General Inspectorate of Benacia Command

General Inspectorate of Benacia Command
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Founded	1707 AN
Frainan Hohmin	Konstantin Uskok
Part of	Benacia Command
Manpower	72,400
Garrison	Ardashirshahr

The General Inspectorate of Benacia Command is a unit subordinate to the General Staff Council of Benacia Command that is responsible for discipline, standards, and internal security, amongst other tasks, for allied formations attached to the continental theatre command and the lines of communication and supply for those same allied formations when on deployment.

Organisation

The General Inspectorate of Benacia Command is formed of 73,200 men across sixty-one regiments, operated as 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.

• General Inspectorate of Benacia Command
  • Central Directorate (Ardashirshahr, Elluenuueq, Benacian Union)
    • Office of the Inspector-General of the Allied Forces in Benacia
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • Internal Security Bureau
    • Troika Detachments
  • 1st Directorate (Merensk, Unified Governorates, Benacian Union)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 1st Inspectorate Regiment
    • 4th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 7th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 10th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 2nd Directorate (Amity, Sathrati)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 29th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 30th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 31st Inspectorate Regiment
    • 32nd Inspectorate Regiment
  • 3rd Directorate (Mirioth, Sathrati)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 33rd Inspectorate Regiment
    • 34th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 35th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 36th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 4th Directorate (Goldfield, Ransenar, Benacian Union)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 13th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 14th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 15th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 16th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 5th Directorate (Underwall, Sovereign Confederation, Benacian Union)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 17th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 18th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 19th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 20th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 6th Directorate (Mišalan, Elluenuueq, Benacian Union)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 25th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 26th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 27th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 28th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 7th Directorate (Citadel Arsenal)
    • 24th Inspectorate Regiment
  • 8th Directorate (Yardistan, Sathrati)
    • Command & Control Regiment
    • Commissariat Regiment
    • Provosts Regiment
    • 37th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 38th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 39th Inspectorate Regiment
    • 40th Inspectorate Regiment (Zy-Rodun)
  • Special Task Force of the Confluence

Operations

By 1714 AN the General Inspectorate had established disciplinary troikas, headed by a legate and two senior tribunes, in each Governorate and County within the Benacian Theatre of Operations, with full judicial powers over all Raspur Pact aligned personnel below the rank of magister within their assigned area.

The failure of Operation Jagdbeute in 1724 AN, which recovered minimal quantities of equipment and personnel from Shireroth, would see Ulrich Varens, Arben Alalehzamini, Bahram Feroz, Jahangir Mir, and Mirza Zurvanudin Khan spend three years in the custody of the Magisters-Carnifex, before they were invited to accept demotions and postings to the troikas of the General Inspectorate of Benacia Command in the Cimmeria and Raikoth Special Autonomous Region.

In the seventh month of 1730 AN, all remaining Raspur Pact personnel on the islands of Sathrati were reorganised into the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th Directorates of the General Inspectorate.

Troikas

Where available, provosts are assigned to form the retinue of troikas operating in their directorate area.

Governorate / County	Legate	Tribunes	Retinue
Chryse
Chryse	Magister Walter Krenk	Karl "Septimus" Cox Boaz Munn	120 provosts
Elluenuueq
Alalehzamin and Araxion	Scheer Krancke	Edmond Greyloch, Osric Felsrock	56 provosts
Absentien	Balthazar Kreutziger	Reinhart Stürmer, Manfred Hasenfusz	56 provosts
Nordland	Horst Drakmar	Diederich Vogelweid, Wolfram Sängerton	56 provosts
General Government - Leng	Werinher Schreiber	Eberhard Liederlich, Gotthold Zöllner	56 provosts
Mishalan Governorate	Liudger Klostermann	Bruno Kirchdorf, Hartwig Waldmann	56 provosts
Kingdom of Ransenar
East Caverden	Konstantin Sclavenius	Gottschalk Ardabur Askan Felgenhauer	56 provosts
Elsenar	Gervasius Rottmann	Hildebrand Krämersdorf, Gebhard Amtmann	56 provosts
Holwinn	Erchambald Gottesmann	Baldewin Klosterbau, Willibald Kirchendiener	56 provosts
Monty Crisco	Saman Moğ	Mirjahan Khan Jerome Kesteven	56 provosts
North Lunaris	Dietwin Burgmann		56 provosts
Ran	Kersten Handwerker	Wigbold Gaukler, Tankred Spielmann	56 provosts
Syrelwynn	Folkwin Tüchtiger	Liudger Krämer, Engilbert Hausmann	56 provosts
United Ecclesiastical Corporation of Benacia
Exclusion Dioceses	Eilhard Ausgeschlossen	Richart Vertriebener, Hartmut Verbannter	56 provosts
Sovereign Confederation
Asantelian	Hariolf Markgraf	Ortlieb Burggraf, Unruh Landrichter	56 provosts
Capital	Heinrich Reichsfreiherr	Gumbert Edelmann, Burghart Hochadel	56 provosts
Cortallia-Rathwood	Hildebald Zünftemeister	Sigfrid Handwerksmann, Gerung Gildemeister	56 provosts
Durow	Hildigrim Gildemann	Benno Kaufherr, Sigebodo Krämersmann	56 provosts
Everstone	Erkembald Steinmetz	Albrecht Maurermeister, Hartmann Ziegelhauer	56 provosts
Ketshire	Ruthard Kessler	Liutpold Kaltschmied, Eberwin Kesselflicker	56 provosts
Norburg	Hildebald Burgvogt	Erchanger Torwart, Reginbald Pförtner	56 provosts
South Temple	Gottschalk Templerhauptmann	Berkhart Tempelritter, Volkmar Ordensherr	56 provosts
Sutherland	Meginhard Hochländer	Gundachar Jäger, Hildebrand Wildschütz	56 provosts
Winterglade	Gerwich Winterherr	Gerwalt Schneehuhn, Manegold Eisvogel	56 provosts
Unified Governorates of Benacia
Austland	Hildebald Ostmann	Irminfrid Morgengrauer, Liuthard Tagesanbruch	56 provosts
Benacia Isle	Sigebert Inselherr	Eberhard Schiffer, Hildebrand Strandwächter	56 provosts
Florencia	Ansfrid Blumenhain	Hildebald Lenzler, Ekkehard Maienbote	56 provosts
Lachdolor	Richolf Mühlenwart	Hildiberg Schleusenmeister, Adelger Kanalbauer	56 provosts
Lachmeren	Reinbold Fischermeister	Gundwin Netzemacher, Harmann Angelfürst	56 provosts
Litel	Albrecht Kleinkönig	Reinbold Gaukönig, Wichnand Scheinregent	56 provosts
Lower Lywall	Wikhard Niederherr	Erkembrecht Untertäniger, Franko Geringmann	56 provosts
Iridian Isles	Hildibald Inselgraf	Reinbold Strandherr, Odalsind Riffmeister	56 provosts
Siyachia	Hildibart Teppichbauer	Adelger Knüpfermeister, Gundachar Wollfürst	56 provosts
Upper Lywall	Isangrin Oberkönig	Hildibald Herrendienst, Hildiger Edelknecht	56 provosts
Cimmeria and Raikoth Special Autonomous Region
Cimmeria	Ulrich Varens	Bahram Feroz Mirza Zurvanudin Khan	56 provosts
Raikoth	Bahram Feroz	Arben Alalehzamini Jahangir Mir	56 provosts
Sathrati
Yardistan	Bohemond Sclavenius	Baldur Falkenrath Conrad Steinmetz	56 provosts
Mirioth	Alaric Stern	Dietrich Feuerbach Franziskus Adlerauge	56 provosts
Amity	Peteos Bakker	Gerhard Schatz Heinrich Falkenstern	56 provosts
Zy-Rodun	Leopold Silbermond	Johann Goldfluss Karl Himmelsklang	56 provosts

Internal Security Bureau

The Internal Security Bureau, established 06.XI.1671, is a counter-espionage and intelligence agency of the Raspur Pact operating in the Benacian Theatre. Subordinate to the Military Intelligence Directorate (D6) of Benacia Command's General Staff, the Internal Security Bureau is charged with maintaining operational security and ensuring the continuing loyalty of the Black Legions to the Pact.

The Internal Security Bureau was formed by Constantine Loup as a secret military police organisation, dedicated to rooting out enemies of the Raspur Pact from Benacia Command and ensuring that no future cabal of officers could be able to repeat his own actions during the Kalirion Fracture. The Bureau was initially staffed by a small band of eight officers personally vetted by Loup and his Chief of Staff, Mog Olnur. Their initial task was to screen defecting Imperial officers for double-agents and infiltrators as well as monitoring the ad hoc purge committees formed by Pact Loyalist commanders in order to ensure that the Salbnans were not being too egregious in using the opportunities afforded by the Fracture to denounce and eradicate their rivals. Licence was given for the Internal Security Bureau to assassinate any officer below the rank of corps commander whose loyalty or competence was suspect. Typically the killings would be made either to resemble death by natural causes, an accident, or else as an act by whatever opposing force was active in the victim's area of operations.

As the situation stabilised the Internal Security Bureau, formally subordinated to the Military Intelligence Directorate, was able to reorganise and expand into a more established and conventional organisation, albeit one that continued to enjoy more latitude in its operations than its sister agencies, the Analysis & Estimates Bureau and the Signals Bureau.

The influence of the Internal Security Bureau remains significant and a recommendation from its operatives can see an officer, even a senior magister, transferred, promoted out of harms way, or else abruptly retired on medical grounds.

The standing of the ISB was greatly compromised by the coup of 7–8.VII.1691 AN which saw the the Avon-El family headed by the former Szodan of Benacia, Jeremiah Avon-El, along with his son Zacharias, depose and stage the extrajudicial killing of the organisation's Deputy-Director. The failure to anticipate a full-blown uprising from within the ranks of the Black Legions would cost a number of operatives their lives and force yet more to go into hiding. The central archives of the ISB were seemingly destroyed by concealed demolition charges, remotely activated as legionaries from the XXXI Salb attempted to force an entry into the building.

Details began to leak out during 1707 AN about a family-owned pig farm situated in woodland twenty-seven kilometres northwest of Fort Clarence. Operated by the children and grandchildren of an Imperial Forces veteran settled in the region after the culmination of the Benacian Reconquest in the early 1660's. The Picton Farm became notorious in the Governorate of Upper Lywall for the monthly visits by unmarked black cargo-transporters in the dead of night. The pigs of the farm were always said to be well fed, even during the lean months when they would be without the ample foraging afforded by the farm's adjoining fruit orchards. In spite of the prodigious hogs that the farm reared, the Picton family always struggled to find buyers in Upper Lywall, being instead obliged to do business with the notoriously stingy Commissary of the Black Legions. In spite of this, the family's fortunes prospered to the extent that, by 1706 AN, they had been able afford to send a daughter to the Benacian Academy in Chryse, without recourse to a guild or state bursary.

As of 1673 AN the Internal Security Bureau consisted of the Deputy-Director, a Salbnan transferred from the Northern Banner Group following the War in Wintergleam, supported by eight tribune-ranked desk officers located at the Panopticon Citadel in Merensk. A forty strong liaison team, again of tribunal rank, maintains the representation of the Internal Security Bureau in the subordinate banner groups of Benacia Command. An unknown number of additional operatives presently serve embedded, utilising manufactured identities, in the ranks of the Black Legions. The total strength of the Internal Security Bureau originally did not exceed that of a regiment (1,200 personnel) but expanded rapidly over subsequent years.

Panopticon

One of the chief duties of the ISB was to operate and maintain a Nodal Point Database of the Panopticon (modelled after its Constancian precursor), a special archive where all personal information about known "subversives" was dutifully compiled to create a "personal profile" containing all data concerning the subject's health, education, culture and habits, down to the minute details about his personal character and his sexual orientation.

The ISB compiled files on around 130,000 potential subversives with the aid of a network of informants, and by 1682 they had organised around 20,000 raids each week. It is believed that about 6,000 people were arrested by the ISB, mainly Verionists or persons of Batavian and or Amokolian ancestry, and were either tried by a three-man tribunal and subjected to summary punishment or sent into exile in monasteries or reformatories operated by the Elwynnese Republic on the Boreal islands of Leng and Raikoth.

Known and alleged operational sites

• Administrative Rehabilitation & Transit Centre, Area North (Malexander, Elwynn)
• Inner-Angularis Closed Security Region (Bailiwick of Angularis, UGB)
• Picton's Farm (Fort Clarence Governorate of Upper Lywall, UGB)

Personnel

During the first three years of the Internal Security Bureau's existence recruits had been inducted into a cellular organisation linking back to the eight founding officers chosen by the Commander-in-Chief. Under this system candidates had been approached and recruited individually with procedures in place to ensure the compartmentalisation of the cadres. With the appointment of a new Deputy-Director in 1673, the training system was expanded and put on a more regular footing.

Prospective recruits are drawn from volunteers for the Black Legions at the point where they have completed the "Hardening" phase of their training at the "Depot" (Berht Klarænst). Selected personnel, after being subjected to a rigorous vetting process and psychometric audit, are transferred to the Military Intelligence Directorate Training Station in Gloomburg where they undergo a training regimen designed to cultivate their powers of observation, deduction, and persuasion.

Training would ramp up gently to begin with - the cultivation of improved memory being the foundation block for subsequent training - beginning with the "Karnalian observer's game":

Objects are placed on a waxed tent cover and the students are given several minutes to observe them. Items can include anything from a Kalgachi merit badge to a watch with a certain time set on it. The students have to memorise as much information as possible before the objects are covered up again. Later they have to recite what they saw in detail.

As noted, recruits are usually promising legionaries selected from the cadres passing through the Land Warfare Training Establishment, known as the Depot, for their intelligence, agility, and receptiveness to ideological instruction. As training progressed, the new recruits would receive, alongside political and economic studies, instruction in intelligence trade-craft, languages, and a thorough education in "Western Benacian Culture Systems", usually given by former Imperial Officers who had served in Batavia or on the Sxiro-Kalgachi Military Coordination Council, to provide them with an understanding of the foreign actors likely to pose a risk to the internal security of Benacia Command. The candidates also received stringent ideological and theological tuition from MID education officers.

Assignment at the Training Station would last for twelve months before the operatives would be dispatched to their new duty stations, usually under the guise of officers of the General Inspectorate.