Imperial Military

""YOU ARE MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL MILITARY: DEDICATED SOLDIERS AND SERVICEMEN OF THE EMPIRE. YOU ARE DESTINED TO SERVE THE EMPEROR AND OUR LORDS ABOVE US; YOU ARE THE ENGINE OF CONFLICT AS IT IS YOU WHO TRANSFORMS THE GALAXY AND LEADING US ON INTO A NEW MOMENT!""

- Grand Moff Codel Rossi, to the Twelfth Brigade at Ilum

The Imperial Military were the armed forces of the First and later Second Reborn Sith Empires. It was the backbone of Imperial society as it epitomised the Reborn Sith Empires' true strength with their sheer military power. It was responsible for carrying out military operations to maintaining Imperial order on Imperial worlds, governorships, colonies, and protectorates.

The Imperial Military was among the largest government organisations in the Empire, making up the majority of it as it was ruled over by the most powerful Sith Lords. The military produced an army of billions of troops along with a navy of millions of ships.

The Imperial Military was under direct control of the Emperor's Wrath and the Sphere of the Imperial Military, whose Sphere of Influence autonomously ruled over the military itself as the Commander-in-chief. Under the Wrath was the Imperial High Command, consisting of the Moff High Council, Circles of Twelve along with the Marine Commandant, Stormtrooper General, and the Director of the Special Operations Command; who typically was a Grand Moff within the Moff High Council.

The Imperial Military was not just a physical fighting force, but also a psychological fighting force. The Emperor's military powerbase, consisting of a full Regional Command based primarily within the Northeastern quadrant of the galaxy, aspired fear within the hearts of any sentient species. The Empire's covert superweapons were designed to impose the true might of the Emperor. As the Emperor's war mechanisms, such as that of the All Terrain Destruction Mechanism was a towering harrowing war behemoth of the Reborn Sith Empires; one of the few examples of the Empire's true physical and mental military power.

First Reborn Sith Military
By the time of Endor, with the Galactic Empire collapsing into remnants and warlordism, the First Reborn Sith Empire emerged from the shadows in 6 ABY. Their military was formed off of the basis of rebel or Imperial soldiers tricked or indoctrinated into the ranks of the First Reborn Sith Empire, serving beside their Sith Lords.

The Galactic Civil War continued between a massive war with the newly restored Jedi Order and New Republic fighting against the Imperial Remnant of Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo and the Sith Lords and the military of the Reborn Sith Empire. The military of this time was a much smaller organisation consisting of fifteen million soldiers by its full extent. It followed its own military philosophies and ideologies similar to the Stormtrooper Corps of the Galactic Empire. However, by the Yuuzhan Vong war, the military was severely deprived of its numbers as it was reduced to only several million. It became an organisation eventually for special covert operations and naval reconnaissance, with Sith Warriors being the military commanders and ground forces until the fall of the Empire.

Post-First Reborn Sith Empire
Although by the fall of the Reborn Sith Empire, few survived. Migrating to the Unknown Regions or elsewhere. Most of their personnel retiring as the military only became part of history.

Twenty years before the establishment of the Reborn Sith Empire, in 67 ABY, the last military official known in the history of the First Reborn Sith Empire known as Admiral Riel Grann sought to restore the military. For years and years, Grann travelled the outer rim to seek human recruits, conscripting them into his organisation. Eventually by 75 ABY, this potential military was numbered at ten thousand personnel. Grann discovered the existence of his former superior in the First Reborn Sith Empire, Darth Daligon; Grann seeking the support of the Sith Lord as Daligon accepted the support. Continuing to conscript human men and consolidate the defence forces of the small outer rim governorships into this military.

Rise of a New Empire
""The new Imperial Military is a plethora of Imperial power. It is designed to epitomise the power of the new Reborn Empire. Soon, this military will be the ones to enforce Imperial laws on the entire galaxy as the people will kneel to the Lords of the Sith that will rule it.""

- Supreme Commander Riel Grann, 102 ABY

Twelve years later, by 87 ABY, the Second Reborn Sith Empire was officially established. Grann eventually was appointed as the first Supreme Commander and Lord High Admiral of the new Imperial Military of the Second Reborn Sith Empire. Reorganising and recreating the military ranks and the organisation fully, fleshing out and reforming the military into a stronger war mechanism as it was compared to the First Empire.

The military made their first appearances in 92 ABY, when the Empire went to the war with the Galactic Federation - a democratic government that replaced the New Republic and their Grey Jedi allies. Command was held directly to Supreme Commander Grann as he led Imperial forces throughout the galaxy, using his tactical genius to defeat the Federation's armed forces and even Grey Jedi commanders. By 107 ABY, the Empire gained a glorious victory at the Battle of Makeb, where Federation forces and Grey Jedi had a final showdown with the Empire and the Sith Order. With Commander Grann participating, he had a psychological influence over his men. Using his genius to outmatch and eventually outgun Federation forces, riling and disrupting their order of battle. Leaving the Federation in tatters.

Months after the end of this conflict, a sentient race of unknown origins, known as the Reapers invaded the galaxy at full force. The Imperial Military and the collapsed Galactic Federation fighting the Reapers in their respective territories. However, the Reapers were mighty and powerful thus with their might of their artificial minds, they destroyed the massive armadas of the Empire and the Federation, breaking Imperial lines at Korriban and Federation lines at Coruscant. Unfortunately, at Korriban was where Riel Grann would die, yet making his death an honourary one as he fought valiantly against the Reapers.

Until in 110 ABY, Darth Decayus arose to power as the Emperor, taking his style as the "Imperator of the Sith" and the "Emperor of all the Sith" as well as the "Imperial King". In this time, Grann's system was still used. However, it was recreated into larger compositions such as larger military units and newly introduced ranks, extending the numbers of the Imperial Military as command was now held under a Sith Lord and an executive military officer known as the Minister of War.

In 130 ABY, the Imperial Military saw its greatest height, at ten billion soldiers and amassing millions of ships, it became a full fighting and a defense force for the Empire, as the Second Reborn Sith Empire extended beyond the Core worlds and into Wild Space and the corners of the Outer Rim. It was renown as the most powerful military in the galaxy.

Headquarters
The Imperial Military by 130 ABY was primarily based on Coruscant and Dromund Kaas. Whilst the Imperial Navy's headquarters resided in deep space within the Esstran sector, as the Imperial 1st Home Command Armada was the naval headquarters.

Administration
The Imperial High Command was the administrative body of the Imperial Military. It comprised of the Circles of Twelve, which consisted of twelve Grand Admirals and Grand Generals, alongside them were the Marine Commandant, Stormtrooper General, and Director of the Special Operations Command; these three ranks were under the jurisdiction of the Circles of Twelve.

The Circle of Twelve Grand Admirals held jurisdiction of the Starfighter Corps, Marine Corps (along with the Commandant), Imperial Maritime Division, as well as the Imperial Naval Special Forces. On the other hand, the Circle of Twelve Grand Generals held jurisdiction over the Stormtrooper Corps (alongside the Stormtrooper General), Joint Special Operations Command (along with the Moff High Council if the director was a Moff), and the smaller Imperial Army divisions and units.

Above the Circles of Twelve had also existed the Moff High Council which was governed by twenty Grand Moffs. These Grand Moffs were among the highest military officials within the high command only subordinate to the Minister of War and the Emperor's Wrath, which this cadre of Imperial Moffs reported directly to.

Tactical Organisation
The epitome of Imperial strategy was that of the Rossi Doctrine, established by High Admiral and later Grand Moff Codel Rossi. Under the Rossi doctrine, the main operational theatres of the Imperial Military were the five Regions comprising of: the Northeast Command, Southeast Command, Southwestern Command, Unknown Regions Command, and the Northwestern Command.

These large military regions were governed by the highest ranking High and Grand Moffs alongside their Sith superiors who dominated the galaxy. These regions consolidated the Oversectors of the Old Republic and the Galactic Empire, being divided into smaller sectors governed by individual Moffs, as where the Imperial Army had thousands of Sector Armies and the Navy with thousands of Sector Fleets and hundreds of larger naval armadas.

Specialisations
Under the Imperial policies of Humanocentrism, members of the Imperial Military consisted almost entirely of male humans who had little or no connection to the force. Aliens were deemed unfit for command or even self-determination, thus many aliens were rejected from being conscripted into the ranks of the Imperial Military, the only exception of this was that of the Sith race who had no connection to the force, a famous example of this was Tetris Scipio, a Sith Pureblood Captain within the Imperial Special Forces.

The Empire used many foot soldiers in battle, Sith troopers of the Imperial Army being the backbone of Imperial Infantry, as they made up the majority of the Imperial Army. There were many specialised variants of infantry, such as Imperial Army Cold Assault troopers, Imperial Shadow Troopers, to even Imperial Supercommandos. Along the Imperial Army were other infantry branches and divisions, such as the Imperial Marines, Joint Special Operations, Naval Special Forces, and the Stormtrooper Corps.

Imperial Naval Officers held command over vessels as they also led their own Imperial Army and Marine infantry as well as they travelled beside their officers on the Imperial vessels of the Imperial Navy. Many of these human officers came from the Core Worlds, whom had a higher tendency of having extreme humanocentric ideals and endorsing the Reborn Sith Empire's anti-alien policies.

Imperial Military personnel also looked down upon fellow members who were force sensitive; with the exception of their superior Imperial Generals and Admirals and that of the Imperial Guardsmen, some of whom were conscripts found as force sensitive and were taught in the ways of the Dark Side.

Training
Training took place across the galaxy; from rural worlds to even that of the urbanised and well-developed Core Worlds. Training for enlisted conscripts took place primarily on Mandalore for Imperial Army recruits and Manaan for the Imperial Navy.

Training for officers took place on Coruscant, Onderon or Dromund Kaas for the Imperial Army and Corellia, Coruscant and Carida for the Navy. Marines, Stormtroopers and Joint Special Operation training could take place on all of the aforementioned worlds, depending on enlisted or officer academies or what deemed most fitting for the branches.

Enlisted training typically was spread out within camps, as a normal Drill Instructor had a pay grade of E-7, which could be a Sergeant First Class, Gunnery Sergeant, Quarter Sergeant, or a Petty Officer First Class. Whereas Officer Cadet training was within Imperial Academies. Training for the military consisted of brutal training regimens as well as the indoctrination of Imperial military personnel into becoming cold-hearted men with the fear of failing their superiors.

Ranks
The ranks of the Imperial Military were denoted by specific combinations of coloured squares and code cylinders or rank pauldrons. The military divided rank into Enlisted, Warrant Officers, and Commissioned Officers. The ranks were as followed:

Imperial Army

 * Grand General - The highest rank achieved within the Imperial Army, this rank was used by the members of the Circle of Twelve for the Imperial Army. Their insignia was indicated by a row of six red squares followed by three blue and three gold underneath.
 * High General - The rarest rank yet within the Imperial Army. Only five people could legally hold this rank and were in command of Regional Armies. A notable High General was Elgas Vardin. The insignia of a High General was a bar of three red and gold cubes with six blue cubes underneath.
 * Senior Marshal - Senior Marshals were in command of Sector Armies. They were indicated by a rank insignia of a bar of red cubes followed underneath by blue and gold cubes, similar to that of a Grand General's insignia. An obsolete variant of this rank was also known as "Senior Generals".
 * Field Marshal - Field Marshals held command of System Armies. Their insignia was six red cubes above six blue cubes. Field Marshal was below a Senior Marshal but superior to a full General.
 * General - Generals were in command of a Field Army. Their insignia was indicated by a bar of six red cubes. Sometimes, Generals also had an insignia of four red and blue cubes spaced out evenly.
 * Lieutenant General - This rank was subordinate to a full General, their insignia was four red cubes and underneath two gold cubes and two blue cubes. Lieutenant Generals were in command of Corps.
 * Major General - In command of divisions, the insignia for this rank was indicated by four red cubes followed by three gold cubes underneath with one blue cube.
 * Brigadier General - In command of Brigades or Legions, Brigadier Generals were the lowest grade of a General. A Brigadier Generals' insignia was four red bars with four gold cubes underneath.
 * Senior Colonel - The role of this rank was to be the Executive Officer of Brigades or Legions. Some Senior Colonels could take full command of a Brigade or Legion. The insignia of this rank was three red cubes followed underneath by three gold.
 * Colonel - Colonels were in command of Regiments. Their insignia was three red cubes above two gold and one blue.
 * Lieutenant Colonel - Lieutenant Colonels were Battalion Commanders. This rank's insignia was designated by three red bars over one gold bar and two blue bars.
 * Major - Majors were the lowest field-grade officer rank. Majors were Executive Officers of Battalions, serving beside their Battalion Commanders. A Major's insignia was three gold bars over three blue bars.
 * Captain - Captains were the most common army officer rank, albeit the third lowest. Captains were in command of Companies as the insignia of a Captain was three red over three blue cubes.
 * 1st Lieutenant - 1st Lieutenants were executive officers of a company. Their insignia was indicated by two red cubes over two blue.
 * 2nd Lieutenant - 2nd Lieutenants were platoon commanders, often accompanied by a Platoon Sergeant. 2nd Lieutenant was the lowest officer rank and had an insignia of one red bar over one blue.

Enlisted personnel's insignia were indicated by colour-coded pauldrons, as the same with Warrant Officers. The Army ranks of the Enlisted and Warrant Officers were as followed:


 * Chief Warrant Officer
 * Warrant Officer First Class
 * Warrant Officer Second Class
 * Sergeant Major of the Army
 * Command Sergeant Major
 * Sergeant Major
 * First Sergeant
 * Master Sergeant
 * Sergeant First Class
 * Staff Sergeant
 * Sergeant
 * Corporal
 * Specialist
 * Private First Class
 * Private

Imperial Navy

 * Grand Admiral - The commander of the Imperial Navy. Only twelve people could legally hold this rank. The insignia of this rank was identical to the Grand General.
 * High Admiral - This rank held command of Armadas. High Admirals were more numerous than High Generals as their insignia was identical.
 * Senior Admiral - Senior Admirals held command of Sector Fleets. This rank was equivalent to a Senior Marshal.
 * Fleet Admiral - Hence the name, Fleet Admirals were in position to command fleets which comprised of 120-136 ships.
 * Admiral - Admirals were in command of battlegroups, which were smaller fleets consisting of 8-12 or even 40-44 ships. Their insignia was a bar of six blue cubes.
 * Vice Admiral - Vice Admirals were in command of divisions, consisting of 7-37 ships. Vice Admirals were an equivalent to Lieutenant Generals and had the same insignia as them.
 * Rear Admiral - In command of naval wings, Rear Admirals were assumed as the lowest grade of Admirals. Rear Admirals also took command of Squadrons.
 * Senior Commodore - Senior Commodore was the equivalent of a Brigadier General, in command of a squadron, their insignia was identical to that of a Brigadier General.
 * Commodore - Equivalent to a Senior Colonel, Commodores held command of either a Squadron or a Task Force.
 * Captain - Equivalent to a Colonel, the insignia of a captain differed from the insignia of a colonel. It was indicated by three red cubes over three blue cubes. Captains commanded a singular capital ship.
 * Commander - Commanders were in command of a flotilla of 3-5 smaller vessels not classified as capital ships.
 * Lieutenant Commander - Lieutenant Commanders were in charge of one support vessel. Support vessels were smaller than capital ships, these consisted of corvettes, carriers, and certain types of frigates and battleships.
 * Lieutenant - Lieutenants had an insignia of one gold cube with two red over three blue. This was the senior most junior officer rank.
 * Junior Lieutenant - Junior Lieutenants had the identical insignia to a First lieutenant in the Army.
 * Ensign/Midshipman - the lowest officer rank in the Imperial Navy. Ensigns or Midshipmen had an insignia of one blue cube over one red cube.

Warrant Officers and Enlisted non-commissioned officers had insignias through ranking pauldrons. The enlisted and warrant officer ranks of the navy were:


 * Chief Warrant Officer
 * Warrant Officer First Class
 * Warrant Officer Second Class
 * Master Chief Petty Officer
 * Senior Chief Petty Officer
 * Chief Petty Officer
 * Petty Officer First Class
 * Petty Officer Second Class
 * Petty Officer Third Class
 * Senior Voidman
 * Voidman
 * Voidman Apprentice
 * Voidman Recruit

Imperial Marines
Imperial Marines used identical rank insignia to that of the Army. However, the rank of Commandant General was indicated by that of a Field Marshal or Fleet Admiral's insignia. Their ranks were:


 * Commandant General
 * Vice Commandant
 * General
 * Lieutenant General
 * Major General
 * Brigadier General
 * Colonel
 * Lieutenant Colonel
 * Major
 * Captain
 * 1st Lieutenant
 * 2nd Lieutenant
 * Sergeant Major
 * Master Gunnery Sergeant
 * First Sergeant
 * Master Sergeant
 * Gunnery Sergeant
 * Staff Sergeant
 * Sergeant
 * Corporal
 * Lance Corporal
 * Private First Class
 * Private

Imperial Special Forces
Imperial Joint Special Operations held identical insignia to the Army as well; however, the ranks of the junior enlisted had no insignia indication whatsoever, their ranks were:


 * Director of the Joint Special Operation Forces Command (Usually a Moff, High Moff or Grand Moff)
 * General
 * Lieutenant General
 * Major General
 * Senior Commander
 * Commander
 * High Colonel
 * Colonel
 * Lieutenant Colonel
 * Major
 * Captain
 * Lieutenant
 * 2nd Lieutenant
 * Senior Sergeant
 * First Sergeant
 * Second Sergeant
 * Third Sergeant
 * Quartermaster Sergeant
 * Technical Sergeant
 * Sergeant
 * Corporal
 * Senior Specialist
 * Specialist
 * Specialist Apprentice

Stormtrooper Corps
The Stormtrooper Corps ranks were simple, there had been no enlisted or officer borders, nor warrant officers. Stormtroopers could simply go from enlisted to an officer. The ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps were based off of the Grand Army of the Republic, insignia being colour coded and indicated by pauldrons and HUD glyphs.


 * Surface Marshal
 * Senior Commander
 * Regimental Commander
 * Battalion Commander
 * Commander
 * Major
 * Captain
 * Lieutenant
 * 2nd Lieutenant
 * Sergeant Major Other
 * Gunnery Sergeant
 * Staff Sergeant
 * Sergeant
 * Corporal
 * Lance Corporal
 * Specialist
 * Trooper

Uniforms
Officers in the Imperial Military wore various colour schemes of uniforms ranging from black, grey, and white. Black was usually worn by non-commissioned officers, whilst grey was worn by commissioned officers whereas the white uniforms was worn by the senior most officers such as that of the Circles of Twelve Grand Generals and Grand Admirals and the Moff High Council of Grand Moffs.

Enlisted personnel usually wore their distinctive armours depending on their branch, unit, or division. Such examples were Sith troopers of the Imperial Army where they wore striking silver armour with gold visors and black mesh underpaddings.

Ground Vehicles
Walkers such as the All Terrain Destruction Mechanism and the All Terrain Gunnery Transport symbolised the might of the Imperial Military. They were gargantuan weapons of warfare, feared by all. Many believed these weapons were invincible. However, the AT-DM had two fatal weak spots, the neck and its lower legs.

The Second Reborn Sith Empire had also adopted the usage of walkers from the Galactic Empire, such as AT-ATs and AT-STs. Other notable less known walkers included: AT-SW, AT-LU, AT-LC, AT-SC, and the AT-CAT.

Ships
The Harrower series-class dreadnought was the primary capital ship series of the Imperial Navy as it was brought back and was given extreme modifications distinct from the old Harrower cruisers. Along with Harrowers, the Reborn Sith Empires had many other variants and types of ships ranging from small support vessels and corvettes to the much larger command stations and superdreadnoughts.

The Imperial Military also employed the usage of Galactic Empire ships, such as Executor star destroyers, Eclipse Super Star Destroyers, and even Mandator series-class dreadnoughts and Bellator dreadnoughts as well.

Dark Lords of the Sith on the Dark Council also owned modified variants and their own independent classes of Imperial vessels, such as that of Darth Rageous, whose flagship was a modified Eclipse-class Star Destroyer known as the "Bloodlance", and Darth Daligon owning the "Knowledge Keeper" which was a unique ship class.

Starfighters
The Supremacy-class Starfighters were the most common Starfighter type of the Imperial Navy, alongside them were also Fury-class interceptors. The Empire employed millions of Starfighters for the Imperial Navy, hundreds if not thousands of them could be stowed on command ships and sometimes larger capital ships and could be deployed for dogfights with enemy fighters or destroy the hulls of an enemy vessel by swarming it and using hit and run tactics until its destruction.

Imperial Rules of Engagement stated Imperial Starfighters must 3 to 1 ratio advantage over enemy fighters in order to engage. Beating the enemy in numbers was a key part of Imperial strategy.