Xeran Military

Vortexes are armies in the Xeran Military.

## Ranks

* Vortex Marshals
* Lord Commanders (Leading Command Groups)
* Scions (Leading Web Commands)
* Commanders (Leading any smaller groups called cells or units)

## Units

### Lancer Units

Some Male groups prefer to work as ‘Lancer Units’ using heavy pole-arms or javelins that can be hurled with TK force.

### Splitter Units

Other Male teams form ‘Splitter Units’. These slow moving groups often use a TP to link them. They operate as the TK artillery or sappers. Moving slowly around the battlefield under the cover of other units Splitters tend to be lightly armed and armoured. Between them however they carry gigantic pieces of earth or rock and use them as a single massive weapon. This is the method of choice for breaching defences.

### Splinter Units

Female teams often prefer to work as ‘Splinter Units’ who carry on them hundreds and even thousands of tiny sharp missiles. With these they can form rings of defense and launch them in streams or waves depending on their needs.

### Base Builders

Mixed teams can be ‘Base-Builder Units’ who range ahead and create bridges, dams and walls. They are also expert at constructing temporary bases for armies on the move.

### Force Commando Units

Mixed teams some times are ‘Force Arts Commando Units’. These specialise in using the telekinetic force itself as their weapon rather than projectiles. Typically these are short range, unarmed and unarmoured fighters. They are used for infiltration and secretive combat operations and not typically employed wholesale on a battlefield.

### Shield Barrier Units

Mixed teams can also be used as ‘Shield Barrier Units’. These create telekinetic walls of force to shield individuals, whole units and sometimes even whole bases. They almost always incorporate TPs to allow for linking. These groups often use TS and TEs to sense for dangers and probes at the defences.

### Warning and Scout Units

Most TEs in the military fill the roles of early warning system, chaplains/counsellors and medics. Due to this they usually work attached to other units rather than in their own self-contained units. TEs tend not to like to serve in the military as the pain and horror of war is too hard for them to shut out.

### The Influence

Some work as ‘the Influence’ so-called. The Influence is the knowing surrender of emotion to TE control. It allows for the set up of 'Battlemelds'. It is extremely dangerous as if the TEs who are manipulating the emotions are suddenly removed or killed the effects on a force fighting under their effects can be catastrophic. However under their influence units can fight much better instilled with hope or driven to raging anger in moments. They cannot read each other's minds like they can with a TP Broadcaster but they feel each others workings and emotions. They become additional appendages of the same body.

The Influence units can also be used to infiltrate and inwardly destroy opposing forces. Yet this is also very difficult and dangerous. They can consistently project negative emotions such as fear, horror, cowardice. Against a non-psionic army this effect is all but undetectable. What is particularly difficult to counter about the Influence is that emotions are real and even when fake manufactured emotions are originally falsely inserted the human mind and heart makes them real enough all too soon. It is NOT mind control but in many ways that is precisely its strength

### Animal Handlers

TEs are the best at working with animals who are unable to communicate with TPs, which is most of them. Therefore TEs are best for the Vorn Roc units and the Derioch Sea Serpents.

### Comms

Telepaths in the miliarty are almost all used for one of two purposes. Communication networks across the Vortexes (Armies) or linking Units together.

The communication facet alone gives each Vortex Marshal unparalleled real-time communication with his army and his peers.

### Sealers

Sealers (TPs using their ability to seal groups of like-skilled xeren together) allow units such as ‘Splitters’ to massively increase their effectiveness. Typically a sealer works alone in a group of warriors to link them together.

Some sealers are used in psionic kill squads to seal an indivdual to himself forcing him to only use internal abilities and cutting off his ability to effect the outside world.

### Broadcasters

Broadcasters are TPs who link a small group together. Passing out information from one to another creating a web of information and by controlling it themselves preventing useless and distracting information getting through but informing all in the group of everything relevant the others are aware of and doing.

### Readers

Readers are the basic TP fighter units. TPs outnumber all other disciplines so even after being used for all their specialist roles in a general mobilisation there are still many reader units. They carry psi-blades and almost always have one broadcaster among them. As they fight the readers each take an opponent and read his mind as they fight then through the broadcaster they transmit this information to each other.

### Kill Squads

A group of readers with a broadcaster and a sealer. Networked together and sealed into one almighty reading machine the group single out an individual target read him completely transmit all the information about him to everyone in the group and then all attack in synchronized perfection. Usually they kill their target.

### White Noise Units

These units sometimes called HAVOC simply project harsh continual thoughts including images, words and noises into the minds of their opposition. As they do this the targets' minds often react summoning up their own nighhtmares and concentrating on the chaos in their heads often making it far worse. These units tend to be all women to allow for maximum wide spread effectiveness.

### Shadow Speakers

These units project false images into the senses of the opposition. Occasionally (using sealers to help) this has been attempted on whole armies at once. It is most effective though on individuals or a limited group. Often Shadow Speakers will be sent to infiltrate and control and confuse the leadership of the opposition. Sometimes Shadow Speakers are TDs as well as or instead of TSs.