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Andrew "Bad Andy" Tremont was the Commander of the Faithful of the Christian Federation's Righteous Army, a breakaway faction during the 3rd Civil War.
Background
Andrew Tremont grew up like many other youngsters did, on the suburban planet of New Paris, resting comfortably in the shadow of Avalon. His parents were avid churchgoers and drilled into him the precepts of the Reorganized Orthodox Baptist Church, an ultra-conservative break-off of the Right Baptists, who for all their opinions that bent right of Attila the Hun, the Orthodox Baptists considered them "liberal." His parents had lost everything during the 2nd Civil War, and for the hope of a better life, immigrated to Van Diemen, a humid tropical planet. His mother couldn't take the new environment and died of a mutated maleria strain two years later. From the age of ten to eighteen, he was raised by his father, who between mourning for his wife, and beating "discipline" into his son, wasn't very loving. The young man vowed never to be as weak as his dad.
Forced into Christian private schools, and attending every function of the local Orthodox Baptist church, Andy could find little escape from his father. Finally, he threw himself fully into the one option available to him. Tremont became the perfect church kid. He attended every youth rally, volunteered for every possible church project, and became quickly known as an effective and charismatic youth leader. He manuevered himself into the denomination's hierarchy, and by the time he graduated high school, he was administering the church's youth effort throughout the Earth Federation.
He didn't bother with college but threw himself completely into seizing power inside the denomination. By the age of twenty, he was charge of missions. By 22, chief of staff to the Moderator. In order to quell the petty factions inside the church, he married the frail little daughter of one of the regional directors, one of the faction leaders, and by 25, he was elected Moderator of the Reorganized Orthodox Baptist Church. Under his leadership, the church flourished like never before. After his one-year term, he was unprecedently reelected... twice!
However, at the age of 28, in firm control of the petty denomination, he needed something more than what this church could give him. He allowed himself to be elected to a lesser position (Stated Clerk), but there was no doubt who was running the show. From his post, he sought out membership in a rather understated group, called the Fellowship of Right Christian Evangelicals (FORCE). They were a group of many different denominational leaders who (unsuccessfully) tried to gain political power in the Federation in order to impose their ultra-conservative agenda. Once he joined, Andrew quickly formed the Military-Revolutionary Committee, and gathered like-minded church leaders, who believed that direct action was necessary. Through quiet invitation, Tremont collected a small group of ex-TI, Colonial Marines, pirates, and reformed mercenaries into what he called the Praenonen. This group became used to making terrorist attacks on Fed bases and was soon fanatically devoted to Tremont.
By 34, he was leading FORCE, as well as maintaining his power base in the Orthodox Church. He expanded the Praenonen to 500 members, planting many in rival denominations, to check his political opponents. Tremont also started a series of youth camps, discreetly formed for the purpose of training these Christian kids into soldiers, all necessary for Andy's future plans. In the end, he had indirect control over 40 seperate denominations, and a potential recruit population of several million. He had also capitalized on the Anti-Awakened movement and was able to gather more people to his camp.
3rd Civil War
In 2242, he was 37, and he realized the full potential of what the Daughter's War would bring. His plans were acclerated and expanded, so when the TI coup failed, Tremont made his move. Assassinating all disenting leaders in FORCE, he activated the "Righteous Army," determined to take back the galaxy for Christ. Recruiting the same kids they had trained to be soldiers, he staffed the officer corps with his Praenonen, leaving himself only a small knot of them as his personal bodyguard. Reorganizing FORCE into his rubber-stamp "Christian Elder Assembly," the Righteous Army proceeded to seize control in several systems. On his 38th birthday, he proclaimed himself Commander of the Faithful, and took personal command of his forces, right as the 3rd Civil War was beginning.
The Righteous Army, although having an incredibly high morale, good officers, and trained troops, had little money and virtually no fleet. Mostly they seize freighters and convert them into troop carriers, from which to land his overwhelming numbers on a planet's surface. They've taken some freighters and armed them, but the "Righteous Navy" only exists to delay any attackers from the transports long enough for them to land. Also, Andrew's strategy leaves a lot to be desired. He often seizes every system in his path, instead of just the important ones, in his lust for power and control.
Tremont rose to the height of his power when the Righteous Army captured the Fleet shipyards at Phoenix. For a little while, it looked like they were going to be able to start cranking out ships and expand the Chrsitian Federation. The Phoenix yards, however, were sabotaged and badly damaged by Xinjao O'Reilly before he and his Fleet engineers escaped. Short ater, a TI sleeper agent within the Righteous Army, Alistar Dimiye, destroyed the Righteous Army's experimental space-capable power suit program. With little left to fight with, the Christian Federation maintained a purely defensive strategy until the end of the war, when the Earth Fleet used their superior numbers to take back the Christian systems one by one.
San Angeles, the capitol of the Christian Federation, was simply a slaughter, leaving the last of the Righteous Army to get destroyed by the armored troopers of the Tech Infantry. It is rumored that Bad Andy took his own life rather than surrender; it is also rumored that Calton Reks, leader of the Righteous Army, ran off with Andy's family (his wife Constance and their kids) and headed for the rim. Neither rumor has ever been officially confirmed or denied by the Federation.
Behind the Scenes
"Bad Andy" was a monkey-like puppet used in Pizza Hut commercials popular at the time TI Season 4.3 was played. Tremont is the name of a town in Illinois between Bloomington-Normal and Peoria, near where the players Josh and Andy Wooden lived. His Actor Avatar is Marc Singer. The term "Righteous Army" comes from the name for the independent Korean army that fought for its independence from Japan. Their style of battle is similiar to that used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army against the United Nations during the Korean War.