Raenir Salazar
2009-03-03, 04:03 PM
"Teyr is the capitol of a growing Republic, the nerve center of a power empire. Founded originally centuries ago by Hill Dwarves seeking the deposits of iron, lead, and other resources of war and trade, it is unknown how long the Dwarves had inhabited Teyr, but it is known sometime after the First Cataclysm it was abandoned and left to mold and rot for over 400 years through the age of despair and through the first act of the Age of Mortals, the 5th Age of Krynn when the Gods left Krynn yet again as part of their deal with the High God to protect their creation from Chaos. While this may had been a lie and in reality the Queen of Darkness Tahkisis had in fact in secret stolen the world, it led to a great good. Without the Gods of Light to give purpose to the "Good" aligned races the Draconian Race had only to contend with those aligned with Evil, the Knights of Nereka in their quest for a new homeland.
With a map given to them by an opportunistic hill dwarf Commander Kang of the First Dragonarmy Engineers Regiment led his weary men through a trial of fire (literally) to a Draconian held for commander by Machiavellian General, Maranta. The Knights set a force of Thirty Thousand goblinoid soliders to wipe them out and nearly succeeded had it not been for the Engineers and Kang's leadership after Maranta's death. Victorious, but not unscarred the Dragonarmy Engineers left the Fort followed by the surviving Draconian soldiers of the fort and headed north to Nordmaar where Teyr lay before them.
The Draconians rebuilt the city, epitomizing their principles of utilitarian military designs that signified functionality, with a "decayed" aged look to give the appearance of age, to give the feeling that they as a race were older then they were utilizing the services of traveling Dwarven and Elven architects.
Now Teyr's Greatness is for all to see, spread out over-"
Horns Blare in the near distances
"REVELIE! RECRUITS GROUP!"
The group leader, Lieutenant Cadet Tandaza Leer, a female Sivak immediately threw the history book she was reading and cupped her hands around her mouth like a megaphone
"GROUP! Stop Idling by and MOVE! Last one out I will see to it will dig latrines for a WEEK!"
Suitably motivated you immediately roll off your cot which you had assembled just 10 minutes ago when you first arrived on base, you run out of the tend in the rushed mass of recruits and officer cadets towards your predetermined positions, you all try to get into your proper places in line but it is a mess, Tandaza has is swiftly moving back and forth trying to bring all of you to your correct spots in the line of 12 recruits in between 2 other lines of 12 recruits. Your Training company finished assembling in formation in ust about under 15 minutes.
You notice a Bozak, angry looking and proud timing everything you have a feeling of whats going to happen.
He puts his gnomish pocket watch back into his uniform, he walks to the beginning of the formation on your left and walks all the way to the other side in silence, so powerful his presence that rather then giddy chatter all were quiet. Soon in a time that seemed like forever he made his way back to the front. He spoke, and he spoke with authority and experience, you heard him clearly event hough he didnt appear to have raised his voice to address all the other recruits. He started to pace 30 feet to the left and right as he did so.
Recruits. I am Sergeant Major Rajnir Zatar, of the His Excellencies The Queen's Own Division, 2nd Republican Guards Regiment. What I saw here today was complete and utter bullcrap recruits, did you call that forming up? It was the most despicably disorganized mess I have ever seen you half of you don't even have the half baked excuse of not even being DRACONIANS! For the Half of you that WERE Draconians, what in Our Dead Queen's name was that!? Your Draconians for crying out loud! Had our Forefathers fought and died to bring you into the world for nothing? For the next generation to be a bunch of Pansy Elves? (A couple of "said" Elves stiffened at that, but Rajnir seemed to ignore them) Careless Kender? Is that what you are? Are you half Kender?
Silence persisted for only a few moments before Tandaza yelled, "No, Sergeant Major!"
"And the rest of you?"
"No! Major Sergeant No!"
"Good, progress, I can make Soldiers out of you yet... Now here's the part where I explain what we are doing here.
You see, here's our thing, the Republic that you have all mostly all of you been born and raised in, is under attack by Goblins, Vermin, and Barbarian Humans. Our Colony at their border despite over a year of peaceful co-existence was brutally attacked and every resident slaughtered to the last. A call has gone out for volunteers to join the army and fight for the republic, you... have all answered that call.
Some of you do it out of pure patriotism, a deep fire of love for your county burns in your heart and you would rather die in its defence then see it fall apart, well, here's the kicker. That's stupid. Me and your other drill sergeants will teach you to fight and not just that but to teach you to fight well and smart, to use your advantages to most effect while minimizing your own disadvantages, you are not here to die for your country but rather to make the enemy die for his. Am I right Recruits...?"
"Yes Sergeant Major Sir!"
"Good, others of you do it for the money, can't fault you there, thats how I joined up, others do it for the adventure, for a controlled way to see the world, and then there's those who joined to become citizens and cast yuor vote in elections and plebiscites. Thats almost like patriotism, so its good enough for me. Pleasing me, will be your personal pleasure for the next 6 weeks. Here's what we're gonna do, we will train you how to drill, march, and react instantly without thinking to orders. All these things will always be useful and used through your military career. After that the basics of hand to hand and simple martial weapons training will be given to EVERYONE, during all of this you will all be put into considerbaly physical endurance training, a modern soldier must be able to march for roughly 12 hours carrying over 70 pounds of equipment on your back not even counting your uniform and armor for the entire duration will only a limited number of rest breaks. We will train you to accomplish this, for you will become Soldiers of the Republic, do I make myself clear recruits?"
"Yes, Sergeant Major Sir!"
"Good. All of you will begin your military training at 0600 tomorrow morning sharp, dismissed."
Not quite dismissed as our group leader quickly informed us, as the Warrant Officer of the Queens Own came by and guided us around the base. The Queen's Own Headquarters was located in The Bastion, a walled complex containing the Senate Hall (or the Hall of the Thanes as its sometimes called), the Chancellery, the Governor's Palace, the Republic High Command. However doing the Republic's military training there would have been bad logistics, so Fort Huzzad a large military base on the outskirts of Teyr was picked and staffed by the Queens Own to train new recruits. We were moved around the Complex, shown the rest of the Barracks (really more of a miniature military standard tent city), the mess hall, the officers and non commissioned officers quarters, and of course as the Warrant officer gleefully pointed out the latrines which he said "we would all get very well acquainted with". At the end of the day at 2100 Hours they escort you back to your tent, in the barrack-tent is 11 others.
//All of you guys start off in the same place, after a little while you guys ill be split off into two groups.
With a map given to them by an opportunistic hill dwarf Commander Kang of the First Dragonarmy Engineers Regiment led his weary men through a trial of fire (literally) to a Draconian held for commander by Machiavellian General, Maranta. The Knights set a force of Thirty Thousand goblinoid soliders to wipe them out and nearly succeeded had it not been for the Engineers and Kang's leadership after Maranta's death. Victorious, but not unscarred the Dragonarmy Engineers left the Fort followed by the surviving Draconian soldiers of the fort and headed north to Nordmaar where Teyr lay before them.
The Draconians rebuilt the city, epitomizing their principles of utilitarian military designs that signified functionality, with a "decayed" aged look to give the appearance of age, to give the feeling that they as a race were older then they were utilizing the services of traveling Dwarven and Elven architects.
Now Teyr's Greatness is for all to see, spread out over-"
Horns Blare in the near distances
"REVELIE! RECRUITS GROUP!"
The group leader, Lieutenant Cadet Tandaza Leer, a female Sivak immediately threw the history book she was reading and cupped her hands around her mouth like a megaphone
"GROUP! Stop Idling by and MOVE! Last one out I will see to it will dig latrines for a WEEK!"
Suitably motivated you immediately roll off your cot which you had assembled just 10 minutes ago when you first arrived on base, you run out of the tend in the rushed mass of recruits and officer cadets towards your predetermined positions, you all try to get into your proper places in line but it is a mess, Tandaza has is swiftly moving back and forth trying to bring all of you to your correct spots in the line of 12 recruits in between 2 other lines of 12 recruits. Your Training company finished assembling in formation in ust about under 15 minutes.
You notice a Bozak, angry looking and proud timing everything you have a feeling of whats going to happen.
He puts his gnomish pocket watch back into his uniform, he walks to the beginning of the formation on your left and walks all the way to the other side in silence, so powerful his presence that rather then giddy chatter all were quiet. Soon in a time that seemed like forever he made his way back to the front. He spoke, and he spoke with authority and experience, you heard him clearly event hough he didnt appear to have raised his voice to address all the other recruits. He started to pace 30 feet to the left and right as he did so.
Recruits. I am Sergeant Major Rajnir Zatar, of the His Excellencies The Queen's Own Division, 2nd Republican Guards Regiment. What I saw here today was complete and utter bullcrap recruits, did you call that forming up? It was the most despicably disorganized mess I have ever seen you half of you don't even have the half baked excuse of not even being DRACONIANS! For the Half of you that WERE Draconians, what in Our Dead Queen's name was that!? Your Draconians for crying out loud! Had our Forefathers fought and died to bring you into the world for nothing? For the next generation to be a bunch of Pansy Elves? (A couple of "said" Elves stiffened at that, but Rajnir seemed to ignore them) Careless Kender? Is that what you are? Are you half Kender?
Silence persisted for only a few moments before Tandaza yelled, "No, Sergeant Major!"
"And the rest of you?"
"No! Major Sergeant No!"
"Good, progress, I can make Soldiers out of you yet... Now here's the part where I explain what we are doing here.
You see, here's our thing, the Republic that you have all mostly all of you been born and raised in, is under attack by Goblins, Vermin, and Barbarian Humans. Our Colony at their border despite over a year of peaceful co-existence was brutally attacked and every resident slaughtered to the last. A call has gone out for volunteers to join the army and fight for the republic, you... have all answered that call.
Some of you do it out of pure patriotism, a deep fire of love for your county burns in your heart and you would rather die in its defence then see it fall apart, well, here's the kicker. That's stupid. Me and your other drill sergeants will teach you to fight and not just that but to teach you to fight well and smart, to use your advantages to most effect while minimizing your own disadvantages, you are not here to die for your country but rather to make the enemy die for his. Am I right Recruits...?"
"Yes Sergeant Major Sir!"
"Good, others of you do it for the money, can't fault you there, thats how I joined up, others do it for the adventure, for a controlled way to see the world, and then there's those who joined to become citizens and cast yuor vote in elections and plebiscites. Thats almost like patriotism, so its good enough for me. Pleasing me, will be your personal pleasure for the next 6 weeks. Here's what we're gonna do, we will train you how to drill, march, and react instantly without thinking to orders. All these things will always be useful and used through your military career. After that the basics of hand to hand and simple martial weapons training will be given to EVERYONE, during all of this you will all be put into considerbaly physical endurance training, a modern soldier must be able to march for roughly 12 hours carrying over 70 pounds of equipment on your back not even counting your uniform and armor for the entire duration will only a limited number of rest breaks. We will train you to accomplish this, for you will become Soldiers of the Republic, do I make myself clear recruits?"
"Yes, Sergeant Major Sir!"
"Good. All of you will begin your military training at 0600 tomorrow morning sharp, dismissed."
Not quite dismissed as our group leader quickly informed us, as the Warrant Officer of the Queens Own came by and guided us around the base. The Queen's Own Headquarters was located in The Bastion, a walled complex containing the Senate Hall (or the Hall of the Thanes as its sometimes called), the Chancellery, the Governor's Palace, the Republic High Command. However doing the Republic's military training there would have been bad logistics, so Fort Huzzad a large military base on the outskirts of Teyr was picked and staffed by the Queens Own to train new recruits. We were moved around the Complex, shown the rest of the Barracks (really more of a miniature military standard tent city), the mess hall, the officers and non commissioned officers quarters, and of course as the Warrant officer gleefully pointed out the latrines which he said "we would all get very well acquainted with". At the end of the day at 2100 Hours they escort you back to your tent, in the barrack-tent is 11 others.
//All of you guys start off in the same place, after a little while you guys ill be split off into two groups.