Benacia Command

Benacia Command
Active:	1646–the present
Allegiance:	Raspur Pact  Benacian Union  Mondosphere
Headquarters:	Merensk
Type:	Command
Size:
Nickname:	All-Consuming Maw or Benacian Beast
Current Commander:	Lors Bakker-Kalirion
Conflicts & Deployments	Benacian Reconquest War of Lost Brothers Elwynnese Civil War Kalirion Fracture Second Amokolian War Verionian-Raspur War Inner Benacian Conflict Second Elwynnese Civil War Operation Harvest Moon

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)
    • 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)
      • Signals Bureau (D6-2)
    • 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)
  • General Inspectorate of Benacia Command
  • Grand Commissariat of Benacia Command

Central Banner Group

Lead Nation:  Benacian Union

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
11th Army	Lachdolor, Upper Lywall	Sansabury	XI Corps Salb V Ketek 7 Pansarfördelningen Ersatz Divisions x3 XII Corps Salb VI Jahangir 6 Pansarfördelningen 13 Bergsfördelningen "Mishalanska" Ersatz Divisions x3	Frainan Hohmin Sepp Käser
15th Army	Austland	Peroz-Liv	IV Corps 5 Pansarfördelningen 1st Manoeuvre Brigade VII Corps 37 Kavallerifördelningen 4th Manoeuvre Brigade VIII Corps 40 Kavallerifördelningen 7th Manoeuvre Brigade	Frainan Hohmin Hossein Taghipour
16th Army	Lower Lywall	Klymdown	XIII Corps Salb II 75 Arméfördelningen Ersatz Divisions x11	Frainan Hohmin Hebashe Kanamatovy
31st Army	Lachmeren	Merensk	VI Corps Salb I 3rd Manoeuvre Brigade X Corps 6th Manoeuvre Brigade 9th Manoeuvre Brigade	Frainan Hohmin
32nd Army	Litel	Laikum's Wald	IX Corps 2nd Manoeuvre Brigade 5th Manoeuvre Brigade 8th Manoeuvre Brigade	Frainan Hohmin
35th Army	Kalgachia	Oktavyan	Kalgachi Grouping of Forces Salb IV Aurangzeb 1st (Oktavyan) Division 3rd (Katarsis) Division 3rd Reserve Army (South) Lieutenancy of Schlepogora: 1,680 Reserve Companies of which 140 are active in peacetime. Lieutenancy of Lithead: 1,260 Reserve Companies of which 105 are active in peacetime.	Frainan Hohmin Justin Hunka
Central Banner Air Force	Theatre-wide	Łoïdhafen Sansabury		Frainan Hohmin-bi-Łoidi Farzan Marduniya
Central Banner Fleet	Cosimo Sea	Marinestation Šlomxala		Frainan Hohmin-bi-Mari Khosrow Dātiya

Eastern Banner Group

Lead Nation:  Benacian Union (Benacian Union Defence Force)

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
Bivarhins Hohm	Chryse	Chryse	Szodanin Uihmanz Saznan Bivarhins 1 Kavallerifördelningen "Elwmacht"	Frainan-bi-Mari Streïakeï Ryabin Chryseoï
24th Army	Ransenar	Demonsfall	XIV Corps 62 Arméfördelningen 63 Arméfördelningen 4th Division 6th Division XV Corps 55 Arméfördelningen 56 Arméfördelningen 61 Arméfördelningen	Troy Lyon (Ransenari Grouping of Forces)
41st Combined Arms Army	Sovereign Confederation	Cortallia-Rathwood	XVI Corps 74 Arméfördelningen 83 Arméfördelningen  Sovereign League for Defense and Deterrence	Frainan Uihmanzis
Eastern Banner Air Force	Ransenar	Goldfield	Cercé Station Citadel Station Goldfield Station Lune Villa Station Teldrin Station	Patrick O'Rourke
Eastern Banner Fleet	Halberd Strait Shire Sea	Goldshire Hamlet	Shire Sea Flotilla	Commodore Daniel Malone

Northern Banner Group

Lead National Contingent:  Benacian Union Defence Force

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
25th Combined Arms Army	Mishalacia	Rikštad	3 Pansarfördelningen 4 Pansarfördelningen 32 Kavallerifördelningen 33 Kavallerifördelningen	Frainan Uihmanzis
30th Army	General Government - East Agnesia Wintergleam	B'cawshrine	Salb XX Salb XXX 55 Arméfördelningen	Frainan Uihmanzis
58th Combined Arms Army	Governorate of Alalehzamin	Ardashirshahr	Salb XXXIII 10 Kavallerifördelningen "Zjandariska Gardet" 41 Arméfördelningen 69 Arméfördelningen	Frainan Uihmanzis
60th Siege Army	Governorate of Alalehzamin	Varpûr
Alalehzamin Security Line	Alalehzamin Security Line
Northern Banner Fleet	Boreal Seas	La Terre	Amokolian Fleet Cimmerian Fleet	Frainan Hohmin-bi-Mari Farrokh Aurangzebzadeh Keshavarz
Northern Banner Air Force	Elluenuueq	Cortallia-Rathwood	1st Aviation Regiment 2nd Aviation Regiment 6th Aviation Regiment 14th Ballistic Missile Regiment	Frainan Hohmin-bi-Łoidi Iskander Rustam al-Osman

Southern Banner Group

Lead National Contingent:  Benacian Union Defence Force

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
19th Army	Florencia	Capitolia	Salb XXXV 12th Manoeuvre Brigade 1st Air-Landing (Mounted) Infantry Division	Frainan Hohmin Rikard Lange
25th Army	East Caverden Monty Crisco	Cercé	Uihmanz Crisco 10 Kavallerifördelningen "Zjandariska Gardet" XVII Corps 84 Arméfördelningen 89 Arméfördelningen 90 Arméfördelningen Home Service units	General, the Lord Blathersfort-Cumbrinsford
Southern Banner Fleet	Cosimo Sea Gulf of Khaz Shire Sea	Novi Nigrad	High Seas Fleet 6th (Naval) Division
Sathrati Field Force	Sathrati	Novi Nigrad	Inspectorate Corps in So-Sara  Jaysh al-Sathrati 10th Vanguard Division United Free Company	Frainan Streïakeï Lors Bakker-Kalirion

Western Banner Group

Lead Contingent:  Benacian Union Defence Force

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. Participation of Imperial Forces discontinued as of 20.III.1724 following the commencement of Operation Jagdbeute. The Banner Group would be reconstituted following the 1730 Port Benacia staff conference.

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
Kommandostab N&H Förtrupp	Governorate of Absentien	Pozdam	3rd Vanguard Division N&H-Adelsfanan Dragonkår ESB-Värvat Främlingsregemente Absentien Corps of the State Guard of Elluenuueq Mechanised Division Northern Landstorm Division Southern Landstorm Division	N&H-Commandant Daniel Lors Simrani-Kalirion
Siyacher Hohm	Siyachia, Upland Confederation	Litkov	I Uihmanz "Siyacher" Salb III 3 Kossarfördelningen "Siyachia" Ersatz Divisions x6	Frainan Hohmin Farzad Riahi
Western Banner Fleet	Great Western Sea

Tiny Banner Group

Lead National Contingent:  Mondosphere

Army	Area of Operations	Headquarters	Subordinate Units	Commandant
34th Army	Northbloom Kalgachia (Abrek & Jollity)	Ermingander Village	I Mondocorps 1st Volunteer Cavalry Division "Northbloom" /2nd Volunteer Mountain Division "Southbloom" 101st Super Heavy Tank Company Fortress Regiment (Abrek) II Mondocorps /4th Volunteer Mountain Division "Toastytop" Fortress Regiment (Jollity) Reserve Corps Abrek: 840 Reserve Companies, of which 70 are active in peacetime Jollity: 840 Reserve Companies, of which 70 are active in peacetime Katarsis: 1,260 Reserve Companies of which 105 are active in peacetime	General Tabitha Drax
Tiny Banner Air Force	Northbloom Kalgachia (Abrek & Jollity)	Ermingander Village	1st (Northbloom) Fighter Squadron 2nd Fast Operations Squadron	Colonel Poppy Hareton

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
1		Frumst Frainan Alejian Lokke ("Magister Primum")	1646	1665
2		Frumst Frainan Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion (Prince of Modan)	1665	1668
Post vacant			1668	1670
3		Frainan Hohmin Constantine Loup (Brevet Frumst Frainan)	1670	06.XI.1671
4		Frumst Frainan Constantine Loup	06.XI.1671	14.XIV.1678
5		Frumst Frainan Jeremiah Avon-El	17.XV.1678	11.V.1683
6		Frumst Frainan Vüqar Rugahi	11.V.1683	12.I.1694
7		Frumst Frainan Jeremiah Avon-El	12.I.1694	13.III.1704 AN
8		Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman (Brevet Frumst Frainan)	13.III.1704 AN	20.XIV.1727 AN
9		Frainan Streïakeï Lors Bakker-Kalirion (Brevet Frumst Frainan)	20.XIV.1727 AN

Chief of the General Staff

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1		Frainan Hohmin Majeed Farsang	1646	1660
2		Frainan Hohmin Horsten Alban	1660	1663
3		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	1696
7		Frainan Hohmin Lazar Kagan	1696	1698
8		Frainan Hohmin Horst Wenzel Eusebius	1698	1718
8		Frainan Hohmin Konstantin Uskok	1718	1728
10		Frainan Streïakeï Ernst Albrecht Karling	1728

Quartermaster General

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1		Frainan Hohmin Artur Lomax	1646	1657
2		Frainan Hohmin Sardar Mallik Zafar Bahadur	1657	1671
3		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	1698
7		Frainan Hohmin Sebastian Seroff	1722	1728
8		Frainan Hohmin Sven Torensson	1728

Directorates

D1: Information Technology

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
7	Frainan Uihmanzis Karekin Bolkvadze	06.XI.1671	1703
11	Frainan Streïakeï Ulf Garbasion	1728

D2: Logistics

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
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	1705
10	Frainan Uihmanzis Rashid Majeed	1728

D3: Manpower

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
5	Frainan Uihmanzis Ardashir Mooshian	06.XI.1671	1696
11	Frainan Uihmanzis Ludwig Kaltenbrauner	1728

D4: Planning

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
5	Frainan Uihmanzis Abdollah Abbasi	06.XI.1671	11.V.1683
6	Frainan Uihmanzis Zoltan Naranyan	11.V.1683	1696
10	Frainan Uihmanzis Lanfred Kalbachsman	1728

D5: Operations

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
4	Frainan Uihmanzis Rudolf Maisuradze	06.XI.1671	1698
8	Frainan Uihmanzis Hesam Bahramzadeh	1728

D6: Military Intelligence

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
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	1696
12	Frainan Uihmanzis Heinrich Lavrent	1728	1730
13	Frainan Uihmanzis

D7: Political

№	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
2	Frainan Uihmanzis Vüqar Rugahi	06.XI.1671	17.XV.1678
3	Frainan Uihmanzis Aryo Barzan	17.XV.1678	1703
8	Frainan Streïakeï Kurt Stalbhammer	1728

Banner Groups

Central Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
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
5		Frainan-Streïakeï Bruno Rambert Strohkirch	17.XV.1678	8.VII.1691 AN (Executed: back broken)
6		Frainan-Streïakeï Jeremiah Avon-El	8.VII.1691 AN	12.I.1694 AN
7		Frainan-Streïakeï Zacharias Avon-El	12.I.1694 AN

Northern Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1		Överbefälhavaren (UDF) Noah Hallbjörnsson ("King of Elwynn")	1646	1651
2		Generalmajor (UDF) Daniyal Sikander Dravot	1651	1654
3		Frainan Uihmanzis Flavius Magnus† (Frainan-Streïakeï)	1654	1660
4		Frainan Uihmanzis Constantine Loup (Frainan-Streïakeï)	1660	1663
5		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	1709 AN
Post Vacant			1709 AN	1722 AN
9		Överbefälhavaren Jahangir Khan	1722 AN

Eastern Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1		Frainan Streïakeï-bi-Mari Ryker Everstone (King of Goldshire)	1646	1668
Post Vacant			1668	1672
2		Frainan Uihmanzis Selardi Jen Daniyal	18.V.1672	16.IV.1673
3		Frainan Hohmin Selardi Jen Daniyal	16.IV.1673	19.VIII.1694 AN
4		Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman	19.VIII.1694 AN	9.XIII.1696 AN
5		The Honourable Troy Lyon (Minister of Defense and Security)	9.XIII.1696 AN

Southern Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
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
4		Frainan-bi-Mari Streïakeï Ryabin Chryseoï (Evocatus)	20.XII.1672	13.VIII.1679
5		Frainan Hohmin Ira Rasputin (Magister militum per Draconis)	13.VIII.1679	13.II.1690
Post Vacant			13.II.1690	09.XI.1690
6		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
7		Frainan Streïakeï Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman	9.XIII.1696 AN	13.III.1704 AN
8		Frainan Streïakeï Lors Bakker-Kalirion	13.III.1704 AN	20.XIV.1727 AN
Post Vacant (defacto Lors Bakker-Kalirion)			1727	1730
9		Frainan Hohmin Heinrich Lavrent	1730

Western Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1.		Frainan Uihmanzis Constantine Loup	1656	1660
2	.	Frainan Uihmanzis Ermanaric Parsamyan	1660	1665
3	.	Frainan Uihmanzis Jeremiah Avon-El	1665	1678
4		Frainan Uihmanzis Ulrich Varens	17.XV.1678	19.VIII.1694 AN
5		Frainan Hohmin Ulrich Varens	19.VIII.1694 AN	20.XII.1712 AN
6		Veldmaarschalk en Opperbevelhebber Hermanus Baerdemans	20.XII.1712 AN	20.III.1724 AN

Tiny Banner Group

№	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office
1		General Tabitha Drax	14.IX.1717 AN

Operational Activity

Main article: Concluded Military Operations

Date	Formation	Subject	Summary
20.III.1724 AN	General Inspectorate of Benacia Command Southern Banner Group Defence Against Anomalous Phenomena	Operation Jagdbeute	Evacuation of Loyalist personnel along with Pact equipment and stores from Shireroth.

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.