Norts

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Nort insignia

Norts are a fictional fascist enemy from Rogue Trooper, a science fiction strip in the British comic book 2000 AD, who are fighting the Southers. They were mainly responsible for the Quartz Massacre. The Traitor General was briefly allied with them.

History

After war broke out on Earth, the remnants of Humanity left. The Germans and Russians fled deep into Souther Confederacy space and formed a Political party known as The Nordland Party. When Nu-Earth was discovered, both the Norts (as they were commonly known) and the Southers formed an uneasy alliance and colonised the planet. The early Nort colonists deciding to live in the desert and tame the wild animals. Years later, when a black hole was discovered, tensions mounted between both sides and eventually the Norts declared war on the Southers starting the Nu-Earth Future war. By the time of the story, the atmosphere of Nu-Earth is heavily poisoned by war gases and cannot be breathed except by the Rogue Trooper; all others in the open must wear chemsuits.

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Military

Nort Millitary have formed many units and war machines. Units have included:

• Base Commanders
• Filth Columists
• Scum Legions (formed by Admiral Torpitz and disbanded after the Fort Neuropa Campaign)
• Kashan
• EMP troops
• Lazooka troops
• Motar troops
• Infantry
• Navy Sergeant
• Sailors
• Sergeants
• Shotgun troops
• Snipers
• Sun Legions
• Stammel Riders
• Nort Space pirates
• Chem-sisters
• Nagan Legions

Nort troopers, from a Rogue Trooper comic book

Their war machines have included:

• Blackmares
• Dream Weavers
• Nort Heavy Support Armour
• Nort Tactical Armour
• Decapitators
• Drill Probes
• Hell Canon
• Patrol Boats
• Pillboxes
• Attack Hoppas
• Deploy Hoppas
• Submarines

Equipment

Their usual chemsuit has a soft hood, often with a low blunt-pointed top, hiding the wearer's face competely except small round eye-holes, and two large backpack air or oxygen cylinders. Two wide breathing tubes run, one from the top of each cylinder over the shoulders and run into the hood beside his mouth and nose. The design was likely inspired by the old-type open-circuit aqualung, but with the very common comic-book error described here. In some episodes this set has an extra smaller cylinder on the back of the two main cylinders, likely imitated from U.S.Army flamethrowers.

Well-known Norts

Well-known Norts include:

• The War Marshal
  • Unnamed War Marshal (during Quartz Zone Massacre)
  • Zell
  • Arkham
• Admiral Torpitz
• General Vagner
• The Traitor General
• Morgan
• Horst High Command

Trivia

• They were inspired by the Northerner Unionists from the American Civil War as well as the Nazis from World War II.
• The Norts protective suits (showing only the eyes) reinforce the "Bad Guy" delineation.

See also

• Rogue Trooper
• Southers