Organisation of the Lein Imperial Army

The Imperial Army of the Lein was, in its time, one of the most formidable military forces in the whole world; its founding itself was an innovation of the newly centralised imperial system it served. Organised to a degree that was simply impossible for earlier dynasties, the army was forged into a superior force, both in training and discipline.

Units of the Army

The smallest unit of the army is the Line or "teo", which contains 10 men. Five lines make a unit called "nartun", translated as "spur", of 50 men; 6 spurs make a "kanawa", or streaming banner, of 300 men. Five kanawanon then make a "burose", or "flag", of 1,500 men; and four burosenon then make one March, the main organisational unit of the army, with 6,000 fighting men and maybe up to 3,000 auxiliaries and support personnel.

Three of these Marches combine to make an Army, with 18,000 men; and five Armies make the largest unit of the Army, a Grand March of 90,000 men, capable of launching extended campaigns and independent movement to better cope with the large size of the Empire. While armies identify themselves as part of a certain Grand March, however, it is not often that entire such units are mobilised; this would pose massive logistics problems.

Units of the Navy

The smallest unit of the navy is naturally the single ship, though the nature of naval warfare in those days make single ship combat highly unlikely; ships are grouped into groups of ten, known as a "kuntari" or "squad". Five kuntarinon make a "tasaga", or squadron, and two to three tasaganon make a fleet, which in Itrani is known as "gosare". Therefore one tasaga has around 50 ships, and a gosare may contain anywhere from 80 to 180 ships.