World Liberation Front

The "World Liberation Front" is a fictional cell group of the underground rebel organisation known as "The Resistance" in the NBC television series "V", and it's various spin-offs. According to the series mythology, the group was founded to counter an alien invasion by the Visitors. The groups' name may be based on real-life groups such as the Animal Liberation Front.

History

The WLF is the first Resistance group to successfully establish a network of communication and coordination, becoming an extremely powerful fighting force using its arsenal of automatic weapons, armored vehicles, advanced technology and large stores of food and medical supplies. The WLF was led by Ham Tyler and his partner Chris Farber, and under their leadership, became the most powerful Resistance cell on the planet.

Following the Los Angeles Resistance Cell's "stunt" that exposed the Visitors true nature to the world, Ham and Chris went to the L.A. Cell's base and offered them membership under certain conditions, to which they agreed. Ham then went on to reinforce the cell with extra members, Teflon-tipped Ammunition (to cope with the Visitor's new armor) and several secure facilities for usage as bases or outposts.

When the L.A. Cell discovered the Red Dust, the WLF recruited Nathan Bates's company, Science Frontiers, to mass produce the Dust for usage in a massive world-wide coordinated effort to drive the Visitors from the Earth. The effort was led by Ham, who arranged for thousands of hot-air balloons, all filled with the Dust, to launch from multiple sites across the world and distribute the Dust from high above the surface. The attack was a success, and the Visitors were forced to leave.

econd Coming of the Visitors

One year after Liberation Day, Diana escaped and the Visitors returned and the Second Invasion began. Governments quickly capitulate or go underground and authorities such as police and military quickly collapse. The Resistance reformed to carry on the fight, and so did the WLF, but Ham and Chris didn't rejoin the WLF, with Ham joining the L.A. Cell full-time and Chris joining a Resistance desert unit (and then the L.A. Cell following the unit's destruction). The movement is now led by a select group of Resistance leaders, and is openly fighting the Visitors across several continents, mostly the United States, as a unified army in an effort to protect the human populations inside the un-Red Dust protected major cities from the Visitor armies.

Realising the importance of Elizabeth "Starchild" Maxwell to the movement, and that Commander Diana was using increasingly dangerous methods to re-capture her, the WLF arranged for a helicopter to transport Elizabeth to their facility in New York to aid in the creation of an experimental new weapon; The Neutron Oscillator, and false identity files to protect her from possible Visitor investigations. They then sent a courier in a jet fighter to Los Angeles to deliver a message detailing the final rendezvous point to Elias Taylor at Club Creole (using the radio was too dangerous for fear of being intercepted). The courier himself never made it, as the Visitors shot his plane down and died of injuries he sustained when he ejected from the plane. Thankfully the message was retrieved by Kyle Bates and Robin Maxwell, and delivered to the club. Unfortunately, Mike Donovan, who was among the first to learn of the message's contents, was captured by Visitor agents and the location revealed before his escape. Diana and a squad of troops intercepted the helicopter and initially captured the Resistance team that met it, but Kyle saved the team and killed most of the Visitor troops, allowing them to escape. The WLF agreed with Mike and Julie Parrish that Elizabeth was safer in L.A. for the time being.

The war between the Visitors and WLF Army led to a bloody stalemate, with the Visitor armies grounded to a halt. Diana planned to launch a massive assault on the WLF, which may have succeeded, had it not been for a desperate shortage of cobalt ore. Cobalt is a powerful metal used by the Visitors to power their laser rifles. When the L.A. Resistance group destroyed the main cobalt mining operation, the offensive failed, thousands of Visitor troops were slaughtered and millions of humans saved.

The WLF is also helping General Curtis Morgan's soldiers defend the "Free Zones", areas of the world still protected by the Red Dust, from the Visitors, and the WLF's science division, currently led by Doctor Steven Maitland, is engaging in an unknown research that might defeat the Visitors.