Grand Commissariat of Keltia
| Grand Commissariat of Keltia | ||
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| Founded | 1719 AN | |
| Brigadier General | ||
| Part of | Keltia Command | |
| Manpower | 14,400 | |
| Garrison | Ciudad de Anahuaco | |
The Grand Commissariat of Keltia has supreme authority over all aspects of the logistical supply systems required to sustain the forces of the Raspur Pact in the operational area of the Keltia Continental Theatre Command. Established in XII.1719 AN, the Grand Commissariat began with the establishment of supply depots and the raising of logistics regiments in Anahuaco with the intention of supporting allied operations against the Confederacy of the Dispossessed during the Wars of the Disinherited.
A Victualling Board, established in 7.XIV.1719 AN, had the onerous duty of providing sufficient rations for the armies of Normark and the Kingdom of Moorland, as well for the various deployed allied expeditionary forces active in northeast Keltia. Contracts fell, inevitably, into the hands of Superabundance Foods. Gentlemen nominated by the board of Superabundance Foods were commissioned as officers by the Grand Commissariat and in turn appointed by the Victualling Board to establish themselves in major cities and producing areas of the Wechua Nation; officers in charge at these locations were responsible for buying food in bulk and repackaging for delivery to field units. These packets would receive the stamp of Superabundance Foods before receiving the seal of warranty from the officer in charge of the designated subsistence depots.
In addition to food; fuel, lubricants, oils, and munitions, were also purchase in bulk throughout the Keltian regions of Nouvelle Alexandrie by agents of the commissariat. The Grand Commissariat would be reliant however upon the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie to operate the air bridge between Parap and Elijah's Rest which would be responsible for the delivery of the majority of stores into theatre.
The transfer of stored materiel accumulated at Elijah's Rest onward to the Kingdom of Moorland and the allied contingents engaged in Ostland, in view of the distances occupied by hostile forces in-between, was another headache for the Grand Commissariat. Again the air fleet of the New Alexandrian Federal Air Force would prove indispensable, yet the diversion of half the available transport aircraft to airlift operations in support of Hurmu during its own civil war would hamper timely deliveries. Alternative routes, by sea up the Strait of Haifa, or overland from Anahuaco via the District of Moorland were consequently also pioneered, albeit in the face of enemy resistance.
The Strait of Haifa supply route would be pioneered by the Haifa Trading Group, an affiliate of the Honourable Company in Keltia. The route had been made practicable by the occupation of former Bassarid outposts by the Imperial Federation before the Confederacy of the Dispossessed could introduce itself into the region. Nonetheless, enemy activity was appreciable towards the northern part of the strait and thus armed convoys would prove an inevitable precaution.
