                             Concept : Guerrilla

 Guerrillas are created in several ways; when  a  sector  is  captured  by  an
enemy, or when civilians riot for one reason or another (starvation, no happi-
ness, etc).

Guerrillas have a generally detrimental effect on the well-being of your coun-
try.  Depending on the amount of military in the sector they infest, they will
either attack the military there (but only if they have a good chance of  win-
ning),  blow up things (lowering sector efficiency), or, if they are too badly
outnumbered, they will try and move to a different sector.

If there are no military in the infested sector at the end of  the  update  to
break  up  guerrilla  recruitment drives, your civilians' loyalty will suffer.
If the sector is only occupied -- not completely owned by you, that is -- then
it  will  revert back to the old owner, renouncing the conqueror and returning
to their old allegiance.  The guerrillas will then move  on  to  convert  more
sectors.   Particular  guerrilla  bands  will fight to the death, or until you
dissolve in disgust.

Guerrillas will attempt to recruit new followers from semi-loyal  sectors  and

                             Concept : Guerrilla

from the uncompensated worker population.  Loyal civilians will  resist  these
recruiting  drives,  but uncompensated workers will always flock to the banner
of the guerrilla warrior.

The renowned guerrilla fighter Colonel (later Captain) Batguano gave a talk to
the  special  forces,  which  was  later  made  into an Armed Forces Technical
Manual.  In it he states,

The first thing you learn is that the che are hardier than cockroaches,
eat like birds, and are simply invulnerable to gunfire and napalm.
They hide in the sewers.
There are two ways to handle the guerrilla problem;
one way requires high yield fusion weapons,
and then they only die when everything else in the sector is destroyed.
Unfortunately, collateral damage to civilian assets renders this
strategy negatory ...  Col. Batguano then launches into
a tirade against the wimpy-assed liberals which interfere with the
proper guerrilla suppression techniques  ...
Almost every fully-populated area we moved into

                             Concept : Guerrilla

had a few dozen of the little monsters,
and troop levels of 50-100 per sector were found to adequately
pacify the region.
Of course, depopulating the area prior to takeover often had a salutory
effect on the number of che we later found...

You will be notified of the varying civil disturbances by production telegrams
showing a body count of guerrillas killed, a sector being subverted by revolu-
tionary propaganda, or a sector lost to guerrilla activities!

