Global Army

The **Global Army** is the main military force of humanity.

## Ranks in the army

### Military ranks

To advance to a superior rank, one has to have a sufficient strength and also sufficient knowledge. Hence, they have to pass a test to advance.

 Soldier
 Chief /
Squad Leader
 Lieutenant
 Captain
 Major
 Colonel
 Major General

### Strength Ranks

#### Warriors

Warriors need tough bodies and knowledge over a few martial arts. They can be identified by star(s) on their right shoulder. Soldiers mainly experienced a growth in their physical prowess by raising their attunement with mana. Their reflexes, muscles, and thinking speed would reach true inhuman levels by the end of that journey, but they would remain mortals.

 Second level warrior
 Third level warrior
 Fourth level warrior
 Fifth level warrior

#### Mages

Magic has no shortcuts. Improvement of the mana capacity won't help much. They need to rely on specific thoughts and emotions to activate their elements and turn them into spells, but the chaos element is an exception.

Mages in the army can be identified by star(s) on their left shoulder.

 Second level mage
 Third level mage

#### Evolved Soldier

An evolved soldier is recognised by two big stars on each shoulder. Their attunement to mana is superior to 100%. Evolving would bring a true transformation, the difference between evolved beings and normal soldiers is immense. Their actual power is hard to evaluate since they would have gone past the limits of their species by then.

During the evolution of Colonel Norrett, Garret Bizelli explained the difference between the three types of evolution :

* natural induction
* extreme induction
* aided metamorphosis

## History

After the First Impact, the entire humanity had forsaken their political borders and had joined hands to create a united front against alien threats. The Global Army had yet to establish political boundaries after the First Impact. It didn't have proper backers. It was just a name that humankind had created.

The wealthiest people on the planet had initially maintained their influence. Still, the enhancements brought by the mana had slowly moved the power over the human race in the hands of men and women who managed to overcome the limits of their species.

The Global Army slowly came to be after those powerful humans created an alliance and seized the monopoly over everything related to the mana. That organisation not only provided the chance to obtain power. It also developed new technologies and techniques that used that energy as their foundation.

## Means of Transportation

### Planetary Transportation

#### Truck :

They are old models that can't go higher than ten meters. They even had wheels in case the flying mechanism stopped working.

#### Carrier :

They look like dark-grey planes with two wings and a large cockpit. Their tail was short and thick, and engines that released an azure light stood right at the centre of the whole structure. The engines had the shape of circular gears that contained levitating azure spheres. The pilots only needed to turn to change the direction of the released energy. They have tall doors and ample insides. They could contain up to eight grown-up soldiers in their central section.

### Inter-planetary Transportation

#### Teleport :

It looks like a large oval platform with two curved pillars growing out of its vertices. Tubes that contained an azure liquid ran through the two horn-like structures and gave them a powerful aura. The pipes experienced random surges of energy that made their light shift from dim to bright and gave them an unstable vibe. Similar tubes connected the white platform to the various consoles placed on the walls of the hall.

This technology was inherited from the Nak. And the amount of synthetic mana required for the teleport is massive.

#### Spaceship :

They had an oval shape and didn't feature wings or tails. Three large rotating engines on their sides and back controlled their altitude and speed, but they stopped releasing noises once they stopped moving. The front of the spaceships featured three large screens that hid the insides of the cockpits, and their size was almost the same as the troop carriers. Those vehicles couldn't carry many soldiers.

#### Space station

They are very reliable and also derived from the Nak's technology. They allow to have an outpost outside of a planet atmosphere.

## Training Hall

The price depends on the quality, you can have simple reinforced rooms or large halls with animated training dummies in the form of humanoid puppet. Dark-silver metal made the entire exoskeleton of the puppet. The training dummy was a few centimetres short of being two meters tall, and it featured large spheres instead of fingers and hands. Defeating the puppet will make the training program move to the next difficulty level.

For normal dummies, one must be a first-level warrior to handle the levels past ten. Reaching that point means in general having achieved a competent proficiency level in base techniques from martial arts. The puppets capable of testing actual proficiency levels (with mana) are far more expensive.

The training program will analyse the user fighting style and try to counter it as they advance through the levels. Its system contains hundreds of martial arts that reach up to fifty points, and it can mix them if needed to counter the user martials arts.

The user can chose to start from level 0, all the way up, or to directly start at a higher level. The system resets every time the user exit the training program.

## External Relationship

* Humans and Ef'i have a peaceful and respectful relationship, they hold tournament between for resources.
* Istrone is under the strict control of the Global Army after the last rebellions.
* The knowledge of the Niqols about mana are really substantial for the Global Army.
* The Global Army has experienced a few technological leaps in only fifty years of cooperation with the Guko, and the current standstill in the war benefit them the most.