Novayan East Indian Military

The Novayan East Indian Military, also known as the Military of the Novayan East Indies, East Indian Military and sometimes the Novayan Military, was the unified military service of the Novayan East Indies. Established after the dismemberment of the Aegialean Empire, in which large swathes of the shattered empire was taken over by Novayan military forces and colonized by Novayan citizens under the Aegialenas Apokiakas Archian (Aegialean Colonial Authority), and consisting of Novayan and then Aegialean and Novayano-Aegialean personnel, it is the largest military in the Alpha Asteropaios region, second only to the NSC Armed Forces.
The Novayan East Indian military consisted of active, auxiliary and reserve units that function not just as frontline and rearline combat troops but also as law enforcers, sometimes backing law enforcement officers in the case of domestic conflicts caused by former Aegialean nobles and clergymen and their followers. Initially supposed to function as a peacekeeping force, border disputes and outright conflicts with remnants of the old empire had seen Novayan East Indian troops being involved in such events that they became battle-hardened and experienced troops as well as experts in the various border disputes and wars. After almost losing several major battles due to offensive campaigns by the United Imperial Front, a larger and more successful Aegialean remnant before it collapsed due to internal conflicts resulted from differences between pragmatic and conservative officers, the Novayan East Indian military revamped its military doctrines and utilized attachments onto its forces which not only regained control over the occupied territories but also annihilated the remnant and took over most of its territories.
==Service branches==
===Novayan East Indian Army===
The Novayan East Indian Army is the planetary ground force of the colonial military. Originally established on Eon-U 4SB4547 as detachments of the NSC Army, it consisted of roughly two trillion soldiers across the Colonial Army, Colonial Army Reserve, Colonial Army Air Service Security Forces, and Army Interior Guard. The Army serves as the military's principal land service, holding the responsibility of conducting planetary combat operations.
The Novayan East Indian Army is organized and operated under the East Indian Admiralty, which is a civil-military administrative agency serving as the executive and legislative branch of the colonial military government under the leadership of the admiral of the navy and admiral of the fleet. The NEI Army is led by the chief of the general staff and the vice chief of the general staff, who were advised by the Oberstabsfeldwebel (alternatively known as Command Sergeant Major).
===Novayan East Indian Navy===
The Novayan East Indian Navy is the colonial military's spaceborne warfare force. Originally established on Eon-U 4SB4547 as detachments of the NSC Navy, it consisted of the Colonial Navy, Colonial Fleet Marine Force, and Colonial Navy Reserve. The Navy serves as the military's principal naval force, responsible for space warfare operations.
The Novayan East Indian Navy is organized and operated under the East Indian Admiralty, which is a civil-military administrative agency serving as the executive and legislative branch of the colonial military government under the leadership of the admiral of the navy and admiral of the fleet. The NEI Navy is led by the chief of the admiral staff and the vice chief of the admiral staff, who were advised by the Senior Midshipman (alternatively known as Senior Petty Officer).
===Novayan East Indian Civil Guard===
The Novayan East Indian Civil Guard is the colonial military's law enforcement force. Originally established on Eon-U 4SB4547 as detachments of various NSC Army constituent army military police units, it consisted of the Judgment Corps and the Civil Guard Public Security Force. The Civil Guard serves as the military's principal domestic defense force, responsible for internal security operations.
The Novayan East Indian Civil Guard is organized and operated under the Colonial Military Tribunal, which is a civil-military judiciary under the leadership of the chief judge and the vice chief judge, who were advised by the senior guard major sergeant.
===Novayan East Indian Colonial Gendarmerie===
The Novayan East Indian Colonial Gendarmerie is the colonial military's extant security forces. Originally established on Eon-U 4SB4547 as raised colonial militiamen, law enforcement officers and even military police, it consisted of the Frontier Security Force, Colonial Militia, Internal Gendarmerie and Interior Gendarmerie. The Colonial Gendarmerie serves as the military's principal colonial security forces, responsible for internal security operations within the colonial frontiers.
The Novayan East Indian Colonial Gendarmerie is organized and operated under the East Indian Admiralty and the Colonial Military Tribunal, both civil-military organizations operating under the orders of the Governor-Militant.
==Organization, equipment, doctrines and tactics==
The Novayan East Indian military operates on a purely defensive role, though there were cases when it was decided an offensive campaign is needed to either beat back the Aegialean remnants or even disrupt their attempts at organizing their own offensive campaigns. Despite the fact the various Aegialean remnants outnumbered and outgunned the East Indian Military in terms of equipment and troop numbers, the latter was proven to be a highly professional force due to its strictly-drilled, -trained and -equipped units. It was also proven superior to their Aegialean counterparts due to the use of advanced para/technologies and thaumaturgy, things the Aegialean remnants sorely lacked.
===Organizational structure===
The Novayan East Indian military's organization was based and structured on Novayan military principles, incorporating elements of the now-utterly-dismembered Aegialean Military. This organization is more flexible due to lesser personnel number that was made up with highly-advanced para/techs and thaumaturgy, military equipment and greater individual initiatives amongst unit commanders, a stark contrast to the Novayan and Saiyanese militaries which utilize larger troop numbers and a rigidly-centralized military command structure.
The mainstream Novayan East Indian ground combat unit was the assault legion, patterned after the Novayan divisions but with incorporated elements of the Aegialean legions. The assault legions, numbering from 4,500 to 15,000 soldiers, were more flexible and maneuverable due to greater individual initiatives amongst unit commanders while also receiving instructions and orders from military officers overseeing planetary combat operations. Unlike the Novayan division, the East Indian assault legion is capable of going toe to toe with even larger military units and still win due to superior tactics that were utilized by the International Union Army and Imperial Roman Army.
Following the examples of the International Union Navy, Imperial Roman Navy and several other modernized navies, the Novayan East Indian Navy had revamped its force composition to rely on more flexible and maneuverable naval fleets and aerospace combat squadrons, while still retaining the old (albeit highly revamped, adapted and/or modernized) naval military doctrines and organizations and mothballed warships and spacecraft in the case of nightmare scenarios such as a repeat of either the Void-Light War, Crisis of the 13th Eon, War of the United Front and/or Chaos of the 25th Eon. The strike force, the principal naval combat unit of the NSC Navy, had also been kept albeit reformed and reorganized.
===Equipment===
Unlike the NSC military, the colonial military had been known to utilizing attachments which backed its assault legions and strike forces during battles. In the NEI Army, assault legions utilize a variety of military equipment, combat vehicles and infrastructures, genetically-spliced beasts of war, and different troop reinforcements and types necessary to provide assault legionaries increased survival rates and reduced casualties inflicted upon them by the Aegialean forces as well as the means by which they would inflict devastating casualties against said Aegialean remnant forces.
The assault legions' utilization of such combat attachments had been the result of studies spent by several Novayan military personnel, many Aegialeans who (after venturing outside the Alpha Asteropaios region and discovered what lies beyond their homes as well as discovering the existence of insanely massive nations) learned of and observed the Novayan–Saiyanese War that was occurring more than five thousand years ago, and later Novayan East Indian military personnel sent to study, observe, research and catalogue what is going on within the war and the two major adversaries. Such combat attachments have, sadly, been never used by the Novayan and Saiyanese militaries due to their stubborn refusal to reform, reorganize and modernize.
However, such studies were combined with researches that were intended to modernize the Novayan military before the war, and the cataloguing by the Novayan East Indians of such researches, reports and studies orchestrated by various Novayan, Saiyanese and other voidwalker nations would come to develop the attachments many have known today.