OverWatch Army

### Collaborators

A.T.L.A.S. Corporation, OverWatch Navy, OverWatch Starfighter Corps, OWISCB, S1 Division, S2 Division, S3 Division

**The OverWatch Army** is a primary branch of the 5th Army's military force that handles domestic defense, and land-based combat. Their primary objective is to provide land warfare on OverWatch occupied and colonised planets. Army forces are designated onto said planets in military bases across each sector, under the command of a major general. On a regional level, each core of a sector has its own army, often head by a general. Collectively speaking, a sectorial army consists of every army operatives in a single sector, head by a marshal. Soldiers are considered to be highly skilled, and are trained to operate APCs, tanks and large combat exosuits. The OverWatch army is severely infamous by asserting dominance on many of the colonised planets, especially the more unruly ones.

## Structure

The Army's structure is complex, and can be interpreted in several different ways; administrative, operational, branches, functional areas.

### General Staff

The daily operations in the Army are carried out by the Army's General Staff. The board is led by a uniformed officer with the rank of Marshal - holding the title of section chief, who reports to the Administrator of the armed forces. In light of the second civil war, the section chief now reports to the overseer of the armed forces. Members of the General Staff are Marshals of each Sectoral armies. The General Staff is also part of the OverWatch Upper Command, a sub-unit to the Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces.

### Infantry

The Army is made of 3 components, the Regular Army, the Planetary Army, and the Army Reserve. The two latter components comprise of part-time soldiers that train less frequently than the regular army. The Regular Army trains on a daily basis, and specialize in landing operations. The Regular Army's headquarters are situated at Homebase and each of the Sector's capital planets. The Planetary Army speacializes in operating on designated planets, and operate on colonized and occupied planets. The Army Reserve functions as a reserve force, only to be used for support on capital planets and the Regular Army, therefore it is the least active of all 3 components. The Reserve are most active only on or nearby sanctioned planets, such as 5687-C or any of the Micrean planets.

### Special Forces

Special Forces is a department in the Army that completes missions through unconventional methods. They're responsible mostly internal defense, direct action, counter terrorism, counterinsurgency, special reconnaissance, information operations, and security force assistance. The 477th Army Regiment of Faes were assigned as a Special Force unit when it was first formed to fight in the Sector C insurrections.

### Agencies

The Army has several agencies that operates specific sections, such as communications, engineering, finance, transportationm etc. The Cybernetics Department is a primary agency that specializes in Cybernetic warfare and enhancement, and was initially founded by administrator Y for sharing the same interest as major general Reiaan Fiquel's old mentor, Frank Palmer. The department was part of Rei's division, the 32nd Army Division of Sector C, but after Rei was promoted to lieutenant general, the agency now worked in the 11th Army Corps.

The Quartermasters Corps is mentioned several times as the "logistics" unit of the army. Essentially, they provide the Army with rations, equipments, weapons storage - including maintenance, and artillery.

### Operation unit structure

The entire army is divided into smaller forces that protects and operates in certain regions. The OverWatch Army has 3 Sectorial Armies that operate in each specific sector of the LANIAKEA supercluster. The Sectorial army is headed by a marshal with a high general as a deputy, only 4 marshals may be active in the military - one for each sectorial army and one to act as section chief. A Sectorial Army comprises of Core Armies - headed by a general or high general with a lieutenant general as a deputy. There's one in each core region within a Sector, adding a total of 5 Core Armies in each Sector, head. A Core Army consists of several Army Corps, at least 3, which operates mainly on a galactic scale, headed by a designated lieutenant general with a major general as a deputy. Army Corps consists of 2 divisions, each division operate a specific section of the corps, such as the Cybernetics Deparmtent. A division is headed by a major general, with a designated brigadier general as the deputy. A division comprises 4 brigades that operates on a planetary scale, such as colonies and occupied planets. Brigadier generals command brigades, with a high colonel as a deputy. Brigades comprises of regiments, that varies between 4 and 6, and are headed by a colonel or high colonel with a lieutenant colonel as a deputy. Further down, regiments comprise of 4 or more battalions commanded by majors, and deputied by a designated captain. Battalions are made up of companies, commanded by captains and deputied by a designated lieutenants. Lieutenants or second lieutenants command platoons of 4 to 5 squads, which are deputied by a sergeant first class, and squads comprise of 7 to 11 soldiers, commanded by a sergeant or sergeant first class, deputied by a corporal.

### Known units

* Sector A's Sectorial Army
	+ 1st Core Army of Sector A
* Sector B's Sectorial Army
	+ 2nd Core Army of Sector B
		- Unknown Corps
			* Unknown Division
				+ Unknown Brigade
					- 7th Army Regiment of Sector B
	+ 5th Core Army of Sector B
		- Unknown Corps
			* Unknown Division
				+ Unknown Brigade
					- 15th Army Regiment of Sector B
		- 15th Army Corps of Sector B
			* 29th Division of Sector B
				+ 116th Brigade of Sector B
					- 433rd Army Regiment of Sector B
	+ Velstin Squad
* Sector C's Sectorial Army
	+ 1st Core Army of Sector C
		- Unknown Corps
			* Unknown Division
				+ Unknown Brigade
					- 18th Army Regiment of Sector C
	+ 3rd Core Army of Sector C
		- 11th Army Corps of Sector C (Includes Cybernetics Department)
			* 25th Army Division of Sector C
			* 30th Army Division of Sector C
				+ 117th Brigade of Sector C
				+ 118th Brigade of Sector C
				+ 119th Brigade of Sector C
					- 477th Regiment of Faes
				+ Unknown Brigade
					- Unknown Regiment
						* 211th Battalion of Sector C
							+ 379th Company of Sector C
	+ Velstin Squad

## History

### Pre-Phase 1

During the Era 2 reformations, the army was formed from the reminants of Era 1's OverWatch 5th Dimensional Army forces. Throughout this time the army has been through multiple operations, and campaigned for "total defense" by constructing massive military bases on every occupied planet in the 5th dimension. The army also commissioned safety for Earth, specifically by adminsitrator X - which was to construct a system of bases across the planet known as "Earth's Fortified Continental OverWatch Bases".

At some point after the Facility CHROMA breach, Crest was officially made an army marshal and was incharge of the sectorial army of Sector C.

At another point, Reiaan Fiquel and Raikan Velstin sat in an army reserve unit on their home planet. At this point, Rei had gotten a cybernatic arm in which he had lost his real arm during an insurgent attack at his military base, and Raikan was serving as a fellow soldier. During one incident, that has remained unclear for awhile, Raikan went into a life threatening injury that caused him to undergo a full body cybernetic replacement in order to keep him alive. Raikan was led to believe that Rei had caused his injury and dehumanization, evidence seemingly provided by the Internal Service Core that led to Rei losing his other arm by being sent into an unprepared conflict instead of being court martialed. This incident, according to Rei, seemingly was an unethical experiment by the ISC on cybernetics, believing that they intentionally injured Raikan in order to have him transformed into a full on cyborg, and pinning the evidence to Rei to clear their tracks.

The army participated in the massive insurrection of Sector C, primarily leading landing operations on planets that had gone unruly. Lieutenant general Karl Fergus led the support from Sector A, whereas Sector C's main forces were under the command of high general Crest. During this time, Brigadier general Reiaan Fiquel commanded the 90th Brigade of Sector C. Naofa Niro was newly graduated from her OverWatch academy [REDACTED], and was unprecedently assigned as a high colonel as conflict broke out, serving under the 90th Brigade, commanding the 477th Army Regiment of Faes.

At some point before the Four Horsemen's surgance, administrator Y organized the Cybernetics Department, placing a newly promoted major general Rei incharge.

### Phase 1

An OverWatch army cell under the command of major Ideki was dispatched into the city of Sargon on 3012-C to intercept a defecting officer with highly classified experimental equipments, the officer was later revealed to be War of the Four Horsemen. Upon finding discovering an influx of malignant refugees, Task force commander Fish - on behalf of Sector C's Joint Staff - dispatched Lieutenant commander Kenya and First class agent Naofa Niro to assist in the apprehension of the refugees. The latter was assigned to lead a platoon detachment from Site-88 in the Resquis region, under the command of Lieutenant Justin Jenkins. The platoon was immediately wiped by Death, and was close to killing Lieutenant Jenkins, but was thwarted from Naofa's sheer will to keep him alive. Jenkins was badly wounded, but was treated by Captain Sera Jelastock and her medical team. The army's cybernetics department went into Earth's Inquisition Team's disposal during its initial formation, and was seen participating in the first Resquis raid. Major general Rei Fiquel became a member of the inquisition team, along with his Mesa Squad. In the aftermath, Rei attended the Joint Staff meeting, revealing to be the Associate Chief of Defense for Sector C, though the actual Chief of Defense, High general Fergus, was absent from the meeting. The Army later participated in Operation: KU-TAKEDOWN, where a detachment from Site-11, under the command of Task force commander Fish, was sent to seize Kukui University in disguise as members of the National Guard in order to track down and execute malignant refugees hiding out in the University, as a form of response against the Resistance. Earth's Inquisition Team participated in the operation, General Rei though was more hesitant this time due to actual students being present at the grounds of the operation. During the aftermath, High general Karl Fergus attended the joint session between the joint staff of Sector C and Earth's Inquisition Team.

### Phase 2

During Doctor Colress' reaping campaign of Ender Crystals, it was first assumed that soldiers stationed at Site-88 assisted the first reaping in the Resquis region. However, in actuality it was a covert operation led by the 101st Marine Regiment and Epsilon-2. General Rei led his Mesa Squad and an army detachment, along with SIGMA Company and Epsilon-2 in a joint operation with the Internal Affairs Bureau's OverWatch Contraband Control Agency to commence a raid of an illegal ender crystal farm overseen by War and Famine. During the prison breach on 9222-C, the planetary army was seen cooperating with the OverWatch Offices of Criminal Investigations. At the same time, the Army had a scuffle against a checkpoint breach on 8381-C, additional reinforcement was provided by the Oppressor Fleet's Army landing unit, where it is revealed that Lieutenant Jenkins, now Captain, was assigned as commander of the 379th Company for the Oppressor Fleet. The checkpoint's security was however still compromised and eventually the destruction of the checkpoint after the Absolution crashed landed into it. Captain Jenkins had become Senior captain Sera's subordinate at this point, and was seen assisting the casualties in the aftermath. Later, Marshal Crest took the helms on Earth and conducted a second raid on Resquis with the help of a battalion of soldiers from Site-88, led by Major Urban West. In the aftermath of the raid, Raikan had apparently been lifted to Brigadier general.

### Phase 3

Major general Rei's Ender-tech infused cybernetics project had undergone numerous tests, one experiment on the deserted planet 7273-C - went horribly wrong after miscommunication between Rei and his lieutenant, Brigadier general Raikan. After Rei seeked guidance from him and Raikan's old mentor, Frank Palmer, they commenced another experiment under the supervision of Administrator Y, which went well this time, leading to an approval of a project to localize cybernetics by the General Staff. As a direct consequence to this, the Resistance caught wind of Rei's project, deciding to make an attempt at starting their own line of cybernetics, by pirating and stealing mechanical parts and storing them at an old defunct Era 1 OverWatch warehouse on one of the moons of the gas giant planet 7705-C, that served as a lab, overseen by Famine. In response, Rei teamed up with Naofa and her Marines of the 95th Brigade to a small scaled raid on the lab, forcing the Resistance to abandon the warehouse and subsequently the entire project as a much larger affair required a lot of attention. That affair being the largescaled operation on Maplewood, Operation: DAY-BREAK, which took place in the aftermath of the Site-9 raid.

The notorious pirate clan of Sector B, the Red Right Hand, made its resurgance through two attacks on OverWatch, the first being on Judgement Core's Planet-Killer, and another on the Oppressor Fleet's medical fleet. A cell managed to board and infiltrate Senior captain Sera's medical frigate, the Clemency, and the main defense was handled by units of the 379th Regiment, commanded by Captain Jenkins. The 379th later assisted in the termination of the clan's leader, Ruz'gimon "Red" Anaithnid. As the termination concluded, Jenkins was promoted to Major, taking the command of the 211th Battalion.

All army forces were under the command of General Warwick Cass of the 3rd Core Army of Sector C, leading S3 Division's secondary forces that were said to be the 11th Army Corps' 32nd Division with both its 89th and 88th Brigade, as well as S2's tertiary forces lead by that consisted of Major general Rei's Mesa Squad and the elite Marine Squad, Epsilon-2, under the unit name "Division 1". Division 1 saw the bloodiest casualties on the frontlines, and at one point was forced to split up, between Rei's unit and Epsilon-2. In the aftermath, the army, in conjunction with the navy, OWISCB and the Starfighter Corpse, executed the operation - the army had the highest casualty count of over 6700 army troopers. Crest was retired from the army after accepting the offer as Overseer of the 5th Army's armed forces, earning his spot as chairman of the Joint Staff general assembly, and thus his spot as marshal of Sector C's sectorial army was given to marshal Tai Aura.

Roughly a week after Operation: DAY-BREAK, the Resistance's Liberatus were traced and spotted by Resquis Academy, which had been abandoned after supposed threatening movements from Site-88. A detachment led by Site-88's director, Major general Tenn Sullivan, was sent to the Academy and suppress whatever the Resistance were there for. Considering that Bronze Ark was attending the mission, Crest took it upon himself to personally supervise the assault. After Resquis Academy was destroyed by Magnumetic bombing, Crest learned that Liberatus were at Resquis to track down the legendary Herald and one of the original founders of the Council, Ichor Seraphim. Almost two weeks after Operation: DAY-BREAK, Grand administrator Z summoned a meeting with several military officials, among whom were the chiefs of staff, a couple selected members and the directors of border defense to form the joint chiefs of suppression, in order to advance OverWatch's war efforts for the second civil war. Among attending was the Army's section chief - Marshal Kuriko Sato. After Rei was promoted to Lieutenant General, he rose to becoming leader of the 11th Army Corps, where he expanded the Cybernetics Department to several key galaxies in Sector C. This would eventually be apart of his plan for defection, as these key galaxies house important data centers.

### Phase 4

2 years into the civil war and the army had increased in size and armaments. Despite this however, upon declaration of war the military underwent a reorganization, the Army saw a downsize of authority and power as more focus was set upon the Navy and the ISCB in order to properly advance the war across the supercluster, hence why some of the rank insignias had been changed. The planetary army of the occupied planet 9107-C in the Sector C and B border region were actively participating in a siege, in conjunction with S2 Division's Kenya Squad, Nova Squad and the Marine Services. It ended with the Army fleeing after the city's surface was destroyed by the Resistance shooting down a cruiser. At another planet, on 4040-C, S3 Division's 11th Army Corps under the command of Lieutenant general Rei - in conjunction with the OWISCB's Niro Squad - attempted to suppress the insurgency during a landing operation, though it ended with the destruction of the planet's Nexus, forcing Rei to draw his troops back. The border between Sector C and B was crumbling, and the last frontier was a checkpoint planet called 6211-C, the army's planetary forces cooperated with the navy in an operation organized by the joint chiefs of suppression; Operation: ASSAULT-SAVANNA, under the command of checkpoint chief General Olaf Svensen of Sector B's 2nd Core Army, commanding the 7th Army Regiment with High Colonel Winston Connor. The Army's forward defense was crippled by the Resistance's secret weapon, "7", and the overwhelming forces of the Resistance, which took the life of General Svensen in the hands of Death.

All army command was temporarily given to Colonel Connor, before ceding them to S1 Division commander and Sector B's Marshal, Masaru Oda, who had entered the battle nearing its end in order to evacuate all ground forces. The Army participated in the counter raid of outpost SIGMA, leading several landing missions under the command of Lieutenant General Fiquel. In the aftermath, Rei's lieutenant, Major General Raikan Velstin, made the discovery of Rei's secret data corruption campaign that had been causing the several data corruptions and leaks across Sector C's and B's data storage facilities. After reporting this to Director Marude of the OWISCB, Rei defected by making an attempt of escape after being approached for arrest. Rei was apprehended and sentenced to execution after shooting down an offer made by Overseer Crest. Though before his execution, Rei managed to escape his transporting ship with his two closest subordinates who were also arrested. Raikan was awarded a promotion for not only reporting Rei, but to also replace him in the leadership of the Cybernetics Department and the 11th Army Corps of Sector C. Overseer Crest had also appointed General Tsuka Koshoyo to take Rei's seat as Sector C's Associate Chief of Defense in the Joint Staff.

On 2201-B, Sector B's 15th Army Regiment of S1 Division had been in a several month long siege alongside Sector C's aide under the command of High General Karl Fergus, who commanded both the 15th and one of his core army's regiment, the 18th, in conjunction with the Navy and ISCB that began as a landing operation. After 4 months of battling in a military stalemate, the battle flipped after Commander Dorian Macaray of the Naval Command, apart of Hakeemawa Squad, and Admiral Alison Raelegh - the commander of the naval forces during the siege, opted to defect as soon as the battle began favoring OverWatch, after being compelled by Ace and revelations of Naofa's mother's death. After being defeated, General Fergus was killed by "7" after being sent out to clean up loose ends. It was mentioned that Fergus' death had lead to a total clean house operation in the Senate conducted by the IAB, seemingly leaving a brief power vacuum, according to Director Ryan Ericsson, General Koshoyo was lifted to interim Chief of Defense shortly afterwards. During Operation: FAE-SUBMISSION, the OverWatch Army commenced a landing operation with the Navy's Marine Forces, displaying their new Mk.IV Combat Armor. The Army landing forces, the 15th Army Corps, were under the command of Harima Fleet's landing force's commander, High general Morinco Kobayashi, who also commanded S3 Division's forces during the operation. Colonel Khurt Wens the 433rd Army Regiment that General Kobayashi chose to land with. Marshal Sato participated in the operation as well, being the de facto commander of all Army forces, Marshal Oda was also present - being the de jure commander of Sector B's forces - supervised and led the 433rd Regiment. All Army forces were forced to retreat once the capital city was destroyed by an unspeakable force that came from Naofa Niro once she gained full power of the Outside.

### Phase 5

The army intervened the OWGRO lab raid conducted by Void and his group in District 3. Doctor Colress commanded the company that were tasked to eliminate the threat and secure the labs.

## Uniform

The standard uniform for the Army is split between the non-commissioned and commissioned officers. Noncoms in the army wear a gray tunic and pants that are specifically used for ceremonial purposes, they have a pocket on the right arm for their security cylinders, and above that is the rank insignia, and on the left arm is the symbol of the 5th Army's red circle. Like the rest of the military, they have a belt equipped around the midriff with their designation disk on the buckle. Line and warrant officers are issued the more iconic and recognizable gray tunic, pants, and black pair of boots, their security cylinders are pocketed in 2 chest pockets on both sides of the chest, and the rank plaque attached on their left side. The matching colored gray uniform cap share the same design as every other in the military, only that the emblem takes shape of a dagger within a ring, symbolizing the dagger on the 5th Army's coat of arms. Senior officers in the Army, in this case being a Marshal, are issued a special variant of an officer's uniform, being colored white, with golden epaulettes on the shoulders. It is mentioned that Marshal Kuriko Sato, upon becoming a Marshal, wears a white pencil skirt and black heels.

Out in the field, Army soldiers and officers are equipped with the standard issued Combat Armor. It has been said that the Mk.II Combat Armor replaced the inferior Mk.I Combat Armor in the early days Era 2, though at some point they were replaced with the Mk.III Combat Armor. It wasn't until the second civil war was when the military introduced the new Mk.IV Combat Armor, which was issued and first used in the large scaled campagin, Operation: FAE-SUBMISSION. Warrant officers in the army are equipped with uniforms adapted to their work in the field, mechanical officers for instance wear a gray coverall suit similar to the uniform that Naval Crewman wear.

Army infantry units are trained to use the standard issued weapons, so while on duty they're equipped with the LE 5-7 pistol, and in the field or in a situation of additional reinforcement - the OI-89 assault rifle. Infantry units specialized to carry and use shotguns, are equipped with the XA-12 automatic shotgun. Grenadiers and pyrotechnics have been observed to be equipped with either a handheld grenade launcher or a grenade launcher attachment on their assault rifles. Sniper units are trained to use the XM-i7 pulse rifle.

## Members

### Current members

* Kuriko Sato - Marshal, branch chief
* Masaru Oda - Marshal, marshal of Sector B's sectorial army
* Tai Aura - Marshal, marshal of Sector C's sectorial army
* Morinco Kobayashi - High general
* Tsuka Koshoyo - General, Chief of Defense in Sector C
* Warwick Cass - General
* Raikan Velstin - Lieutenant general, head of the cybernetics division
* Geert Limus - Lieutenant general
* Tenn Sullivan - Major general, Site 88 director
* Winston Connor - High colonel
* Khurt Wens - Colonel
* Urban West - Major
* Ideki - Major
* David Brook - Warrant officer first class
* Edward Macaray - Warrant officer second class
* Toomas Dun - Sergeant major
* Anders - Sergeant

### Former members

* Crest - Marshal *(Promoted to overseer of the military)*
* Karl Fergus - High general †
* Olaf Svensen - General †
* Reiaan Fiquel - Lieutenant general *(Defected)*
* Naofa Niro - High colonel *(Transferred to the OWISCB; later defected)*
* Imi Nasaru - Colonel †
* Justin Jenkins - Major *(Transferred to the OWISCB)*