The Gasan Military

The Gasan military structure is a complex one, especially compared to that of the various other nations. Like many of the institutions of the Gasan Republic, it was mostly inherited from the Interplanetary federation

## Military structure of the Interplanetary Federation

The Interplanetary Federation never had a centralized standing army. For all of its existence, it relied on the independent armies of its vassal territories for manpower. However, the Jennian kingdom, the ruling kingdom of the federation, did have its own standing army, which recruited not only from within the Jennian kingdom, but from all over the federation, and was considered the largest and most well trained and funded of the stellar armies. However, it was still a very small fraction of the overall military power of the Federation. before the Martian revolution, the army of the Jennian kingdom was over 800 000 men strong.

The Interplanetary federation, in its early centuries, heavily relied on mercenaries, recruited from within the federation. Due to its relatively peaceful history, those mercenaries were used mostly to chase away pirates in the asteroid belts as well as guarding Mars as it was being terraformed. However, they were used extensively during the unification of the Rock People. The habit of using mercenaries fell out of fashion after the Gasan Civil war of 2413, and afterwards, more standardized standing armies began being more common. It was only after 2414 that the Jennian kingdom started recruiting men from outside its own borders.

Following the Blockaders Revolt and ensuing reform, two major things happened to the Gasan military. First was that a great many of the governments of moons and asteroids decided to funnel their money into a standardized army under the command of the Moon Miners' Union. This became the fourth largest Gasan military after the that of the Jennian kingdom, the Martian province, and the Celestial kingdom respectively. In the pursuit of the planet-province model, the reformists did try to have one standing army per planet, which wasn't too successful. It worked mostly in the core worlds. Mars already had its own army. Although the core worlds of Neptune, Uranus and Saturn unified their planets' armies into single planetary armies, the Patrician territory kept its own small army. On the moons and asteroids, the reform was less successful. There, they either joined their armies to that of the Union's, disbanded it altogether, joined it to that of their core world's army or in kept it as an independent army. Before the Martian Revolution, the following independent armies existed in the Federation, ranked by size:

* The Jennian Kingdom's army: 800 000 men strong, 71 warship strong
* The Martian army: 750 000 men strong, 161 warship strong
* The Celestial Kingdom's army: 475 000 men strong, 51 warship strong
* The Moon Miner's union army: 210 000 men strong, 52 warship strong
* The Patrician Army: 190 000 men strong, 21 warship strong
* The Neptunian army: 150 000 men strong, 26 warship strong
* The Fluvian Army: 125 000 men strong, 18 warship strong
* The Athenian army: 115 000 men strong, 96 warship strong
* The Audelian army: 85 000 men strong, 22 warship strong
* The Uranian army: 64 000 men strong, 17 warship strong
* The Titanian army: 7 000 men strong, 16 warship strong
* The Plutonian army: 3 000 men strong, 12 warship strong
* Other independent armies: 11 000 men strong, 16 warship strong

In the first weeks of the Martian revolution, the Martians managed to mobilize an additional 350 000 men. The Moon Miner's army did not participate in the attack on Mars, but it did contribute to defending the moons. The Athenians sent only a small detachement of their troops to fight on the Martian mainland, but was forced into fighting when Athens was invaded. While severely outnumbered, the Martians still managed to secure a victory. Meanwhile, the Army of the Jennian kingdom was all but destroyed.

## Jovian reforms and the military structure of the Gasan Federation

After the war was lost, the Jennian kingdom was left with an abysmally small force of no more than 90 000. The celestial kingdom, with the help of governments of Caelum and Merrain, were able to take advantage of the state of the Jennian Kingdom to orchestrate the coup that would put Jupiter at the helm of the federation.

The Jovian reform brought many reforms, including some military reforms. Firstly, the new monarchist government immediately disbanded the Moon Miner's Union's army. The new queen tried, for the first time in the history of the Gasan people, to create a centralized standing army: the Gasan legion. The quasi-totality of the Celestial kingdom's army was incorporated into the new legion. The legion was stationed in Entracte and started by patrolling and protecting the belt and the moons of Jupiter, a necessity now that the Moon Miners' Union no longer had an army nor a fleet. The presence of the the legion in the vacuum gave greater territorial integrity to the Gasans and also more confidence and security to the outer provinces, which were generally too undeveloped to put too much resources into a military. By that point, practically all of the smaller independent armies were absorbed either into the Legion or into the various provincial armies. The Neptunian army merged with the Plutonian army and started patrolling the space around Neptune and Pluto. The only small independent army remaining was the Titanian army, which patrolled the area around Saturn. The Queen pressured the new Grand Duchesse of Saturn into giving up much of what was left of the Jennian Kingdom's army and incorporate into the Legion

The Gasan armies in the war of 2714 (including the Gasan Civil war) were the following (initial troops | overall deployed troop)

* The Gasan legion: (2 150 000 | 4 700 000) men strong, (120 | 180) warship strong
* Jupiter's provincial guard: (230 000 | 1 200 000) men strong, (6 | 7) warship strong
* The Patrician Army: (120 000 | 398 000) men strong, (9 | 14) warship strong
* The Neptunian army: (500 000 | 1 915 000) men strong, (38 | 53) warship strong
* Saturn's provincial guard: (210 000 | 1 560 000) men strong, (28 | 32) warship strong
* The Fluvian Army: (90 000 | 209 000) men strong, (8 | 12) warship strong
* The Athenian army: (80 000 | 210 000) men strong, (160 | 222) warship strong
* The Audelian army: (55 000 | 105 000) men strong, (16 | 22) warship strong
* Uranus's provincial guard: (64 000 | 100 000) men strong, (15 | 17) warship strong

## The Gasan legion

By the start of war of the 21714, there were 23 legions:

* The First Legion, based off of Chandescieux: 190 000 men strong
* The Second Legion, based off of Gennings: 120 000 men strong
* The Third Legion, based off of Ganymede: 120 000 men strong
* The Fourth Legion, based off of Chandescieux: 115 000 men strong
* The Fifth Legion, based off of Kaynella: 90 000 men strong
* The Sixth Legion, based off of Bondass: 85 000 men strong
* The Seventh Legion, based off of Lamoisson: 83 700 men strong
* The Eight Legion, based off Audela: 84 500 men strong
* The Ninth Legion, based off of Gennings: 82 300 men strong
* The Tenth Legion, based off Fluveae: 82 200 men strong
* The Eleventh Legion, based off Chandescieux: 80 000 men strong
* The Twelfth Legion, based off of Levey: 82 000 men strong
* The Thirteenth Legion, based off of Entiacca: 83 100 men strong
* The Fourteenth Legion, based off of Kaynella: 82 100 men strong
* The Fifteenth Legion, based off of Aydenne: 82 000 men strong
* The Sixteenth Legion, based off of Gennings: 80 000 men strong
* The Seventeenth Legion, based of Merraine: 78 000 men strong
* The Eighteenth Legion, based of Athens: 72 000 men strong