Mandalorian Military
The Mandalorian Military is the center focus of the entire Mandalorian society.
To serve and serve well is the highest honor one could hope to achieve in
life. Large bases and training facilities operate in every major city, with
the largest and most prestigious being the Aldacor Spire base just south of
the main capitol city of Mandalore. The cities surrounding military facilities
often have an excess of low ranking or off duty officers to perform the trivial
civilian tasks at hand, such as running the local shops and eateries, or policing
the town itself.
Mandalorians always aspire to reach higher. To facilitate this, a method was
devised for challenging one's superior in hand to hand combat for a chance
to claim the superior's rank. The contests are never fatal, but will continue
until one of the two is granted the victory. If the lower ranked individual
wins, he or she claims the rank and position of the one challenged. No challenge
fight will occur without the express approval of the leader of the Mandalorian
people, the Warrior Eminence.
The Military is separated into two distinct branches, the Army and the Navy.
The heads of both the Army and the Navy are members of the Triad, serving
alongside the Warrior Eminence as figureheads in the Mandalorian government.
The Navy, under the command of the Tereth'ba, is separated internally into
the two divisions of Starfighter Operations (StarOps) and Capitol Ship Operations
(CapOps). Starfighter squadrons are stationed on all of the Mandalorian Sun
Cruisers (MSC's), the Sun Cruisers being the largest and most powerful Capitol
ships the Mandalorians have in their fleet.
The Army, under the command of the Chief Warrior, is separated internally
into the two divisions of the Taraq'Kau and the Taraq'Qualim. The Taraq'Kau
serve as both ground warriors and marines, while the Taraq'Qualim are an elite
division with only a small number of hand-picked warriors intended to both
guard the Triad and be sent on the most grueling missions clench success.
alore Military