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{{Infobox military unit
|title = Sathrati Guard
|native_name = {{PAGENAME}}
|image = [[file:Jaysh al-Sathrati Emblem.png|75px]]
|caption =
|dates = {{AN|1639}} – {{AN|1732}}
|countries = {{team flag|Shireroth}}
*{{team flag|Sathrati}}
|allegiance = {{team flag|ESB}}
|branch =  [[ESB Group#Directorate of Security|Security Directorate]]
|type =
|role =
|size =
|garrison =
|current_commander_label = Magister
|current_commander = [[Lors Bakker-Kalirion]]
|ceremonial_chief_label = [[Emira of Sathrati]]
|ceremonial_chief = [[Salome]]
}}
==Organisation==


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===Order of Battle===


|align=center colspan=2 | <div style="margin:0;background-color:#0404B4;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #0404B4;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''Jaysh al-Sathrati'''
{{tree list}}
*'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''
**''GHQ''
**'''I (Sathrati) Corps'''
***1st Division - Area Defence
***2nd Division - Armoured Cavalry
***3rd Division - Armoured Cavalry
***4th Division - Light Infantry
***5th Division - Light Infantry
**'''II (Jadid Khaz Modan) Corps'''
***8th Division - Area Defence
***9th Division - Armoured Cavalry
***10th Division - Armoured Cavalry
***11th Division - Light Infantry
***12th Division - Light Infantry
**'''Support Command'''
***6th (Naval) Division - Littoral Defence
****1st (Amity) Sector Flotilla
****2nd (Mirioth) Sector Flotilla
****3rd (Yardistan) Sector Flotilla
****4th Fast Attack Flotilla
***7th (Air Support) Division - Army Cooperation / Air Support
**'''Commissariat'''
***13th Division
**'''Inspectorate'''
***14th Division
{{tree list/end}}
 
==Establishment==
*Senior Officers:
**Magisters: 14
**Duces: 29
*Regimental Officers:
**Senior Tribunes: 176
**Standard Tribunes: 352
**Cohort Tribunes: 588
*Junior Officers:
**Captains: 1,806
**Lieutenants: 3,612
**Subalterns: 5,419
*Warrant Officers:
**Petty Officers: 4,704
**1st Class: 588
**2nd Class: 1,764
*Other ranks:
**Sergeants: 5,292
**Corporals: 26,461
**Privates: 211,692
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!rowspan="2"| Item !!rowspan="2"| Available !!colspan="20"| Jaysh al-Sathrati  !!rowspan="2"|  Assigned !!rowspan="2"|  Delta
|-
! GHQ || I (Sathrati) Corps HQ || 1st Div (Area Def) || 2nd Div (Arm Cav) || 3rd Div (Arm Cav) || 4th Div (Light Inf) || 5th Div (Light Inf) || II (Jadid Khaz Modan) Corps HQ || 8th Div (Area Def) || 9th Div (Arm Cav) || 10th Div (Arm Cav) || 11th Div (Light Inf) || 12th Div (Light Inf) || Support Command HQ || 6th (Naval) Div || 7th (Air Support) Div || Commissariat HQ || 12th Div || Inspectorate HQ || 13th Div
|-
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |Personnel
|-
| Senior Officers || 60 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 60 || 0
|-
| Regimental Officers || 1,116 || 26 || 18 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 18 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 46 || 18 || 46 || 46 || 18 || 46 || 18 || 46 || 757 || 359
|-
| Junior Officers || 10,837 || 24 || 24 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 24 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 202 || 24 || 202 || 202 || 24 || 202 || 24 || 202 || 2,352 || 8,485
|-
| Warrant Officers || 7,056 || 27 || 27 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 27 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 232 || 27 || 232 || 232 || 27 || 232 || 27 || 232 || 3,411 || 3,645
|-
| NCO's || 31,754 || 252 || 252 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 252 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 252 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 252 || 2,160 || 252 || 2,160 || 31,754 || 0
|-
| Soldiers || 211,692 || 1,682 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 211,692 || 0
|-
| Total || 262,515 || 2,014 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 17,043 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 250,642 || 11,873
|-
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Side arms & rifles
|-
| M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm rifle || 20,589 ||  || 1,682 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 1,143 || 1,682 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 1,682 ||  ||  ||  || 14,400 ||  ||  || 20,589 || 0
|-
| M1525 9 mm pistol || 20,800 || 80 || 71 || 483 || 483 || 483 || 2,643 || 874 || 71 || 483 || 483 || 483 || 2,643 || 2,643 || 71 || 2,643 || 2,643 || 71 || 2,643 || 323 || 483 || 20,800 || 0
|-
| M1581 7.62 mm machine carbine || 22,648 || 78 ||  ||  || 7,594 ||  ||  || 71 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 252 ||  ||  || 252 ||  ||  || 14,400 || 22,648 || 0
|-
| [[M1591(R) marksman rifle (7.62×67mmB)|M1591 7.62 mm rifle]] || 63,398 || 1,682 || 252 || 7,594 ||  ||  || 11,755 || 11,423 || 252 || 7,594 ||  ||  || 11,423 || 11,423 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 63,398 || 0
|-
| [[M1656 9 mm submachine-gun]] || 28,795 || 25 ||  ||  ||  || 7,594 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 7,594 || 7,594 ||  ||  ||  || 232 || 232 || 1,682 ||  || 1,682 || 2,160 || 28,795 || 0
|-
| Total || 156,230 || 1,865 || 2,005 || 8,077 || 8,077 || 8,077 || 14,398 || 13,511 || 2,005 || 8,077 || 8,077 || 8,077 || 14,066 || 14,066 || 2,005 || 2,875 || 2,875 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 2,005 || 17,043 || 156,229 || 0
|-
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Locally fabricated weapons
[[Image:Jaysh al-Sathrati Emblem.png|150px]]</center></div>
|-
|-
| Cudgel || 62,269 || 279 || 279 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 279 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 279 || 2,392 || 2,392 || 279 || 2,392 || 279 || 17,043 || 49,815 || 12,454
|-
|-
|'''Active:'''|| ''In [[Goldshire]]'': 23 Fasmas 1639 - 1650;<br />''In [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan|Jadid Khaz Modan]]'': 31 Qinamu, 1650&ndash;
| [[Fire-lance]] || 187,894 ||  ||  || 44,830 ||  ||  || 13,225 || 17,660 ||  || 44,830 ||  ||  || 14,885 || 14,885 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 150,315 || 37,579
|-
|-
|'''Motto:'''||''عدالت قبل از رحمت''<br> ("Justice before Mercy")
| [[Florian Cocktail]] || 1,022,580 ||  ||  || 136,344 ||  ||  || 136,344 || 136,344 ||  || 136,344 ||  ||  || 136,344 || 136,344 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 818,064 || 204,516
|-
|-
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Emir of Sathrati]]
| Hatchet || 73,087 || 252 || 252 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 252 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 2,160 || 252 ||  ||  || 2,005 || 17,043 || 252 || 16,560 || 58,470 || 14,617
|-
|-
|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Sathrati]] / [[ESB Group]]
| Mattock || 208,513 || 1,682 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 1,682 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 14,400 || 1,682 ||  ||  || 1,682 || 14,400 ||  ||  || 166,810 || 41,703
|-
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Machine guns
----
|-
|-
|'''Type:''' || Territorial Defence Force
| M1512 Victor Maximilian 7.7 mm HMG  || 152 || 4 || 2 || 48 ||  ||  || 12 || 12 || 2 || 48 ||  ||  || 12 || 12 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 152 || 0
|-
|-
|'''Role'''||Combined Arms
| M1538 Wren 7.62mm LMG || 1,824 || 8 || 8 || 135 || 45 || 45 || 280 || 280 || 8 || 135 || 45 || 45 || 280 || 280 || 16 ||  ||  || 8 ||  || 8 || 198 || 1,824 || 0
|-
|-
|'''Size:''' ||
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Infantry support weapons
*226,253 personnel
**Officers: 3,512
**NCO's: 16,209
**Jaysh: 102,371
**Contractors: 104,161
|-
|-
|'''Nickname:''' || ''Noor's Dogs''
| [[Hornet 84 mm recoilless rifle]] || 304 ||  ||  || 16 || 34 || 34 || 34 || 34 ||  || 16 || 34 || 34 || 34 || 34 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 304 || 0
|-
|-
|'''Current Commander:'''|| [[Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman]]
| Wasp Sting MANPAD || 304 || 4 || 4 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 4 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 28 || 4 || 4 || 4 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 304 || 0
|-
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Artillery
----
|-
|-
|'''Allies'''||  
| 82 mm mortar || 304 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 76 || 76 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 76 || 76 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 304 || 0
|-
|-
|'''Opponents'''||
| [[80 mm field gun]] || 1,140 ||  ||  || 570 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 570 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 1,140 || 0
|-
|-
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Air defence
*[[shire:Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law in Goldshire]]
*[[shire:Civil War in Goldshire|Civil War in Goldshire]]
*[[Fall of Wahlstadt]]
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]
**[[Operation Cask]]
*[[Kalirion Fracture]]
*[[Amokolian Revolution]]
|-
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
| Trump 75 mm SPAAG || 665 || 1 ||  || 332 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 332 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 665 || 0
|}
|-
 
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Armoured vehicles
The personal bodyguard of the [[Emir of Sathrati|Emira of Sathrati]] and the [[House of Ayreon-Kalirion]], formed after the disgrace of the [[Leonid Guard]]. Heavily implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have occurred during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]].
|-
 
| [[shire:Horjin Combat Vehicle 35|Horjin Combat Vehicle 35]] || 6,935 || 10 || 9 ||  || 950 || 950 || 760 || 760 || 9 || 1 || 950 || 950 || 760 || 760 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 6 || 60 || 6,935 || 0
==History==
|-
 
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Support vehicles
===Formation and early years in Goldshire===
|-
 
| Pod personnel carrier || 990 || 252 || 251 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 251 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 || 12 || 12 || 12 || || || || || 990 || 0
With the Leonid Guard deemed to be unreliable and subsequently purged, a new personal force was recruited by [[Queen Noor]] in her capacity as [[Emir of Sathrati|Emira of Sathrati]]. This force, known as the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]], was brought into being on 23 Fasmas 1639.
|-
 
| [[Snatch Land Rover]] || 812 ||  ||  || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 ||  || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 || 64 || 44 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 812 || 0
Queen Noor intended that the recruitment process for this new force was so stringent than only the most loyal would be chosen for the more advanced programme to become guardsmen. More than half of the volunteers in the initial batches died in training. This had an impact on the recruitment and retention rate so a new policy was implemented whereby Doctors [[Ernst Cryptsinger]] and [[Tokaray al-Osman]] initiated selection procedures for the psychological and behavioural conditioning of the most suitable candidates for Queen Noor's personal guard. The washouts from this process, rather than being wasted through ill-considered brutality, were assigned to a new militia under the banner of the Jaysh al-Sathrati, and it was this force that was unleashed on [[Lunaris]] when the Queen ordered their deployment to flush out Assayers she believed were hiding amongst the villages and clans of that unusual county.
|-
 
| Truck, Light || 5,600 || 0 || 0 || 430 || 200 || 200 || 430 || 430 || 0 || 430 || 200 || 200 || 430 || 430 || 239 || 330 || 330 || 251 || 420 || 251 || 400 || 5,599 || 1
The Jaysh al-Sathrati, the core of whom were recruited from the [[Babkhi]] communities of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]] and [[Agnesia and Wintergleam]], became a militantly racist and Imperialist organization which stressed the 'Elwynnese' character of the Kingdom. A kingdom which, it held, had been donated to [[Elwynn]] in the previous century by Duke [[Leo Dine]]. Accordingly they had neither sympathy nor mercy for those Lunatics the Royal Government had sent them to police when they were first deployed on the 17th of Rugaall, 1640. Such indeed was Queen Noor's intention for ''she wanted Assayers being so fearful of capture that they would rather kill themselves on the spot''[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1313&t=17803&p=142145(1)].
|-
 
| Truck, Medium || 448 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 448 ||  ||  || 448 || 0
The well armed Jaysh al-Sathrati quickly gained made their mark on a dumbstruck Lunaris. Several thousand people had been killed and as many as a million more had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian crisis. Over 100,000 refugees poured towards Lune Villa, pursued by militiamen who clashed with detachments of the Lunatic Legion who were trying to direct the displaced into the Eth Lune Forest and away from the fighting. More than 70 Sathrati militiamen and 10 Legionnaires were killed in one gun battle in late Rugaall. An [[Imperial Army]] observer team reported that Lunatic villages and Octalune encampments were singled out, while the homes of migrant families were left untouched.
|-
 
| Faca X43 SUV || 20,551 || 1,537 || 1,540 || 954 || 566 || 566 || 526 || 526 || 1,540 || 953 || 566 || 566 || 526 || 526 || 1,485 || 1,394 || 1,414 || 1,549 || 932 || 1,543 || 1,340 || 20,551 || 0
Now, with all the southern counties openly in revolt, the last pretence of restraint was cast aside and the Jayash al-Sathrati was unleashed to vent its full fury upon the people of Lunaris. With Imperial Forces advancing into the county to secure an area identified as the 'Southern Martial Law Zone', the Jaysh al-Sathrati had the task of holding open the rear, the so-called 'Feudal Zone' under the notional rule of the [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Khan of Cabbagefall]], to allow lines of communication to be established and held. The Growth of partisan bands in Elsenar, Lunaris and Ran, the defection of the County Militias and threatened disintegration of the Goldshire Regulars, complicated the task and stretched the deployed forces of the Jaysh and the Imperial Army over a vastly increased area and to breaking point.
|-
 
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Aviation assets
To protect the rear therefore, the Jaysh al-Sathrati was to crush the gangs of bandits it encountered with a singular brutality in order to annihilate them. One of the orders issued in the name of the Khan of Cabbagefall specified: "''It may be necessary to seize the entire male population of a ward, insofar as their immediate liquidation is not an operational imperative on account of their participation in or support of the insurgency, and insofar as they are capable of work, to bring them to the ESB Rehabilitation Facilities of Meadowhall, Trafford and Arndale, for reassignment to areas where their labour can be utilised and their actions properly monitored and supervised''." In short, if it proved too difficult to distinguish between a partisan and a lunatic, and the commander on the ground didn't feel sufficiently able to execute them on the spot, the answer of the Royal Government was to have the Jaysh al-Sathrati empty the county completely, creating a dead zone and calling it pacified.
|-
 
| [[Corum Electric Lightning|F-24 Lightning]] || 8 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 8 ||  ||  || || || 8 || 0
 
The Jaysh al-Sathrati, lacking heavy weapons, artillery and air support, nonetheless served as a buffer between the [[Imperial Forces]], which were paralysed by the so-called [[Triskelion|Triskelschrecken]] or ''Triskelion Terror''.
 
After the Civil War in Goldshire concluded, the Jaysh al-Sathrati, after just about surviving long enough to be counted amongst the victors, received the equipment and banners of the disgraced Goldshire Regulars.
 
The Jaysh al-Sathrati further disgraced itself by remaining loyal to [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|the Enemy of Humanity]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]. It was however, by an amendment to the [[Codex Aureus Regni]], to remain a publicly funded organisation tasked with the defence of the Ayreon-Kalirion dynasty, the cost of which was to be borne by the defeated Kingdom of Goldshire as a mark of its shame.
 
In 1650, the newly elevated King, [[Ryker Everstone]], chaffing at the cost of maintaining 120,000 men at arms, sought to defund and disarm the organisation. After being defeated in his early attempts to achieve this by Royal Decree, subsequently amended the Codex, effectively terminating the Jaysh al-Sathrati's existence as an active organisation garrisoned in Goldshire.
 
===Reactivation in Jadid Khaz Modan===
 
In reaction to this, [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]], the great-aunt to [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]], promulgated a [[shire:Farmâns of Jadid Khaz Modan|farmân]], effectively refounding the Jaysh al-Sathrati on the islands of [[shire:Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan|Jadid Khaz Modan]]. She encouraged the Jaysh to quit the Kingdom and travel to her citadel of Arg-e Ardashir, promising one hundred grams of gold for each severed head of an [[Octalune]] brought into her audience chamber.
 
With the eclipse of the fortunes of the House of Osman in the isles following a hurried evacuation prompted by the [[White Plague]], the Jaysh al-Sathrati returned to focusing on their primary mission, service as a guards corps in the service of the [[Emir of Sathrati]].
 
===Kalirion Fracture===
 
With the [[Kalirion Fracture]] of 1671 and the death of their Emir, thousands of miles distant in [[Shirekeep]] the Jaysh were momentarily thrown into the utmost confusion, alongside their Imperial counterparts stationed in the isles. During the midst of a popular uprising against the Kalirion dynasty, which hopped island to island, spreading as a contagion or wildfire would, the Jaysh were wrong-footed, preoccupied by their own survival, and in no position to oppose neither the raids of the [[Black Legions]] nor the attempt by Yardistani nationalists to exploit the chaos and establish a hegemony over the islands. Obliged by adverse circumstances, the Jaysh retired in some considerable haste to the island of [[Zy-Rodun]], the sole feudal holding owned outright by the Emirate of Sathrati in its own right without a convoluted and now ruptured chain of vassalage linking back to the Golden Mango Throne. On this island they expected to make their last stand, however that moment never came and instead, by some ideological quirk which had obliged them to forswear the measures necessary to preserve their newly acquired power, the Yardistani revolutionary movement began to unravel almost from the moment it had established itself. In their place a host of baronial, communal, and ethnic militias warred unceasingly to become the paramount powers, both in their islands and across the wider archipelago, checked only by the interventions of the [[Black Legions]] and [[Drak-Modan]].
 
Shireroth, in an advanced state of collapse, barely holding on to the hinterland surrounding Shirekeep itself, had managed to lose the entirety of its coastline to the so-called [[Vulture States]] who had, in its stead, usurped authority over the provinces. Unable to restore order in the islands, even if it had wanted to, the [[Imperial Regency]] delegated the task to the [[Emirate of Sathrati]]. That the Jaysh were to prove unequal to the task of reconquering the islands for the Imperial Republic would in due course see that task subcontracted still further to the [[ESB Group]] in return for a series of unequal treaties known as the [[Protocols of Erudition]]. One consequence of these agreements would be that the Jaysh would now be effectively little more than hired mercenaries engaged in the service of the ''"Honourable Company"''; for a palace guard corps that had prided itself upon its loyalty to their Emir, this was a bitter drop to swallow, even when sugared by incentivisation payments doled out by the ESB appointed Board of Control. The habitual grumbles of the soldiery, common to garrisoned troops the world over, soon began to acquire a singularly ominous tone.
 
==Duties, Functions, and Responsibilities==
 
The first duty of the Jaysh al-Sathrati was to serve as a palace guard for the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|House of Ayreon-Kalirion]], for which the first regiment of the Jaysh continues to serve in this function. The force subsequently developed over time, adapting to the varying circumstances in which it found itself - from participating in the [[shire:Civil War in Goldshire|Goldshirian Civil War]] in the early 1640's to shouldering the burden of a campaign of pacification in Amity and Yardistan during the 1670's. In any event, the modern Jaysh has become - to all intents and purposes - a substantial [[Combined Arms Corps]], albeit one built around obsolete equipment cast off by the former [[shire:Imperial Forces|Imperial Forces]]. The Jaysh operates today as a professional standing military, a land-warfare orientated force but one obliged by its thirty-year residency in the Khaz Modanian archipelago to acquire maritime and aviation assets.
 
As agents of the (faltering) sovereign power across the range of islands claimed by [[Sathrati]], the Jaysh are obliged to fulfil the range of responsibilities once upheld by the Imperial Forces and the [[shire:Imperial Marshals|Marshalcy]], that is to say - in addition to territorial defence - the collection of overdue taxes, the intimidation of negligent feudatories, and the carrying on of the cycle of systematic repression and specifically targeted reprisals against recalcitrant local communities that formed the cornerstone of policing in the [[Shireroth|High Benacian]] and [[Babkha|Neo-Babkhan]] traditions to which the Jaysh is an inheritor.
 
==Administration, culture & doctrine==
 
Originally comprised of Babkhi mercenaries drawn from [[Alalehzamin]], [[Eura]], and Babkhi enclaves in [[Natopia]], the Jaysh, particularly after their resettlement in the islands of the Khaz Modan archipelago began to recruit locally. Every five years, from 1650 onwards, specially briefed commissioners of the Emir of Sathrati set out from Zy-Rodun and scoured the islands to find recruits to the Emir's vast network of slaves. The recruiting officials sought out unmarried boys between the ages of ten and fifteen. From these, they chose the fittest, the most handsome and the most intelligent to be elevated through servitude to a status exalted above those of most loyal subjects and denizens.
 
With education and special training, these new recruits would be inducted into the Schools of the Jaysh so as to form, in theory at least, an aristocracy of merit and service from which the soldiers and administrators of the Emirate would be drawn.
 
The recruiting drives were, understandably, regarded with mixed feelings by those conscripts destined to become the Emir's ''[[Kul|bondsmen]]''. Many had no desire to leave behind their insular homes and Cedrist way of life and be brought up on Zy-Rodun as [[Zurvanism|Zurvanites]]. As many, if not more perhaps, however welcomed the chance of escaping the hardships of plantation life and having the chance to rise to positions of power and privilege in the Emirati service.
 
Upon their arrival in the recruitment pens of Zy-Rodun the initiates to the Jaysh were first subjected to the Zurvanite ritual of purification, consisting of a triple cleansing, with gōmēz (cow’s urine), dust, and water, followed by nine nights’ seclusion, during which three simpler cleansings take place. The brightest and most promising youths were then put into the Palace Service, mirroring the [[shire:Imperial Household|court]] in Shirekeep, where they were enrolled into specialist schools that again mirrored the [[shire:Dirâsat-an-Nûr|imperial equivalent]].
 
Note should also be made of the reliance that the Jaysh places upon contractors, whether provided via subcontractors, directly hired, or in some cases impressed into service, to provide the totality of its administrative, logistical, and support needs. The variety of professions swept up under the umbrella of "contractor" is quite vast and includes:
 
{{unbulleted list|signallers| cryptographers| communications officers| civil engineering officers| clerks| provisioners| officer companions| pain technicians| cudgellers| surveillance officers| analysts| logisticians| overseers| porters| labourers| support drivers| technicians| mechanical engineers| marine engineers| aviation & aerospace engineers}}
 
==Order of Battle==
 
*1st Division - '''Area Defence'''<br /> <small>(inc Palace Guard & Royal Protection)</small>
**1st Regiment - <small>x1 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/6/66/JaS_Command_Squadron.png Command Squadron], x1 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/e/ed/JaS_MilPol_Squadron.png Military Police Squadron], x8 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/c/c2/JaS_Logistics_Squadron.png Logistics Squadrons]</small>
**2nd&ndash;20th & 125th Regiments - <small>x19 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/7/7d/JaS_Area_Defence_Rgt.png Area Defence Regiments]</small>
*2nd Division - '''Armoured Cavalry'''
**21st Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**22nd&ndash;40th & 124th Regiments - <small>x19 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/d/d2/JaS_Armoured_Rgt.png Armoured Regiments]</small>
*3rd Division - '''Armoured Cavalry'''
**41st Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**42nd&ndash;60th & 123rd Regiments - <small>x19 Armoured Regiments</small>
*4th Division - '''Light Infantry'''
**61st Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**62nd&ndash;80th & 122nd Regiments - <small>x19 [http://shireroth.org/wiki/images/1/10/JaS_Infantry_Rgt.png Infantry Regiments]</small>
*5th Division - '''Light Infantry'''
**81st Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**82nd&ndash;100th & 121st Regiments - <small>x19 Infantry Regiments</small>
*6th (Naval) Division - '''Littoral Defence'''
**101st Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**102nd&ndash;120th Regiments - <small>Minelaying Flotilla, Scouting Flotilla, Training Flotilla, Transport Flotilla</small>
*7th (Air Support) Division - '''Army Cooperation / Air Support'''
**126th Regiment - <small>x1 Command Squadron, x1 Military Police Squadron, x8 Logistics Squadrons</small>
**127th&ndash;145th Regiments -  <small>Air Transport Wing, Army Cooperation Wing, Maritime Patrol Wing, Training Wing</small>
 
==Manpower==
 
{| {{table}}
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Unit Type'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Officers'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''NCOs'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Jaysh'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Contractors'''
|-
|-
| Command & Control||40||186||1,176||4,991
| [[FF-380 Buzzard]] || 7 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 7 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 7 || 0
|-
|-
| Military Police||29||133||840||1,883
| Vauntless Dive Bomber || 16 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 16 ||  ||  ||  ||  || 16 || 0
|-
|-
| Logistical Support||231||1,064||6,720||43,960
| colspan="24" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Maritime assets
|-
|-
| Area Defence||478||2,205||13,927||8,873
| Anushiruwân (tall ship) || 1 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 1 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 1 || 0
|-
|-
| Armour||956||4,410||27,854||17,746
| [[Armed trawler]] || 19 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19 || 0
|-
|-
| Infantry||956||4,410||27,854||17,746
| [[Coastal Patrol Boat]] || 9 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 9 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 9 || 0
|-
|-
| Maritime Forces||412||1,900||12,000||8,962
| Ro-ro Ferry || 19 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19 || 0
|-
|-
| Aviation||412||1,900||12,000||-
| Tugboat || 2 || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 2 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 2 || 0
|-
|-
| Total:||3,512||16,209||102,371||104,161
| Requisitioned small in-shore craft || 200+ || || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 200+ ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 200+ || 0
|}
|}


==Equipment==
==History==
 
{{Main|Jaysh al-Sathrati/The Old Guard (1650–1720)}}
===Air===
 
{{unbulleted list|[[Vauntless Engineering Company, Limited|Vauntless]] [[wikipedia:Douglas SBD Dauntless|Divebomber]] &ndash; 16}}


===Land===
The Jaysh al-Sathrati constituted the military and naval forces of [[Sathrati]] under the obligation to serve [[Salome|Her Majesty]] through the orders of the [[Council of Sathrati]], with its members liable to serve for the same terms only, and be entitled to the like pay, pensions, allowances, and privileges, and the like advantages as regards promotion and otherwise, as if they had enrolled in the [[Black Legions]]: such forces, and all persons hereafter enlisting in or entering the same, shall continue and be subject to the articles of war, and all other laws, regulations, and provisions relating to the [[Honourable Company|Honourable Corporation's]] military and naval forces respectively; and the pay and expenses of and incident to Her Majesty's military and naval forces shall be defrayed out of the revenues of Sathrati.
{{unbulleted list|[[shire:Horjin Combat Vehicle 35|Horjin CV36]] (various configurations) &ndash; 7,061|Support Vehicles (various types) &ndash; 14,069|Trump 75mm SPAAG &ndash; 665|[[80mm field gun]]  &ndash; 1,140}}
===Maritime===
{{unbulleted list|[[Vauntless Engineering Company, Limited|Vauntless]] [[wikipedia:Natya-class minesweeper|Project 001 Minesweeper]] &ndash; 1|[[Amity Shipyards|AS]] [[Coastal Patrol Boat]] ([[wikipedia:E-Boat|torpedo variant]]) &ndash; 6|[[Amity Shipyards|AS]] [[wikipedia:Tall ship|Tall ship]] ({{tooltip|modified|1 × 57-mm gun, 2 x S-2 surface-to-surface missiles, 1 × 12.7-mm machine gun, 2 × 25-mm machine guns}}) ''Anushiruwân'' &ndash; 1 |[[wikipedia:Roll-on/roll-off|Ro-ro ferries]] (various) &ndash; 19|Armed trawlers (various) &ndash; 19|[[Port Niyi Shipyards|PNS]] [[wikipedia:Wangerooge-class tug|Tugboats]] &ndash; 2}}


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Latest revision as of 19:28, 17 May 2024

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Sathrati Guard
Jaysh al-Sathrati
Jaysh al-Sathrati Emblem.png
Active 1639 AN – 1732 AN
Country

Shireroth Shireroth

Allegiance ESB ESB
Branch Security Directorate
Commanders
Magister Lors Bakker-Kalirion
Emira of Sathrati Salome

Organisation

Order of Battle

  • Jaysh al-Sathrati
    • GHQ
    • I (Sathrati) Corps
      • 1st Division - Area Defence
      • 2nd Division - Armoured Cavalry
      • 3rd Division - Armoured Cavalry
      • 4th Division - Light Infantry
      • 5th Division - Light Infantry
    • II (Jadid Khaz Modan) Corps
      • 8th Division - Area Defence
      • 9th Division - Armoured Cavalry
      • 10th Division - Armoured Cavalry
      • 11th Division - Light Infantry
      • 12th Division - Light Infantry
    • Support Command
      • 6th (Naval) Division - Littoral Defence
        • 1st (Amity) Sector Flotilla
        • 2nd (Mirioth) Sector Flotilla
        • 3rd (Yardistan) Sector Flotilla
        • 4th Fast Attack Flotilla
      • 7th (Air Support) Division - Army Cooperation / Air Support
    • Commissariat
      • 13th Division
    • Inspectorate
      • 14th Division

Establishment

  • Senior Officers:
    • Magisters: 14
    • Duces: 29
  • Regimental Officers:
    • Senior Tribunes: 176
    • Standard Tribunes: 352
    • Cohort Tribunes: 588
  • Junior Officers:
    • Captains: 1,806
    • Lieutenants: 3,612
    • Subalterns: 5,419
  • Warrant Officers:
    • Petty Officers: 4,704
    • 1st Class: 588
    • 2nd Class: 1,764
  • Other ranks:
    • Sergeants: 5,292
    • Corporals: 26,461
    • Privates: 211,692
Item Available Jaysh al-Sathrati Assigned Delta
GHQ I (Sathrati) Corps HQ 1st Div (Area Def) 2nd Div (Arm Cav) 3rd Div (Arm Cav) 4th Div (Light Inf) 5th Div (Light Inf) II (Jadid Khaz Modan) Corps HQ 8th Div (Area Def) 9th Div (Arm Cav) 10th Div (Arm Cav) 11th Div (Light Inf) 12th Div (Light Inf) Support Command HQ 6th (Naval) Div 7th (Air Support) Div Commissariat HQ 12th Div Inspectorate HQ 13th Div
Personnel
Senior Officers 60 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 3 60 0
Regimental Officers 1,116 26 18 46 46 46 46 46 18 46 46 46 46 46 18 46 46 18 46 18 46 757 359
Junior Officers 10,837 24 24 202 202 202 202 202 24 202 202 202 202 202 24 202 202 24 202 24 202 2,352 8,485
Warrant Officers 7,056 27 27 232 232 232 232 232 27 232 232 232 232 232 27 232 232 27 232 27 232 3,411 3,645
NCO's 31,754 252 252 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 252 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 252 2,160 2,160 252 2,160 252 2,160 31,754 0
Soldiers 211,692 1,682 1,682 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 1,682 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 1,682 14,400 14,400 1,682 14,400 1,682 14,400 211,692 0
Total 262,515 2,014 2,005 17,043 17,043 17,043 17,043 17,043 2,005 17,043 17,043 17,043 17,043 17,043 2,005 17,043 17,043 2,005 17,043 2,005 17,043 250,642 11,873
Side arms & rifles
M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm rifle 20,589 1,682 1,143 1,682 1,682 14,400 20,589 0
M1525 9 mm pistol 20,800 80 71 483 483 483 2,643 874 71 483 483 483 2,643 2,643 71 2,643 2,643 71 2,643 323 483 20,800 0
M1581 7.62 mm machine carbine 22,648 78 7,594 71 252 252 14,400 22,648 0
M1591 7.62 mm rifle 63,398 1,682 252 7,594 11,755 11,423 252 7,594 11,423 11,423 63,398 0
M1656 9 mm submachine-gun 28,795 25 7,594 7,594 7,594 232 232 1,682 1,682 2,160 28,795 0
Total 156,230 1,865 2,005 8,077 8,077 8,077 14,398 13,511 2,005 8,077 8,077 8,077 14,066 14,066 2,005 2,875 2,875 2,005 17,043 2,005 17,043 156,229 0
Locally fabricated weapons
Cudgel 62,269 279 279 2,392 2,392 2,392 2,392 2,392 279 2,392 2,392 2,392 2,392 2,392 279 2,392 2,392 279 2,392 279 17,043 49,815 12,454
Fire-lance 187,894 44,830 13,225 17,660 44,830 14,885 14,885 150,315 37,579
Florian Cocktail 1,022,580 136,344 136,344 136,344 136,344 136,344 136,344 818,064 204,516
Hatchet 73,087 252 252 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 252 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 252 2,005 17,043 252 16,560 58,470 14,617
Mattock 208,513 1,682 1,682 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 1,682 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 14,400 1,682 1,682 14,400 166,810 41,703
Machine guns
M1512 Victor Maximilian 7.7 mm HMG 152 4 2 48 12 12 2 48 12 12 152 0
M1538 Wren 7.62mm LMG 1,824 8 8 135 45 45 280 280 8 135 45 45 280 280 16 8 8 198 1,824 0
Infantry support weapons
Hornet 84 mm recoilless rifle 304 16 34 34 34 34 16 34 34 34 34 304 0
Wasp Sting MANPAD 304 4 4 28 28 28 28 28 4 28 28 28 28 28 4 4 4 304 0
Artillery
82 mm mortar 304 76 76 76 76 304 0
80 mm field gun 1,140 570 570 1,140 0
Air defence
Trump 75 mm SPAAG 665 1 332 332 665 0
Armoured vehicles
Horjin Combat Vehicle 35 6,935 10 9 950 950 760 760 9 1 950 950 760 760 6 60 6,935 0
Support vehicles
Pod personnel carrier 990 252 251 20 20 20 20 20 251 20 20 20 20 20 12 12 12 990 0
Snatch Land Rover 812 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 44 812 0
Truck, Light 5,600 0 0 430 200 200 430 430 0 430 200 200 430 430 239 330 330 251 420 251 400 5,599 1
Truck, Medium 448 448 448 0
Faca X43 SUV 20,551 1,537 1,540 954 566 566 526 526 1,540 953 566 566 526 526 1,485 1,394 1,414 1,549 932 1,543 1,340 20,551 0
Aviation assets
F-24 Lightning 8 8 8 0
FF-380 Buzzard 7 7 7 0
Vauntless Dive Bomber 16 16 16 0
Maritime assets
Anushiruwân (tall ship) 1 1 1 0
Armed trawler 19 19 19 0
Coastal Patrol Boat 9 9 9 0
Ro-ro Ferry 19 19 19 0
Tugboat 2 2 2 0
Requisitioned small in-shore craft 200+ 200+ 200+ 0

History

Main article: Jaysh al-Sathrati/The Old Guard (1650–1720)

The Jaysh al-Sathrati constituted the military and naval forces of Sathrati under the obligation to serve Her Majesty through the orders of the Council of Sathrati, with its members liable to serve for the same terms only, and be entitled to the like pay, pensions, allowances, and privileges, and the like advantages as regards promotion and otherwise, as if they had enrolled in the Black Legions: such forces, and all persons hereafter enlisting in or entering the same, shall continue and be subject to the articles of war, and all other laws, regulations, and provisions relating to the Honourable Corporation's military and naval forces respectively; and the pay and expenses of and incident to Her Majesty's military and naval forces shall be defrayed out of the revenues of Sathrati.

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