Work In Progress Realm Forces

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Realm Forces' War Flag and Naval Ensign.
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"As it is commanded, so it is done" -Realm Forces' motto​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Flesh out the unified armed forces of the Grutter Norr Ryk, identifying their hierarchy structure and the typical responsibilities of each rank. The goals of the organisation, some of its customs and internal rules/laws.
• Image Credit: Source.
• Canon: N/A.
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• Links: Grutter Norr Ryk, Kabal IV - Frysk, Nórrmen | Homo Sapiens Augeus.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Organization Name: Realm Forces
• Classification: Armed Forces - State Military.
• Affiliation: Greater Norr Realm.
• Organization Symbol: The Realm Forces' War Flag and Naval Ensign consist of a centred barbed sword laid on a white cross that rises from a stem that tapers into an arrowhead; its' arms reach along the blade's length. The sword is laid over an ancient Norr rune with a loose modern translation of "the unconquerable". The bone-white horizontal cross is laid on a crimson-red field. Within the flag, the colours represent different things: the charcoal black represents servitude; the white represents the unity resulting from service, and the red is borne of the blood loosed from warriors for the Realm. The cross shape comes from a traditional practice that continues today when the Realm Forces crucify pirates and criminals in their bases and homes on a horizontal cross before raising it into a vertical position.
• Description: The Realm Forces are the unified armed forces of the Norr Realm. The Realm Forces are the beating heart of the nation's society and politics. Military life is deeply ingrained into the culture, and most members of the judiciary, legislature, and executive are reserve part-time members of the organisation. Full-time service for such persons is prohibited by law to retain 'civil' control of the organisation. As a result, the organisation is often characterised as a military with a state instead of a state's military.
• Motto: "As it is commanded, so it is done".

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Headquarters: Northstar.
• Domain: Kabal System.
• Notable Assets:
  
  • Kabal IV - Frysk.

SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Branches:
  
  • Army
    • Description: The Army is the primary ground combat operations branch of the Realm Forces. The army is tasked with maintaining garrisons on Realm worlds, performing civil works that have strategic application or value, training and organising the school-based military units that Norr students are a part of through their primary and secondary education. The largest permanent operational and administrative units in the Army's active and reserve component are division-sized units called "Legions", which contain air defence, artillery, infantry, engineer, motorised, mechanised and airborne units.
  • Stormtrooper Corps
    • Description: A creation of the Realm's contact with the Galactic Empire. The Stormtrooper Corps is part of the Navy, and although it uses Army ranks and titles, it is the premier land-based amphibious and airborne combat operations branch. Stormtroopers protect the Navy's military property, such as warships and terrestrial properties. Entry into the Stormtrooper Corps is highly competitive for Conscripts; for example, it requires eligible recruits of both sexes to be at least 210cm tall or 6'10" and meet challenging fitness standards even for the Norrmen. The Stormtrooper Corps non-commissioned and commissioned officers have a reputation for being particularly ruthless in dealing with pirates and criminals. When the Navy exercises its power and responsibility to establish an emergency or colonial military government, the Stormtrooper Corps adopt the law enforcement powers and functions of the Realm Security Force within the area of responsibility for the military government.
  • Navy
    • Description: The Navy is responsible for void warfare and operations; they maintain a terrestrial and maritime arm, although maritime prominence is diminished. Its usual roles and responsibilities include void warfare, orbital bombardment, and fighter and army deployment. Their mission is to "Provide for unmolested freedom of access to aerospace and maritime navigation". The Navy transports the organisation's assets through interstellar space. It is responsible for establishing an emergency military government in designated locations, such as remote colonies where an officer of rank grade OF-5 may exercise the powers of a Military Governor.
  • Realm Security Force
    
    • Description: The Realm Security Forces is a volunteer-only full-time professional Gendarmerie responsible for exercising civil and military law enforcement powers and responsibilities throughout the Grutter Norr Ryk, such as: Preventing, detecting and investigating crime, upholding the rule of law, maintaining order and providing police service. Service with the Realm Security Force is highly competitive, and they receive some of the most physically fit and astute candidates for their ranks, as Konstabels of the Realm Security Force not only need to be competent Infantry combatants but also excellent public order and riot control operators and be familiar with their law enforcement powers and the relevant legislation. Generally, a single Realm Security Force Konstabel, at a minimum, will be stationed at each military base and Navy warships to perform criminal investigations. The Security Force maintains its' own unconventional special warfare strategic tactical resources.
• Hierarchy:
  
  • Commissioned Officer(s): Army/Navy/SecForce
    
    • OF-9: General/Admiral/General.
    • OF-8: Lieutenant General/Vice Admiral/Lieutenant General.
    • OF-7: Major General/Rear Admiral/Major General.
    • OF-6: Brigadier General/Kommodore/Brigadier General.
    • OF-5: Kolonel/Kaptain/Kolonel.
    • OF-4: Lieutenant-Kolonel/Lieutenant-Kaptain./Lieutenant-Kolonel.
    • OF-3: Majoar/Lieutenant/Majoar.
    • OF-2: Kaptain/Under Lieutenant/Kaptain.
    • OF-1: Lieutenant/Midshipman/Lieutenant.
    • OF(D): Kornet/Kadet/Kadet.
  • Non-Commissioned Officer(s): Army/Navy/SecForce
    
    • OR-7: Under Offizer/Master Chief Petty Officer/Warden.
    • OR-6: First Sergeant/Chief Petty Officer/First Watchmaster.
    • OR-5: Sergeant/Petty Officer/Watchmaster.
    • OR-4: Korporal/Junior Petty Officer/Konstabel.
  • Other Rank(s): Army/Navy/SecForce
    
    • OR-4: Specialist/Leading Starman/Not Applicable.
    • OR-3: Private First Class/Able Starman/Not Applicable.
    • OR-2: Private Second Class/Starman/Not Applicable.
    • OR-1: Private/Starman Recruit/Not Applicable.
• Membership: ~5,350,500
  
  • Personnel:
    
    • Active Personnel: Active
      
      • Army: ~665,000.
      • Navy: ~194,600.
      • Security Force/Gendarmerie: ~91,500.
    • Reserve Personnel: Reserve
      
      • Army: ~4,000,000.
      • Navy: ~400,000.
  • Recruitment: The Grutter Norr Ryk fills the ranks of this organisation with conscription. All adults must serve; although their service can be a mixture of full-time and reserve service according to the organisation's and government's needs as determined by the Minister of Defence, reservists can also be activated full-time at the minister's discretion. Typically, all adults are legally required to serve in the organisation for not less than twenty-five years. Males normally serve a majority of that time in a full-time capacity, while females serve a majority of that time in a part-time capacity. Individuals with education or skills vital to the civil economy are typically granted waivers to serve out their period of service substantially or wholly in the reserve. Reservists, by law, must drill and train between 20 to 100 working days per standard year as determined by the Defence Minister. Conscripts may self-nominate for Officer Candidacy; the process is highly competitive. Additionally, conscripts may self-nominate to serve in the Realm Security Forces. Still, again, service with the RSF is strictly merit-based and highly competitive as personnel of the RSF receive substantially better pay and conditions; conservatives traditionally see service as a commissioned officer or an RSF Konstabel as a career path that should only be taken once the twenty-five-year obligation has been completed. Only Citizens are eligible to be conscripted, and only Norr is eligible for citizenship in the country, so the whole organisation's organic staff comprises Homo Sapiens Augeus.
  • Training: Leveraged by the Norr's lifespans, the depth of full-time training for the organisation's conscript soldiers is without parallel. Each other-rank conscript soldier is given the leadership training of an OR-4 Junior Non-Commissioned Officer so that command losses at the Fireteam and squad level, common in combat, are readily replaced. Each Commissioned Officer candidate is given administrative and leadership training to act up to OF-2 so that any trained officer in the unit can fill all company-level commissioned officer positions.
    
    • Army:
      
      • Officer-Entry: Merit-assessed volunteer.
        
        • Officer Candidate Training: ~72-208 Standard Weeks.
        • Officer Occupational Training: ~24-72 Standard Weeks.
      • Other-Ranks Entry: Conscription.
        
        • Recruit Training: ~24 Standard Weeks.
        • Occupational Training: ~16-24 Standard Weeks.
    • Stormtrooper Corps:
      • Officer-Entry: Merit-assessed volunteer.
        
        • Officer Candidate Training: ~72-208 Standard Weeks.
        • Officer Occupational Training: ~24-72 Standard Weeks.
      • Other-Ranks Entry: Conscription
        
        • Recruit Training: ~32 Standard Weeks.
        • Occupational Training: ~32-48 Standard Weeks.
    • Navy:
      
      • Officer-Entry: Merit-assessed volunteer.
        
        • Officer Candidate Training: ~72-208 Standard Weeks.
        • Officer Occupational Training: ~24-72 Standard Weeks.
      • Other-Ranks Entry: Conscription.
        
        • Recruit Training: ~24 Standard Weeks.
        • Occupational Training: ~16-24 Standard Weeks.
    • Realm Security Force:
      
      • Officer-Entry: Merit-assessed volunteer.
        
        • Officer Candidate Training: ~208 Standard Weeks.
        • Officer Occupational Training: ~80 Standard Weeks.
      • Non-Commissioned Officer Entry: Merit-assessed volunteer.
        
        • Recruit Training: ~32 Standard Weeks.
        • Occupational Training: ~48 Standard Weeks.
• Climate: This organisation is where lifelong social friendships and political alliances are formed; it is a highly disciplined organisation by its' Norr members who, without exception, have a ferociously brutal upbringing. The Realm Forces' at its' core, is a sort of fraternity of peer warriors, with each rank grade and occupation having its' own community. At the fireteam and squad level, soldiers, sailors, and Konstabels refer to one another affectionately as 'Brothers', 'Sisters', or 'Comrades', depending on the depth of affection. Promotion is based upon merit, although it becomes increasingly political and nepotistic at the upper echelons of the chain of command, as martial accomplishments and military status are often used as the springboard for a civil political career.
• Reputation: The organisation is highly respected among the Norr and one of the most trusted and beloved public institutions. It's where friendships and lifelong political alliances are forged and drive political life. In foreign lands, it is known as a brutal and ferociously disciplined military force that provided material support to Rurik Fel's Empire. Many academics beyond the Realm's borders consider the organisation abhorrent for what is perceived as morally and ethnically repulsive practices. Some think this organisation and its apparatus are the real power behind the Realm's civil government; it gets characterised as a military with a state as opposed to a state's military.
• Curios:
  
  • Koarte Dea: The Koarte is issued to each member of the organisation and is expected to be carried at all times when in uniform; it is expected that as warriors, each member be at all times armed, if not with ranged weapons than at the very least the ancestral sword of their race.
• Rules:
  
  • Law Enforcement Powers Act: The Law Enforcement Powers Act endows the officers of the State Security Force and recognised law enforcement officers as per that act with extraordinary powers inaccessible to ordinary soldiers. For example, it permits its' officers to "Stop, detain and search any person and seize anything that the officer suspects is connected to a relevant offence, may be stolen or lawfully obtained, a dangerous or prohibited article, or a prohibited or restricted drug." There is no requirement for the officer to "suspect on reasonable grounds" the detainee has any of those things on their person. The power may be exercised at an officer's discretion. Likewise, the act empowers law enforcement officers to arrest people without a warrant if they suspect they have committed an offence. They may discontinue the arrest at any time after the arrest is made without affecting the lawfulness of the arrest itself. Additionally, the act provides law enforcement officers 48 hours to investigate the offence for which the person is under arrest. The Law Enforcement Powers Act requires an officer to inform a person subject to a power of their name, place of duty and reason for the power's exercise. However, suppose the officer fails to do these things. In that case, it does not affect the validity of the power except if the officer is challenged and, when reasonably practicable, does not comply with those safeguards. The Law Enforcement Powers Act provides civil indemnity for any injury or damage occasioned in the execution of any power or function conferred on law enforcement by any act made by a law enforcement officer. The Law Enforcement Powers Act empowers Law Enforcement Officers and persons assisting them to "Use as much force as is suspected to be necessary, to exercise any power or function conferred on them by this or any other act."
  • Realm Defence Act: The Realm Defence Act sets out the administrative and procedural processes of the Realm's Forces, making several behaviours an offence at law. For example, it creates an offence if a member is discharging their official responsibilities and powers if they are also not wearing their uniform, punishable by a fixed penalty fine. On the more serious end of offending, it creates a severe offence to any Realm Forces member or civilian who assaults a member on guard duty; there are additional indictable offences for resisting, hindering, assaulting or intimidating a member of the Security Force for the execution of their duty. There is also an offence for non-members of the organisation to wear its' uniform or an emblem of the Realm's forces or an emblem that has an appearance that closely matches that of a Realm Forces emblem. The Realm Defence Act also creates serious offences for aiding an enemy of the state or aiding or abetting prisoners to escape. Also, it creates a summary offence for Realm Forces members who permit themselves to be taken as prisoners of war and do not rejoin the Realm Forces upon release or escape from captivity in a reasonable time. The Realm Defence Act creates a summary offence for failing to obey a lawful order. It creates an indictable offence for a member of the Ryk to assault a superior or subordinate. There are also associated intelligence offences, such as failing to report on enemy movements. Interestingly, there are indictable offences for defence contractors and suppliers, such as supplying material, goods or services of inferior volume or quality than specified in a contract. The maximum penalty a military court can impose for severe offences against the Realm Defence Act is execution by the sword, where the sentencing judge believes the convicted person worthy of an honourable death where their blood will flow or drowning for the condemned character.
  • Way of the Strong: The Striderwei or "Way of the Strong", as translated into Galactic Basic Standard, forms the rock-solid core of conduct and ethics expected of all Realm Forces personnel. The Striderwei's conduct and ethics are codified in the Realm defence act, which invariably creates offences for failing to do things expected of an adherent to the Striderwei, for example. The Realm Defence Act has a summary offence for refusing or failing to aid a severely wounded member in ending their life where reasonably practicable. Under the way of the strong, it is considered offensive to kill non-combatants willingly. As such, there is a summary and indictable offence in the Realm Defence Act for a member to without order to intentionally kill a non-combatant; the exception to this is a severely wounded enemy warrior who, with that warrior's consent, may be killed. Members of the Realm Forces respect competition; the Army's legions and the Navy's warships often field sporting teams, including teams of academic fencers.
• Goals:
  
  • Conduct operations and provide material support for the Realm's community and relevant civil authorities at the order of the Government.
  • Defend the Realm and its' state interest to advance and enhance the Realm's security and prosperity.

ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
Founded: ~426 ABY.
Current Form: ~874 ABY.
Commander-In-Chief: Archon Thelir Blackcrown.
Defence Minister: Occupied.
Chiefs of Realm Forces:

• Heinir Stonehail - Chief of Army.
• Mieke Balefire - Chief of Navy.
• Unnamed Male Norr General - Chief of Security.

Industry:

• Domestic Suppliers:
  
  • State Defence Industries.
• Foreign Suppliers:

MEMBERS

• Heinir Stonehail - OF-9: General, Chief of Army (Army Regular).
• Mieke Balefire - OF-9: Admiral, Chief of Navy (Navy Regular).
• Anneke Cinderstar - OF-1: Lieutenant (Army Reserve).

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

• 426 ABY: The Norr Workers Union reorganised the military. These reforms included implementing the 'Legionary' system for the Army, where the largest permanently sized operational and administrative unit was made the 'Legion', and each Legion was responsible for its recruitment, training, and administration. Each Army Legion fostered a unique identity and esprit de corps; the Army's legions would each become the 'Foster Legion' for the country's school-based training units.
• 874 ABY: To permit enhanced economic and civil population growth with a view toward the upcoming colonisation of Frysk's planets. The Realm Forces' has completed a dramatic restructuring where most of its personnel serve on a part-time reserve basis by changing the structure of the 25-year minimum period of service and expanding the exemptions offered from full-time service for persons with critical skills and education in preparation to support Government colonial policy.