ZAFT is made up of civilian volunteers--a militia; the military of the PLANTs. The organization has no formal rank structure, so its members are instead addressed by descriptive titles like "commander" and "captain." ZAFT forces are organized into independent teams named after their commanders, and can operate equally well on land, at sea, in air, or in outer space. Since ZAFT's membership is made up of genetically enhanced Coordinators, its forces are more than a equal match for the numerically superior Earth Alliance.
Founded in C.E. 50 by Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala, ZAFT was originally a simple political organization called the Zodiac Alliance. Fifteen years later it took on its present name of ZAFT(Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty), and three years after that it was reorganized to become an explicitly military orangization equipped with the new weapons called mobile suits. ZAFT forced are currently subject to the authority of the PLANT Surpreme Council, made up of 12 representatives of each of the 12 PLANT colonies, report directly to the Nation Defense Committee chaired and directed by Patrick Zala.
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