Grand Armies of the Mirkuleon Empire

origins
The mirkuleon armed forces started in 200 BV when the mirkuleon clans united under a single banner. The knights and the soldiers of each clan pledged loyalty to the mirkuleon people and their marshals rather than their cheiftains. The navy was created from fishermen who were conscripted by the army during the war with the elven kingdoms. Since the navy was not equipped for war and more for just troop carrying. This meant it was decimated, it was only when coming across the sea people in which the mirkuleons adopted their pirating skills.

funding
The military takes up more than half of the GDP since military might is the empire's main resource and is funded by its colonial efforts and by human coloniseras paying the regiments to protect them and their factories, mines etc.

Structure
The armed forces are organised into three branches, the navy, the ground army and the Imperial airforce. They are each commanded by seperate commander in cheif's who act as advisors to the Emperor who has the rank of generalissmus. The army is split into more branches, the foot troops, the cavalry, the artillery corps, the heavy armoud divisions, the light armoured divisions. The navy is split into: the maritime fleet, the submariner and boater divison, the large ship division, the sea air fleet, the coat guard and the sea raiders. The air force is also split up into the: the light fighter plane divisions, the reconossaice division, the airgunships, the air battle station divisions, the sucide corps. the air ground support. The army, the navy and the airforce all have a radio operater corps as well as an enginer corps. The special forces are not part of the armed forces and do not have the same ranks. The army is entirely made up of mirkuleon males aged twenty upwards. mirkuleons live for around ten thousand years and so to not put a strain on their land and to keep up their birth rate, nearly every mirkuleon male goes off to war not to earn glory or fortune but to live in a cycle of conquest and death.

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There are four ranks, officer, non comissioned officer and soldier as well as recruit.