Benacia Command
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Active: | 1646–the present |
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Headquarters: | Merensk |
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Type: | Command |
Size: | 1,715,084 personnel
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Nickname: | All-Consuming Maw or Benacian Beast |
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Current Commander: | Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman |
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An operational theatre command providing strategic level command and control for army sized formations on the continent of Benacia, answerable to the Joint Military Commission of the Raspur Pact. Benacia Command also serves as an institutional linkage between the Pact and the Benacian Union established in the aftermath of the Second Elwynnese Civil War.
Organisation
Background
The Benacia Command was by far the largest of the two Shirerithian led theatre commands established under the global apportionment of the continents by the SANE military alliance of Shireroth, Natopia and Constancia, subsequently renamed as the Raspur Pact in 1662 with the accession of the eponymous Khanate for its "historical" connotations. As befited a continent that was three fifths under direct Shirerithian occupation, Benacia Command contained the balance of the Imperial Forces, especially the Imperial Army, the shire:Corps of Auxiliaries, and the fighter and bomber commands of the air force. The eastern third of Benacia was also home to the so-called State Troops of the somewhat autonomous imperial states who remained independent of direct Imperial control except in wartime - a consequence of the Imperial Republic's chaotic political history.
For this reason the organisation of Benacia Command strongly mirrored the organisation of the Imperial Forces themselves, except in that the Palatini Corps, tasked with the defence of Shirekeep and the person of the Kaiser remains firmly under the control of the Imperial Government rather than the alliance at all times.
As a consequence of the Kalirion Fracture, the Benacia Command began to "disaggregate" those formations deemed to be politically reliable from out of the parallel command and control hierarchies of the Imperial Forces. Those forces which proved receptive to continued direction by the Joint Military Council of the Raspur Pact were set to securing the arsenals, depots, aerodromes, and MoMA stations which held the balance of the abundant military equipment built up by the Allied Production Matrix and which the Pact now feared would fall into the hands of third parties as Imperial authority unravelled.
Unfortunately the attempt to secure the arsenals encountered resistance from the "loyalist" Imperial Forces, especially the Imperial Army and the Western Armada, so that 75% of small arms & armoured fighting vehicles slipped out of the grasp of Benacia Command, whilst 50% of the Aurangzeb Banner Group of the Western Armada was able to escape to Musica. On the positive side, 75% of the coastal defence forces and the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces went over to the Raspur Pact aligned Benacian Stabilisation Force. However these dispersed garrisons, lacking armour, artillery, and anti-tank weapons, struggled to establish any more than a defensive perimeter around their bases and could only establish a cohesive security zone in Lachmeren around the city of Merensk whence the General Staff had hastily relocated itself from Shirekeep.
Structure
General Staff
- General Staff Council
- Command Executive
- Information Technology Directorate (D1)
- Panopticon Bureau (D1-1)
- Data Networks Bureau (D1-2)
- Communications Bureau (D1-3)
- Logistics Directorate (D2)
- Commissariat Bureau (D2-1)
- Land Forces Office (D2-1-1)
- Naval Forces Office (D2-1-2)
- Aerospace Forces Office (D2-1-3)
- Facilities & Inspectorate Office (D2-1-4)
- Supply & Production Bureau (D2-2)
- Transportation Bureau (D2-3)
- Commissariat Bureau (D2-1)
- Manpower Directorate (D3)
- Planning Directorate (D4)
- Operations Directorate (D5)
- Military Intelligence Directorate (D6)
- Analysis & Estimates Bureau (D6-1)
- Office of Assessments (D6-1-1)
- Skivniki Desk (D6-1-1-1)
- Vultures Desk (D6-1-1-2)
- Organised Forces Desk (D6-1-1-3
- Abominations (Bassarid) Desk (D6-1-1-4
- Abominations (Other) Desk (D6-1-1-5)
- Office of Assessments (D6-1-1)
- Signals Bureau (D6-2)
- Analysis & Estimates Bureau (D6-1)
- Political Directorate (D7)
- Territorial Administration Bureau (D7-1)
- Military-Industrial Relations Bureau (D7-2)
- Special Operations Group (D7-3)
- Political Relations Bureau - Benacia (D7-4)
- Joint Military Council Liaison (D7-5)
- Bureau for Relations with Foreign Powers (D7-6)
- Information Technology Directorate (D1)
- General Inspectorate of Benacia Command
- Grand Commissariat of Benacia Command
- Command Executive
Central Banner Group
Lead Nation: Benacian Union
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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Siyacher Hohm | Siyachia, Upland Confederation | Litkov |
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Lachdolor, Upper Lywall | Sansabury |
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Austland | Peroz-Liv |
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Lower Lywall | Klymdown |
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Lachmeren | Merensk |
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Litel | Laikum's Wald |
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Kalgachia | Oktavyan |
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Theatre-wide | Łoïdhafen Sansabury | ![]() | |
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Cosimo Sea | Marinestation Šlomxala | ![]() |
Eastern Banner Group
Lead Nation: Benacian Union (Benacian Union Defence Force)
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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Chryse | Chryse |
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Ransenar | Goldfield |
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Northern Banner Group
Lead National Contingent: Benacian Union Defence Force
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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General Government - East | B'cawshrine |
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Boreal Seas | La Terre |
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Elluenuueq |
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Southern Banner Group
Lead National Contingent: Imperial Forces
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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Capitolia |
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Shirekeep |
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Cercé |
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Novi Nigrad |
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Rhodondra |
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Musica |
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Western Banner Group
Lead Contingent: Imperial Forces
- In 1712 AN responsibility for the Western Banner Group was transferred to Shireroth as part of the reorganisation and integration of the Batavian Armed Forces into the Imperial system.
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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's-Koningenwaarde |
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's-Koningenwaarde |
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Tiny Banner Group
Lead National Contingent: Mondosphere
Army | Area of Operations | Headquarters | Subordinate Units | Commandant |
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Ermingander Village |
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General Inspectorate of Benacia Command
The General Inspectorate, formed of 16,800 men across fourteen regiments, is a cadre formation directly raised by Benacia Command from retired noncommissioned officers of allied armed forces and from directly enlisted volunteers. The General Inspectorate is available to meet the specific enlisted manpower requirements of Command Executive for its subordinate directorates, particularly in regards to administration, discipline, logistics, intelligence, security, standards, and all other tasks of a general nature.
Officers for the inspectorate regiments, up to the rank of senior tribune, are selected from the more promising of the retired NCOs to be nominated to the General Inspectorate by the allied militaries of Benacia.
Administratively the regiments of the General Inspectorate report to the Quartermaster General of the Command Executive.
Additional ad hoc auxiliary formations may also be raised and placed under the authority of the General Inspectorate as circumstances require. Typically these will be of a militia variety assigned to counterinsurgency operations and line of communications protection duties.
In late 1707 AN the Internal Security Bureau of Benacia Command was removed from the Intelligence Directorate and amalgamated with the General Inspectorate.
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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Frumst Frainan Alejian Lokke ("Magister Primum") |
1646 | 1665 |
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Frumst Frainan Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion (Prince of Modan) |
1665 | 1668 |
Post vacant | 1668 | 1670 | ||
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Frainan Hohmin Constantine Loup (Brevet Frumst Frainan) |
1670 | 06.XI.1671 |
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Frumst Frainan Constantine Loup |
06.XI.1671 | 14.XIV.1678 |
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Frumst Frainan Jeremiah Avon-El |
17.XV.1678 | 11.V.1683 |
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Frumst Frainan Vüqar Rugahi |
11.V.1683 | 12.I.1694 |
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Frumst Frainan Jeremiah Avon-El |
12.I.1694 | 13.III.1704 AN |
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Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman (Brevet Frumst Frainan) |
13.III.1704 AN | in post |
Chief of the General Staff
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Frainan Hohmin Majeed Farsang |
1646 | 1660 | |
2 | Frainan Hohmin Horsten Alban |
1660 | 1663 | |
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Frainan Hohmin Aumon Sclavenius |
1663 | 06.XI.1671 |
4 | Frainan Streïakeï Mog Selfaþloþ Olnur |
06.XI.1671 | 17.XV.1678 | |
5 | Frainan Streïakeï Vüqar Rugahi |
17.XV.1678 | 11.V.1683 | |
6 | Frainan Streïakeï Herlot bi Merensk |
11.V.1683 | in post |
Quartermaster General
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Frainan Hohmin Artur Lomax |
1646 | 1657 | |
2 | Frainan Hohmin Sardar Mallik Zafar Bahadur |
1657 | 1671 | |
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Frainan Hohmin Aumon Sclavenius |
06.XI.1671 | 17.XV.1678 |
4 | Frainan Hohmin Herlot bi Merensk |
17.XV.1678 | 11.V.1683 | |
5 | Frainan Hohmin Abdollah Abbasi |
11.V.1683 | in post |
Directorates
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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7 | Frainan Uihmanzis Karekin Bolkvadze |
06.XI.1671 |
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2 | Frainan Uihmanzis Ermanaric Parsamyan |
1665 | 06.XI.1671 |
3 | Frainan Uihmanzis Horst Kalerman |
06.XI.1671 | 17.XV.1678 |
4 | Frainan Uihmanzis Iago Kolbust |
17.XV.1678 |
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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5 | Frainan Uihmanzis Ardashir Mooshian |
06.XI.1671 |
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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5 | Frainan Uihmanzis Abdollah Abbasi |
06.XI.1671 | 11.V.1683 |
6 | Frainan Uihmanzis Zoltan Naranyan |
11.V.1683 | in post |
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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4 | Frainan Uihmanzis Rudolf Maisuradze |
06.XI.1671 |
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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5 | Frainan Uihmanzis Herlot bi Merensk |
06.XI.1671 | 17.XV.1678 |
6 | Frainan Uihmanzis Manfred Selerensk |
17.XV.1678 | 11.I.1694 AN |
Position vacant | 11.I.1694 AN | 19.VIII.1694 AN | |
7 | Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman |
19.VIII.1694 AN |
№ | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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2 | Frainan Uihmanzis Vüqar Rugahi |
06.XI.1671 | 17.XV.1678 |
3 | Frainan Uihmanzis Aryo Barzan |
17.XV.1678 |
Banner Groups
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Frainan-Hohmin Hugh O'Neill |
1646 | 1660 | |
Post Vacant | 1660 | 1665 | ||
2 | Frainan-Streïakeï Aodh bi Uaneill |
1665 | 1665 | |
3 | Frumst Frainan Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion (Prince of Modan) |
1665 | 1668 | |
4 | Frainan-Streïakeï Aodh bi Uaneill |
1670 | 1678 | |
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Frainan-Streïakeï Bruno Rambert Strohkirch |
17.XV.1678 | 8.VII.1691 AN (Executed: back broken) |
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Frainan-Streïakeï Jeremiah Avon-El |
8.VII.1691 AN | 12.I.1694 AN |
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Frainan-Streïakeï Zacharias Avon-El |
12.I.1694 AN |
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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Överbefälhavaren (UDF) Noah Hallbjörnsson ("King of Elwynn") |
1646 | 1651 |
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Generalmajor (UDF) Daniyal Sikander Dravot |
1651 | 1654 |
3 | Frainan Uihmanzis Flavius Magnus† (Frainan-Streïakeï) |
1654 | 1660 | |
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Frainan Uihmanzis Constantine Loup (Frainan-Streïakeï) |
1660 | 1663 |
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Frainan Hohmin Constantine Loup (Frainan-Streïakeï) |
1663 | 1670 |
Post Vacant | 1670 | 06.XI.1671 | ||
6 | - | Frainan Streïakeï Horten Mercator |
06.XI.1671 | 24.XIV.1672 |
Post Vacant | 24.XIV.1672 | 16.IV.1673 | ||
7 | - | Frainan Hohmin Mihrzād Gushnasp |
16.IV.1673 | 19.VIII.1694 AN |
8 | - | Frainan Streïakeï Adam al-Osman |
19.VIII.1694 AN |
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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Frainan Streïakeï-bi-Mari Ryker Everstone (King of Goldshire) |
1646 | 1668 |
Post Vacant | 1668 | 1672 | ||
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Frainan Uihmanzis Selardi Jen Daniyal |
18.V.1672 | 16.IV.1673 |
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Frainan Hohmin Selardi Jen Daniyal |
16.IV.1673 | 19.VIII.1694 AN |
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Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman |
19.VIII.1694 AN | 9.XIII.1696 AN |
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The Honourable Troy Lyon (Minister of Defense and Security) |
9.XIII.1696 AN |
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Frainan-bi-Mari Uihmanzis Fax Caliban |
1646 | 1663 | |
2 | Frainan Hohmin Horsten Alban (brevet Frainan-Streïakeï) |
1663 | 1665 | |
Post Vacant | 1665 | 06.XI.1671 | ||
3 | Frainan Uihmanzis Ermanaric Parsamyan |
06.XI.1671 | 20.XII.1672 | |
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Frainan-bi-Mari Streïakeï Ryabin Chryseoï (Evocatus) |
20.XII.1672 | 13.VIII.1679 |
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Frainan Hohmin Ira Rasputin (Magister militum per Draconis) |
13.VIII.1679 | 13.II.1690 |
Post Vacant | 13.II.1690 | 09.XI.1690 | ||
6 | File:Tanilo Lamifo Woodfield.png | Shenerel Tanilo Lamifo Woodfield (Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Council) |
09.XI.1690 | 1.I.1696 |
Post Vacant | 1.I.1696 | 9.XIII.1696 AN | ||
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Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman |
9.XIII.1696 AN | 13.III.1704 AN |
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Frainan Streïakeï Lors Bakker-Kalirion |
13.III.1704 AN |
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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Frainan Uihmanzis Constantine Loup |
1656 | 1660 |
2 | . | Frainan Uihmanzis Ermanaric Parsamyan |
1660 | 1665 |
3 | . | Frainan Uihmanzis Jeremiah Avon-El |
1665 | 1678 |
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Frainan Uihmanzis Ulrich Varens |
17.XV.1678 | 19.VIII.1694 AN |
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Frainan Hohmin Ulrich Varens |
19.VIII.1694 AN | 20.XII.1712 AN |
6 | Veldmaarschalk en Opperbevelhebber Hermanus Baerdemans |
20.XII.1712 AN |
№ | Portrait | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
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1 | General Tabitha Drax |
14.IX.1717 AN |
Establishment
Operational Activity
Main article: Concluded Military Operations
Date | Formation | Subject | Summary |
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Directives
Main Article: Directives of Benacia Command
Directives issued by Benacia Command are binding upon all Raspur Pact personnel assigned to the continental theatre of operations, particularly the Black Legions and affiliated allied militias, as well as upon all residents of territories under martial law following the Declaration of Merensk in 1671. The general purpose of these directives is to provide for the establishment and enforcement of policies and procedures deriving authority from the Declaration of Merensk, the Constitution of Drakorda, the Charter of Coordination, and relevant portions of Imperial Law.