It is said that it all started with a small group of slaves.
Some say that they were a few slaves, in the northern area of the Bleak Lands, who after learning of the beginning of the Revolt fled and became bandits. Others speak of an elite group of 'personal' slaves of a prelate in Khanid Prime V who, fed up with the perpetration of 'abuses', would have killed him and started the Army as we know it today (The theorists of this version use the strong female component in the ranks of the RAFFH guerrillas as a point to corroborate it). Some even speak of a large number of slaves from wealthy families in the constellation of Throne Worlds, spies who secretly transmitted vital informations to the Republican militia at the front during the Revolt.
The one and only undeniable truth, unchanged in every version, is that those early Rioters were SLAVES and we are children of gunpowder, guerrilla warfare, rust and those SLAVES.
Free individuals, members of sister Tribes on free brother planets in a slow constellation chained by the false lights of the Single God. Asleep to the scents of the incense and opiums of religion for centuries and finally awakened, we have moved our rusty red vessels into space and brandished our guns on the ground fighting the master-invaders and taking back our lands.
The Ancient Elders, nomadic miner fathers and ice-picker mothers, magnificent engineers or simple wandering merchants, fathered slave children, and those children became fathers of slave children. Our grandparents broke their chains and freed themselves from Amarrian oppression. A group of insurgents, rebellious slaves in the crowded Domain region, gave birth to the Free Rusty Army. The guerrilla group was crucial in the 'Liberation', which allowed the FRA to expand among the various tribes fighting against the Amarr. After the formation of the Republic of Minmatar, the army remained active continuing to recruit pilots for the defense of a territory first threatened by the oppressor and now by collectives determined to tax the mineral resources in the northeastern regions, adapting to the changes following the revolts, which led the tribes to move in more mining/industrial directions, they decided to change their name to Rusty Army for Free Harvest.
We are those workers, those armed guerrillas in defense of individual freedom, freedom to dig and trade, fighting for the free Minmatar Republic.
We are the RAFFH