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Initially known as the Reborn Imperial Liberation Front, the group was formed as a cover by Rufus Albarea, who had escaped Erebonian imprisonment and was attempting to investigate why someone who looked exactly like him was trying to take over Crossbell. The one-man group grew to four when he encountered Nadia Rayne and Swin Abel, transporting cargo from noted dollmaker Jeorg Rosenberg. Instructed to deliver it to the one who went by "<C>," Rufus' borrowed codename, they came to realize the cargo was an intelligent doll, Lapis Rosenberg, who requested to join Rufus to regain her memories.
Since her goals took her in the same direction as him, he saw no reason to refuse, and hired Nadia and Swin as agents on the spot. The Reborn Imperial Liberation Front then headed to Erebonia's capital city, Heimdallr, to bait Rean Schwarzer and the rest of Class VII into uncovering a coup plot. With this ultimately successful, <C> publicly revealed his identity and declared that he had no more use for the "Reborn Imperial Liberation Front" name. The group was picked up by Jingo, a young arms dealer, and headed to Crossbell. The arms dealer would give Nadia an idea for a new name, the Imperial Picnicking Front. As the only objection to this name was from Swin, this was the name Nadia would continue to use to introduce them.
Upon their arrival in Crossbell, Rufus bluffed their way past his doppelganger's guards to investigate the city. They do so, and find clues leading them to the Rosenberg Studio, where Lapis was built. They infiltrate it with the help of Renne Bright, fighting off the Ouroboros machines within. They then encounter The Emperor, a supposedly-dead figure from Nadia and Swin's past, and through him discover that their ultimate foe was able to create perfect copies of other people, one of which was Rufus' double. They defeat him, and follow the trail of Lapis' memories to Crossbell's prison.
They infiltrate it with the help of Arios MacLaine and Duvalie, and finally recover all of Lapis' memories. She is revealed to have been the former administrator of a powerful AI known as Elysium, created when the Orbal Net and the Spiritual Veins running under the continent came into contact. Among its many probability simulations was the Normal End in Cold Steel IV, where Ishmelga was able to fully incarnate in the Great One. The evil of Ishmelga managed to manifest its consciousness, which kicked Lapis out of the system.
The Picnicking Front would go on to assist in the reindependence movement of Crossbell, freeing it from the imposter Rufus' clutches and proving instrumental in taking down the corrupted Elysium once and for all. Olivert Reise Arnor then declares Rufus dead, allowing the real Rufus to continue living outside of jail. While Rufus quickly realizes this isn't actually a mercy, he is content to travel with Swin, Nadia, and Lapis as they journey across Zemuria.
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