Eternal Legion

Regency's largest veterans group.

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History & Background (Dossier)

The Eternal Legion is a powerful lobbying and mutual aid group founded in the early years of the 1130s to render aid, and give a political voice, to the increasing numbers of military veterans created by the Imperial Civil War and the Virus War. The Eternal Legion has "postings" in most major Regency communities, and even a few among those Vargr and Minor Spinward worlds that have large contingents of troops stationed alongside Regency forces preserving the Quarantine.

The Legion is both a base for networking and communal gathering of military veterans, an advocacy group for veteran affairs and government services, and a political pressure group known for its conservative principles. While not strongly supportive of Imperial-era relics like the nobility or Imperial power privileges, it counts itself a strong partisan of the restoration of the Iridium Throne, and at times seems ambivalent about the merit of democratic reform. In many ways the organization has an excessive sense of its own self-importance, a consequence of its naming of First Regent Norris as the organization's first "Commander" in 1144. While Norris declined the offer, the nobility in which he did was perceived as poignant self-sacrifice by some within the organization, and it is often strident in its support and loyalty to the Aledon-Alkhaliikoi family, and its eventual restoration to the Throne on Capital.

The Legion has been shameless in its perpetuation of the Avalon myth, and takes its name and many of its traditions from its inspiration. The membership body of the Legion is known simply as the Fellowship, and individual members are formally Loyal Friends of the Flame, or just Friends. It takes a stylized version of the Arthurian Roundtable as seen from above, covered with a circle of swords pointing towards the center. A number of reactionary or radical movements have founded refuge in some of its posts, namely the Flame of Purity "liberation" movement of the Frontier.

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• Peter Gray - Traveller TNE Mailing List Deneb Sector Library Data: Miscellaneous Background published 20 June 2001