Reur glau Rombaferre

Reur glau Rombaferre, sometimes shortened to Reur gl'Rombaferre, is a battle style originating from Olaka, popularized during the latter years of the Millennial Calm by a soldier of the Veriol Alliance whose surname, Rombaferre, can still be seen in her modern-day descendants throughout the country. Reur glau Rombaferre is used in modern Veriol military formations still, and it is common for there to be at least one foot soldier specializing it in a given regiment; for the focus on defense employed by the battle style, those who rely on Reur glau Rombaferre are sometimes called "warders" for their ability to draw danger away from themselves and their allies. However, there is some degree of contention about the effectiveness or value of Reur glau Rombaferre, especially as it might encourage the martyrdom of useful soldiers in the name of minimizing loss.
As the Millennial Calm stretched onward, the Veriol Alliance essentially ceased to exist in all but name, given a token mention in some government matters in honor of history. In this manner, the Veriol Alliance's military also lost relevancy except as a small, token force that would sometimes transcend political and national boundaries to assist local governments. Lieutenant Itenise Rombaferre was one such soldier who noticed that in such skirmishes, Veriol soldiers were critically injured or lost their lives disproportionately more often than local militaries they helped. This trend had also been noticed by her superiors, but the reasoning for it was thought to be because their forces were inherently more untrained and fewer in number. As such, they would suffer worse and more frequent losses. Unwilling to accept this, Lieutenant Rombaferre took to studying tactics more in-depth, particularly those used during the Second Galactic War, a decades-long war characterized by its "cold" nature -- and thus its corresponding defensive approach to war. The result was Reur glau Rombaferre -- the "road of Rombaferre" that, if traversed, would guarantee safe passage to anyone who stood behind her shield and allowed her to ward away danger from them.
Certain historians, especially those from Raljikka or otherwise in the Alamo Empire, claim that Lieutenant Rombaferre studied imperial tactics of old, citing similarities between Reur glau Rombaferre and the traditional Raljikkan concept of herakkstrin. Veriol historians deny imperial influence as being a significant factor, instead pointing to how the Alamo Empire's siege of the planet Beyne, then controlled by the Veriol Alliance, would have forced Veriol tacticians to employ defensive measures more than their aggressors.
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