Transeisdzarian Commonwealth

Transeisdzarian Commonwealth
Kingdom of the Rift
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Commonwealth Starburst	Coat of Arms
Motto
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System Map
Capital	Concordia's March & SMS Mikado
Recognized languages	Phoenician, Rift Dialects
Demonym	Rifter, Saka, Transeisdzarian
Government	Constitutional Monarchy
- Saka Rauka	Ardeshir & Saki Saka-Phoenicia
- Marshal of the Sejm	Ikhshid Ibnas Du'Mont
- Grand Domestic of the Cosmoforces	Trinary Wise Celerity
Legislature	Grand Sejm
-Upper House	Marchfield
-Lower House	National Deputation Assembly
Unification and Independence from the Phoenix Empire
- The Rift Crusade	May 5322 AE - February 5323 AE
- The Uncrowned King	5322 AE
- February Constitution & Birth	28 February 5323 AE
Systems	Many
Currency	Thaler, Drachma

The Provident Royal Commonwealth of the United Transeisdzarian & Saka Nations, informally the Transeisdzarian Commonwealth (also referred to as the Kingdom of the Rift or the Commonwealth), is a sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its territorial space encompasses the majority of the known settled space of the Great Rift and beyond, bordering the Phoenix Empire along the coreward limits of the nebula and the CoDominium at the terminus of the Negev-Ruhazani lines. The Commonwealth is the fourth-largest state of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Its government is described as a federal union with a common monarch. The Official and Royal Capital is the system of Concordia's March, with the warship SMS Mikado serving as the auxiliary administrative and legislative seat. The current monarchs since 29 February 5323 - coinciding with the ratification of the February Constitution - are the twin Shahzadas Ardeshir and Saki, though their powers have been assumed by a Regency Council headed by their mother Ravshana Marika al-Lasalle until the end of their minority. The Commonwealth consists of over two hundred autocephalous constellations in the Metropolitan Rift as well as a number of Crownland prefectures, direct administrative dependencies, along the Negev-Ruhazani lines.

Etymology & Terminology

The February Constitution declared the Constellations of the

Prior to unification the collective region was commonly referred to as the "Great Rift" or "Rift". Both are synonymous with the Transeisdzarian Commonwealth in general usage. The adjective Rifter is commonly used to describe matters related to the Commonwealth and is used even in official language to refer to Commonwealth citizenship.

History

Settlement

Settlement of the Transeisdzarian region has been dated back to the first millennium A.E. from which emerged the Constellations of the Great Rift. The Constellations maintained loose association with each other and attempted to resolve international disputes through assemblies known as Things.

Contact with the Phoenix Empire

Contact with the Phoenix Empire began sometime in 3000 A.E. [Possible Hrang led invasion of PE?]. The erection of the Wall, a series of intensive fortifications along the lines leading to Transeisdzaria, attempted to control the flow of migrants and adventurers leaving the official boundaries of the Phoenix Empire.

Government & Politics

The Commonwealth level institutions . The executive organs known as the Two Ministries and Four Offices. These are often abbreviated: M.i.S. (Mellattee i Shahee or National and Royal)

Shah & Grand Sejm
M.i.S. Central Secretariat			M.i.S. Chancellery
Office of State Affairs	Office of Exchequer & Revenues	Ministry of Rites	War Office	Office of Public Works	Office of Interservice Intelligence

The three departments are top level offices.

Military

The Collective Cosmoforces, officially the Commonwealth of United Transeisdzarian and Royal Saka Nations Collective Cosmoforces, are the armed forces of the Commonwealth. The February Constitution authorized the activation of two services overseen by the M.i.S. War Office and controlled by the Kosmoglavnyshtab that make up the Collective Cosmoforces: a first line Common Army (R.a.R. Kosmoforce) and a second line internal security gendarmerie (Thematic Kosmoforce). The Saka Raukas are the commanders-in-chief, to whom individual recruits swear loyalty on enlistment.

The Commonwealth is the only major multi-system polity in the Large Magellanic Cloud with universal, compulsory national service. The February Constitution instated a Levée en masse on the principle that citizens within a Commonwealth had universal obligations to address common interests. However, due to the burdens of mass emigration and reconstruction the Grand Sejm temporarily suspended conscription for the length of a year and placed the ceiling for annual intake of recruits into armed service at .25% of the population until 5328. As such the effective proportional representation of the population under arms is actually well below that of the Phoenix Empire, CoDominium, or Free Star League and approximately equivalent with the Jardin Republic. However the rate is projected to rise to .75% over the course of the next decade as the demographic situation stabilizes, which would make the Commonwealth military establishment one of the largest in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Collective Cosmoforces operates some 1200 rated combat craft, almost 200 of which are Capital Ships, as well as a large number of unrated vessels such as cutters and sloops. Many ships are foreign designs.

In the first months following the ratification of the February Constitution the Commonwealth had inherited the surviving formations of the Rifter Constellations and the feudal levy of the Kingdom of the Rift. It also assumed continuity of active hostilities with the Black Brethren and the Phoenix Empire. As an interim measure until the nascent R.a.R. and Thematic Cosmoforces were operationally ready the Grand Sejm issued the 5323 Transitional Forces Law permitting the M.i.S. War Office to amalgamate all native Rifter and Royal Starforce units into a Provisional Cosmoforce until the year 5328, when a number of defense policies such as the draft ceiling would be reviewed. From authorization in March 5323 to official deactivation in August 5326 this was effectively a third service arm of the Collective Cosmoforces.

The disastrous performance of the Provisional Cosmoforce in the Baal War exposed the manifold defects of the ad hoc arrangements and compromises. Kosmoglavnyshtab studies highlighted deep structural faults desperately lacking unity of command, inconsistent span of control, insufficient interoperability,

Organization and Structure

Collective Cosmoforce jundees are inducted into Regiments (also known as Home Units), in a fashion not dissimilar to the Royal Starforce Regimental system. A Home Unit is responsible for administrating and overseeing up to four Combat Commands which it provides to field units. While it is considered ideal for a Regiment to deploy together, Regiments are not tactical units like those of the Phoenician Royal Starforce. It is not uncommon to find Combat Commands from the same regiment scattered across many different brigades, divisions, corps, and even entirely separate theaters of war. Many jundees will spend their military terms within one Regiment.

Since many of the lower field formations of the Rifter Constellations and the Kingdom of the Rift reorganized as Collective Cosmoforce Home Units were allowed to retain their identities a multiplicity of overlapping terms in a number of mutually unintelligible languages circulate. To minimize operational friction the with Operational ORBAT Equivalencies: all

all field units are identified informally by Operational ORBAT Equivalencies: Combat Command Equivalent (CCEV), Demibrigade Equivalent (DeEV), Brigade Equivalent (BrEV), Division Equivalent (DiEV), Corps Equivalent (CoEV), Army Equivalent (ArEV).

1ère Cosmoarmée d'orient

• Strength: Five Corps, 313 Ships
• AoC:

2e Cosmoarmée d'outre-mer

• Strength: Six Corps, 384 Ships
• AoC:

3e Cosmoarmée métropolitaine

• Strength: Four Corps, 2
• AoC: Concordia's March

4e Cosmoarmée

• Strength: Three Corps

5e Cosmoarmée

6e Cosmoarmée

General Cosmostaff

The Transeisdzarian General Cosmostaff (Kosmoglavnyshtab) is the full-time body responsible which studies all aspects of warfare, drafts warplans, administers mobilization, assigns Chiefs of Staff to formations, and forms the Grand Quartier Général (GQG) which takes operational control of the Collective Cosmoforces in wartime. The current Grand Domestic of the Cosmoforces since 5323 is Field Marshal Trinary Wise Celerity, a native born Rifter.

Regular and Royal Cosmoforce

The Regular and Rauka (translated: Royal) Cosmoforce is the Common army of the Commonwealth.

Pasdaran

The Pasdaran (translated: Guard or Guardians) is the Ceremonial Guard protecting the Grand Sejm and the person of the Shahzadas. The Pasdaran's origins predate both the short lived Kingdom of the Rift and the Collective Cosmoforces, details of the Lasalle Brigade assigned to protect Prince Hiroshi St. Rong ar-Phoenicia. Despite their ceremonial appearance the Pasdaran are operationally ready Cosmoforce units and armed with live weapons.

A total of eleven CCEVs are needed between the various posts in the system of Concordia's March and on the SMS Mikado. The roster is normally rotated so as to not unduly burden certain Home Units. The Regiments selected for upcoming duty in the Pasdaran rotation detach the needed battalions or squadrons for a five week long Parade & Ceremony course before relieving their counterparts.

Normally a select few R.a.R. Regiments of the Young Echelon provide the Pasdaran in a regular rotation.

• The Twin Shahzada's Own XXV Sipahis
• Shahdokht Saki's Own LXIInd Hussars
• Sehzade Ardeshir's Own LX Chevaux-légers Lanciers
• 5e Demibrigade
• 4th System Control Flotilla "Backhanded Blow"
• 9e Syntaxis Combat Team "Noisome Quarrel"

However in principle any Commonwealth unit can provide contingents to the Pasdaran.

Units to undergo a term as Pasdaran receive a number of honors and privileges. Home Units are authorized a fifth battalion or squadron. Individual enlisted and officers are dignified with one of the four lower Cavalier Orders, sometimes equated to knighthood in the Phoenix Empire.

Standards & Colours

By regulation R.a.R. Cosmoforce Regiments are permitted only two colors without special dispensation. They are 97 x 117 cm, mounted on a lance almost three meters long, either hoisted vertically along the stave or draped from a horizontal crossbar. The borders and trim are dictated by their unit type. Silk or self-healing fabrics are used. Each Squadron or Battalion carries two:

• The Commonwealth or Shah's Colours are double sided. On the obverse is the Commonwealth Starburst. On the reverse is either the Simurgh with the symbols of Constellations arranged in Corona or a portrait of the Uncrowned King with a Halo mounted on a warhorse and the Peacock Angel over His head on a blue field.
• The Regimental Colour is normally a single color, usually from the Regiment's uniform, with the unit's insignia either at the center or any of the four corners. Unlike the Shah's Colors, a unit's colors may be freely embellished with battle honors and antecedent symbols with the permission of the Shahzadas.

Thematic Cosmoforce units are required to fly the Commonwealth Colours, but are free to carry any other Colours - or lack thereof - without any scrutiny other than a Comissariat review. The regulations for Ensigns, Jacks, Pennons, Guidons, and other Vexilloids across the Collective Cosmoforces are much more lenient than they are for Standards. Units may fly original designs, pending a Commissariat review, so long as it contains any two of six Commonwealth elements: the Starburst, the Uncrowned King, the Blue Field, Peacock Angel, and Simurgh.

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