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The military forces of the UPD are rather unconventional to say the least with all soldiers being mech pilots controlling mechs supported by drone infantry and pilot transport gunships. The mechs of the UPD are balanced machines built with pilot survivability and are known for being highly customizable. Pilots have a large catalog of weapons and ability programs to select from to built their mech to their specifications and preferred fighting style. As a result no persan mech is ever the same and pilots tend to group themselves into fireteams based on personal synergy with commanding officers staying in the back ground and coordinating multiple teams over missions. All persan mechs are controlled by persa meaning that all wield power over an element of liminal energy.

In terms of general strategy though the Persan combat philosophy of rapid maneuverability and operational flexibility. With mechs able to fulfill a vast number of different roles, drone support, and orbital strikes complimenting each other to employ shock and disruption to decapitate the enemy's decision-making capabilities in maneuver warfare. To this end the UPD eschews vast numbers and attrition in favor of smaller, more tightly knit, better equipped and trained forces with strong logistical independence and a highly decentralized command structure with lower level officers given great flexibility in accomplishing the end goals of the higher ranking officers grand strategies.

Thanks to having very limited numbers to work are forced to rely heavily upon drones to augment their lack of man power. While most roles in the military could be replaced by drones and AI the persan are a warrior people at heart and thus many still insist on serving directly on the battlefield. Commanders also recognize the value in citizens being able to see men and women fighting and dying for them as a necessary component for maintaining public for the war effort, as well as the general creativity an organic mind can apply to tasks a machine one generally cannot. So while most jobs requiring a high degree of skill as overseen by organic entities, most menial tasks are performed by drones.

Overview

Readiness


STRATEGIC READINESS
DEMILITARIZED
total mobilization time: 1 year
PEACETIME RESERVES
total mobilization time: 6 months
PROFESSIONAL FORCES
total mobilization time: 3 months
MILITARIZATION
total mobilization time: 1 month
PARTIAL MOBILIZATION
total mobilization time: 2 weeks
TOTAL MOBILIZATION
total mobilization time: MOBILIZED


RECRUITMENT
DEMILITARIZED
ALTERNATE SERVICE
VOLUNTARY SERVICE
RESERVIST SERVICE
MANDATORY SERVICE
TOTAL CONSCRIPTION


MILITARY INDUSTRY
CONSUMER ECONOMY
FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS
PRIVATE PRODUCTION
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION
WAR ECONOMY


POWER PROJECTION
NO MONOPOLY ON FORCE
SOVEREIGN BORDERS
REGIONAL
GALACTIC
CLUSTER
GIGAQUADRANT


WAR TOLERANCE
NO ENTANGLEMENTS
SELF-DEFENSE
PEACEKEEPING
MILITARY INTERVENTION
LIMITED WAR
TOTAL WAR

Organization

Forces

Immortals

CRE Immortal ful

It's exhilarating having this much raw power at your fingertips. When I'm in my Immortal suddenly I can run faster, jump higher, go farther, punch harder, and tank shots no one should able to. It's a feeling of being unstoppable and it's damn near addicting.

- Adeptus Zelator Major Akanri

Immortals are Persan mecha and controlled by elite pilots (also called Immortals). The Immortals are in fact psychic bio-mechanical beings encased in armor and installed with a piloting system that can be anywhere between 3 to 15 meters in height and are made from altered Vanara DNA. They are piloted via a neural sync system allowing them to be piloted through thought alone and eliminating the need for physical interfaces (though their cockpits are still installed with one for ease of pilot use).

Immortals often use strange archaic that weapons warped and twisted in strange eldritch and esoteric ways giving them strange alien properties that seem to defy the physics and causal relationships of the universe. They are terrifying and warped things to behold that have have been known to fly into berserker furies when their pilots are in danger acting under their own will power and alien mindset in a Cascade. They are actually held in almost religious awe by some who believe them to be possessed by long-dead persacron souls.

Drones

Master says I should go and kill those the people shooting at us so I do, always happy do what master says... SQUIRREL!!!

- A Persan Sparabara Drone

Persan drones are used to back up and support their mecha in various combat roles. The first of these is the Sparabara which are canine shaped drones known for tough armor and heavy weapons but limited speed. They are armed with either light pulse machine guns, plasma rifles, heavy pulse beams, and phase missile tubes, as well as heavy progressive melee weapons such as war hammers, pikes, and long or greatswords. They are line drones operating within the mech's zone of influence and have a rather eager to please personality. The second is the Takabara which are feline shaped light drones designed to operate outside the mech's zone of influence. They have a sarcastic and aloof personality and are lightly armed and armored but far more fast and maneuverable. They are armed with pulse rifles, pulse shotguns, and pulse beams, as well as progressive short swords, sabers, and trench axes.

Cardaces

Chariots

Cataphracts

Dhows

Urus

Weapons

Pulse

Pulse weapons are the most common form of weapon deployed by the United Persan Descendants and come in two types of standard pulses and pulse beams. The name pulse weapon comes from the design of rails that fire the projectiles from the weapon. The rails on pulse weapons charge with short pulses of electromagnetic energy for the precisely controlled firing of the weapons. Standard pulse weapons fire caseless kinetic ammunition while pulse beams fire streams of charged particles or anti-particles.

Phase

Phase weapons are solely composed of phase missiles and perhaps some of the most enigmatic weapons of the UPD being considered something of a signature of theirs. Phase Missiles are missiles that rely on onboard sensors to detect when they are coming upon shielding, once shields are detected the missiles drops out of phase with normal reality until it has bypassed the shields at which point it returns to realspace. Phase Missiles come in standard realspace varieties and hyperspacial cruise missiles.

Wave

Wave weapons are very similar to pulse weapons being a form of railgun, but operate somewhat differently. Instead of being charged by pulses of electromagnetic energy wave weapon's rails are charged by by a continuous wave of electromagnetism. These guns are constantly on from the movement they are turned on making them too dangerous to be used on anything other then a ship. These weapons are burst fed masses of fusion plasma to be fired as projectiles against enemies.

Support

Self Repair Systems

Nanites find their way into everything the Persan do in one way or another. Colonies of these nanites infest the weapon, defensive, and other systems in all military hardware the Persan posses. These nanites remain ever vigilant monitoring the hardware for potential points of failure and dedicating repairs to prevent these failures before they occur. Should failure occur then ninites devout their resources to repairing and replacing parts to keep their hardware functioning.

Multi-Pass Shields

Atomic Lattice Armor

Persan skill and nanotechnology and nanoengineering has benefited them in many ways, especially in the areas of armor and defensive technology. The primary form of armor of the UPD forces is atomic lattice armor. This armor is made up of graphene sheets that have had their atomic lattice structures interwoven to create a nanomolecular form of chainmail, the gaps in the crystal lattice structures are filled in with a liquid suspension, and the outer layer is given extra protection in a layer of diamond micro-crystals.

Chain Reaction Batteries

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