Ordinator

**Key Features** | »F-C/M-63 "Cerimônia" Light Mortar»UT-Amu Turbojet Munition rounds»Winchester 1897 shotgun (w/ silver engraving)»Fire-resistant uniform»Colourful floral bouquet

## Tactical Analysis

* **Día de la Tecnocracia!:** Acting as portable artillery support, Ordinators are armoured infantry capable of supporting infantry advances or providing area-denial help. With their spigot mortars, they can launch moderately quick though slightly inaccurate explosive jet engines at foes or areas of land.

* **Día del Hombre Corriendo:** To uncover the fog of war and find infiltrators, these artillerymen may fire a cluster shell containing multiple flares that open at maximum height, lighting up the area in front of them, and also lighting anything beneath it on fire. When entrenched in closed transports and buildings, the Ordinators will use their shotguns against incoming infantry.

* **Día de los Muertos:** While excelling at long ranges, the mortar has a very large minimum range, meaning anyone that gets close can freely attack the Ordinator without worrying about reprisal. Slow movement and lack of health mean they are best kept well behind the front lines.

* **Día de los Muertos Vivos:** Those Ordinators skilled enough to survive more than a few rounds of combat are allowed to use more esoteric equipment, including sealed samples of the Unes fungus. Once attached to their rounds, the fungus can be used to infect infantry in the area, giving their attacks the ability to create Fungal Zombies when destroying infantry.

## Background

*"They'll feel us all the way from the afterlife!"*

-Ordinator PE
National holidays in the United Technate of the Americas are big affairs. While there exist many holidays in the United Technate, most are smaller affairs - restricted to a few towns, municipalities, or states celebrating local saints, national heroes, or historical independence. For those few that are celebrated across most or all of the Technate's origin-states however, the councils and the Technate at large go all out. Festivals, parades, and expositions go up across the nation for some holidays, while graveyards and cathedrals fill up en mass on others. There are days that celebrate the saints, days that celebrate the dead, days that celebrate the ordinary person. The day of the Latin Conference is honored as a uniquely Technocratic holiday, as is the week set aside in remembrance of the peace treaties signed ending the Technocratic Revolutions. Among the many pleasantries, delights, and wonders that can be found on such holidays, there is one in particular that stands out: the fireworks.

Unlike the relatively tame fireworks legally available for purchase in the United States, the fireworks of the United Technate are another thing entirely: ranging from tiny caps to fist-sized firecrackers to modified second-hand military ordinance, they come in all manner of sizes, shapes, colours, quality, and degrees of lethality. Sold commercially by artisanal makers and chemists formed into fireworks councils, civilian-grade fireworks (anything ranging up to 450 mg of flash powder or varying degrees of stronger explosives) can be commonly and cheaply acquired by almost anyone: indeed, several Continental commanders stationed along the US-UT border have occasionally purchased fireworks deemed unsafe and insane by Allied lawmakers for use in their ongoing revolution. The true beauty, however, lies in the heavy-grade fireworks only available to the councils themselves: packed with assorted common and exotic materials, they can be set up in towers, shot off through mortar tubes, or simply launched high in the air via rocket to explode with brilliant light and sound. Hundreds and thousands of such fireworks are used by major Technocratic cities during holidays, with several of the largest capital cities letting off as many as thirty three thousand fireworks over the course of a single hours-long display.

With the love for pyrotechnics that the Technate displays, they have a great need for experienced pyrotechnicians. In schools set up across the length of the United Technate, students are taught everything they need to know about chemicals, explosives, and how to use them in order to create brilliant displays without killing themselves in the process. Of those students, not all are trained solely for civilian work: from these schools also march the **Ordinators**, men and women signed up as explosives and demolitions technicians for the Humanitarian Guard. When the Guard goes on parade, it is they who set up and fire the fireworks displays that burst in formation overhead. And when the Guard goes to war, it is they who bring out their lightweight "Cerimônia" mortars, switching out their firecrackers for miniature jet engines that launch high up into the air and then come roaring down to earth on the heads of the enemies of Utopia. It is tough, demanding work: an Ordinator must be strong enough to lift and carry their mortar with them on the battlefield, light enough to move quickly despite the weight of their weapon, and yet armoured enough to resist fire from other artillery teams or even an accident from their own munitions. Their only defense, if cornered without enough time or space to set up, is to rely on their skill with the shotgun and the quality of their boots.

Despite the danger of their job, or perhaps because of it, the Ordinators are perhaps the most cheery of all Technocratic infantry on the field. Aware of how quickly or suddenly death can creep up on a person, they put their time and their energy to making the most out of life before their journey to the next world. More than one MIR squadron along the border has been surprised by a gas-masked Ordinator and accompanying troopers carting a cooler of tequila, several cigarette packs, some fold-out chairs, and some playing cards striding to the checkpoint, bored and looking to shoot the breeze for a while.