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Takiro

Why the Templars and Crusaders for Abbey? Am I missing an obvious connection??

Rainbow 6

Ok if the Abbey District has a high Italian decended population how about the Abbey Cavalleria and for the Slavic based Rim Protectorate the Protectorate Arpads?

Takiro

Hmm, the Abbey Templars are beginning to make more sense then. With their cultural European-Anglophone angle we could make the common thread that bought together the District religion. What do we have for info on the District itself, not much right? I figure we can fill in the blanks of this canon Province along with our new additions, the Tarmanid Sultanate and the Bolan Association.

For the Rim I think the Commonalty Guard will do fine. The slavic cultural angle might tie them to the Mariks historically and that works in perfectly with the Provincial Guard.

Ice I think you nailed it better than I did for the Olympian Hoplites. They are almost an OpFor of sorts modeled after the Star League RCT. They provide advanced tactical and strategic training for the FWLM. Perhaps they trained with SLDF as well as other House units.

Takiro
Well they might be 4 regiments that go through the entire strata of Mech classes (Assault, Heavy, Medium, Light). I mean if your gonna be teaching formation you probably want the widest variety of equipment to train others with. I also see them as embracing the newest technologies and military innovations. However this all presents a massive maintenance challenge.

Like your new Marik pin Six! Wink

Did some thinking on the Abbey District today and I think we've got an angle. Take a look.

Could the Abbey District be an early version of the Protectorate (circa 3025)? About the only blurb describing the Province (Abbey) appears in HMSB. “Near the rimward edge of the Free Worlds space, the Abbey District was originally a military dictatorship, but it became a republic with the redistricting of 2862. As most of its industrial strength was smashed during the first two Succession Wars, the district has remained poor. Only recently has the discovery of germanium and other rare earths on the planet Hammer attracted trade with the Free Worlds’ trading cartels. Since its inception, the government of Abbey has remained staunchly in support of Marik.”

Now the Protectorate seemingly came into existence after Anton’s revolt when six independent worlds under his administrative control backed his attempted Coup. After Janos defeated his brother these worlds were consolidated into a single Province under the League’s direct control. Now could this have been the fate of the Abbey worlds after the Marik Civil War (2728-2734)?

The proudly independent worlds of what would one day become the Abbey District were horrified by the purges of Captain-General Elise Marik. These planets backed Oliver the Usurper during the Marik Civil War but were eventually subdued by the Loyalist Forces led by Bertram Marik. Occupied and consolidated under military authority the new Abbey District was formalized in the Treaty of Verona that concluded that bloody struggle.

Thoughts?

Rainbow 6

Quote from: Takiro on June 12, 2009, 07:34:31 PM
Like your new Marik pin Six! Wink

Did some thinking on the Abbey District today and I think we've got an angle. Take a look.

Could the Abbey District be an early version of the Protectorate (circa 3025)? About the only blurb describing the Province (Abbey) appears in HMSB. “Near the rimward edge of the Free Worlds space, the Abbey District was originally a military dictatorship, but it became a republic with the redistricting of 2862. As most of its industrial strength was smashed during the first two Succession Wars, the district has remained poor. Only recently has the discovery of germanium and other rare earths on the planet Hammer attracted trade with the Free Worlds’ trading cartels. Since its inception, the government of Abbey has remained staunchly in support of Marik.”

Now the Protectorate seemingly came into existence after Anton’s revolt when six independent worlds under his administrative control backed his attempted Coup. After Janos defeated his brother these worlds were consolidated into a single Province under the League’s direct control. Now could this have been the fate of the Abbey worlds after the Marik Civil War (2728-2734)?

The proudly independent worlds of what would one day become the Abbey District were horrified by the purges of Captain-General Elise Marik. These planets backed Oliver the Usurper during the Marik Civil War but were eventually subdued by the Loyalist Forces led by Bertram Marik. Occupied and consolidated under military authority the new Abbey District was formalized in the Treaty of Verona that concluded that bloody struggle.

Thoughts?

Thanks , DoT did it for me over on CBT, just need the others now  Smiley

Your idea makes sense to me, it gets my vote.

Quote from: Ice Hellion on June 13, 2009, 11:29:38 AM
Yes for the second part, no for the first one.
4 different kinds of regiments cannot really work together.
The only example I have right now in mind is the 3rd RCT aka Eridani Light Horses. They were made of  two Striker Regiments and two Light Horse Regiments, which are both light units.
If you want to go with the full spectrum of 'Mech classes, I would suggest that the Hoplites are the core of 4 different Brigade Combat Teams (p. 51 of Terran Republic Field Manual), which would also bring them to the forefront of modern military thinking.

Have to agree with ice on this one, the BCT idea could make the Hoplites the insperation for the Defenders of Andurien's BCT style that gave Thomas Marik the idea for the Free Worlds Legions.

LordGrayson

Quote from: Ice Hellion on June 13, 2009, 11:29:38 AM


Yes for the second part, no for the first one.
4 different kinds of regiments cannot really work together.
The only example I have right now in mind is the 3rd RCT aka Eridani Light Horses. They were made of  two Striker Regiments and two Light Horse Regiments, which are both light units.
If you want to go with the full spectrum of 'Mech classes, I would suggest that the Hoplites are the core of 4 different Brigade Combat Teams (p. 51 of Terran Republic Field Manual), which would also bring them to the forefront of modern military thinking.

 The SLDF had a few RCT's that arn't just two type's regiments the terran and 1st RCT have 3 or more different type's of regiments. These had striker,light horse, hussar not sure if they had a dragoon regiment [site's down dang it Smiley can't check ]

Ice Hellion

Quote from: Takiro on June 13, 2009, 03:41:53 PM
I think the Abbey explanation works but what can we imply from it, their European-Anglophone culture, and their name? Could the District, a military dictatorship, be a Christian province under the control of pro-Marik Chaplain? And how do the Templars get formed out of all of this?

Probably a bit too much.
Let's just say that some uninspired member of the military came with the name since the planet was named Abbey.