Modernization of the NSC Armed Forces

There has been a number of military modernization programs of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth Armed Forces implemented to ensure that the NSC Armed Forces is ready and equipped for anything. Development of new military technology and paratechnology, studies on foreign military equipment, organization and education, and improvement of military training, coupled with studies on the outcome and consequences of battles, wars and other events helped further modernize the Novayan military.
Military modernization programs were put in place by Grand Marshals Daniel, Alexander I, Nicanoneus III, Joseph-Earl, Aurelian, Melissa, Yuriko II, Constantine I, Constantine III, Elizabeth VIII, Danielle, Borealis I, Daladier, Charles, and Borealis III.
==Under Daniel==
After the reformation of the Greater Novayan Federation into the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, Grand Marshal Daniel I orchestrated a number of reforms intended to reform the rechristened NSC Armed Forces through reducing the number of troops, eliminate unacceptably unpopular policies, and end development of weapons of mass destruction.
==Under Alexander I==
After the Void-Light War, Grand Marshal Alexander I ordered a new military modernization program intended to prevent a second Void-Light War from happening as well as preparing the NSC Armed Forces for the possibly conflict. Under Alexander I's rule, weapons of mass destruction were mass-produced, old or new tactics and doctrines were revised or created, and military thaumaturgy and artifacts were further improved and produced. The most notable of the reforms, however, is the creation of the Militarized World designations, a series of planetary designations created to militarize/remilitarize a number of world with different designations and purposes. Novaya IV, capital world of the NSC, was the first to be given the designation of Militarized Urban World.
==Under Nicanoneus III==
Under Grand Marshal Nicanoneus III, reforms to the Militarized World designations allowed for each Militarized World to establish its own military-industrial complex, which would be heavily-regulated due to the ever-present environmental policies. Nicanoneus III's program also saw permitting each Novayan world to form its own military, though the quality and quantity of each planetary military varies.
==Under Joseph-Earl==
An esteemed thaumaturge, Grand Marshal Joseph-Earl ordered the establishment of a Thaumic Operations Command, intended to regulate any and all thaumaturge activities. Thaumic Command also allows for moderate use of artifacts and staves for greater efficiency or ending battles.
==Under Aurelian==
Under the leadership of Grand Marshal Aurelian, the Novayan officer corps was reformed, removing, disciplining or retraining corrupt, greedy and inefficient officers as well as recruiting career officers who can do their jobs correctly. Aurelian's modernization program also saw the production and usage of new military equipment such as improved radars, improved combat craft, new infantry equipment and vehicles, and warships. Finally, Aurelian's reforms saw the establishment of a reserve force which would consist of 7% of the Novayan people and the removal and trial of officers known for committing crimes against sapientkind. This was by Aurelian's loyal officers after he was attacked by renegade military officers in revenge for taking away all their prvileges and marking them for trial, leading to a more extreme purge of several renegade military officers.
==Under Melissa==
While short, Grand Marshal Melissa established a force rotation model wherein a number of active military units were rotated to reserves and replaced by an equal number of reserve military units. Melissa's modernization program also saw the entire reserve force being permitted to own civilian jobs and attend a monthly military exercise. She also standardized the policies for the NSC Armed Forces Reserve when it comes to receiving and giving civilian jobs and training to civilians and other reservists.
==Under Yuriko II==
Under Grand Marshal Yuriko II, military training and education would see military veterans being employed to train the next generation military personnel. She also standardized policies for the NSC Thaumic Operations Command, with assistance from Joseph-Earl, on proper military protocols, and further improved and standardized the NSC's military-industrial complex, ensuring that it will also be capable of producing civilian goods during peacetime, only mass-producing military equipment in wartime.
==Under Constantine I==
Grand Marshal Constantine I standardized the structures of each military unit, and standardized the force rotation cycle, where 1/3 of each military unit, whether regiment- or brigade-sized, are active and the rest in reserve reduced to cadre strength. He also reformed the NSC Armed Forces' military police service in response to the Vanguard CRASH (Combat Resources Against Sentient Hostiles) scandal, enforcing anti-corruption policies necessary to prevent the same mistakes from happening. He also furthered Grand Marshal Aurelian's military modernization program by authorizing the production of smart bombs and guided missiles, oceangoing vessels for each planetary maritime fleet or navy, and adopted a doctrine of network-centric warfare, of which drones and network-based equipment were needed.
As part of Grand Marshal Constantine I's plan, he ordered increased production of military equipment to NSC-aligned or neutral nations who wish to modernize their armed forces. Neutral nations that wanted to produce its own military equipment were given military blueprints and the technical know-hows for free by the Novayan government so as to allow them to decide which weapons system design would fit best or can be combined into something new.
The most ambitious plans of Grand Marshal Constantine I, however, would see the construction of new gigastructures throughout the NSC and allied nations in several empty star systems, especially the Breach Commissariat, and the Breach Commissariat's production of its own military equipment and arsenal, especially massive warships at and below 21 kilometers. These ships, larger than dreadnought-class, colossus-class and even titan-class warships, were designed to defend gigastructures and star systems and boasting a lot more firepower as well as responding to the Armies of the Light's second invasion through the contained Breach. As part of Constantine I's plans, the Breach Commissariat military is also permitted to construct massive armored fighting vehicles especially tanks (tankettes, light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, main battle tanks, advanced battle tanks, super heavy tanks, supertanks, and tank destroyers) that would break stalemates, overwhelm enemy forces and overrun enemy defenses as well as destroy titanic warriors fielded by the Armies of the Light.
==Under Constantine III==
Constantine III continued the military modernization program of Grand Marshal Constantine I, with modifications added. These modifications include improvement of currently existing artifacts and production of new artifacts, production of Stonehenge Turret Networks across each world, the addition of several titans into the military, production and adoption of thaumaturgical weapons such as thaumonuclear weapons, and so on. New radars were also created as well as infantry equipment.
==Under Elizabeth VIII==
Grand Marshal Elizabeth VIII studies the previous military modernization programs to find out the benefits and issues before launching her own program, which is to develop and modernize the military while keeping the costs of military training and equipment production down.
==Under Danielle==
Grand Marshal Danielle have organized reforms for the standardization of chemical and biological warfare and disaster response as well as preparations and equipment for dealing with pandemics that may disrupt civilization. As part of her reforms, she organized a Civil Defense Emergency Response Command intended for civil defense as well as emergency response for any pandemics that may happen.
Despite this, she also authorized a military modernization program where the development of a number of armor, sloped armor and new armor types were made for ships and vehicles, as well as technologies and paratechnologies needed for said vehicles and ships in response to the six-centuries Novayan-Saiyanese War. Seventy years before the war's end her military program will also see the return of mobility to the battlefield, which she proposed to Grand Marshals Daniel and later Charles.
==Under Borealis I==
As the retired 5th Grand Marshal, Lord Admiral Borealis I organized a highly-ambitious program that will allow the NSC Armed Forces to have a permanent military presence outside the Void in order to support his war against the Sith and his search for his abducted son. Discussing the matter with the Knights of the Void and the Null Guards, the NSC military acquired a number of Forbidden Technologies that would allow the creation of dimensions where each lay a number of galaxy-sized worlds or a galaxy or galaxies of star systems which were to be colonized and used for military and industrial purposes; timeflow outside the dimensions were relatively normal, but timeflow within the dimensions felt as if 1 million years have passed. The timeflows of each dimension would later become relatively normal after Operation Sovereign Justice.
==Under Daladier and Charles==
Grand Marshal Daladier organized several military modernization programs intended to train soldiers into specialized troopers trained and equipped to breach enemy defenses and allow for Novayan ground forces to win battles. New radars, ship weapons systems, and other doctrines and tactics were also involved. Grand Marshal Charles continued his predecessor's program. Both adopted and continued Grand Marshal Danielle's military modernization program to restore mobility, which would play a role in the Novayan Army Air Force Security Forces in infiltrating Saiyane III alongside elements of the Saiyanese military in stopping and apprehending the secretly-Sith-supported Saiyanese President-Chairman Kurofune Mikada, who was already stopped by Marshal Apparent Borealis Norsoutha III and Heiress Apparent Saku Otonashi.
==Under Borealis III==
Under the recently-inaugurated rule of Grand Marshal Borealis III and after two years of rulership, he have organized the most ambitious military modernization program in collaboration with the similarly-inaugurated President-Chairwoman Saku as part of his Reformist Wars that was taking place on several medieval fantasy worlds, and the name of the program is referred to as the Spell-Cross Project. Under this program of his, it sees the creation of the so-called Universal New Type vests, made from flexible plastic foils (for absorbing melee damages of moderate strength and later arrows) and then made from compact solid armor, with new variants making said armor solid and compact but also flexible and light and to allow soldiers to fight evenly; light infantry, heavy infantry, commandos, rangers, mortar infantry and thaumaturge infantry (or paranormal infantry) will be equipped with such armor. New vehicles, technologies and whatnot will also be made, all of which will be for the upcoming Operation Sovereign Justice.