth more anti-alien protests, although it was thought that it was Proteus purposefully stirring up the already unstable area, partly out of retaliation for not accepting Proteus as their one-true corporation.

After Palestine, ProForce carpet bombed Africa and Asia and destroyed much of the organisation and structure HEFT in 2290.

The fragments of HEFT and survivors of the Slum Wars and Palestine decided to pool their resources and create Unity, a pro-alien anti-Proteus resistance group that, as technology developed Unity relocated to Mars in an abandoned military base named Area 52 where they eventually fraught to free Earth from the tyranny of Proteus Corporation.

While HEFT/Unity essentially disbanded when Proteus fell and the Earth Independence Party lost control of Earth in 2323, many soldiers joined the new Earth Global Alliance (That would later become the Terran Commonwealth Alliance as it expanded.