THE ROYALIST ALLIANCE

(“PER ARDUA AD ASTRA” – “THROUGH STRUGGLE TO THE STARS”)

Location: Periphery, spinward of the Lyran Alliance, Technology Level: Medium

interposed between the Rim Collection and the Literacy Level: High
Circuinius Federation
Number of Star Systems: 27 (and 3 populated CAPITAL
systems with no inhabited planetoids)
Current Prime Minister: Prime Minister Slade World Name: Oxfordshire
Benton Star Type: G8V
Current Monarch: Czar Paul Radzik-D’vion Position in System: 2
Military Strength: 26 Regiments, 2 Battalions, 2 Time to Jump Point: 6 days
Battalions (merc.)
Recharging Station: zenith, nadir, New Delphi
Shipyard
Political Representative: Cabinet Member for
Oxfordshire, Madam Regina McCann
HPG Facility Class: A
ComStar Representative: Most Exalted Ambassador
Ian Morales, Precentor of Kraken Station
Population: 6,230,000,000 souls (approx.)
Percentage and Level of Native Life: 20%, Plant
DESCRIPTION:
Capital of the Royalist Alliance, a planet settled
in 2796, Oxfordshire is a warm, fairly dry world. Salt
water covers 55% of the planets surface and the rest
is almost totally inhabited by people. Deserts
straddle Oxfordshire equator and the polar regions
are covered with ice-caps, of which the northern
ice-cap is thickest. There is a mild temperate zone
between 25 ｰ and 63 ｰ north and south latitudes
which houses much of the planets vast population.
A world with few natural resources save
fissionable materials and fresh water from its
ice-caps Oxfordshire has traditionally been a centre
for government and scientific research above all
other industries. Although much of the heavy
industry in the Alliance takes place in the resource
rich Kamchatkan Rift, Oxfordshire has long been a
staple of electronics manufacture and design.
Warhammer/Marconi maintains a factory and a
Design Bureau on Oxfordshire from which most of
the Royalist Alliance electronic components are
produced.
Oxford City is located on Oxfordshire southern
continental mass between the Greater Martyr
Mountains and the Southbound Ocean on a large
plateau named the Necropolis of Oxford . Fresh
water flows in a large meandering river named the
Old Wissey from the mountains to the west and runs
over the plateau until it reaches the eastern edge of
the flats where it cascades in a beautiful waterfall
from the plateau. This waterfall has come to embody
the Alliance and especially, oddly enough, the
League Pact a state to which Oxfordshire does not
belong. Even so, Oxfordshire entertains numerous
tourists throughout the year and will no doubt
continue to do so.
Although Oxford City houses the official face of
government, the Royal Palace and the Houses of
Parliament, in reality true rule comes from the
northern continent and the Mount Parnassus
Command Centre built miles underground. Militarily
speaking the entire planet is heavily fortified, not that
it would appear so at first glance, and is also
networked with a series of interconnecting tunnels
which would be very difficult to secure entirely.
These tunnels allow defending forces to be moved
almost anywhere on the planet within hours. All of
this plus over 500 military bases on planet, space for
over four regiments and double that in conventional
and Aerospace assets, orbital facilities to support the
entire Royal Navy if recalled and a permanent
garrison of the Blues and Royals Regiment, the
Czars personal guard, and it becomes apparent that
Oxfordshire is a world destined to remain sovereign.
And if Oxfordshire stays free, so does the Alliance.
REGIONAL BREAKDOWN
The Royalist Alliance is divided into Local
Defence Regions (LDRs, or simply Regions). Similar
to the Draconis Combines Districts, Local Defence
Regions operate in both a civilian and military
capacity. In civilian terms the Regions provide an
easy way of running the country. With individual
Councils and Governors for each Region democratic
administration becomes relatively easy.
In military terms all of the RAAFs combat forces
are assigned to a Regional Command corresponding
with their home planet. Although a unit may move
beyond the borders of its assigned LDR they will still
fall under the purview of their Regional Command
and will receive all orders and documents, etcetera,
through the Command.
The Royalist Alliance is divided into 5 Local Defence
Regions: -
The Coreward Alliance Treaty Organisation (or
CATO) was formed to encompass the Alliances
capital worlds and provide a stable government base,
insulated from the petty bickering that occurs within
the other Regions. Chief industries include
agriculture and administration. CATO contains
numerous zero-G research facilities and principally
civilian shipyards in orbit of Lincolnshire,
Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire where those
educated people working on the stations can find
relief on the beautiful planets below. Finally, CATO
administers Cottingham, the Alliances furthest
coreward world; a verdant, jungle-covered planet
famous for its prison complex and the near constant
threat of harassment from one Crusader Clan or an
other, each holding its own interest in the Royalist
Alliance.
The League Pact is the Alliances most affluent
LDR. As the closest Region to the Inner Sphere, in
particular House Steiner, the Pact has become the
centre for Spheroid political commentary and
pan-galactic trade. JumpShips leave and arrive via
Gunnes World every hour, carrying Royalist made
goods to other States and bringing back precious
foreign currency to spur the Alliances economy.
Recharging stations present at every jump-point are
vitally important for this reason. Naturally,
administration is the League Pacts primary industry.
The worlds of Neue Africa are not heavily
populated, the most important resources in the LDR
being base metals such as iron and copper. Mining
is the chief industry, with metallurgical work coming a
close second, and thousands rotate in and out of the
Region to work there as the raw material is easier to
obtain via open-cast mining than extraction from
asteroids or particularly hostile worlds elsewhere in
the Alliance. Being a collection of dry worlds, the
planets of Neue Africa rely heavily on water
shipments from the League Pact and CATO.
The Kamchatkan Rift is the manufacturing
centre of the Royalist Alliance. Rich in natural
resources like rare alloys required for the production
of military equipment, specifically Aerospatial assets,
the worlds of the Kamchatkan Rift are heavily
developed. Although the planets, with the exception
of Chichi Jima and Novo Muscova, were hardly
Terra-like anyway, their environments have been
badly degraded by successive generations of
industrial construction. Indeed Black Isle (also called
the Evening Star), now stripped of all but the deepest
pockets of gas, oil and other important chemicals is
extremely sparsely populated as very few people
can stand the suffocating temperatures and acidic
atmosphere. It is now impossible to walk on the
volcanic surface of Black Isle without an envirosuit or
similar exoskeleton. Much of the Regions heavy
industry is now moving off planet and into orbital
facilities, leaving behind only environmentally
friendly development in a desperate bid to stabilise
the corrupted bio-spheres of the remaining
Kamchatkan planets in the wake of the devastation
caused to Black Isle.
Perhaps the least understood Local Defence
Region, and by far the most breathtaking, is
Odysseus Reaches, also known as the Duchy of
Marathon. Containing Marathon (a beautiful,
Mars-esque planet; headquarters of Marathon
Industries and the Monarchy Benevolent Society)
and Dixie V, the spiritual base for Christianity across
the Alliance, the Reaches has little to offer but
natural beauty and an eccentric, hard-working
population eager to travel to other parts of the
Royalist Alliance. An interesting fact about the
Reaches is that it also includes two oddities amongst
the numberless other inhabited star-systems of the
Inner Sphere; two populated systems with no
colonisable planetoids of any kind. Shattered Worlds
is lit by a cold brown dwarf star, the supernova of
which a billion years ago reduced what once were its
orbiting planets to slag. High levels of radiation
indicate yet to be exploited mineral deposits and
produce incredible stellar light shows making the
three stations within the system popular tourist
destinations. The Farpoint Sector is the beacon that
shines out the Royalist Alliances pioneer spirit to the
rest of the Inner Sphere. A system full of ore rich
asteroids, and thus heavily inundated by
space-engineering and mining concerns, Farpoint is
also home to Farpoint Station and the Royalist
Explorer Corp. The REC regularly sends brave
JumpShip crews into the unknown in order to further
the boundaries of known space. Few crews ever
return, and as a tribute to their sacrifice the names of
all lost Ships and their crewmembers are etched
onto the hull of Farpoint Station.
THE ROYALIST GOVERNMENT
The Royalist Alliance is a democracy. The part
the monarchy plays is only that of statesmen and
women; important primarily for national pride
although brighter Royals have made quite successful
careers in the armed forces, mostly the Navy. There
is a system of nobility in the Alliance similar to that of
the Federated Suns, with knighthoods for those who
deserve them. Theoretically every region should
have a Duke or Duchess but eventually the position
was squeezed out of use, leaving the Duchy of
Marathon the last remaining Dukedom.
Every man and woman over the age of 17 has a
vote, although it is calculated that approximately only
70% of the adult population exercises this right.
Efforts are made every election to combat voter
apathy, often to little real effect. You must be a
citizen of the Royalist Alliance to vote, and those with
dual citizenships are not allowed vote in General
Elections, although they may vote for Regional and
Planetary Governors. The right to vote is protected
by the Royalist Constitutional Laws (RCL) and it is
not affected by race or creed.
Every May and November there are the
Planetary Elections. Each planet in the Alliance
votes to appoint the man or woman who will
represent them in the Houses of Parliament (or
simply the Houses) for the coming months. The most
successful of these can remain in office for years,
while most only last about 12 months. The worst
ones can actually be ousted by a Vote of No
Confidence from their constituents. The 30 Planetary
Governors sit in the Lower House (often called the
“Shack”) and put forward their constituents concerns
and desires to their peers and the members of the
Cabinet (Higher House, or “Palace” in typical
Royalist slang).
Furthermore, every Region of the Royalist
Alliance (for example, Odysseus’ Reaches or the
League Pact) has one elected Regional Governor,
chosen by the people of that Region in the same
manner as Planetary elections, except Regional
Elections take place every two years. Even so, poor
politicians can be removed in the same fashion as
under-performing Planetary Governors. The 5
Regional Governors form the Cabinet, the chief
ruling body of the Alliance which creates all new
legislation, presented to the Lower House as a Bill.
Both Houses must vote on whether or not to
implement any new legislation. The Commander in
Chief of the RAAF and his Liaisons at the heads of
the Army, Navy and Flying Corp are also members
of the Cabinet.
At the head of the Cabinet and indeed the
Royalist Alliance is the Prime Minister. Once every
three years the population of the Alliance votes to
elect the Prime Minister. No one PM can remain in
office for more than 3 terms, and after their third term
(if they remain that long) they must retire to lower
level politics. Alongside the reigning monarch the PM
is the figure-head of the Alliance, but unlike the
monarch the PM has actual power. Generally
speaking decisions such as troop redeployment or
tax raises must be agreed by the majority of the
Cabinet and the Planetary Governors in the Lower
House but in time of crisis the Prime Minister is
granted special powers, such as instating
conscription or rationing. In this case the Houses do
not get an overruling say, although they are within
their rights to voice the opinion of their constituents.
HISTORICAL DETAILS
THE VISION
In the years leading up to 2789, during the
devastation of the 1st Succession War, Eric Lyon
D’Avion (CEO of Mercury Haulage – the largest
merchant navy operating in the Inner Sphere)
became more and more disgusted with mans
inhuman brutality towards man as House Leaders
flung missiles and regiments at each other in a bid to
destroy the “opposition”. D’Avion was a man with a
plan, however. He longed to follow in the footsteps of
the bold Alexandr Kerensky and lead his own
Exodus from the Inner Sphere into the Periphery
where he would form his own nation based on
equality and tolerance, free from the violent shackles
which locked the population of the Inner Sphere in
near constant warfare. An idealistic plan, perhaps,
but Eric D’Avion was also a man with the means to
achieve his goal.
An enigmatic figure with the total trust of his
employees and a large amount of political thrust
within the Successor States, D’Avion spread
literature throughout the Inner Sphere calling all
those who shared his vision of a new nation to join
him on Altoona, his headquarters in the Federated
Suns. Eric has expected much of his workforce and
his private security force to step up, maybe 100,000
more souls from throughout the Inner Sphere. He
soon realised that he had greatly underestimated the
power of his dream. By the 1st of January 2789
Altoona had become enveloped in a cloud of
DropShips, both civilian and military. The zenith and
nadir jump points were clogged with shipping as
more and more vessels poured into the system,
millions of willing colonists from every Successor
State pledging allegiance to Eric D’Avion and his
vision. Numerous military units also turned rogue to
join Eric. Mercenaries left their contracts, Kuritan
regiments were declared Ronin and fled into the
Federated Suns – soldiers and their machines, tired
of the killing, ran from every corner of the Inner
Sphere and joined their civilian counterparts in orbit
of Altoona, watching and waiting.
In a journey that would take more than two
years, on the 4th of July 2789 Eric D’Avion led the
largest fleet since the Star League Exodus from
Altoona across the Inner Sphere. The destination
was the Royalist Star Cluster, a dense, uncharted
globular neighbourhood of stars, many of which
promised to have worlds ripe for colonisation.
D’Avion and his advisors plotted a course that took
them straight through the Sol System and along the
Lyran Alliance-Free Worlds League border in order
to avoid reprisal attacks against the renegade units
that had joined the New Exodus. D’Avion divided his
followers into five sections which travelled in a
convoy that at the height of the Exodus stretched
over 150 light-years like a tear trekking over the
Inner Sphere. The JumpShips crawled through
space, one jump at a time, following coordinates left
behind by the vessels ahead of them. Unfortunately,
some accidents could not be helped, but with each
lost vessel the resolve of the colonists and their
renegade protectors grew stronger. As Eric cleared
each planet he sent telemetry to the following Ships
ensuring that every captain would be aware of the
next destination. Miraculously no ‘Ships were taken
out of the convoy due to human error in all this time.
On the 12th of December 2791 Eric D’Avion and
the two other lead JumpShips arrived in the Viborg
system and began charging their K-F drives for the
next leg of the Exodus. They had cleared the Sphere,
now they were Cluster-bound. It was at this point that
Eric D’Avion unveiled his master-stroke that would
still be affecting the Royalist Alliance even in 3062.
Working with a series of insiders, Eric had managed
to smuggle an old Star League Memory Core out of
the Federated Suns. The Davions had hoped to have
NAIS crack the core’s encryption and gain access to
the data inside, but now they would never have that
chance, and the Alliance thanks to Eric’s sage
thinking would still have the secrets of the Star
League even when the rest of the Inner Sphere had
sunk into barbarism.
 The lead element jumped to the first star they
could which was known to have a colonisable
satellite. The three JumpShips made the precarious
jump and, after a system check, deployed all the
available DropShips to chart the system. The survey
took over three weeks, during which time 10 more
JumpShips arrived in system. Seeing that the fourth
planet had an ecosystem similar to that of Tharkad’s,
Eric D’Avion ordered Captain Pollard Gunne and his
complement of colonists to remain and begin settling
on the fourth planet – quickly christened “Gunne’s
World”. Eric pressed spinward, leaving behind the
two other lead JumpShips, the captains of which had
orders to commit each section of the Exodus convoy
to a region of the Star Cluster, thus cutting down the
time it would take to explore and colonise each
suitable system. Former FWL citizens headed
spinward-fringeward. Kuritan and Cappellan
colonists were instructed to put racial differences
behind them and head fringeward. Lyran and
Rasalhagean volunteers remained behind and set
about exploring the immediate stellar community
around Gunne’s World. Some headed coreward,
investigating a salient of stars that pointed back to
their homelands. The Federated Suns section
charged up and headed spinward after D’Avion,
following the man they felt they had the closest bond
to.
By the 3rd of February 2792 Eric D’Avion, now
finally understanding the scope of what he had
accomplished, found a planet to settle on and
establish a new base of operations from which he
and his advisors, with the help of the colonists
themselves, would organise the exploration and
further development of the Royalist Star Cluster. A
relatively dry world with abundant plant life,
Oxfordshire was chosen as the capital of the new
Royalist Free Worlds and work immediately began
on the planet’s first settlement, built high up on a cool
plateau overlooking the planet’s vast southern ocean.
News filtered back of more successful efforts across
the Star Cluster as planets and systems were named
and people began to erect their geodesic domes. Via
the “communications hub” on Gunne’s World, Eric
D’Avion sent out word of the nation’s new name and
its new capital. Spurred on by hope and frontier spirit,
colonists spread out across the Cluster, expanding
the borders of the Royalist Free Worlds with each
fresh plot settled and each unspoilt world claimed for
freedom from the Succession War.
THE BOOM ERA
Most of the planets within the Royalist Star
Cluster with at least a partially Terran atmosphere
were colonised between the years 2793 and 2818.
Villages sprung up across planets, and these
hamlets soon developed into bustling towns as more
people fled from the growing conflict in the Inner
Sphere to a new life in the Royalist Free Worlds.
Amongst this new wave of refugees were more
renegade military units and several industrial
pioneers, who immediately saw the possibilities for
development in the more inhospitable parts of the
Free Worlds. Numerous scientists also fled the
Succession War for the Royalist Free Worlds,
bringing with them their research teams and in many
cases their equipment. These educated men and
women settled on and around the Capital planet,
enjoying the pleasant surroundings of worlds such
as Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire.
The larger towns turned into small cities over
time and every planet quickly found its niche in this
“promised land” they had made for themselves. The
Cappellan and Kuritan colonists being hard-working
and pragmatic began to exploit the harsher worlds
they had settled on, producing raw materials for the
development of the rest of the Royalist Free Worlds.
The FWL settled planets were found to be ideal for
the growing of crops and so farms and greenhouses
spread over the surface of worlds like Sharpe’s
Desire and Marathon. The Lyran sector around
Gunne’s World remained in contact with the rest of
the Inner Sphere and became increasingly important
as more refugees poured into the Free Worlds,
bringing with them lurid tales of the war that was
tearing the Sphere apart. The population swelled
dramatically. Food and housing manufacture was
stepped up and skilled architects and city planners
became important as every planet was built up to
support the burgeoning number of people.
In an effort to prevent the formation of cultural
microcosms that would promote racial hatred so
prevalent in the Inner Sphere, an ailing Eric D’Avion
encouraged people to migrate throughout the Star
Cluster, regardless of their creed. Going was slow at
first but eventually the population of the Royalist
Free Worlds began to mingle. Former Davions
worked alongside ex-Liao colonists in the mines of
Novo Muscova and FWL personnel shook hands
with ex-Lyran citizens on Fife, turning to face the
task of engineering a whole new society. They were
longer identified as colonists, nor by their birthplace.
All the peoples of the Free Worlds were united as
Royalists, brought together under one banner.
THE PEACE CORP AND THE CONSTITUTION
Unfortunately on the 13th of January 2819 Eric
Lyon D’Avion, the figure-head of the Royalist Free
Worlds, lost his battle with lung cancer. The
population were greatly distressed at the loss of the
man that had led them from the horrors of the Inner
Sphere to their new home.
Jennifer MacIntosh, Eric D’Avion’s niece, took
charge of the Leadership on Oxfordshire, well aware
of the cracks that were appearing in the cultural
fabric of the Free Worlds following her uncle’s death.
Although Jennifer was a clever woman and just as
much of a visionary as Eric D’Avion she lacked the
former Leader’s charisma and charm. Needing a
way to keep order amongst the colonies, MacIntosh
called all former military units to trade their
plough-shares into swords once more. 16 regiments
hailing from across the Inner Sphere regrouped and
met on Oxfordshire. There on the 8th of March 2819
these military sections swore an oath to place all
former loyalties and enmities behind them, promising
to serve the Royalist Free Worlds and specifically the
Leadership in the capacity as the Royalist Peace
Corps. Divided into Divisions, the RPC spread out
across the Free Worlds to garrison the new colonies,
showing the populace that if former warring armies
could unite and work as one then surely civilians can
as well.
Following a series of repelled raids on Royalist
assets by the Circuinius Federation the Royalists
saw the cohesion and camaraderie of the RPC and
rallied behind Jennifer MacIntosh as they had her
uncle.
With the support of the nation once again behind
its leader, MacIntosh set about drafting a new
constitution by which the Royalist Free Worlds, or as
it was re-named, the ROYALIST ALLIANCE would
be governed. This constitution would protect the
rights of every Royalist citizen and also set out the
new government workings of the State. Envisioned
as a parliamentary democracy, every planet would
have an elected governor representing its people.
The parliament was to be run by one person, an
elected Prime Minister, who would be the chief
statesman and decision maker for the Alliance.
It would take a few years to iron out all the
creases in the constitution, but by 2823 the Royalist
Alliance had its first Prime Minister, Reginald Parker.
Flanked by planetary and regional governors the
new administration of the Alliance began amidst
great public acclaim for the parliament. With the
roots of a great nation in place and the reigns of
power now firmly in the hands of the Prime Ministers
office, Jennifer MacIntosh retired from her now
defunct position as the Leader of the Colonisation
Council and left Oxfordshire for the quiet world of
Hector’s Tear to raise Tharkadian Llamas.
At the beginning of Parker’s first term as Prime
Minister the major colonisation efforts had ceased.
With a defending force to protect them and a new
government in which they actually had a say, people
set about improving what they had. Cities grew
larger, farms spread out further, mines churned out
more and the first factories to be built began to
produce consumer goods. The Royalist Alliance was
becoming self-sufficient remarkably quickly.
Amongst a raft of new legislation being announced
by the government was a call for research teams to
re-commence their work. Mostly this was to develop
new civilian technologies but a large group of former
military scientists based on Cuxhaven in the Gunne’s
World district, now named the League Pact, made a
breakthrough when in 2825 they deciphered the
information carried within the Succession Memory
Core. The government fell upon the information with
gusto and the formation of the Alliance’s first military
contractor in 2826, Warhammer Battleworks,
ensured that the Royalist Alliance would remain in
possession of Star League era technologies for the
future.
Reginald Parker was declared “the saviour of
the Royalist Alliance” as the population enjoyed a
period of great expansion under Parker’s guidance.
He served 3 terms in office and then stood down,
opening his position to Julian Brandt, the next
elected Prime Minister. Aware that the Alliance
needed a figure-head to replace the image of Eric
Lyon D’Avion in the nation’s consciousness, Brandt
declared Samuel Gregor D’Avion – a decorated
military commander and a great proponent of the
Royalist Peace Corp – the first in what would
become a long line of administrative monarchs,
labelled Czars and Czarinas. A charismatic leader
and a veteran of numerous skirmishes against pirate
raiders, Samuel D’Avion could sway the populace
any direction he chose, mostly to the whim of the
parliament whom he backed completely. Royalists
regarded their nation as House D’Avion – bearing of
course no relation to House Davion, the Federated
Suns.
GOLDEN YEARS
The years 2833 to 2876 were yet another
golden period in the Alliance’s history. A new effort
was put into further developing the more inhospitable
parts of the Royalist Star Cluster, partly driven by
industrialists like Arthur Hale and Germaine Olsen
who saw the untapped wealth within systems that
were difficult to build up, Farpoint Sector and Black
Isle, a beautiful yet poisonous planet, being good
examples. Most notably the Kamchatkan Rift
became hot property for numerous new industrial
concerns, chiefly weapons manufacture and
chemical production, the products of which were sold
to the States of the Inner Sphere to feed their
voracious armies. This all provided a major boost to
the Alliance’s economy.
New companies advertised for Royalist citizens
to migrate to those largely unpopulated systems to
work for high pay and high adventure. Thousands
moved into the Kamchatkan Rift and the Odysseus’
Reaches to work on planets and from space-borne
facilities. However, red flags were raised due to
rumours of slave labour and unbearable working
conditions. The government was quick to respond
and Prime Minister at the time Janet McRae
authorised the deployment of two full RPC divisions
to perform assessments. Thankfully all but one
company were found to be delivering on their
promises of a good life on the edge of the Alliance
and most workers were quite surprised to see
DropShips descending onto their bio-domes. The
Rostok Space Salvage Corporation, however, was
found to be abusing its workforce, causing numerous
deaths from disease and poor equipment. The RPC
freed the people and CEO Robert Lazarus was put
on trial for crimes against humanity. In a very short
trial, during which Lazarus remained unapologetic,
he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and
was sentenced to life imprisonment in a moderate
security prison on Cottingham. Many of his victims,
lured to Rostok by the promises of excellent working
conditions and pay, are outraged at the courts
decision and desire to see him executed. Prime
Minister McRae diffuses the public dismay by
invoking an old saying, “If it is an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth, the world will become blind and
toothless.” The Salvage Corporation is placed under
government control and becomes a publicly run
body.
It was at this time that several small Star League
outposts were discovered during the development of
numerous worlds barely touched by the first
colonisation missions. The contents of these facilities
were quickly shipped to Cuxhaven where they were
analysed by Warhammer Battleworks researchers. It
was these Star League bases, dotted across the
Royalist Alliance that would form the command
network for the future Royalist Alliance Armed
Forces.
While accurate surveys of the Farpoint Sector
and Shattered Worlds systems were being
undertaken the remains of two derelict WarShip
fleets were discovered, shielded from previous scans
by belts of dense, low-level radiation from their
damaged Kearny-Fuchida Drives. Rostok Space
Salvage were called in to investigate the derelicts
more thoroughly. Thought to have been abandoned
for unknown reasons during the Amaris Uprising,
data within the Succession Memory Core enabled
technicians to repair the vessels drive systems for
transit to the Kamchatkan Rift, where shipyards
stood ready to rebuild the aging titans. After being
restored to full functionality these vessels were
partnered with a flotilla of JumpShips, thus forming
the core of the Royal Navy.
THE COLONY WARS
The curse of all democracies is that it only takes
one poor politician to be elected to set a society back
decades. Such was the case when in the May
Elections of 2890 Tennyson Galbraith was placed
into the Prime Ministers office. It was hoped that his
appointment would usher in a second boom period
but it only ushered in a period of chaos and torment
for the Royalist Alliance.
A true megalomaniac at heart, the first year of
Galbraith’s term in office masked his true motives.
Putting in place some radical new legislation which
highlighted the fact that he was actually a capable
and, when he chose to be, level headed politician.
For a time the people of the Alliance thought they
had made a good decision, but they were wrong.
It was at the start of the second year of
Galbraith’s Prime Ministership that the first cracks in
his moderate façade appeared. Using his influence
he managed to get a lot of his close supporters into
power alongside him. With the Cabinet and much of
the Lower House full of those who would not oppose
him Galbraith unleashed his true agenda.
A man with warped views of what the Royalist
Alliance should be, Galbraith started to put into place
policies that discriminated against Asian and
Germanic ethnic groups. Children who came from
families with Kuritan ancestry were not allowed to
enter comprehensive schools, with the only other
alternatives being private or home schooling, or no
schooling at all. Those who’s families originated from
the Lyran Alliance or House Kurita’s District of
Rasalhague found it nearly impossible to find
employment in skilled jobs, with manual labour the
order of the day for these “cretins” as Galbraith
labelled them. And so it continued.
As the discrimination against these social
groups increased the population of the Alliance
became split. Most people with Davion or Marik
heritage listened to Galbraith’s ramblings and had a
tendency to agree with him...
COMPLETE STAR-SYSTEM LISTING
CATO LDR
(Coreward Alliance Treaty Organisation)
Oxfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Lincolnshire
Warwickshire - Hertfordshire - Cottingham
League Pact LDR
Gunnes World - Cuxhaven - Bocage - Liege Falls -
Braemar - Fife - Enniskillen - Strathclyde
Kamchatkan Rift LDR
Tankograd - Chichi Jima - Rostok
Novo Muscova - Black Isle
Odysseus Reaches (Duchy of Marathon) LDR The Armed Force’s men and materials are
Farpoint Sector - Dixie V - Shattered Worlds placed under the control of a series of administrative
Hectors Tear - Marathon - Sharpes Desire Corps which are listed here:
Neue Afrika LDR RAAF Catering Corps
Bizerta - Oman - El Alamein - Tobruk - Degu III RAAF Legal Corps
RAAF Navy Legal Corps
MILITARY DETAILS RAAF Physical Training Corps
RAAF Intelligence Corps
Commander in Chief: Prince Maxwell “Deuce” RAAF Provost Staff Corps
D’Avion RAAF Nursing Corps
Army Liaison: Alliance Marshall Theodore Kenyon RAAF Medical Corps
Royal Flying Corp Liaison: Air Chief Marshall RAAF Dental Corps
George McArthur Rowe RAAF Veterinary Corps
Royal Navy Liaison: CNO, Admiral of the Fleet RAAF Chaplains Department
Benjamin Osaka RAAF Educational Corps
RAAF Ordnance Corps
Regular Strength: RAAF Pay Corps
12 BattleMech Regiments [6 Armies – 3,072 RAAF Service Corps
machines] + 2 Battalions [128 machines] RAAF Signal Corps
19 Armour Battalions [9.5 Brigades – 4,874 RAAF Transport Corps
machines] RAAF Electrical/Mechanical Corps
17 Infantry Divisions [4.25 Armies – 121,856 men] RAAF Engineer Corps
12 Aerospace squadrons [1.33 Groups – 336 RAAF Technical Corps
aircraft] + 1 Training Squadron [28 aircraft] RAAF Academy Corps
Mercenary Strength: 2 BattleMech Battalions RAAF Military Police Corps
[128 machines] + 2 BattleMech Star [10 machines] RAAF Peace Force Corps
The Royalist Alliance Armed Forces (or RAAF) RAAF Pioneer/Scout Corps
consists of three different combat arms. The Royal Taking a leaf from the Armed Forces of the
Army includes all BattleMech, infantry and armour Federated Suns the heart of the Royalist Alliance’s
units and therefore all combined arms regiments combined arms doctrine lies in the RAAF’s use of the
(Regimental Combat Teams) fall under the purview Regimental Combat Team, or RCT. Only a handful
of the Army – this includes attached Aerospace of units are classed as RCTs due to the prohibitive
assets. The Royal Flying Corps (or RFC) operates cost (both in material and administration) of forming
the Royalist Alliance’s Aerospace squadrons and such a fighting force. The bulk of the Army work as
naval aviation sections. The Royal Navy operates all stand-alone regiments, occasionally being granted
of the Alliance’s WarShips, combat DropShips and armour, infantry or Aerospace support. A standard
military JumpShips. All these evolved from the Royalist RCT consists of one BattleMech regiment,
original Royalist Peace Corps, established soon after two armour battalions (traditionally one heavy and
colonisation efforts began to keep order amongst the one light), an infantry division (which may or may not
colonies. This still exists today in its modern guise as include a battle-armour/spec-ops section) and one
the Royal Peace Force, the Alliance’s inter-stellar Aerospace squadron. It is important to note that
policing unit. Some would question the RPF armour, infantry and Aerospace assets are
battalion’s usefulness, but there is no doubt that the completely organic to the RCT. Often, armour
Rangers are a fanatical fighting force and add a battalions come with a cavalry section which
sense of security to any system in which they have a operates VTOL craft. Further, some infantry divisions
presence. operate with a special section, be it battle-armour,
paratroops or marines.
As a matter of interest, it should be pointed out
that two phonetic alphabets are used in the RAAF. BATTLEMECH UNITS:
The RA, RFC and RPF favour the post-1956 NATO UNIT NAME (Experience / Loyalty / Homeworld)
alphabet (alpha, bravo…) whilst the RN uses, and The Blues and Royals (Elite / Fanatic / Oxfordshire)
Czar's Palace Guard
actively encourages its aviation sections to adopt,
[2 BattleMech Regt.]
the pre-1956 American system (able, baker…). (CO: Marshall Sir Colin Piotr Saville-D'Avion)
Battle rages between the Military Chiefs of Staff over Royal Oxfordshire Regiment RCT (Elite / Loyal / Oxfordshire)
which phonetic alphabet to adopt overall, and with "The Green Jackets"
neither the ground-pounders or the Admiralty willing [1 BattleMech Regt., 2 Armour Bn., 1 Infantry Div., 1 AeroSpace
to budge on the matter the two systems will no doubt Sqdn.]
remain in conflict for the foreseeable future. (CO: General Sigmund Goodale)
BATTLEMECH UNITS: taken apart, losing a third of their combat capability
UNIT NAME (Experience / Loyalty / Homeworld) in men and equipment.
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment RCT (Veteran / Loyal / Lincolnshire)
"The Yellow Jackets" NAVAL FORCES
[1 BattleTech Regt., 2 Armour Bn., 1 Infantry Div., 1 AeroSpace
Sqdn.]
(CO: Brigadier-General Madam Katrina Ragnvald) The Royalist Alliance has for a long time not
Cuxhaven Grenadiers (Elite / Fanatic / Cuxhaven) produced any of its own vessels, instead putting
"Whispering Death" money towards purchasing WarShips from allies like
[2 BattleMech Regt.] the Outer Colonies and renovating old Star League
(CO: Brigadier Samuel "Ten-Ton" Tunnecliffe) era boats, many of which were found derelict in
Enniskillen Assault Brigade RCT (Veteran / Reliable / Enniskillen) fringe systems, Shattered Worlds being the most
"Saint Pat's Leprechauns" famous “bone-yard”. Data from the Succession
[2 BattleMech Regt., 3 Armour Bn., 1 Infantry Div., 1 AeroSpace
Memory Core allowed Royalist shipyards to rebuild
Sqdn.]
(CO: Brigadier-General Patrick "Four-Leaf" O'Shannachan)
these ships to their former status. This trend is
1st Volkspanzer Jaegers (Regular / Reliable / Bocage) turning, however, with the laying down of plans for
"The People's Army" the massive Battlestar-class super-carrier, capable
[1 BattleMech Regt., I Infantry Div.] of carrying four squadrons of Aerospace fighters.
(CO: Colonel Werner von Hartwig)
2nd Volkspanzer Jaegers (Green / Shaky/ Rostok) Construction of the first of these mighty ships,
"The Mighty Mice" the HMS Alliance, is due to be completed by the end
[1 BattleMech Regt.] of September 3063 at the Ildis and Connors Naval
(CO: Colonel Hans Ferrier)
Yards, Cuxhaven orbit.
1st Kamchatkan Ice Devils (Regular / Fanatic / Novo Muscova)
"The Siberian Tigers"
[2 BattleMech Regt.] Due to the slow military rebuilding effort after the
(CO: Colonel Sir Dmitri Shen Ivanov) 2nd Colony Wars, further compounded by the
Training Battalion splitting of the Royalist Peace Corp Divisions into
(League War College) (Green / Reliable / Liege Falls) separate regiments, the overall security of the
"Eager to Learn" Alliance was firmly in the hands of the Royal Navy
[1 BattleMech Bn.] between 2912 and 2977. The Navy quickly gained a
(CO: Brigadier Petros "Sabre" Gaunt) good reputation amongst the populace of the
Marathon Industries Alliance, and it is still naval personnel who are
Defence Battalion (Veteran / Shaky / Marathon)
idolised over other servicemen, even MechWarriors.
"Panama's Bandits"
[1 BattleMech Bn.]
(CO: Duke of Marathon, Sir Rupert "Panama" Canalle) ROYAL NAVY FORCE LISTINGS:
Lighthouse Church Irregulars (Veteran / Fanatic / Dixie V)
*Mercenary Unit* Able Fleet (home region: Coreward Alliance Treaty
"Jesus Saves; so does CASE" Organisation)
[1 BattleMech SBn.] HMS Bismarck, Warrior-class Battleship –
(CO: Colonel Nadalie "Sweet'n'low" Sandhu-Crane) Flagship of the Royal Navy
Biggles' Bombardiers (Regular / Loyal / Gunne's World) HMS Czar, Nemesis-class Heavy Cruiser
*Mercenary Unit*
"Ad Absurdum" - "To the Point of Absurdity"
HMS Nimrod, Vincent Mark 42-class Corvette
[1 BattleMech SBn.] HMS Telemachus, BugEye-class Covert Ops
(CO: Colonel James "Biggles" Bigglewade) HMS Sesame, Volga-class Transport
The Pale Horse Mercenaries (Elite / Reliable / Warwickshire)
*Mercenary Unit* Baker Fleet (home region: League Pact)
"Not Your Everyday Heroes for Hire!" HMS Saint Valentine, Cameron II-class
[2 BattleMech Stars] Battlecruiser
(CO: Commander William "Pale-Horse" Dibble) HMS Thunderer, Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser
HMS Nelson, Avatar-class Cruiser
NOTE: Elements in square-brackets detail a Unit’s exact composition.
HMS Phoebe, Volga-class Transport
ARMOUR INFANTRY AEROSPACE
Charlie Fleet (home region: Neue Africa)
HMS Renown, Monsoon-class Battleship
Certain units have been bloodied in recent
HMS Iapatus, Volga-class Transport
skirmishes with the Circuinius Federation, namely
the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, the 1st
Dog Fleet (home region: Kamchatkan Rift)
Volkspanzer Jaegers and Biggles’ Bombardiers. It is
HMS Warspite, Sovietskii Soyuz-class Heavy
testament to their little recognised pluck that the
Cruiser
Jaegers received the lightest damage, losing only a
HMS Rhea, Volga-class Transport
company of BattleMechs and medium weight tanks.
HMS Sturgeon, Volga-class Transport
The "great" Yellow Jackets, on the other hand, were
Easy Fleet (home region: Odysseus’ Reaches)
HMS Cassandra, Typhoon-class Battleship
HMS Midway, Lola III-class Destroyer
HMS Warwick, Vincent Mark 42-class Corvette
Royal Peace Force Shipping
RPFS Glow-worm, Congress-class Frigate
RPFS Rocket, Congress -class Frigate
RPFS Sea-lion, Vincent Mark 39-class Corvette
RPFS Caroline, Vincent Mark 39-class Corvette
As a footnote the Armed Mercantile League is a
non-military concern equipped with combat capable
vessels, mostly used to protect high-value shipments.
Occasionally ships from the AML are called into
active naval service but this has not happened for
over 70 years now. The most the AML ships are
required to do now is, aside from their own business
of course, to provide Command Circuits for rapidly
moving regiments and politicians. The League is
paid well for this service.
The Royal Navy operates a flotilla of combat
DropShips too numerous to specifically list here.

MILITARY RANKS

General Ranks MechWarrior Ranks RFC Ranks Naval Ranks

Field Marshal Alliance Marshal Air Chief Marshal Admiral of the Fleet
Marshal Marshal No equivalent Flag Admiral
General General Air Marshal Admiral
Major-General No equivalent Air Vice-Marshal Rear Admiral
Leftenant-General Brigadier-General Air Commodore, 1stClass Commodore, 1st Class

Brigadier Brigadier Air Commodore, 2ndClass Commodore, 2nd Class

--- --- --- ---

Colonel Colonel Group Captain Captain
Leftenant-Colonel Duellist, 1st Class Wing Commander Commander
Major Lance Major Squadron Leader Leftenant Commander
Captain Lance Captain Flight Leftenant Leftenant
Leftenant Lance Leftenant Flying Officer No equivalent
2nd Leftenant No equivalent Pilot Officer Sub-Leftenant
Cadet Duellist, 2nd Class Cadet Midshipman
--- --- --- ---
Warrant Officer No equivalent Warrant Officer Chief Petty Officer
Sergeant Major Lance Sergeant Flight Sergeant No equivalent
Sergeant No equivalent Sergeant Petty Officer
Corporal Lance Corporal Corporal Leading Seaman
Lance Corporal Warrior, 1st Class Leading Airman No equivalent
Private Warrior, 2nd Class Airman, 1st Class Able Seaman
Recruit Cadet Airman, 2nd Class Ordinary Seaman

Just to confuse matters a Wing Commander in the Royal Flying Corp is responsible for a Squadron and a
Squadron Leader commands a Flight.

The rank of Commander in Chief holds power over the entire RAAF and is usually held by a member of the
Czar’s family (D’Avion). It is not present on these lists because it is not a rank that can be attained through
service.
MILITARY ORGANISATION

The RAAF organises its materials around the number 4, not 3. The RAAF considers standard Star League
based formations to be “short”. This structure harkens back to the days of the Royalist Peace Corps where
numbers dictated that there be 4 Divisions of 4 Regiments each.

Infantry Organisation Number of Units

Squad 7 Troops
Platoon (Pltn.) 4 Squads (28 Troops)
Section (Sctn.) 4 Platoons (112 Troops)
Battalion (Bn.) 4 Sections (448 Troops)
Brigade (Bde.) 4 Battalions (1792 Troops)
Division (Div.) 4 Brigades (7168 Troops)
Army 4 Divisions (28,672 Troops)

Battle-Armou Organisation Number of Units

Squad 4 Troops
Platoon (Pltn.) 4 Squads (16 Troops)
Section (Sctn.) 7 Platoons (112 Troops)

ehicle Organisation Number of Units

Element 2 Vehicles
Lance 2 Elements (4 Vehicles)
Section (Sctn.) 4 Elements (8 Vehicles)
Company (Co.) 4 Lances (16 Vehicles)
Squadron (Sqdn.) 4 Companies (64 Vehicles)
Battalion (Bn.) 4 Squadrons (256 Vehicles)
Brigade (Bde.) 2 Battalions (512 Vehicles)

BattleMech Organisation Number of Units

Lance 4 BattleMechs
Short Company (SCo.) 3 Lances (12 BattleMechs)
Company (Co.) 4 Lances (16 BattleMechs)
Short Battalion (SBn.) 3 Short Companies (36 BattleMechs)
Battalion (Bn.) 4 Companies (64 BattleMechs)
Short Regiment (SRegt.) 3 Short Battalions (108 BattleMechs)
Regiment (Regt.) 4 Battalions (256 BattleMechs)
Army 2 Regiments (512 BattleMechs)

erospace Organisation Number of Units

Flight (Flt.) 7 Small Craft
Squadron (Sqdn.) 4 Flights (28 Small Craft)
Wing 3 Squadrons (84 Small Craft)
Group (Grp.) 3 Wings (252 Small Craft)

ROYALIST ALLIANCE Quartermaster Corps tries to honour it is

ARMED FORCES UNIFORMS
The varying RAAF uniforms relate quite closely to
those in use by House Steiner and House Davion
troops thanks to the influence that those two great
houses have had on the Royalist Alliance.
nevertheless necessary for there to be a happy
medium in order to prevent uniform designs
becoming too fanciful. In order to keep regiments
and the administration happy the RAAF has adopted
a simple and functional wardrobe that can still be
modified to fit the needs of individual commands.

Just as in any military organisation pride in the OFFICERS

uniform is vital for promoting camaraderie and espirit
de corps within the RAAF. Although every different
branch of the RAAF, down to individual brigades and
vessels, has important heritage that the RAAF
Officer uniforms in the RAAF are almost
indistinguishable from regular soldiering garb when
in the field. Officers wear the same standard uniform
as the soldiers they are commanding. Only the
shoulder epaulettes and a small rank insignia on the
front of the officer’s helmet or cap show the officer’s
status. During times of heightened danger most
officers will dispense with the bright epaulettes and
rely on the rank patches alone to display their rank.
There are two reasons for blurring the line
between officer and regular soldier. Firstly, it tightens
the bond between an officer and his men. The RAAF
administration prefer not to emphasise an officer’s
superiority but rather they want the officer to
concetrate on the responsibility of his position.
Secondly it is far more difficult for an enemy sniper to
pick out a units officer if he is dressed no differently
from any other soldier on the field.
Officers usually carry a more specialised piece of
close-combat equipment into battle than the
standard commando knife. Many will include a
standard issue vibro-rapier or similar blade with their
field uniform.
INFANTRY
The standard issue uniform for regular soldiers
consists of olive green under-garb covered by a
loose-fitting camouflaged step-through body-suit.
This will be coloured according to the terrain in which
the unit will be fighting, and thus will vary in tightness
and thickness to adjust to differing environments.
Over this different grades of body-armour can be
worn, most commonly protective knee-pads and a
light flak-jacket to keep a soldiers burden down and
manouverability up. Heavy black leather boots are
worn as standard and as a matter of pride these
boots are kept well polished no matter the situation
or environment. A wide, heavy-duty leather belt
holds the whole ensemble together and has
attachments for affixing various smaller pieces of
soldiering equipment, such as canteens, grenades
and knives. Soldiers in the infantry are assigned the
Mark XXIII tactical helmet as part of their field
uniform. Based on Star League designs the helmet
can stop a gyrojet shell dead and is also packed with
communications equipment and other sophisticated
electronics. Some soldiers, mostly officers, wear soft
cloth caps such as favoured by high-ranking officers
and technicians either through tradition, eccentricity
or pure foolishness.
Soldiers wear a solidly built back-pack carrying all
their other equipment such as camping tools and
weapons maintenance gear.
FIGHTER PILOTS
AeroSpace pilots (or “Jockey’s” in the Alliance)
rate among the most elite armed forces personnel in
the RAAF alongside Naval officers and
MechWarriors. Royal Flying Corp pilots are
nicknamed “The Space Knights” and on the whole
tend to emulate those fighter pilots of the First World
War, fighting by their own eccentric chivalric code.
Thanks to their tradition as free-spirited, strong
willed aviators, pilots tend to shirk almost all uniform
codes. Dispensing with most of the finery one would
expect to accompany such a prestigious role, the
pilots wear only a simple g-suit in order to protect the
pilots during high speed manoeuvres. A very light
olive green jumpsuit is usually worn over the top.
Some pilots wear sheep-shin jackets either over the
jumpsuit or instead of. Badges denoting the aircraft
flown by the pilot and his or her squadron are sewn
into the upper arms of the jumpsuit.
Customisation of the base uniform is very common.
Aside from the g-suit which is a requirement pilots
have been seen wearing the afformentioned bomber
jackets as well as cricket jumpers, Hawaiian shirts,
cowboy boots and hats, shorts and sandals and
even pyjamas worn underneath the g-suit for extra
warmth.
Pilots also try to eliminate all vestiges of rank from
their uniforms, thinking it “un-sporting” in the extreme
to lord rank over one another. After all, pilots tend to
know everyone else in their squadron and what their
rank is. The only thing really considered important is
the number of kills bagged by each pilot anyway.
Jocks keep track of these by symbols ironed onto
their cloth caps.
In the cockpit a pressurised helmet is worn
connected to the g-suit. Attached to an oxygen
supply the space-suit ensemble can keep a pilot
alive in deep space for quite a while until rescue.
MECHWARRIORS
As the elite of the RAAF the MechWarrior Corp is
steeped in heritage and history. However these
loyalties and and traditions are often divided
between the cult of the MechWarrior, regimental
attachment and regional loyalties. Thus the
MechWarrior’s uniform is designed to reflect all
these varying loyalties as well as the ‘Warriors own
independence.
Keeping a ‘Mech pilot cool enough to fight is the
basic function of the RAAF MechWarrior’s garb.
Access to Star League data and manufacturing
techniques within the Alliance has helped in the
battle to keep a ‘Warrior cool in the hell of a ‘Mech
cockpit. Outwardly resembling an AeroSpace pilots
g-suit and being similar in weight and bulkiness,
RAAF MechWarriors wear a modified version of the
standard SLDF MechWarrior Combat Suit (or MCS).
The MCS is a full-body unit and comes with a
light-weight neurohelmet for control of the ‘Mech.
Most pilots keep their helmet stowed in the cockpit of
their ‘Mech. The neurohelmet is based on old Star
League designs and not only provides the neurolink
between man and machine but it also fully encloses
the pilots head when worn. The helmet constantly
provides fresh air from the cockpit’s life support
system through a set of connecting lines. These lines
also link the helmets communications gear into the
‘Mech’s powerful radio systems. When these lines
disconnect abruptly for any reason the
neurohelmet’s internal systems automatically take
over providing breathable air through a 6-hour
internal supply, and 12 hours of communications
time using the small integral communicator which
has a 6-kilometre range.
The MCS provides the wearer with a powerful
intergrated cooling system to combat the high
temperatures inside a BattleMech cockpit. This
cooling system is similar to that found within a typical
31st century cooling vest but is much more refined.
The intricate networks of capillary tubing through
which coolant fluid (or freon cooled ice-cold water
depending on the ‘Mech) flow to keep the
MechWarrior from overheating are designed into a
close-fitting, flexible undersuit. The outside of the
suit is covered by a strong, heat-resistant polymer
layer that protects the pilot from the rough and
tumble of BattleMech combat. This layer offers
limited protection from shrapnel as well but not to
extent of the original Star League MCS. A rigid
combat vest is worn over the chest whilst in the
cockpit to further protect the ‘Warrior. On the vest,
rank symbology and an identifier are stencilled onto
the right breast and badges showing the Unit and the
Royalist Alliance insignia. Rank epaulettes can be
affixed to the shoulders of the MCS but cannot be
seen over the combat vest. Aside from the optional
epaulettes the MCS does not support any
iconography.
Outside of the cockpit MechWarriors wear the
MCS but without the combat vest, instead donning
what are called a “MechWarrior’s tracks”. This
two-piece tracksuit combines features of the
foot-soldier’s uniform (in that it comes with a heavy
tool belt) and the AeroSpace jockey’s jumpsuit,
although it is even lighter in weight and bulk than the
jumpsuit to make covering the MCS with it
comfortable. Medals, ribbons and a name badge
(with a rank added) are sewn onto the right breast of
the tracksuit jacket while Unit, national and ‘Mech
badges are sewn onto the left. MechWarrior
tracksuits tend to accumulate a lot of anything
provided it can be stuck or sewn on. As such a long
serving ‘Warrior will have tracks literally covered with
personalising items. This versatility is a nod to the
cult of the MechWarrior which highlights each
soldiers individuality.
Pride in tradition is also shown through the
colour-coding of the tracksuit or combat vest to
indicate a MechWarrior’s Unit. If dressed in a striped
navy and aquamarine tracksuit or vest then that
‘Warrior is a prestigious member of the famous Blues
and Royals Palace Guards. If he or she wears flat
grey then they are fighting for the elite Cuxhaven
Grenadiers. Two-tone tan clothes denote a ‘Warrior
under the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment banner.
MechWarriors in pale orange garb who wear
battalion symbology instead of national insignia will
hail from the Volkspanzer Jaegers.
MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY
The Royalist Alliance plays host to three powerful
defence contractors.
Warhammer Battleworks is by far the largest and
most diverse. With factories and installations dotted
all over the Alliance they design and produce
BattleMechs, vehicles, battle-armour and with the
recent take-over of Sukhoi Aerospace they are the
only non-state run producer of WarShips and also
produce a wide range of Aerospace craft.
Warhammer’s headquarters are located on
Cuxhaven, with proving grounds and low-gravity
manufacturing and testing labs on Cuxhaven’s small
satellite, Harwich. Needless to say, Warhammer
funnels much of its best technology into the
Cuxhaven Grenadiers as they are based on planet
and are present as garrison most of the time. In
return for watching over the Warhammer facilities the
Grenadiers also receive free run of Warhammer’s
advanced BattleMech testing grounds on
Cottingham, Bocage and Hertfordshire. As well as
Sukhoi, Warhammer has made numerous
take-overs in the last past 130 years of its operation,
the two major absorptions alongside the many small
concerns being MilTech Advanced and Archer
Systems, the design house behind the famous Pilum
AA missile launcher.
Marathon Industries of the Odysseus’ Reaches
Region has always been said to be government run
affair, but this is far from the truth. Although the CEO,
Duke of Marathon Sir Rupert Canalle (nick-named
Panama), would deny any loyalties bar to the
company and his homeland. In actual fact, Marathon
Industries and indeed the entire region has got an
ostensibly monarchist ideology. However, rumours
that the Duke is expanding his battalion secretly in a
bid to overthrow the Parliament and place the Czar
in firm control of the Royalist Alliance is nothing more
than idle conjecture. At any rate, Marathon Industries
is a money making organisation first and foremost.
Known for undergoing far more delicate research
and development than Warhammer Battleworks,
partly driven by Duke Canalle’s eccentricity,
Marathon was the first to fully master the power of
the quantum particle, producing in 3061 the very first
Tachyon Cannon (Improved PPC). The Duke uses
funds from local and foreign sales to maintain a
battalion of prototype BattleMechs which are
frequently pulled in for retrofits. “Panama’s Bandits”
are regarded as crazy fools by most other
MechWarriors. An army of test pilots they are
shameless show-boaters to a man and although they
rate highly in war-games on the Marathon Proving
Grounds it is doubtful that the Marathon Industries
Defence Battalion (MIDB) would retain any unit
cohesion in an actual combat situation. This
combined with the Duke’s quiet love for his country
are major reasons why a revolution is most likely not
being planned in the Duchy of Marathon.
Lastly, JenCorp Armaments is the Royalist
Alliance’s largest producer of weapon components –
laser mediums, PPC capacitors, etcetera – and
ammunition, providing more than enough to supply
the growing need of the Armed Forces. A subsidiary
of JenCorp Intergalactic, JC Arms also produces
armour, internal structure and different mechanical
parts for a wide variety of combat and civilian
vehicles, mostly BattleMech actuators and myomer.
JenCorp Intergalactic operates chiefly out of the
Kamchatkan Rift, with numerous zero-G facilities in
orbit of Black Isle and a massive headquarters
complex on Chichi Jima. JenCorp CEO Jenny Hale
is a staunch supporter of the Volkspanzer Jaegers,
the battered underdogs of the RAAF. As such not
only does she offer up equipment destined to the 1st
and 2nd Jaegers at vastly reduced prices, she also
uses her considerable political sway to ensure that
her regiments get all the assistance they need.
Although JenCorp, as a components manufacturer
lacks its own testing grounds, the company is
extremely rich and Hale routinely purchases range
time from Marathon Industries, Warhammer
Battleworks and, most surprisingly, League War
College to allow the Jaegers to train regularly, as the
government would apparently rather pour time into
its Royal Regiments. JenCorp strikes out further at
the government by openly selling goods to the Lyran
Commonwealth, a State which the Parliament views
with distrust after the lessons learnt in the
Steiner-Royalist War of 2939-45.
There are too many civilian manufacturing firms in
the Royalist Alliance to list here, the sale of
non-military goods being the Alliance’s primary
source of income. Most of note is the is a booming
trade in high-performance racing Aerospace craft
operating out of Odysseus’ Reaches with
Mikoyan-Guerivich also moving into the military field
with it’s MiG-31D “Banshee” heavy interceptor.
Finally there are several civilian ship-yards and
manufacturing stations, mostly in orbit around
Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Fife and Tankograd.