Balaya Praelior Zambrano
Balaya Zambrano, Emperor's Bust
The Firebirds
"One can concentrate so closely on the words of a sentence that one thereby misses the meaning. As can happen in any area of life. You must never lose focus on the larger landscape."
The initial group of soldiers and paramilitary groups from the time of the Old Republic. They have worked hard to stay around, prepared to fight and protect themselves in the galaxy. As a means to advance the females within the army, navy, governments that they were parts of. What started out as more a union to ensure things would be better taken care of, connections and advancement happened without risking the men of the galaxy. Soon boomed into something more under the empire where the Firebirds had a chance to expand and several of the prominent members founded a realm for themselves in the outer rim worlds of the galaxy. The Imperials were something different they sought to avoid.The dangerous group proceeding to become something bigger and stronger as opposed to many of the others that they worked with and gave help to. While their armies were massive they were able to train the local militia's in a number of techniques and impose their views onto them. The Firebirds expanding and getting more work within the Empire when the clones were decommissioned and people were meant to come up. Sending and using key members in imperial academies that they have chances to work and continue advancing their people. Traning, ensuring that the latest and greatest training methods. The Firebirds have been working to build up the training methods that their people go through.
The Firebird Navy
"What exactly do you think you're doing?"
"The job for which I was commissioned. I'm protecting the society from its enemies."
"The job for which I was commissioned. I'm protecting the society from its enemies."
The ragtag navy of the Firebirds, older model ships that have been patched up and held together but providing a great deal of power for them in the long run. Given the isolation of the Rift and how it is mostly removed from the galaxy with the locals not wanting to involve outside forces there is a lot that are able to do for themselves.The Firebird officers have taken what they learned from the Republic and its groups, mixed it with what they learned from the Imperials and combined them into something more. Keeping interest in some of the phasing like having a standing army and navy that will function and not rely on clone armies or droids. THey are part of it, terror and death troopers are important but there is more to the Firebirds.
THe Navy itself consists of several grand Admirals, the highest under the council and often one of the. rotates being part of it. The command structure down from it is small with the command structure mostly the beneficial ones who can oversee and move around with the ships and their small fleet. The Firebirds themselves setting up areas to test and advance working on their wargames to better practice testing the ships themselves. Balaya and the Firebirds working on many of the plans that they put on the different divisions, the ships being smaller and able to fly around in the Rift itself. The Navy's work and development in the facilities for mining the asteroids for ore and materials to fix up and produce new ships they will be able to have.
The Firebird Army
"No warrior ever has the full depth of control that he would like. But I wish here that it might have been otherwise."
The army, while not grand is made to be something fierce within the Rift itself. Made to be something dangerous that is more organized then many of the other smugglers and mercenaries can face. The Firebirds army is set within several divisions that operate from standard soldiers that have been conscripted to the more impressive and strong heavy troopers. Terror troopers who are made to enforce and handle scare tactics against what groups don't pay the Firebirds or give them proper access to their facilities. The death troopers that they can have going into everything as the elite protectors of the Empress and their mysterious benefactor. The dark robot troopers will be set up providing themselves as a stealth force.
With the work for itself they have set themselves up on other stations, planets and facilities within the rift itself. The chiloon Rift that they have been securing and the Bubble of the Lost which serves to allow them a way to better train their techniques itself. Their marines that protect the stations and ships with the soldiers or their more dangerous pilots who have worked to recover a number of different debris fields. From the destroyed facilities and ships of former sith and mandalorains. Developing ugly fighters where they could that would combine several pieces of tech into a bigger and more dangerous ship but they were more unique. The Firebirds were working to take measures from the Invids for their corsairs.
The Firebird Warfare Division
"There's an invasion coming. A massive assault force of dark ships, shadowy figures, and weapons of great power, based on ancient technology of a sort we've never seen before. We believe these Far Outsiders, as we call them, already have a foothold at the far edge of the galaxy, and even now have scouting parties seeking information on worlds and peoples to conquer."
The special warfare division of the Firebirds covers a range of different subjects. From droid, clone, biotechnological soldiers to armor divisions. The main goal of the Warfare division is combining the skills and information from the intelligence service with the fists of the naval and the ground forces. They serve to make the new equipment and coordinate bringing in order members to allow force users to augment the engagements using Sith Meditation Sphere's that they have rediscovered and developed. The soul snare ships a planned work that is being developed for them to be able to use Mobile munitions complex ships that can provide factories in the rift able to generate them new weapons. Their coordination with the other arms of the military are important.
Only the highest and most skilled make their way into the warefare division providing them with a number of new and more interesting tidbits. New information they might not have known like seeing the danger and the security that goes itno the order to ensure that the servants of the darkside who work with the Firebirds are loyal. The information about the world that they discovered and the beginnings to see what might come from the normal Firebird mentality or their better works. The divisions final purpose in general terms is also to ensure that new designs are put to use, have a farm of ideas for what they could do with them. To improve designs, to build new things, to reverse engineer designs that they discover from old ships or from other groups ships.
The Firebird Intelligence Division
"I've seen you work military miracles. I'm sure you can work political ones, as well."
The special intelligence division that handles information gathering and plotting within the Firebirds as well as internal security. The operatives are highly trained in reading people, their emotions, their expressions, their auras even with the force. Pushing and developing them into powerful empaths and mind readers who might not have what it takes to be taken in by the Order of the Terrible Glare or the Death Witches due to age of discovery or something else. It is a small thing, a small defect that the Firebirds can train and turn into an advantage for their own. However in general the operatives are raised in test tubess and genetically engineered to have proper genes that will ensure they are able to be the most fit, the more intelligent and the most impressive.
With their improved genetics and their advanced training they are taught about people and how to operate within the Army and Navy, within the government itself and appear as a proper citizen or officer. THeir memories and training being all they know along with loyalty to the Firebird Society itself, allowing them to ensure it through memory wipes, flash training, force powers and the capabilities to build toxin resistances in their operatives bodies. As thy work in intelligence gathering blending into whatever situation, internal security getting those who endanger the goals of the group. Or just simply being sent into a world so that they might be able find in future. Their skills in the force are geared towards the mental assault and ways to use it to blend in.
Corsairs Initiative
"I encounter civilians like you all the time. You believe the Firebirds are continually plotting to do harm. Let me tell you, your view of the Society is far too dramatic. The Society is a government now. It keeps tens of thousands of beings fed and clothed. Day after day, year after year, throughout the Rift people live their lives under our protection without ever seeing a stormtrooper or hearing a TIE fighter scream overhead."
Something often overlooked but within the Rift it becomes something that can be very beneficial. The pirates, smugglers and bandits that cause problems can be put to use in ways much like the invids. Soldiers using pirates to make sure that they would be the top paramilitary group in the rift who combats them. With the corsair initiative the pirates are given free reign to a point, allowed to operates but then once they work with the Firebirds to be kicked out and ingratiate the owners who will be willing to pay the protection costs. They move onto the next target, if they refuse to pay they are allowed to continue to get rougher until the people give in or they are outed by the Firebirds and their territory taken over. The corsaairs are given a substantial cut of the profits.
Once they are done and worked on with the civilians as well the Firebirds offer the advanced technologies to better prepare themselves and make the plan. Staying there and ready to work on many more things with their higher and tougher degrees of operations. The mining facilities are an important part and the shipments they send out to outside corporations instead using them for their own means. Paying the pirates and mercenaries off also helps bolster their ranks if something comes to the rift that doesn't belong or wants to try and force something on the people. The firebirds use the notoriety of the pirates to become the champions of the rift and serve the people better for the future projects and expansions.