Grand Army of the Lux

The **Grand Army of the Lux** (**GAL**), also known as the **Grand Army** and the **Lux Army**, was a major branch of the Lux military composed entirely of powerful humans, an army of elite soldiers created from the specially trained males and females of Earth. The Grand Army was officially formed by Grand Admiral Bryce Ashworth at the behest of the Ghost Empire in response to the Ghost Crisis which threatened to destroy the Lux and the human race. The members of NASA were commissioned as high-ranking commanders and generals in the Lux Army, second in authority only to Jaylen Reed, who held the highest rank of Grand Admiral. Under the leadership of their officers, the Lux Army engaged the Ghost Army on many worlds during the Ghost Wars, suffering heavy casualties for 21 years while restoring Lux sovereignty to numerous rebellious areas throughout the galaxy.

## History

At the beginning of the Ashworth administration (1970), the Lux had no standing armed forces. The creation of an army was ordered by Grand Admiral Bryce Ashworth with the knowledge and approval of his comrades, in response to the growing threats of the Ghost Empire. The Grand Army's first engagement would be at Operation A1 where it successfully routed an unsuspecting Ghost battalion. However, this merely started off the much larger Ghost Wars, in which the army took heavy losses.

## Organisation

### Headquarters

The Grand Army and the entire Lux Military were constitutionally re-established after NASA, the British, United States, New Zealand and the Australian Armies granted Grand Admiral Bryce Ashworth emergency powers during the Ghost Crisis, giving him the right to create an army. The Grand Army was thus ultimately led by Ashworth, who held the military titles of Supreme Leader and Grand Admiral.

The senior military body in command of the Grand Army and the Lux Navy was Lux High Command, led by the Chief of Defence Staff. GAL Headquarters, the central command for the Lux Army, was based in the Leviathan.

### Administration

Command HQ maintained a number of branches to administrate the Lux Army. One of these was the Lux Defence Procurement office, which was in permanent contact with the GAL's field logistics battalions. Research and development into new technologies was carried out by the Army Weapons Research Department.

One particularly visible branch of the GAL was Homeworld Security Command, responsible for the security of the capital planet of Earth, Ginias Hain and Giath. Homeworld Security controlled the Earth Guard, whose distinctive, green-armoured troopers had broad discretionary powers to stop and search Lux citizens.

### Tactical organisation

The army was split into separate Orders of Combat. These were regular forces, and special forces. Most of the structure of the regular forces was unchanged through the Ghost Wars. The special forces were highly independent commandos that had specific objectives and required very little help from Lux commanders.

#### Command structure of regular forces

* **Grand Army**—10 systems armies, a total of 300,000 units, with Gordon DeHathem as Grand General. The number 300,000 was Ashworth's initial order, as the number of total soldiers increased during the wars.
* **Systems Army**—2 Sector Armies (9,000 units) led by a High General.
* **Sector Army**—4 corps (4,000 units) led by a Senior General.
* **Corps/Division**—4 legions (3,000 units) led by a marshal commander.
* **Legion/Brigade**—4 regiments (2,200 units) led by a senior commander.
* **Regiment**—4 battalions (1,304 units) led by a regimental commander and a Lux Commander.
* **Battalion**—4 companies (576 units) led by a battalion commander and major.
* **Company**—4 platoons (144 units) led by a captain.
* **Platoon**—4 squads (36 units) led by a lieutenant, second lieutenant, and sergeant-major.
* **Squad**—9 units led by a sergeant and corporal.

The rate of casualties greatly reduced the Lux Army's numbers throughout the Ghost Wars.

#### Command structure of special forces

* **Lux Space Alliance**—4 fleets (5,000 units) led by an High Admiral.
* **Alpha Force**—6 squads (1,500 units) led by a High Colonel.
* **Phantom Corps**—1 squad (100 units) led by a Lead Assassin.
* **Wolf Unit**—5 squads (2,000 units) led by a Commander-in-chief.
* **Lux Security Force**— (200 units) led by a Commander.

## Personnel

### Ranks

* **Marshal Commander**—The highest rank a soldier could attain. Like all commanders, their armour was colour-coded gold. Each marshal commander was in command of a corps.
* **Senior Commander**—The second highest rank attainable by the forces. Their armour was colour-coded yellow. Each was in command of a brigade or legion.
* **Regimental Commander**—Indicated by orange armor. Each was in command of a regiment.
* **Battalion Commander**—the lowest commander rank of the clone forces. Also indicated by orange armor. Each was in command of a battalion.
* **Major**—Their armor was color coded purple. Each is in command of a battalion.
* **Captain**—Captain's armor was also color-coded red. Each was in command of a company.
* **Lieutenant**—Indicated by navy-blue armor. Each was in command of a platoon.
* **2nd Lieutenant**—Indicated by blue armor. Also in charge of a platoon.
* **Sergeant-Major**—Indicated by lime armour. They were second-in-command of platoons.
* **Sergeant**—Indicated by a green armour. Rank glyph is three right-to-left slashes. In command of a squad.
* **Corporal**— The second lowest rank of forces. Indicated by grey armour. They were second-in-command of squads.
* **Trooper**—The lowest rank in the forces. Indicated by black armour.
* **Cadet**—This rank is even lower than Trooper. Indicated by white armour.