Fiction:United Bidonite Empire/Imperial Legions

The Imperial Legions are the pride of the United Bidonite Empire and its most defining characteristic. As an empire founded on its military prowess, the Bidonite Empire's armed forces have an appropriately large impact on its governance and general social structure.

The Imperial Legions, colloquially referred to as simply the Legions, are divided into four Fields: the Imperial Army, the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Aviation, and the Imperial Armada. These Fields deal with land, sea, sky, and space, respectively. Of these, the Imperial Army and the Imperial Armada are the most prestigious.

Imperial Army
Posterboys of the Empire's military, the Imperial Army is both the largest and the most famous of all the Fields. The Army is the tool with which the Empire defends itself, seizes worlds, and wins wars.

The primary advantage of the Army, discounting all arms and technology, lies in the extreme discipline of its troops. Its soldiers follow every order without hesitation. Barring drugs or focused psychic assault, Imperial soldiers are impossible to shock or demoralize, even across protracted campaigns. Disparate Army groups brought together will coordinate without any loss of cohesion, regardless of circumstances.

Of course, arms and technology help too. Your basic Imperial rifleman is equipped with:
 * 1x coilrifle (variable ammo type)
 * 1x coil pistol (variable ammo type)
 * 1x shock knife
 * 2x grenades
 * polymer-plate body armor and helmet (integrated radio)
 * 4x energy bars
 * 1x canteen (auto-purifying)
 * 1x field ration carton

All worlds of the Empire must contribute to the Imperial Army, providing recruits and supplies as necessary. Every regiment is named for the planet it hails from and its iteration: the Matok 8th Army is the eighth such regiment Matok has mustered.

Imperial combat doctrine varies as widely as combat itself. Army regiments are equipped for any situation in addition to whatever Logistics thinks will prove useful for wherever they're deployed. Each regiment has its own snipers, combat vehicles, engineers, etc. The only exceptions are with fully armored regiments and fully infantry regiments. By remaining unspecialized, the Imperial Army can adapt to changing battlefield conditions rapidly, at the cost of not excelling at any particular task.

Imperial Armor
The Imperial Army fields a multitude of vehicles, each with its own place in the Imperial war machine.

Imperial Armada
Though somewhat less prestigious than the Imperial Army, the Imperial Armada is possibly the most important of all the Legions. This is because the Empire spans several thousand worlds and its forces must be able to reach all of those worlds in a reasonable amount of time, as well as any other worlds that fall under the Empire's scrutiny.

While the Empire's fleet does not openly display its affiliation (doing so would be in contravention of a number of statutes regarding how the Imperial insignia is displayed), its ships are nonetheless instantly recognizable-- blocky and utilitarian vessels plated in dark gray and lavender reactive armor. The Empire is not known for its gracefulness. Their technology is comparatively primitive, unsurprising for such a young empire, but the sheer industrial relentlessness inherent to the Imperial Legions has been sufficient to see off the higher-tech Necrox meritocracy and other intermittent threats to Imperial stability.

Imperial Ship Classes
The ships of the Imperial Armada come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Dedicated Warships=

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Imperial Aviation
Bidonites take naturally to the air-- it would be unusual for a naturally winged race not to. With the advent of repulsor technology, the Imperial Aviation has seen something of a renaissance: Bidonite aircraft are no longer bound by the need to create lift (though aerodynamics are still just as important as they used to be).

Imperial Navy
Bidonites do not take so easily to the sea. Fear of large bodies of water is one of the most common Bidonite fears, ranking just below monophobia in frequency. Nevertheless, the demands of war often force the Imperial Legions into the water, where the Empire is determined to excel.