The 5th Imperial Army of OverWatch

## The 5th Army

The 5th Army's insignia

**The 5th Imperial Army of OverWatch** (otherwise abbreviated to "**The 5th Army**" or simply "**OverWatch**") is a cosmic-wide governmental entity that has total control over the LANIAKEA supercluster. It is 1 out of 5 armies that were formed after the "Era 2 reformations" and fragmented from the Empire of OverWatch, governing the empire's 5th dimension. The state is an oppressive entity that conquers, colonises and occupies planets, disregarding any potential opposition from the planet - as per the unified constitution: it is the sole duty of OverWatch to keep expanding and assimilating territory. The 5th Army is the main enemy of the Resistance Initiative, and is also seen as A.T.L.A.S. Corp's main source of income in the LANIAKEA supercluster. Their base of operations is located within the **[REDACTED]** region in Sector A, known officially as "Homebase".

## Defensive Capabilities

The 5th Army's military, known officially as the Armed Forces of the 5th Army, is under control of the "Union of Defense". The military has over 200 million active and enlisted personnell and roughly 500 million in reserve. Its military powers are at its peak with engineering surpassing Earth's modern technology by several millions of years. Their military powers extend to being capable of destroying an entire galactic system in a span of a month. It previously took a couple of Dreadnoughts to destroy a planet, but now with the "Planet-Killer" in their armaments, they are now capable of destroying and leveling planets in an instant.

## Military structure

The current chief of the Union of Defense is Administrator Constantine. The formal term of the military is "The 5th Army's Armed Forces", which includes both the military and the OverWatch Intelligence and Special Combats Bureau, other than that the military and the OWISCB are seperate entities.

The first branch is the OverWatch Army, which is the land-based branch of the military. The Army has been long recognised for its highly trained soldiers and strict policy. Soldiers are even trained to operate machineries and vehicles such as tanks, APCs and large combat exosuits.

The second branch is the OverWatch Navy, which handles primarily naval warfare - both in space and to an extent, aquatic combat. The Navy dominates OverWatch space with top of the line Cruisers and Battleships, and especially the Dreadnought class ships. Naval infantry, the OverWatch Marine Services, are specialised in territorial combat in support for the Navy.

The OverWatch Starfighter Corps is the third branch which specialises in aerial combat, both in outer space and atmospheric. Commissioned officers are trained as pilots, where they cooperate with the Navy and Army to operate a different variety of starfighters on either a naval fleet or an army station - the most common starfighter used for combat is the Thaumiel Class Air-Striker, as well as other aerial combat vehicles. The SFC also specializes in atmospheric weaponry, such as atmospheric ICBMs and atmospheric combat.

The fourth branch of the Armed Forces is the OverWatch Intelligence and Special Combats Bureau, in which it specializes in abstract military support and military intelligence. The branch has two sub-branches, the Special Intelligence Unit and the Naval Command. The Special Intelligence Unit is made up of highly trained agents skilled in close combat, strategic appliance with military information and investigating military affairs. The Naval Command provides abstract support for the Army and Navy, as well as handling the ISCB's naval capacity - hence the name. NCOs and enlisted agents are considered specialists and are eligible to be become combat medics and engineers. In the Intelligence Unit, enlisted agents works at headquarters and OWISCB buildings instead, as office workers. Commissioned agents are called "operatives", and functions as combat support. The bureau is the only branch that practices special combat and applies it in the field.

And lastly, the military has a sub-division exclusively for the Army and Navy called the "Appointment Sub-branch", which assigns officers to special positions for task force commanding a special task force or supervising the task force's outpost. Examples of such task forces are Earth's Inquisition Team, Epsilon-1, Epsilon-3, and Nova Squad.

Upon the supercluster entering another civil war, the military was reorganized by the Grand administrator and apply wartime protocols. Among the major changes were giving each branch distinct authority in regards to their roles in the military. The Navy was granted most authority on how to handle the 5th Army's war efforts in space, and was tasked to lead the vanguard. The SFC worked more closely with the Navy, and played a key role in winning naval battles. The Army was given more political power, an edict was made by Overseer Crest that Generals upon liberating a planet from Resistance activities, would become interim governors. All branches had an alteration in their rank appearances in both rank plaques and the number of security cylinders personnel were issued with as mass conscription was instilled. The Navy's rank plaques went from single rows to double rows to more appropriately display their authority in war sectors, and every officer rank were no longer issued crewmen cylinders. Grand marshal Ford Wilson's rank plaque was observed to also be double rowed. Finally, another major reform was the creation of the rank of "Overseer", created for Crest who was placed in charge of Military's war commander, and became responsible for the 5th Army's war progression.

The Armed Forces is governed by Administrator Constantine, who chairs the joint chiefs of staff. The joint chiefs comprises of section commanders of each branch, who are in charge of all staff and operations in their respective branch. The Section chief of the Army is given to a Marshal, for the Navy - a Grand admiral, Grand air marshals are eligible to be chosen for the Starfighter Corps and the Director of the OWISCB is automatically considered a branch chief. Power is further delegated to the OverWatch Upper Command, which is acted as a central command division for all military operations, comprising of mainly the joint chiefs, and several department head officers from each branch.

Each sector has a body that are incharge of overseeing defense and political operations, governed by the "Joint Staff Commission". Each body are known as "Joint Staff of Sector A/B/C". The joint staff commission was under the leadership of Administrator X - after his death he was replaced by Overseer Crest. There are a total of 6 seats in each Joint Staff:

* Chief of Navy - An elected High or Grand admiral that is incharge of all naval operations in the Sector.
* Chief of Defense - An elected High general or Marshal that is incharge of all army operations in the Sector.
* Chief of Operations - An elected military officer that supervises all OverWatch operations across the Sector, and has the responsibility to ensure that the 5th Army attains control.
* Chief of Enlistment - An elected director from the OverWatch Recruitment and Enlistment Corps who is incharge of all recruitment, drafting operations and enlistment centers across the Sector.
* Associate chief of Defense - A junior officer that assists the chief of defense.
* Associate chief of Operations - A junior officer that assists the chief of operations.

The joint staff positions seems to vary between each sector. In Sector B, there is a seat for an Associate chief of Navy, that was once offered to Admiral Kuruya Remi at one point.

## Technological advancement

The 5th Army is at an age known as the "Science Technology Age", where both science and engineering are considered to be several hundreds of thousands to millions of years ahead of Earth's. Because the 5th Army is capable of dimensional hopping and hyper-travel, it is no surprise as to how OverWatch is able to expand without ever suffering from energy deficit; the primary source of energy that the 5th Army harnesses from are pure star energy that is extracted from the 5th Army's mega structures such as Dyson Spheres. The raw energy is distributed very roughly on many areas of the 5th Army, as it is estimated that 1 Dyson Sphere is capable of producing a grand total of 48 Terawatt per second, enough to power millions of lifetime energy. The 5th Army has 3 Dyson Spheres across the 5th dimension, one localized only in every capital system of each Sector. It is stated that on Homebase, the Dyson Sphere is super massive, that light is often more dimmed during the day.

The 5th Army harvests minerals, gas, oils and other types of natural resources from the plethora of colonies across the supercluster. OverWatch has the technology to harvest and enrich minerals at the hour, in fact the 5th Army - with its latest technology - has been tremendously efficient with harvesting resources to a point of almost constant surplus. This comes with great cost however, as there's an estimate of over 2000 planets depleated of their natural resources, ruining the natural ecology and driving several millions of native fauna to extinction. Recently, the 5th Army's research organization's energy department made a breakthrough of decompressing matter from Black Holes, which would estimate to produce millions of more minerals than harvesting from planets, and that it potentially extend the likelyhood of a total resource deficit to several millions of years into the future, as well as to prevent the possibility of leaving more and more planets lifeless from lack of natural resources.

## Government structure

Era 1 OverWatch inherited the parliament from the Confederacy of 5 Dimensions as it reorganized into the former, but was abolished under primarch Nion Dod's reign in the aftermath of the nearly 10000 years conflict and eventual failure of the separatist uprising. To simplify Era 1 OverWatch's politics, it was considered an Ingsoc-like government that controls every public state in favor of its own ideals.

Enter Era 2 of OverWatch: the administrators who were chosen to lead the new state of the 5th dimension, decided to reform the government into a dictatorship with a parliament, thus establishing the the 5th Army's Cosmic Senate, although much like its predecessor - the government had full power over the state, having no public elections and was practically a dictatorship. Representives are elected via elections from an oligarchy committee known as the "Joint Staff Commission", its responsibility being primarily about security of each Sector of the 5th Army's space, as well as selecting governors, sector commissars, and senators for the parliament; hence why the 5th Army is also considered a Stratocracy. However, since it has no "one ruling leader", the state runs under Administrators where power is equally divided, only being overseen by the head of state being the "Grand administrator".

The Administrators run each core component of the 5th Army: the Executive branch, the Legislative/Local Branch and the Military. The Grand Administrator has a succession order, being that once the current Grand administrator is unable to continue leading, the position of Grand administrator is transferred to the most senior Administrator in government. If there were a situation where all residing admins aren't able to lead, the next person in line of succession would be the Speaker of the Cosmic Senate. If the Speaker can't lead, the next successor would be the Rinji Chief of the Cosmic Senate. If none of the above aren't able to lead, the Senate elects a Consul from the Ruling council's cabinet, and so on.

## Justice system

Because the 5th Army has many laws and subsequently don't have the time or resources, the justice system of the lesser fortunate planets resolves to micromanaging in the hands of the Sector's Joint Staff. Members of the commission come together and discuss the fate of many known criminals, lowest penalty is incarceration and the highest penalty is obviously death. Officially speaking, the courts are divided into four sections, the lowest one being the Planetary Court, that operates on colonial or occupied planets. Afterwards it's the Interstellar Court which handles cases on a System-wide level, such as a Solar or Galactic system. Sectoral Court comes next, handling cases on a sectoral level where cases from the lower courts are unsatisfied, if nothing is resolved in the sectoral court - the case is sent to the Universal High Court. The High Court is the main body incharge of the justice system, they are responsible for examining and evaluating laws for the most highest cases, they also approve or reject legislations if a filibuster would occur in the Cosmic Senate, and-or a law if it's not inline with the Unified Constitution.

## Law Enforcement system

The 5th Army's enforcement system around colonised, occupied and sanctioned planets' responsibilities are given to the Union of the Interior, where it is handled by the OverWatch Offices of Criminal Investigations - they have the responsibility for law enforcement and criminal investigations, that could vary between individual or criminal organisations, as well as known extremists and terrorism. During war time, the OCI's enforcers may assist the Military if necessary, though primarily they'd be incharge of evacuating OverWatch forces and civilians if a disaster of any type were to happen, such as a war.

On a federal level, the responsibility of law enforcement is given to the Internal Affairs Bureau, that enforces laws on an intergalactic-wide scale, and are the ones who arrest government and military officials who has broken any sort of law. The IAB also gathers intelligence for the government, whereas its sister organization - the OWISCB - gathers information for the military.

On Homebase, the sovereignty is officially recognized by the 5th Army, meaning that it has its own law enforcement system that enforces the 5th Army's laws on the planet. It is handled by none other than the Homebase Enforcement Team, where their roles are the exact same as the OWOCI, only that their jurisdiction is exclusive to Homebase and that they directly answer to the Council of Homebase's Sovereignty.

## Politics

Historically, the first Era of OverWatch went under a total dictatorship with an emperor as its sole leader. After the Era 2 Reformations Orders, the remnants of Era 1 OverWatch agreed to split the state into 5 sovereign entities, each governing the 5 dimensions that OverWatch had control of. Therefore, each state in each dimension are governed different with each having different political systems and ideology.

The 5th Army runs on a dictatorship, with traits of stratocracy, as well as running on a one-party parliament. The 5th Army considers themselves as an empire that seeks to expand its terratories and grow the population. Ideologically speaking, the prinicpals of the 5th Army's constitution - in Earth term/history - has heavy similarities to an authoritarian socialist state. The 5th Army outlaws capitalistic traits, such as private and third party organizations - even having an entire sub-faction to prevent it. This means that every organization must be apart of the 5th Army's government. Local business depends on the opinions from its local leader, such as a planet's governor or a district administrator on Homebase. It has common traits to communism, being that of striving for a classless society, however the 5th Army's politics differs from communism - as the latter's end goal is a socialist society with no government, in this case the 5th Army has no intentions of removing its government, therefore it is more or less classified as an authoritarian socialistic state.

The 5th Army is also a welfare state, having a universal income for every citizen on occupied and colonised planets, as well as various of social programs. However, slaves on colonised planets are not granted with a universal income, or have access to any social programs or welfares in general. Healthcare is also free in the state, but it is also only accessible to registered citizens. On top of that, non-working citizens recieve the most minimal benefits of the welfare. Despite it being driving a socialist economic system, stark economic inequality is still present among citizens - the prime example are the wealthiest districts on Homebase and a majority of planets in Sector A. This is due to the process of faulties and flaws in the system - theorising that the origins of the inequality, despite the state having an extremely left-wing economic policy, was due to the state increasing payouts in the more resource rich planets in order to avoid a deficit of the Credit currency, as it would mean having to increase payouts on a cosmic wide level.

Socially speaking, the 5th Army runs on progressive policies and considers itself as a "xenophilic society", meaning that there are no laws that possesses racial injustice, or laws that were to have it as an outcome. Although, there have been times where the 5th Army deemed groups of people as "dangerous" and a "threat that must be eliminated", this mainly applied to unruly types such as Faes (Naofa's kins) and religious groups. Considering how unimportant the 5th Army deems it, laws are very lax when it comes to identity, on the most basic level the government considers sex as the universal identification.

The 5th Army outlaws any form of religion, running with the principal of "no entity that is more powerful than the state" - with that being said, denying the real influence and power that various gods of any religion have, including the Trio of Reality.

## Executive government

The head of state is the Grand Administrator, who in turn has the responsibility of forming the Ruling Council, where he assignes three Administrators to govern the 5th Army's three core sectors: the Government, the Military, and the Sectoral Space. The Ruling Council controls the executive branch of the government, housing Council and Cabinet members. Members within the Council makes the final and executive decision when it comes to either accepting or vetoing a bill, having the authority to also permanently outright deny a bill. There are two types of council members, a permanent senior member and a junior member, an advisory position where it's renewed every eight years. During the early years, Grand administrator Z formed the Council and assigned Administrator Y as the chairman. The senior members at the time were exclusive to Sector Administrators like Administrator X - who controlled the Sectoral Space, and Constantine - the Administrator incharge of the Military sector. Though after the death of X, Chairman Oz Striaton of the ISC was approved as an interim senior member. The executive government's power on a sectoral scale is under governance of the "Joint Staff Commission", originally under the leadership of Administrator X, then later Overseer Crest.

The executive government is further branched into different departments called "Unions" which are tasked to manage specific fields of the state, heads of the unions are "Ministers", Consuls of the unions are considered as members of the Ruling Council as cabinet members.

* ”The Union of Defense” - are incharge of the OverWatch Armed Forces and the defense for the 5th Army.
* ”The Union of Justice” - are incharge of the state's justice system on colonised, occupied and sanctioned planets.
* ”The Union of the Interior” - are incharge of public affairs, law enforcement and internal affairs.
* ”The Union of Labor” - are otherwise known as the "Civil Workers Union", and are incharge of all labor force in the 5th army.
* ”The Union of Commerce” - have the responsibilities of ensuring fair trade between planets, producing state owned products, and managing the 5th Army's Hyperlanes.
* ”The Union of Agriculture” - are incharge of all agricultural production in the 5th army.
* ”The Union of Energy” - are incharge of energy handling across the galaxies and nuclear weaponry.
* ”The Union of Finance” - are incharge of producing Universal Credits and handling the overall economy of the 5th army.
* ”The Union of Welfare” - have the responsibilities of managing welfare systems and colonial rations.
* ”The Union of Communications” - are incharge of reporting the news and handling the 'cosmic wide web'.
* ”The Union of Medicine” - are incharge of the universal healthcare and educating medical doctors and technical operators for surgery.
* ”The Union of Education” - are responsible for educating the youth, from basic school, primary-, secondary school, college and university.

## Legislative branch

The entire supercluster region is divided into 3 sectors: A, B and C. Each region has a selected amount of governors whom are in control of an occupied or colonised planet, and a commissar who is in control of an entire galactic or star system. The governors of a galactic system form local councils known as "Colonial and Occupationist's council of [insert planet/star system]", the chairperson being the commissar of the system. The Joint Staff of Sector A/B/C controls each Sector on a sectoral level, it's only function in the legislative branch is to gather every 2 years to elect Governors and Commissars from the 3 sectors into the 5th Army's Cosmic Senate. The senate is split between the representation of each Sector - and elected senators serve in their sector's delegation. The delegation with the majority of seats selects a "Sectorial Senate Majority Chief" or "Senate Majority Leader", who acts as the speaker for the delegation with the most seats. The 2 remaining sectors are then considered minorities, both respectively electing a "Sectorial Senate Minority Chief" or "Senate Minority Leader" that shares the same role as the majority counterpart. The senate's work is delegated into several committees, that discuss on various motions related to the committee's subject. In order for a new law to be implemented, the Colonial and Occupationist's Councils can send a motion to the Senate, if a majority of the Senate agrees in both houses, the motion will be forwarded to the 5th Army's Ruling Council for final approval, it is here where the Council can either approve the motion - thus implementing it, or it can be vetoed, where the motion is sent back to the Senate for rediscussion, otherwise the Council can outright deny the motion without having to send it back to the Senate. A singular Senator may also send a motion independently, that is if a majority of the member's delegation are in favor of its implementation.

To simplify the system, each stages can easily be implemented into "estate" form.

-The first estate is the 5th Army's Cosmic Senate, consisting of elected governors and commissars to represent their respective sector. The senate parliament is divided into 2 chambers/houses, the Upper House is the discussion grounds with the Head of the government - the chairman of the 5th Army's Ruling Council. The Upper House only consists of Commissars, whereas Governors are placed in the Lower House. The Lower House is where main discussions of motions occur. Both houses have several committees where most of the work happens, such as discussing motions and monitoring the local governments. The senate can decide on laws that could be implemented, changed or removed. The senate discussion is led by the Speaker of the Senate, which is a Senator elected by the Senate.

-The second estate is the Colonial and Occupationist's Council, or the Galactic System Council, which is the local government on a galactic scale . It comprises of Governors from their respective planets or star systems within the Council's galaxy. The Council also oversees the 5th Army's laws being implemented on the local galactic scale. Apart of the Council's job is to decide on motions to send or suggest to their delegation in the Senate. A Commissar leads one of these councils, and they are selected by their sectoral Joint Staff Commission.

-The third and lowest estate is the local planetary government on either a colonized or occupied planet, where they ensure the functionality of the 5th Army's operation on said planet. The head of the planet's government, is the Governor of the planet.

## Preservation

In order for the 5th Army's presence to remain and be established, the grand administrator organized "The 5th Army's Internal Service Core" organization. It's main purpose is to ensure members within the 5th Army are loyal to the banner, and to ensure that OverWatch's influence remains present throughout the LANIAKEA supercluster. The 5th Army's executive council elects a member to act as chairman of the ISC. The organization is divided into 4 sub-branches:

* Coalition Prevention - The branch that ensures no outside force collides with the 5th Army, and to enforce the 5th Army's "no alliances" discipline.
* Internal Service Force - The organization's armed force unit, often regarded as "military police".
* Internal Affairs Bureau - The security agency that investigates crimes and misconducts within the 5th Army.
* OverWatch Youth Group - The youth union of the 5th Army.

## Expansion

### OverWatch headquarters

* Homebase
* OverWatch Galactic Research Organization
* Recruitment Academy

### Sectors

* Sector A
* Sector B
* Sector C

### Other facilities

* Facility Chroma
* Facility SIGMA

## Misc.

### Conflicts:

* The Second OverWatch Civil War
* The Sector C Civil War
* The First OverWatch Civil War

## See also

* OverWatch Army
* OverWatch Navy
* OverWatch Intelligence and Special Combats Bureau
* OverWatch Offices of Criminal Investigations
* OverWatch Starfighter Corps
* OverWatch Appointment Division

## Gallery

Military propaganda, featuring administrator Y.Another military propaganda, featuring administrator Constantine and Director Marude.Propaganda, featuring grand administrator Z.An astrographical image of the 5th Army's territories.