When an agricultural breakthrough is made in the unaligned Side 8 colony Gaia CONSENT resolves to seize the technology by force to solve its own food crisis, or to destroy it, unless ex-CONSENT pilot Mark Curran and a ragtag band of MS pilots can stop them.

By a strange twist of their respective fates, this foursome ends up partnering together, using their unique talents to become a ragtag team of bounty hunters, although their fortunes as such are at best mixed.

The original name, Confederate Air Force, started as a simple tongue in cheek type of joke, poking fun at their ragtag beginnings.

It is at that moment that Kolp's ragtag force launches their attack against Ape City.

The ragtag team is then forced to flee, with Lobo acting as their guide, gaining Ekron's help and discovering their real enemy, Lady Styx, bringing havoc and mayhem in the entire Galaxy.

The game's story focuses on the efforts of a ragtag team of characters in the Crash Bandicoot series, who must race against the egomaniacal Nitros Oxide to save their planet from destruction.

Broderick and his ragtag crew complete their mission and go on to further adventures in the subsequent series.

College professor Frank Heller ( Joe Zaso ) and his girlfriend Sandra ( Felissa Rose ) lead a ragtag group of museum patrons in a race for their lives.

This ragtag team makes a stand against the villainess Lady Styx, whose undead legions are ravaging planets across the galaxy.

In the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, Eilistraee's followers stand at the forefront of the ragtag rebel army's fight against the evil Valsharess.

Nonetheless, ragtag groups of Neapolitans loyal to Francis would fight on against the Italian government for years to come.

They then moved aside to allow the ragtag Pathet Lao force with its mismatched scrounged equipment to occupy the captured ground, and Souphanouvong moved the Pathet Lao headquarters into Sam Neua City on 19 April.

A ragtag group of students decide to resist: Zeke Tyler ( Josh Hartnett ), a loner repeating his senior year, who sells, among other illegal items, a cocaine-like drug of his own creation ; Stan Rosado ( Shawn Hatosy ), a jock who quits the football team during his senior year so he can focus on academics ; Stan's girlfriend Delilah Profitt ( Jordana Brewster ), the vindictive editor in chief of the student paper ; Casey Connor ( Elijah Wood ), a photographer for the paper with a crush on Delilah ; Stokely ' Stokes ' Mitchell ( Clea DuVall ), a gothic outcast and literary buff who, despite rumors she is a lesbian, has feelings for Stan ; and Marybeth Louise Hutchinson ( Laura Harris ), a new girl at school, who just moved from Atlanta to live with relatives because her parents died in a car crash.

Dragon Boy features the adventures of a boy named Tanton and an unlikely ragtag group to go on a journey to the Flower Country.

Using the play within a play structure, Brooklyn focuses on a group of five ragtag homeless musicians known as the City Weeds.

It was still a ragtag army, however, that assembled on the American shore of the Niagara River during the last weeks of May 1866.

In 1608, together with Aleksander Kleczkowski, leading his forces-a band of few hundred ragtag soldiers of fortune, mainly Lithuanians, Poles, Don Cossacks, Ruthenians, Tatars, Germans, Swedes-he defeated the armies of tsar Vasili Shuisky, led by Zakhary Lyapunov and Ivan Khovansky, near Zaraysk and captured Mikhailov and Kolomna, moving on to blockade Moscow.

* In the 2001 film Hardball, Keanu Reeves coaches a ragtag bunch of kids on an inner-city little league team.

However the airplane that was carrying them crashed and Shola found himself on the side of the ragtag members of the newest incarnation of Excalibur.

While dragging the unconscious alien across the desert, Hiller is picked up by a ragtag group of refugees driving campers and trucks to a nearby military base.

From its origins in 1954 as ragtag maquisards numbering in the hundreds and armed with a motley assortment of hunting rifles and discarded French, German, and American light weapons, the FLN had evolved by 1957 into a disciplined fighting force of 40, 000.

In the first issue of the series, Dane is recruited by the Invisibles, a ragtag band of freedom fighters led by King Mob, a charismatic, cold-blooded assassin.

In the early morning of June 14, 1846, Vallejo was taken prisoner by a ragtag band of Americans, led by William B. Ide, who had decided to emulate the Texans by revolting against California's Mexican government.

In 1608 together with Aleksander Kleczkowski, Lisowczycy, leading a few hundred Don Cossacks, ragtag szlachta and mercenaries defeated the army of tsar Vasili Shuiski led by Zakhary Lyapunov and Ivan Khovansky near Zaraysk and captured Mikhailov and Kolomna.

* Captain White, or " the captain ": An ex-professional soldier and American supremacist who believes that Mexico is a lawless nation to be conquered by the United States, Captain White leads a ragtag group of militants into Mexico.

Led by Sir Ranulf, the soldiers attack and scatter Robin's ragtag band, many of whom are captured or killed.

Fitzhugh is recruited by Miller's ragtag military team to help take out Nicolae, which he participates in.

Kosciuszko's ragtag insurgent armies won some initial successes, but they eventually fell before the superior forces of the Russian Empire.

At Rokycany, Maximilian's forces first met with the 15, 000 ragtag, poorly paid, poorly equipped troops that Frederick had managed to raise.

The phrase Coxey's Army has also come to refer to a ragtag band, possibly due to an incident during the second march in 1914.

McGinty recruits many different ragtag players, and eventually convinces Falco to come off his boat and play quarterback again.

Skeptical about the replacement players, they nevertheless follow McGinty's recommendations and find ways to work with the ragtag group of players.

You are the leader of this ragtag group of freedom fighters.

Parts of the neighborhood became a ragtag collection of squatters ' housing, boarding houses, and rowdy taverns.

The New York Times described the film as " a relatively high-budget story of a group of ragtag sailors who go searching for a crew of evil pirates who have a plan for world domination.

It proved a safe haven for him and his ragtag militia troops, as the British were never able to find the camp.

In an interview with The New York Times after McFarlane's death in May 2009, Kramer described how " single-handedly Rodger took this struggling ragtag group of really frightened and mostly young men, found us an office and set up all the programs.

Upon Sverre's initial contact, the Birkebeiners had been reduced to a ragtag army of brigands and vagabonds with no more than 70 men, according to the saga.

She tells Lou that she likewise felt that he was the right manager to bring the ragtag group together.

Coast-to-coast train travel in eight days became possible, replacing months-long sea voyages and lengthy, hazardous travel by wagon trains.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

* 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

* May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

In 1841, with the arrival of the first wagon train via the Oregon Trail, McLoughlin disobeyed company orders and extended substantial aid to the American settlers.

By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.

On May 16, 1842, the second organized wagon train set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than 100 pioneers.

He joined the wagon train at the Platte River for the return trip.

The O ' Leary family are travelling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O ' Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon.

Shortly after he begins his journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot ( Walter Brennan ), Dunson learns that his love interest ( Coleen Gray ), whom he had told to stay behind with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send for her later, was killed in an Indian attack.

One day before, he had presented it to his young love as he left the wagon train.

The next day, an orphaned boy named Matthew Garth ( played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn and as an adult by Montgomery Clift ) who had been part of the wagon train Dunson had left, and who came back from finding a strayed cow to see the ruins of the train wanders into Dunson and Groot's camp, babbling inchoerently.

He was the sole survivor of the wagon train.

On the way to Abilene, Matt and his men repulse an Indian attack on a wagon train.

Eager to outpace Dunson to Abilene, he leaves early in the morning — as Dunson had left the original wagon train 14 years earlier.

Later Tess encounters Dunson, who has followed Matt's trail to the new wagon train.

Dunson sees in her the same anguish that his beloved had expressed when he left her at the original doomed wagon train.

He offered his wagon train, which was heavily loaded with loot.

Understanding how much Wade is needed to settle the West, a loving Abbie heartily suggests she and her new husband join the next wagon train for their new life together.

On May 18, the Indians attacked a wagon train belonging to Henry Warren, killing all but the five who escaped.

In 1846, during the war between the United States and Mexico, a wagon train of German settlers bought Guadalupe land from August Schumann.

The first wagon train of 120 settlers arrive from New Braunfels.

This was named the Second Battle of Cabin Creek. Colonel James Williams led a detachment that recovered the wagon train in a skirmish near Pryor Creek.