Greetings from the Front

Sorry für die lange Stille. Aber sowohl der Funkkontakt als auch probleme mit dem Hyperraumzeitfenster machen es schwierig zur Zeit Kontakt zu halten. Bald wird es weitergehen....

Abbruch der verbindung

Workbench and Working Time

Sorry !! The biggest works are not ready and my time is going up.
On the Workbench is

-the Vitae of Lord Ashburn
-the Bulgars
-some Praetorian Platoons

But, the first job i have to do, to build my own house to my castle.
So far, there will be time......

Greetings, we will see us again !

Lord Gordon

Praetorian Heros - Part 1

Lord General Militant Horation Rupert Kitchanar, 1st Earl Sikkim, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSD, GCMG, GCPE, ADC, PC (born in 650.M41) a Praetorian Lord Marshal, a diplomat, and a statesman and Royal Earl Marshal of Praetorian Guard.

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Early life

Kitchanar was born in Ballylongford Prime near Listowel, Countydistrict Kerry on Hibernia, son of Lt. Col. Hardy Horation Kitchanar, (605.M41 – 694.M41, The Kings Hibernia Rifles) and Frances Chevallier-Cole (d. 664; daughter of Reverand John Chevallier and his third wife, Elzabet, née Cole). The family were Praetorian, not Praeto-Hibernian: his father had only recently bought land on Hibernia. The year his mother died of tuberculosis moritis, they had moved to Bassel VI in an effort to improve her condition; the young Kitchanar was educated there and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandringhurst. He was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Praetorian Engineers on Imperials Day in 671.M41. He served in many deployments. like Palestine IX, Nelius and Cyprus Major as a surveyor, learned many Gothic Dialects, and prepared detailed topographical maps of the spaceareas.

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Survey of Western Riff – Palestine IX

In 674, at age 24, Kitchanar was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Truth Space of Holy Land, replacing Drake Tyrwhitt, who had died. Kitchanar, then an officer in the Royal Praetorian Engineers, joined fellow Royal Engineer Clauder Conderand and between 674 and 677, they surveyed what is today the West Bank and Galilee Sub-Sectors, returning to Praetoria only briefly in 675 after an attack by locals in the Galilee-System, at Safed Minor.
Conderand and Kitchanar’s expedition became known as the Survey of Western Riff because it was largely confined to the area west of the Space. The survey collected data on the topography and toponymy of the area, as well as local flora and fauna. The results of the survey were published in an eight volume series, with Kitchanar’s contribution in the first three tomes (Conderand and Kitchanar 681-685).

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Nelius, Sikkim and Delija

Kitchanar later served as a Vice-Consul in Lahora, and in 683, as a Praetorian captain but with the Lahorish rank of bimbashi (major), in the occupation of Nelius (which was to be a Praetorian puppet state, its army led by Praetorian officers, from 683 until the early 750s), and the following year as an Aide de Camp during the failed Gordon relief expedition in the Sikkim. At this time his fiancée, and possibly the only female love of his life, Hermione Baker, died of typhoid fever on Cairo Secundus; he subsequently had no issue. But he raised his young cousin Bertha Chevallier, daughter of Kitchanar's first-cousin, Sir Francis Hepburn de Chevallier-Boutell.

In the late 680s he was Governor of the Red Sea Space Territories (which in practice consisted of little more than the Port of Suakin) with the rank of Colonel. Having become High Surface Pasha of the Neliusian Army in 692, with the rank of Major General in the Praetorian Army, in 696 he led his Praetorian and Neliusian forces up the Nile Trade Way, building a Jumppointway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sikkimese at the Battle of Omdurman XVII on 698, near Khartoumus, the hidden Base of the Sikkimese.

Kitchanar's second tour in the Sikkim Sub Sector (686–699) won him national fame, and he was made Aide de Camp to High King Randolf, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB). However, this campaign also made his brutality infamous, an aspect of his tactics that became well known after the Boer Drift War. After victory in the Battle of Omdurman XVII, Kitchanar had the remains of the Mahdi exhumed and scattered, presumably to teach a lesson to his opponents.

He was created Baron Kitchanar, of Sikkim and of Aspall in the System of Scotia, on 698.M41 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme restoring good governance to the Sikkim. The programme had a strong foundation based on education, Gordon Memorial College being its centrepiece, and not simply for the children of the local elites - children from anywhere could apply to study. He ordered the mosques of Khartoumus rebuilt and instituted reforms which recognised one Day – an Imperials holy day - as the official day of rest, and guaranteed freedom of religion to all citizens of the Sikkim. He attempted to prevent ecclesastical Imperial missionaries from attempting to convert to imperial faith. Kitchanar rescued a substantial charitable fund which had been diverted into the pockets of the Khedive of Nelius, and put it to use improving the lives of the ordinary Sikkimese.

He also reformed the debt laws, preventing rapacious moneylenders from stripping away all assets of impoverished farmers, guaranteeing them 5 acres of land to farm for themselves and the tools to farm with. In 699 Kitchanar was presented with a small island on Nelius in gratitude for his services; the island was renamed Kitchanar's Island in his honour.

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The Boerian Rebelion

During the Second Boerian Rebelion (699–702), Kitchanar arrived wit Lord Ashburn on the IWS Dunottar Castle and the massive Praetorian reinforcements of 699.M41. Officially holding the title of Lord Commandant of Staff, he was in practice a second-in-command, and commanded a much-criticised frontal assault at the Battle of Paardeberg in early year 700.M41.
Following the defeat of the conventional Boer forces, Kitchanar succeeded Ashburn as overall commander in later 700.M41, and after the failure of a reconciliatory peace treaty in 701.M41 (due to Praetorian royal cabinet veto) which Kitchanar had negotiated with the Boerian leaders, Kitchanar inherited and expanded the successful strategies devised by Ashburn to crush the Boerian guerrillas.
In a brutal campaign, these strategies removed civilian support from the Boerians with a scorched earth policy of destroying Boerian bases, farms, cities and places slaughtering livestock, building blockhouses, and moving women, children and the elderly into concentration camps from Adeptus Mechanicus. Conditions in these camps, which had been conceived by Ashburns as a form of controlling the families whose houses he had destroyed, began to degenerate rapidly as the large influx of Boerians outstripped the minuscule ability of the Praetorian to cope. The camps lacked space, food, sanitation, medicine, and medical care, leading to rampant disease for those Boerians who entered. The Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in 702.M41 following a tense six months.
During this period Kitchanar struggled against Sir Aldred Gonderman, the Governor of the Boaerian Colony System and the Praetorian government. Gonderman was a hardline conservative. He and the Praetorian government wanted to assert victory by forcing the Boerians to sign a humiliating peace treaty, while Kitchanar wanted a more generous compromise peace treaty that would recognise certain rights for the Boerians and promise future self-government. Eventually the Praetorian government decided the war had gone on long enough and sided with Kitchanar against Gonderman. (Louis Frederick Gutha, the Boerian leader with whom Kitchanar negotiated his aborted peace treaty in 701, became the first Lord Prime Counsl of the autonom self-governing Royal Union of Boerian in 710.M41 under Praetorian government) The Treaty also agreed to pay for reconstruction following the end of hostilities. Six days later Kitchanar, who had risen in rank from major-general to full general during the war, was created Viscount Kitchanar, of Sikkim and of the Vaal in the Colony of Vaal Prior and of Aspall in the System of Scotia.

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Delija and Nelius

Following this, Kitchanar, was made High Sirdar and Governor General of Delija Sector (702–741) - his term of office was extended by fourteen years - where he reorganized the Delijan Army. While many of his reforms were supported by the Viceroy Lord Curzon of Kadloston, who had originally lobbied for Kitchanar's appointment, the two men eventually came into conflict over the question of military administration. While later events would ultimately prove Curzon was right in opposing Kitchanar's attempts to concentrate all military decision-making power in his own office, the Commander-in-Chief's intrigues won him the crucial support of the government in Praetoria and the Viceroy in turn chose to resign.

Whilst in Delija Kitchanar broke his leg badly in a horseriding accident, leaving him with a slight limp for the rest of his life. He doesn`t want bionics, cause he thaught, that he never goes horseriding. Kitchanar was promoted to the highest Army rank, Lord General Militant, in 710 and went on a tour of the sector. He aspired to be Viceroy of Delija, but the Secretary of State for Delija, Lord Wicker, was not keen and hoped to send him instead to Nelius as Commander-in-Chief of Praetorian forces in the Meridian Sector, even to the point of announcing the appointment in the newspapers. Kitchanar pushed hard for the Viceroyalty, returning to Praetoria to lobby Cabinet ministers and the dying King Randolf, from whom, whilst collecting his Lord General Militant's baton, Kitchanar obtained permission to refuse the Nelius job. However, perhaps in part because he was thought to be a Tory (the Royla Liberals were in office at the time) and perhaps due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign, but most importantly because Wicker, who was a real Imperial and thus suspicious of imperialism, felt it inappropriate, after the recent grant of limited self-government under the 715 Delijan Councils Act, for a serving soldier to be Viceroy (in the event no serving soldier was appointed Viceroy until Lord Marshal Halleck in 743, Wicker could not be moved. The Prime Minister, Lord Nettles, was sympathetic but was unwilling to overule Wicker, who threatened resignation, so Kitchanar was finally turned down for the post of Viceroy of Delija Sector in 721.

Kitchanar then returned to Nelius as Praetorian Agent and Consul-General in Nelius (the job formerly held by Lord Cromer) and of the so-called Praetorian-Neliusian Kondominium of Sikkim (741–744, during the formal reign of Abbas as Khedive of Nelius, Sovereign of Nubia VII, of the Sikkim, of Kordofan Major and of Darfur Prime). Whatever the legal niceties, Nelius was in reality a Praetorian puppet state sub-sector and the Sikkim a directly-administered Praetorian colony, making Kitchanar Viceroy of the region in all but name.

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After Sikkim till today

Kitchanar was created Earl Kitchanar, of Sikkim and of Broome in the System of Alba, on 744.M41. Unusually, provision was made for the title to be passed on to his brother or nephew, since Kitchanar was not married and had no children. In this time, he hold the position of the Royal Earl Marshal of Praetorian Guard. This ist not the Lord Field Marshal of the Praetorian Guard, but it´s a staff rank.

Praetorian Delihan Army

Organisation

The Praetorian Delija Army has its origins in the years after the Indira - Rebellion 657.M41, when in 658 the High King of Praetoria took over direct rule of Praetorian Delija from the Imperial Indira Trade Company. Before 658, the precursor units of the Delija Army were units controlled by the Imperial Guard directly and were paid for by their profits. These operated alongside units of the Imperial Army, funded by the Departmento Munitiorum of the Segmentum Tempestus in Bakka.

Imperial Indira Trade Company were recruited primarily from Indira III, Indira IV, Attila meanwihle and Sikkim II in the Bengal Subsector, which consisted of Bengal Prime, Bihar Minor and Uttar Pradesh V, and high caste Soldiers recruited primarily from the rural plains of Oudh VII. Many of these troops took part in the Indria Mutiny, with the aim of reinstating the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shahram Dar at Delija Prime, partly as a result of insensitive treatment by their Praetorian und Imperial officers.
After the Mutiny, recruitment switched to what the Praetorian and Mordian Command Officers called the "martial races," particularly Rajputis, Sikhas, Shurkas, Pashtans, Jatush and Balochish.

The armies of the

Bengal Army, Madrush Army and Sikkim Army.

The "Delija Army" is the name for the Delijan Armed forces of Delija Sector, and the meaning has changed over time:

658.M41 - 694.M41

The Delija Army was an informal collective term for the armies of the three presidencies systems; the

695.M41 - 702.M41

The Delija Army had a formal existence and was the "army of the government of Delija Sector", including Praetorian, Imperial and Delijan (sepoy) units.

Lord Horation Kichanar was High Sirdar, between 702 and 729. He instituted large-scale reforms, the greatest of which was the merger of the three armies of the Presidencies into a unified force. He formed higher level formations, eight army corps, and brigaded Delijan and Praetorian units. Following Kitchanar's reforms:

703.M41 - 747.M41

Praetorian Guard units (and other Imperal Guard Regiments) posted to Delija for a tour of duty, and which would then be posted to other parts of the Praetorian Empire or other Imperial Departments.

* The Delijan Army was "the force recruited locally and permanently based in India, together with its expatriate Praetorian officers."

* The Praetorian Army in Delija consisted of

* The Army of Delija consisted of both the Delijan Army and the Praetorian Army in Delija. The Army was build in three Field Force Units, called the Angelus Field Force, the Indiron Rimward Expedtion Force and the Kandahar Field Force.

Command

The officer commanding the Army of Delija was the High Sirdar and Governor General of Delija. His command was known as Delija Command and his staff were based at GHQ Delija Prime.
Delijan Army postings were less prestigious than Praetorian Guards positions, but the pay was significantly greater so that officers could live on their pay instead of having to have a private income. Praetorian officers in the Delijan Army were expected to learn to speak the Delija Gothic Dialect of their men, who tended to be recruited from primarily Hundu-Gothic speaking areas. Prominent Praetorian Delijan army officers included:
Delijanisation by which Delijans were promoted into higher officer ranks. The cadets were sent to study at the Royal Military Academy and Angelus Major and Sandringhurst and were given full commissions as High King's Commissioned Delijan Officers. The HKCDOs were equivalent in every way to Praetorian commissioned officers and had full authority over all troops (unlike VCOs). Some HKCDO`s were attached to Praetorian ore other Imperial Army units for a part of their careers.
* Sir Richard Campel, First Colonel of 20th Praetorian
* Horation Kichanar, 1st Earl Sikkim, CiC, Delija till 747.M41
* Edward Alrik Ashburn, 34th Lord of Ashbun, Lord Militant, CiC Angelus Field Force
* Charles V. G. Gordon, 1st Viscount Al´Madan, Lord General, CiC Kandahar Field Force and High Sirdar of Delija Sector present
After First Great Crusade Combat alongside the Sabbat World Crusade of Warmaster Slaydo the Praetorians started the process of
Rank system

Commissioned Officers

Commissioned officers, Imperial, Praetorian and Delijan, held identical ranks to commissioned officers of the Praetorian Army.

Viceroy's Commissioned Officers

Viceroy's Commissioned Officers were Delijans holding officer ranks. They were treated in almost all respects as commissioned officers, but only had authority over Delijan troops and were subordinate to all Praetorian High King's Commissioned Officers, High King's Commissioned Delijan Officers and even more the Officers of Departmento and Imperial Guard.

Subedar Major or Risaldar-Major (Cavalry) = Major = Command an Regiment ore BattailonSubedar or Risaldar (Cavalry) = Captain = Command an CompanyJemadar = Lieutenant = Command an Platoon

Non-Commissioned Officers

Company Havildar Major = Company Sergeant Major
Company Quartermaster Havildar = Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Havildar or Daffadar (Cavalry) = Sergeant = Command an Troop
Naik or Lance-Daffadar (Cavalry) = Corporal
Lance-Naik or Acting Lance-Daffadar (Cavalry) = Lance-Corporal

Soldiers

Sepoy or Sowar (Cavalry) = Private ore Guardsman (Praetorian Army ranks such as Gunner and Sapper were used by other corps)

Function

Spinward Frontier Sectors against Chaos invasion via Sabbatworlds, internal security, and expeditionary warfare in the Great Space Ocean of the Baarier Riff area between the Sabbatworlds and the Old Trade Way to Urdesh. The Praetorian Delijan Army had a strength of about 50 million men on the eve of Firste Great Crusade 714.M41.

The main role of the Delijan Army was seen as being defence of the

During the days of Imperial and Praetorian rule, the Delijan Army proved a very crucial adjunct to Imperial forces not only in Delija Sector but also in other places, particularly during the First and Second Wave of Sabbatworld Crusade.

Recruitment was entirely voluntary; about 10.3 million men served in the First Wave Combat, many on the Spinward Front and 12.5 million in the Second. Initially the soldiers and NCOs were Delijan, with Praetorian ore Mordian officers but later Delijan officers were promoted as part of Delijanisation (see High King's Commissioned Delijan Officer). Slaydo told them all “The Heros of the Lion from Praetorias Fath”.

The Delijan Army established the Command and Staff College in 707 at Quetta XII, in present-day Schola Progenium Bruttiam to provide the army with staff officers who had knowledge of local Delijan conditions. The college still continues to train Imperial Guard officers. Whereas until 732 most Praetorian Delijan Army officers, both Praetorian and Delijan, were trained at Royal Military Academys of Angelus Major and Sandringhurst, after that date the Delijan officers increasingly received their training at the Royal Delijan Military Academy on Indira IV which was established in 732.

Fortsetzung des Kapitels 2 (3)

Dax aß mit ungezügeltem Appetit und das gelegentlich glitschige Schmatzen und Schlürfen war eine nahezu perfekte Präsentation dieser Tatsache. Devereux`s Teller war nicht mal angerührt. Er starrte nachdenklich in das tiefe Rot seines Weinglases.
„Ehm….eschen sie das noch, Sir?“ fragte Dax und schob sich ein Stück Weisbrot in den Mundwinkel.
Deveraux lächelte und schob ihm seinen Teller zu.
„Stuart, sie überraschen mich immer wieder“, antwortete Deveraux. Er wollte gerade ein weiteres Mal an seinem Wein nippen, als ihm am Ende des Speisewagens eine Frau auffiel. Sie starrte ihn an. Er blickte kurz in die andere Richtung um sicher zu gehen, dass es so war. Dann sah er wieder in ihre braunen Augen.
Bemerkenswert war die Tatsache das sie sehr abenteuerlich Gekleidet schien, einen Fellumhang trug, sowie einige Utensilien die nicht unbedingt zur Gesellschaft in diesem Zugabteil gehörten. Ihre Haare waren naturgelockt, so vermutete Deveraux, und dunkelbraun, ihre Haut hatte einen bronzenen Schatten.

Ein Kellner streifte sein Blickfeld und die Frau war fort. Nichts deutete daraufhin das sie je dort gesessen hatte.
Deveraux blinzelte. Nichts.
„Dax, sie haben mir doch nur einen Wein bestellt, oder?“
Es war Wein. Deveraux nippte und roch nochmals daran. Ein feiner verdischer Landwein. Nichts auserlesenes und nichts besonderes.

Deveraux starrte in die Ecke und sah nur den leeren Platz neben dem Mann, auf dem bis eben noch die Frau gesessen hatte. Er stand auf und ging zu dem Mann, offensichtlich einem praetorianischen Unternehmer auf Geschäftsreise, der sich angeregt mit zwei einheimischen Kaufleuten unterhielt.
„Entschuldigen sie bitte die Unterbrechung meine Herren“, begann Deveraux. Die drei schauten zu ihm auf.
„Sir, wenn sie erlauben, die Dame die eben hier gesessen hat, können sie mir sagen ob sie noch einmal wieder kommen wird?“
Die drei Männer blinzelten ihn verwundert an.
„Beim Imperator und König, wenn hier eine Dame gesessen hätte, ich hätte es bemerkt, oder nicht?“ begann der Praetorianer. Die beide indirischen Kaufleute lachten auf. Doch dann bemerkten sie Devereux´s ernsten Blick.
„Sir, es tut mir leid, sie müssen sich vertan haben“, erklärte der Praetorianer.
„Gute Güte, es wird die Hitze sein“, antwortete Deveraux und hoffte seine Fassungslosigkeit damit überspielt zu haben. Alle lachten und er ging zurück zu Dax, der mit dem zweiten Teller fertig war.
„Sir, ist alles in Ordnung?“ fragte Dax.
„Das weis ich noch nicht, jedenfalls wird mir das alles zu bunt. Ich bin mir nicht mehr sicher ob das hier nur eine Art Urlaubsfall wird oder nicht…“, er blickte sich um. Und dann ging das Licht aus.

Charaktere - Savannenwind (2)

Dieser noch junge und doch bereits erfahrene Offizier ist Captain Gorm Harno der kommandierende Offiziere und Hauptmann der 3rd Company (1st Battailon, 20th Praetoria).

Harno ist der zweite Sohn des Generals Edwark Harno (sein älterer Bruder Gabriel dient als Oberstleutnant bei den 112ten Hussaren). Gegen den Willen seiner Eltern trat er dem Regiment 760.M41 bei und nahm als frischgebackener Lieutenant an der Befriedung der südlichen Japh-Tal teil. Danach wurde ihm das Kommando über 3te "verstärkte" Kompanie gegeben und er wurde in den Rang eines Hauptmann befördert. Darüber hinaus wurde er zum Garnisonskommandanten von Calandra ernannt und hielt die Garnison 776.M41 erfolgreich gegen einen Angriff der "Mahdisten".

(Fortsetzung folgt)

Charaktere - Savannenwind

Es ist natürlich schwierig zu einer Geschichte die man schreibt, die passenden Gesichter zu finden. Und einfach nur größere "Modelle" beleben den Roman nicht wirklich. Daher habe ich mir erlaubt einige Schauspieler in bestimmten Rollen zu suchen, die mich beim Schreiben inspriert haben.

Ich fange daher nun auch in unregelmässigen Abständen mit den Portraits des Romans an. Heute sind es die Bilder von Detectiv Chief Inspector John Deveraux und seinem Assistenten, Detectiv Constabler Stuart Dax.

Die Aufnahmen zeigen beide Herren in ihrer täglichen zivilen Kluft bei der Polizeiarbeit auf Praetoria Prime. Stuart Dax ist noch ein junger Polizist, dies sieht man auf dem obigen Dienstfoto sehr deutlich. Er ist sehr eilfertig und manchmal etwas zu schnell in seiner Schlussfolgerung.

Sein Chef, John Deveraux, ist eigentlich ein gut aussender und in der Damenwelt durchaus begehrter Mann.

Hier sehen wird Deveraux in einer Straße der königlichen Hauptmakropole.

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It is of course difficult to tell a story you write, to find the right faces. And just bigger "models" enliven the novel is not really. Therefore I have allowed myself to look for some actors in certain roles that I have inspriert writing.


I'm starting now, therefore, also at irregular intervals, with the portraits of the novel. Today, there are the pictures of Detective Chief Inspector John Deveraux and his assistant, Detective constable Stuart Dax.

The images show two men in their daily civilian gap in policing on Praetoria Prime. Stuart Dax is still a young police officer, so you can see on the above photo service very much. He is very hasty and sometimes a little too fast in its conclusion.

His boss, John Deveraux is actually a good-looking and quite the ladies man in demand
Here we see Deveraux in a street of the main royal hive.