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Abide by these terms and the Étendard could welcome you. We accept all nationalities and former affiliations if they will abide by our principles. By submitting your application, we expect you to have understood our principles.

We wish for you to describe in your own words how and why you expect to fit into the Black Standard. You can list your name, age, nationality, height, weight, corporate background, or anything else you wish. None of it is required, simply write what you consider relevant about yourself.

I am Emilie-Sophie de Belmond and, in the recent past - i have been a high-ranked officer of the Marine Royale. Loyal, committed to the cause.

I have never served Charles, i had no interest playing political games of the monarchs.
I served the Gallia itself, making no differene or quarter to it's enemies, slaying them all alike in the field and space, and only responded to Chanteloup herself.. In months, i have stricked through the ranks and earned my right to lead the force much greater i could have ever hoped to achieve. With renewed vigor, i pushed onwards, delivering the justice to those who dared to oppose me.

It was before i was confronted with the fact that they no longer need my service, and that my efforts are ultimately gone in vain, all my combat prowess and those i brought down to their knees in the name of Gallia - means nothing in the prolonged perspective.
Threw me and everything i sought in life away, like disposable trash. Left me stranded.

For this House i sought salvation. Fought selflessly to make it happen with my own hands. And all of it was in vain.
So - give me a new purpose to fight, if that means burning the entirety of the Houses with the inclusion of Gallia and Hispania - i am not against seeing that to happen, and commit myself to that cause.

Are you ready to give a new purpose to a person left stranded?

To give new purpose to those that have despaired in finding it elsewhere is the Étendard's reason for existence. And in casting off the shackles of the Royaume, whether as a Royalist soldier as you were, or a simple citizen, we cannot fall into the trap of enslaving ourselves to yet another organization.
Only in true liberty, only when we can be truly certain that no one stands above us or below, will we find our salvation.

I will be happy to give you a new home, though it won't be a comfortable one. Your combat experience will be greatly appreciated."

Keep your motive then. I consider a touch of mystique to be a suggestive of a strong character. But when we are flying together, you must expect me to make an attempt to reveal some of it, if we live long enough. Perhaps the prospect of imminent demise will lift the veil.
Until then, I will take you up on your offer of gratuitous immolation.

I hope you managed to get a ship or two from your former employer, we can certainly use them."

Our cause is unfulfilled and worse still, many positions we had scouted out for intervention have dropped off as opportunities.
To join the Étendard is a worse choice now than it ever was, and if you value your freedom or your life, you should not even consider it.

If you value neither and are still inclined to our cause, go ahead."

You might have heard of me; I may be arrogant to think you might have. I am David Laurent, a professor of political theory and lecturer at Université de Nouveau Paris.
As what I hope is not too pretentious a show of my credentials, I include an excerpt from Anarchism: From Sol to Sirius, authored by myself.
Yet this most bitter of thoughts is one I cannot untangle.

I fear when we find ourselves talking theory, I will find myself wholly out of depth with your credentials. This much I can tell you right away: I am committed fully to the path I have chosen without glancing back, but while I like to present great confidence in my choices, in truth I am filled with many doubts. I would like to believe only fools lack those.
My comrades and myself could learn a great deal from you. Admittedly, I've no experience with the world of academia, and I've always made an effort not to discriminate honest persons making an effort for their unfamiliarity with theory, considering my own knowledge is rather limited - still, I will always consider it an asset.

If nothing else - and indeed, there will be little else - I can offer you our best efforts the true freedom; even if it may only end in a moment in which you know that your own death was by your freedom of choice. That is the path you would be committing to, although you give me the impression that you understand that already."