The Frontier Reaction Force, better known as the Reaction Force, or RF, was a paramilitary organization established to support colonial development through customs enforcement and interplanetary policing. The organization would grow from a small dedicated group of a few hundred to include over two hundred thousand personnel, specializing in a broad range of disciplines.

Formed after the start of the Ascomanni conflict, the Combined Intelligence Directorate, or CID, was created by amalgamating the various civilian and military intelligence organizations into a single entity. As such, its powers stretched across both spheres of operation, though its role in supporting the war effort would become its primary focus.

Railguns became standard weapons platforms on the Umbrian Republic Navy's warships long ago, as power plants were developed with sufficient capacity to handle their energy-intensive operations. As these power cores began to shrink in size and grow in efficiency, even the smallest cutters and corvettes in the fleet could now field these weapons.

The idea of an exosuit or other forms of mechanical enhancements to a soldier's mobility and strength had been the subject of numerous development efforts throughout the early portion of the century. These ranged from combat frames that helped alleviate the load of a soldier's equipment to fully sealed armored suits which offered enhanced protection from small arms fire and fragmentation. Several systems were extensively field tested, but none had been issued for wide spread use by the start of the Battle of Battipaglia.

Point defense weapons systems, or PDWs, are weapons designed to track and intercept incoming munitions or craft. They focus on putting up a wall of projectiles to deflect, damage, and destroy threats to their parent warship.

The first plasma weapons were created at the turn of the last century. These gigantic and unwieldy laboratory-bound devices would heat a gas until it became ionized, then project this plasma toward the intended target. Their more modern incarnations create a mass of impermeable plasma which is then accelerated down the barrel to three times the speed of sound by electromagnetic fields.