Eelav/Military

Overview**Military**

The **Military Forces of Eelav** are, mostly, dominated by the **Eelavi Armed Forces** which nominally are under the control of the President as its chief executive, but also answering to the Parliament traditionally. A mass conscript body, with a professional core of personnel and officers, it is a well-trained body which is well-regarded in the country.

## Branches and Organizations

* **EELAVI STATE ARMY** - The **Eelavi State Army** (ESA) is the combat branch of the Armed Forces which are responsible for terrestrial combat and planet/station bound anti-ship battery management within a given system. Additionally, in times of war, the State Army will often provide mass infantry to the Eelavi State Marines with their own **Eelavi State Army Naval Infantry** (ESA-NI). They are marked by their forest green uniforms, and often colorful patches which designate which region or sometimes even town they come from.
* **EELAVI STATE NAVY** - The **Eelavi State Navy** (ESN) is the combat branch of the Armed Forces which are responsible for the country's navy, managing it during times of war, and also assisting in anti-piracy and territorial security in times of peace. They wear very pale green uniforms.
	+ **EELAVI STATE MARINES** - The **Eelavi State Marines** (ESM) is a sub-branch of the Eelavi State Navy, being the elite naval infantry of the Armed Forces. Wearing ornate white uniforms with metal cuirasses and helmets, accompanied by a bright red feather, they're manned by a mixture of adrenaline junkies plucked from the various branches or criminals in the Aratacian tradition-- All weathered with a grueling programming/training program.

	Their laser rifle of choice, the **Lasikaribani**, is a well known symbol of theirs.

**Other Bodies and Non-Armed Forces Bodies** **EELAVI STATE STRATEGIC SERVICE** - The **Eelavi State Strategic Service** (ESSS) is the strategic organizing and intelligence body of the Armed Forces, inspired by methods used by Karstedt. Wearing grey uniforms, they handle *the assistance of* (notably having far less power than their Karian counterparts) strategy, logistic operations, military intelligence, and other aspects. They're seen with a modicum of suspicion by the rest of the population, popularly referred to as "mil-boot spooks."

**EELAVI STATE CONSTABULATORY** - The **Eelavi State Constabulatory** (ESC) is the federal law enforcement body of Eelav. Along with providing support to station, town, municipal, regional, and planetary law enforcement bodies in upholding civil order, the constabulary also secures Eelav's etherlanes and assists in border control. They're known for their nav blue uniforms and black ballistic vests planetside, often paired with a navy blue custodian's helmet.

**ORDER OF THE ANCESETRAL WHISPER** - The **Order of the Ancestral Whisper** (otherwise known as just **The Whisper**) is a body which reports directly to the **Eelavi Metropolitan Church of Rhya**, though it existed before that, being one of the oldest existing native-Eelavi bodies. Assisting the Church in their own intelligence matters, they also provide heavy assistance to the state in regard to foreign intelligence and encryption, along with fostering Blood Technique in the country-- Though they swear fealty to neither the Order of Kiari or the Church of Vellhan, their methods in-fact, while reaching the same result, working wholly differently.

Some rumor that The Whisper, potentially, played a hand in the initial rebellion against the Technocratic March, though the body has remained utterly silent on this.