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Tau Ceti Armed Forces
Created following the myriad of problems experienced during the annexation of the Corporate Reconstruction Zone and the growing tensions across the Orion Spur, the Tau Ceti Armed Forces aims to ensure the protection of the sovereignty of the Republic of Biesel and to ensure that its light of liberty keeps shining. The Tau Ceti Armed Forces is built of four divisional service branches which consist of the Tau Ceti Minutemen, Republican Fleets, Foreign Legion and lastly the Auxiliary Corporate Forces. The Minutemen and Fleet are full-time professional organizations, whereas the Legion utilizes a part-time volunteer program. The President of the Republic of Biesel is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and forms military policy with several of the departments comprising the greater Biesellite government.
Rooted within the Tau Ceti Foreign Legion, which now exists as a divisional branch, the Tau Ceti Armed Forces additionally has a reserve force which stands as a method of ensuring that in need of additional manpower, they’re available to ensure the light of liberty that Biesel refers to remains shining. However, individuals can only be moved to reservists after completing at least four years of active service, or two years for the Foreign Legion. Those within pre-existing reserves of the Foreign Legion have already been moved over to the Tau Ceti Armed Forces’ reserve. Those within the reserve are provided with a moderate stipend but are only eligible if their income doesn’t exceed a certain threshold.
Those that have completed active service within the Tau Ceti Armed Forces can apply to have their student debt covered by the Tau Ceti Corporate Scholarship funded by the constituent megacorporations of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate – which has become a popular method among the youth of Biesel to ensure an education, where they might not have been able to afford it prior to enlisting. Though believed to have gotten better since the creation of the Tau Ceti Armed Forces, there is still a notable bias to non-humans, with a majority of them being deployed to the dangerous regions where injuries and casualties are more likely to occur, but there is yet to see whether this will hamper non-humans from ascending the ranks.
Ranks
Ranks in ascending order, beginning with Recruit Legionnaire and ending with General. In order to attain your commission, an enlisted person is required to purchase a certificate of commission or have it sponsored by the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. Upon purchasing the certificate of commission (a rather expensive undertaking) an enlisted person must still undergo training in order to be promoted to a commissioned officer.
Enlisted:
- Recruit Legionnaire (RLgn)
- Legionnaire (Lgn)
- Senior Legionnaire (SLgn)
- Prefect (Pfct)
- Senior Prefect (SPfct)
Commissioned:
- Aspirant (Asp)
- Decurion (Dcn)
- Centurion (Cnt)
- Captain (Cpt)
- Major (Mjr)
- Lieutenant-Colonel (LtCol)
- Colonel (Col)
- General (Gen) / Admiral (Adm)