Fiction:Realm of the Girtabelilu/Military

"To wage war is to create chaos. To wage holy war is the invite chaos in the short-term so that greater order may reign in the future."

- High Priest Dadanum, 2621

The Girtabelilu military like most is split into two branches-- army, which deals with planetside affairs including air superiority, and navy, which deals solely with space. While a large royal army exists, created from the resources under the control of the crown, powerful nobles and the priesthood maintain their own military forces as well, which are called upon in times of war to bolster the Realm's forces.

The Realm's military technology is based upon the reapplication of civilian technologies left behind by the Universal Federation. Mining lasers became ship-mounted combat laser-arrays; ray shielding originally designed to provide protection from asteroids and to create forcefields was adapted and upgraded in power to be useful against weaponry; ship-fired probes became torpedoes; and so on. Because of the Realm's rigid society true innovations are few and far between, so the Realm often relies on reverse engineering existing technology and applying it towards their own ends.

Army
The ground army of the Girtabelilu relies on immense numbers of conscripted commoners holding the line for shock units composed of nobles to decide the day. Girtabelilu commoners, as such, operate in the roles of line infantry and the artillery, sending their largely-unaugmented but naturally powerful and highly-numerous bodies into the fray. The standard weapon seen in the hands of a line infantryman is an assault rifle chambered for an 8mm cartridge. It is a cheap and unsophisticated weapon whose schematics outside of calibre are sometimes poorly-defined, but its reasonably effective against like foes.

The nobles, who are genetically and mechanically-enhanced for combat, take up the remaining roles. They act as infantry officers and shock infantry-- standing well above the average height of a Girtabelilu and possessing enhanced strength and awareness, as well as often carrying about a backpack-battery powered laser rifle. Nobles with increased mechanical aptitude ride in armoured vehicles, specifically main-battle-tanks and cavalry-tanks, and those with highly-enhanced awareness and reflexes come in air-superiority, flying in highly-sophisticated atmospheric craft.

Infantry
- Akku - - 12.5m Type - Line Infantry Training - Militia Technological Sophistication - Low Description - Akku is the colloquial, semiformal term referring to the militia-infantry that compose the main line of every Girtabelilu army. The term comes from the Akku system of civil service used by the Realm and its nobles, wherein the two eldest males of every Girtabelilu commoner family must be made available for three months of unpaid civil service to the aristocratic government every year-- and while the government reserves the right to keep them for an unlimited amount of time, both the individual and the family must then be financially compensated for the long-term absence of two healthy adult males. While the Akku system is integral the the operation of the Realm as a whole, its most notably used for the draft. --- Support Weapons --- Narrum --- - 3m Type - Shock Infantry Training - Regulars Technological Sophistication - Low Description - Narrum are professional retinue-troops that serve under the numerous Nobles as well as the Sovereign. Receiving regular pay and a high standard of training, they may be used to bolster the line of battle or to assist in breakthroughs, and some also receive combat modifications. Narrum occupy a middle ground between commoners and nobility, and some Narrum who prove themselves over decades of loyal service indeed rise to the ranks of the lower nobility. --- Support Weapons

- Yuna-Narrum - - 2m Type - Airborne/Marine Infantry Training - Professional Technological Sophistication - Moderate Description - The Yuna-Narrum are the Emperor's personal retinue of Narrum warriors, who specialise in airborne and marine operations using armoured dropships and boarding pods. Given special and high-quality paratrooper equipment, as well as the toughest training regimen available to commoner troops, they are a formidable force able to quickly respond to changing battlefield conditions and seize sensitive installations. --- Support Weapons -- Narbu-Kynal -- - 500k Type - Shock Infantry Training - Elite Technological Sophistication - Moderate Description - The Narbu-Kynal are the noble, elite shock infantry of the Realm. Armed with the best weaponry and armour available, and offered a whole slew of genetic and mechanical modifications, they can, unlike most Girtabelilu troops, stand toe-to-toe with the soldiers of more advanced nations.

Navy
The Girtabelilu navy is more straightforward. Pound-for-pound, Girtabelilu ships are crude and not of great-quality, essentially meaning that the Realm has two methods to maximise its potential-- build big, and build many. Propelled using a rudimentary form of hyperdrive, the majority of a Girtabelilu fleet is composed of smaller, corvette like ships approximately 200-500m in length. These ships are unstandardised, and bristle with laser arrays and carry large complements of marines. As such they are offensively-oriented.

The second class of ship are leviathan craft in the shape of a regular octahedron, 3-5 kilometres wide and long. These craft have propulsion on every side of them, giving them a wide range of movement, though it is slow to accelerate. The outside of such craft are arranged in step-like tiers, which increases the usable surface area on which to place its utterly-vast amount of weaponry. Such craft are responsible for carrying armies, as well. While slow and ponderous, these warships represent the ability to invade worlds and wipe out small fleets of equivalent advancement singlehandedly, and thus they are the sole property of the Sovereign. For a noble or high-priest to begin construction of a warship of this sort is considered an act of treason in itself.