New Model Military Architecture

The New Model Military Architecture is a general program to research, design, construct and supply ships, vehicles, weapons and equipment suitable for a Regency reconquest of the former Imperium.

Description (Specifications)

The Regency has understood that the most important part of any military expansion into the Wilds is its ability to reassert the rule of law and order over the TEDs and other disparate factions.

• The NMMA forces are quasi-police units intended to remove the worst threats, whether viral or human, in favor or restoring the means for interstellar commerce and planetary redevelopment.
• "Reconquista" forces have to be small and agile, and capable of being resupplied by depot ships rather than fixed resupply bases.
• This force has no charter to restore the Third Imperium, or to assert Regency sovereignty in planetary or regional affairs.

Program Features

The New Model Military Architecture will have the following features:

• Naval forces will have to emphasize small ships, with destroyers and lighter cruisers becoming the heaviest patrol units, supplemented and reinforced at critical vantage points by heavy line units, which are designed and equipped for extended operations of up to six months without relief or resupply.
• Ground Units will have to operate in most cases with a smaller number of more capable armored vehicles and support weapons, and battle armored infantry will be in many cases the primary vanguard. Planners are anticipating few pitched battles, and more guerrilla and police actions, and battlefields with no defined front, rear or flanks.
• Missile armaments will have to be deemphasized, energy weapons limited. Diplomacy and show of force operations will be as important as normal battles.

History & Background (Dossier)

A reconquest of the former Imperium will require a radical departure from standard Imperial military doctrines and strategies.

The Regency has two severe limitations on its projection of force into the Wilds:

• Low force density.
• Logistical/communication constraints.

Even though the Regency Navy is several times larger than its Civil War Domain predecessor, and will grow larger still, economic and logistical constraints will give it a force density barely one-quarter to one-fifth that of the entire former Imperial Navy. In addition these forces will have to operate for a long time away from large accumulations of munitions or spare parts, and without the luxury of an extensive courier system for early warning of Viral counterattacks.

In response to these demands, Regency military designers have had to reverse long-standing practices.

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