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Themes and Order of Battle

The New Roman Empire

 

The Roman Empire is divided into Themes, which are administrative, economic, and military subdivisions.  Each theme has a Strategos as the military commander.  The population of the Theme also elects a Governor as a civil administrator and has a Council as a legislative body.  Each theme then reports to an Exarch appointed by the Emperor with advice and consent of the Senate for each planet.  He directly commands the System Defense Command of each planet.  If the planet includes a Kleisourai Command the commander is titled Dux and reports to the Exarch directly.  Regular military assets are intended to be marshaled and formed into divisions (Merai) and corps (Exerciti) for expeditionary service.  The theoretical breakdown by division and corps follows the breakdown by planet and theme.  Each theme also fields a number of militia units not liable for service off-planet and consisting entirely of part-timers.  Their quality and equipment vary and are not controlled by the Imperial government as strictly as the Reserve Thematic troops are.

Note that while the Imperial Navy units are listed by their Sector home port, they do not report to the Exarch or Strategos in any way.  Their chain of command goes up to the Grand Drungarios (Grand Admiral) who reports directly to the Emperor.  Also reporting directly to the Emperor and not listed at all are the Basilikoi Anthropopoi, or Emperor's Men.  Will be a link to their page here eventually.

Acronym Guide:
EAC = Echelon Above Corps.  Theater and Army support troops.
PDFW: Planetary Defense Fighter Wing.  4xInterceptor Squadrons, 4xAttack Squadrons, 2xHeavy Squadrons

New Constantinople:

Anatolia:

Garibaldi: Garibaldi was originally settled by Italian colonists from the FSE, a small southern continent approximately the size of Australia was taken by NRE forces during the War of Independence.

Greater Serbia: Founded by Serbian Nationalists under RH 'protection', soon became a haven for raiders and pirates, especially after rival Croatian groups set up a series of settlements as well. NRE punitive attack in 2160 split the planet between Serbian and Croatian princes and small NRE-ruled areas. Which happened to include all functioning space ports

New Sofia: Settled by Bulgarians under Romanov Hegemony, conquered in 2177.

New Thrace

Hellas

Thrakesion

New Levant: Conquered in 2152 from Islamic Federation

Armeniakon

New Armenia: Settled by ESU, population included a number of 'tame' Armenians. Transferred to Islamic Federation without consultation of local authorities. When the Roman forces moved in, clever use of bribes for the local leadership prevented much effective military response. Islamic Federation counterattacks took back approx 20% of land area, making this a divided planet.

Mesopotamia: Rhomaioi presence on this planet is limited to a small area on the main continent, conquered in 2163.

Novy Sebastopol: Rhomaioi colonists settled the city of Cherson when the ESU presence was minimal, and fighting over the planet would really be more expensive than it's worth, so both the ESU and NRE have agreed to a partition and DMZ. The strategic location of Cherson makes it a valuable conduit for trade between the ESU and NRE which benefits them both.

This structure is highly theoretical and rarely would any significant portion actually deploy as shown below.

29xHeavy Merai, grouped in 8 Excerciti (approx 2 division-equivalents of assets), 5 Independent Heavy Turma, 4 Marine Turma, 46 Akritai Moira, 4 Kleisourai Commands (approx division-sized), 45 Reserve Light Infantry Turma, 20 Regular Light Infantry Turma.

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