Quadrant Guard

The Quadrant Guard was a local defense force for the Talbott Quadrant of the Star Empire of Manticore. ()
== Legal basis ==
The Quadrant Guard was organized under the Quadrant's constitution, after the Grantville Government agreed to a locally raised and maintained military force brought up during the Constitutional Convention. It was also to be used as the basis for an expansion of planetary combat troops.
== Finance ==
The Quadrant maintained the Guard out of local tax revenues. 
== Structure ==
The Quadrant Guard was a merging of the existing military establishments of all sixteen Quadrant stars systems as a means of assisting in the Quadrant's defense. However due to past animosity between newly annexed systems, the opportunity for internal rivalries and potential for disastrous seniority and authority disputes, it was determined that whenever the Guard was called to imperial service it would fall under the command of the Royal Manticoran Navy and Royal Manticoran Marine Corps. ()
== Naval Branch ==
*The 16 systems annexed into the Talbott Quadrant previously maintained separate space forces.
* The strongest navies belonged to the Rembrandt Trade Union membersComparable with the Monican Navy, cruiser level platforms possible.Pequod was protected by the RTU navies as well., including the Rembrandt System Navy, as well as space forces of Prairie, Redoubt, and San Miguel.
* Meanwhile the Montana Space Navy, the Nuncio Space Force and the Spindle Space Navy were minor forces, operating only light attack craftCommanded by officers of only Commodore in rank. (SI2).
* The naval strengths of the other Talbott Quadrant members were unknown. ()
== Ground Branch ==
The first operational use of planetary troops was overseeing of Solarian POW camps on Flax. ()
The first deployment of Quadrant Guard planetary troops in Imperial service came in the Solarian-Manticoran War when 1.25 million soldiers were sent to support Admiral Michelle Henke of the Tenth Fleet of the Royal Manticoran Navy. These men and women formed the Talbott Quadrant Guard Expeditionary Force with General Saartje van Heemskerck as their senior officer. ()
== Equipment ==
A modern LAC was defined as the primary local defense platformAccessible prewar platforms, including warships captured during the Battle of Spindle, were far less capable and significantly more personnel absorptive.. Initially deployed LACs belonged to the Royal Manticoran Navy, but as of 1922 PD the Talbott Quadrant had begun a local LAC training program.
Generally local Talbott Quadrant militaries operated Solarian origin hardware. It was planned to produce the equipment necessary to equip the Quadrant Guard locally within Talbott Quadrant. The first to rearm were planned forces using non-Solarian origin equipment. ()
== References ==
Category:Talbott Cluster
Category:Military of Manticore