Armed Forces of Chitonia

The **Armed Forces of Chitonia** is one of the most powerful militaries in Terra. Chitonia's military is separated into three branches tasked with defending Chitonia and her colonies and exerting the will of the empire globally, the Royal Chitonian Army, the Royal Chitonian Navy, and the Royal Air Force.

## **Royal Chitonian Army**

*Main Article: Order of Battle of the Royal Chitonian Army*
The Royal Chitonian Army are the ground forces tasked with defending the land area of the empire. It is divided further into three branches, the King's Army, the Colonial Army, and the Royal Special Forces.

### **King's Army**

The King's Army is the standard force of the Royal Army, and is tasked with the defence of Chitonia proper but is prepared for the reinforcement of the colonies in the case of an outbreak of a major war with another large power. The King's Army has an active force of approximately 750,000 well trained and well equipped soldiers (500,000 stationed in Chitonia proper and 250,000 stationed across the colonies) and 250,000 reservists. The King's Army is the first to benefit from advancements in military technology, and has in recent years been experimenting with the motorization and mechanization of infantry, and and warfare with experimental tanks. However, the King's Army largely remains a force of infantry anf cavalry.

Demographically, the King's Army is comprised almost entirely of natives of the Chitonian isles (Chitonians, Æthelbrians, Glairics) and individuals from their colonial diasporas, with colonials making up a small minority of troops.

### **Colonial Army**

The Colonial Army is the largest branch of the Royal Army, numbering approximately 3,000,000 active duty troops and 1,000,000 reservists. The cost of this large size is the quality of the troops and their equipment, with soldiers typically receiving lackluster expedited training and equipment a generation behind what is used by the King's Army. Despite this, the Colonial Army remains a force to be reckoned with and is still more than capable of defending their land and executing minor offensive operations.

One of the primary roles of the Colonial Army is to serve as a tool of pacifying and civilizing colonial subjects. Directly this takes the form of crushing independence and revolutionary movements. Indirectly, the Colonial Army serves as a means for male colonial minorities to learn loyalty to Chitonia by fighting for her. Colonial minorities make up a majority of the Colonial Army, and are incentivized to do so by the benefits provided to veterans, including a government pension and equal rights and privileges as held by members of the Chitonian diaspora.

### **Royal Special Forces**

The Royal Special Forces are the smallest branch of the Royal Army, but also the most well trained and well equipped (and arguably one of the most capable military units in Terra). The RSF is made up of approximately 100,000 of the most capable soldiers in the empire, and is the only branch of the Chitonian military is entirely desegregated. The RSF is typically reserved for use in covert and special military operations at home and abroad. The RSF act also as the military's intelligence agency, and is responsible for the operation of deep reconnaissance missions and black operations.

## **Royal Chitonian Navy**

*Main Article: Order of Battle of the Royal Chitonian Navy*
The Royal Navy is the largest and most advanced naval force in Terra, and has the capability of asserting itself globally. The Royal Navy maintains a doctrine which relies on the raw firepower of ships and flotillas in order to overpower lesser enemy ships, and has because of this pursured the development and consturction of battleships and heavy cruisers, with smaller vessels such as destroyers and (especially) submarines receiving less attention.

The Royal Navy retains fleet and flotilla basing ports across the empire and in its ally nations. Among these, Chitonia proper and the Crown Colonies of St. Christopher and Hannicari are home to the largest Royal Navy fleets, with the Dominion of Vesica and Crown Colony of Bernard's Land also being home to sizeable Royal Navy presences.

Thw Royal Navy has the highest percentage of colonial minorites in service than all other military branches other than the Colonial Army, with nearly a quarter of their sailors claiming membership of colonial ethnic groups. A majority of these sailors are ethnically Hannicari, a north Surobor ethnic group with a history of sailing and naval dominance in their region.

## **Royal Air Force**

*Main Article: Order of Battle of the Royal Air Force (Chitonia)*
The Royal Air Force is the smallest branch of the Chitonian military and has the smallest presence in Chitonian doctrine. Rather than being a fighting force, the Royal Air Force serves primarily as a research and development agency for both military and civilian aircraft, and employs some of the greatest aeronautic scientists in the empire. Currently, the Royal Air Force operates a force of around 100 armed fighter biplanes