The establishment of the Seigneurs as a ruling body within Gallia has lead to a portion of the Gallic Navy to serve as the personal security forces for these individuals. Those under said designation are primarily a member of the security forces of the Lords of Gallia while there is a significant chance to be housing the Lord in person upon their flagships.
Charisma and knowledge of war are the two main traits of Amiral Gérald de Monet. His undying spirit and will to strive forward and improve made him what he is today. Starting from an above average Economics student, Gérald's place in the military wasn't something he was expecting to happen as his view on his future self was a lot different.
Gérald de Monet had a rather happy childhood. His mother and father raised him on Planet Marne where he was born. The area where they lived wasn't as populated. This was mainly the reason because the military his father was a part of gave him various benefits, one of which was the ability of choosing where him and his family wanted to live. Sadly, Gérald's mother passed away when he was just a boy, he was 6 at the time, yet she was long enough in his life for him to remember her and face. Gérald had the ability to choose his schooling, although his father pressured him into choosing the military life, Gérald went with the more peaceful solution - economics.
School for young Gérald was rather a fun experience, but he would often find himself arguing with teachers that he considered them to be obstacles in his progression. Constant arguing meant a lot of trouble, yet even then he would receive scholarships and recognitions for his knowledge. The plan was to continue studying the Economy branch even further, but all that was interrupted when his father began pressuring him once again into becoming a part of the military. The two of them argued for a very long time. At the end Gérald came to realize that his father was right. Even with all the knowledge that he had, Marne couldn't, in any way, meet his potential and given the fact where he's from, the Monarchy would most likely reject any of his potential applications for any jobs possible. Upon agreeing to join the military, Gérald was transferred from Marne to Chalons-en-Champagne Station. At the time Chalons was a much more enjoyable place to be than it is today. Gérald didn't care much of where he was stationed as long as he had the ability to improve. Status quo was unacceptable for him.
Being a newbie in the military is tough, luckily for young Gérald, his branch wasn't as intense as it focused on brain power rather than muscles. The main goal of the branch he was in was to improve Marne's economic state and increase production of Naval ships for the military for which he needed materials. Marne, being an industrial giant, couldn't support military i.e. Council's needs hence why additional materials had to be imported. Importing materials during the civil war that Gallia was in, between the Monarchy and the rebel forces such as the Council, was a very difficult task.
Gérald, even in his early military stages, was a very Liberal person. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It was proven before that two entities can indeed work together to bring their common enemy down. Such case was with the Junkers of Sirius, low lives that in the long run, have proven to be a good choice for the Council.
Once the contact was made, the Junkers began importing valuable scrap metals to Champagne where they were later processed and used for ship building. Gérald understood that Junkers were a temporary solution, much like the Maquis, who at that time, were the evil that could be contained.
A few years have passed, the civil war is raging on and Council forces are getting stronger and stronger each day. Materials were being shipped by the allied forces on a daily basis and Gérald was appointed to oversee such operations.
One day, aboard the newly constructed Council Cruiser, Gérald was sent on an escort mission within the Champagne system. His father. who was the Amiral of the said ship, was having him by his side, wanting for his son to learn the art of commanding.
Eventually their ship reached the destination where they met in secret with the GMS transports who were hauling valuable metals. The plan was to silently escort GMS ships to Planet Marne but the convoy was intercepted mid-way by the Monarchists, namely Gallic Royal Intelligence Cruiser and bombers. Their Council Cruiser withstood heavy fire, but miraculously defeated the enemy. Unfortunately one of three GMS transports have gotten destroyed by the GRI's bombers. Thanks to Gérald, who took command of the ship, as most of the commanders, including his father were unconscious. Recognizing his efforts, the Council officials promoted Gérald to a rank of Lieutenant.
A few years later...
Following the assault on New London, the Royalist forces were too far way from Gallia to hold everything together. They were stretched on so many fronts, which was something Council had to take the advantage of. Having the rank of Colonel, Gérald was a part of Picardy liberation fleet. Being on board of a Redemption massively improved Council chances of success in the said system.
After days of fighting, the Council fleet finally reached Planet Amiens. Freeing Amiens and its people from the Monarchist forces wasn't as difficult given the fact that a lot of its people had rallied behind the Council. With Amiens falling into Council hands, Picardy was freed.
Council officials appointed Gérald to take command of the Redemption as he was promoted to an Amiral. His task was to maintain peace in Picardy as well as improve living standards on Planet Amiens. Gérald wasn't happy how the Monarchy treated Amiens and its people. How they've dealt with its climate is criminal, but it was too late to reverse the damage. The plan was laid out later on to the Council officials who were on board with it.
Some time later...
The King's presumed dead, the Gallic Union has been formed and finally Gallic people could rejoice. Even though many ex-Council personnel could be in the same room as the ex-Monarchists, Gérald was extremely open minded, yet careful. His opinion was that in order for Gallia to prosper all sides must commit to the same cause - making Gallia better again.
By unanimous vote, Amiral Gérald de Monet was appointed to be Seigneur of the system he liberated himself - Picardy. On board of his flagship - Chateau de Peronne he oversees all that's happening in Picardy with high interest in Zurich and its connections.
Seigneur Franchet d'Esperon was born in 680 AGS into a wealthy commoner family on Planet Marne, in the Champagne system. During the time of the Kingdom of Gallia, his father was an influential industrial magnate and his mother a teacher with a spark of rare intelligence.
As a young child having undergone an education that reinforced loyalty to the Kingdom of Gallia; although the loyalty of which they spoke marred the distinction between Monarchy and State. This little by little aimed to remove virulent patriotism which harmed Royalty. The constant terrible social inequalities raging within Gallia, more particularly its native social system between the people and nobility; the recluse Ile-de-France set apart from peers. Some still believed that only words could be used to reason with His Majesty.
Against the pleading of his parents Franchet joined the military and fought for the Kingdom in his younger years. His time with the Royal Navy showed him to be a talented officer, and more senior commanders took note of it. Promotion for Franchet however, was not an entirely celebratory affair. The fanatical mindedness of his peers became more and more unsettling with age and experience, this culminated in the end of his Royal Navy career as he was dismissed for insubordination. Franchet had refused to order his men into a suicidal situation, in doing so his loyalty to the crown was questioned. Unwilling to grovel for favour, he accepted the dismissal.
Up to that point Franchet had a promising military career. His friends in the military managed to lean on his former superiors so that he would not face more severe punishment. Disillusioned by the Royal Navy, and becoming even more distraught with the onset of the great war with Sirius, Franchet became driven to act. Firm in the belief that the King was responsible for all of the woes of Gallia, he took drastic action and approached the Council.
The Council were eager to accept willing defectors, and in time Franchet was given command of various forces during the war. He distinguished himself as an able military commander, and increasingly became known among his peers as a reluctant soldier. Through his actions he managed to save lives in times where doing so was rare; the experience in fighting against the Royal Forces resolved his belief further than the decadent monarch is the cause of rot within his beloved Gallia.
With the fall of the Kingdom, Franchet was recognised, and even praised, in the Council for his attitude towards war. Where many of his peers became more willing to bend their principals, he was not. Such conviction thrust him into positions of higher responsibility, becoming an important individual in the overseeing of the Champagne system on behalf of the République.
His family ties to Champagne allowed him to better integrate himself into the responsibilities he now held. Facilitating military control over the system, regulating unlawful activity and maintaining public trust were the orders of the day. Although the tasks at hand were not easy for him, the simplicity of conventional warfare now became a story of the past. He adapted to the needs of the situation and in time his efforts were becoming more recognised by the people of Champagne.
Franchet was still curious about the diplomatic situation of Gallia. Even though the Kingdom had fallen, and the wardens of annihilation now occupied the Sirian Tau sector. The Confederacy saw them with hostility. Franchet was encouraged by this and viewed it positively as a means to establish prosperous and cordial relations with other houses, such as Kusari.
It was the brutal and unforeseen war of Kusari against Gallia which was a powerful shock for Franchet d'Esperon. The rupture of the once cordial relations and the opportunistic invasion of Gallia, already weakened by the end of the Great War and internal political instability, awakened a deep feeling of injustice and a strong desire to defend his homeland.
Throughout the war between Kusari and Gallia, the man returned to the front while delegating the management of the Champagne system to these subordinates for the war. The war was terrible, difficult and despite a surprise effect of the Kusarian fleets on Gallia, their armies never succeeded in threatening the heart of the kingdom, the ile-de-France system, Franchet further distinguished himself during the war in the fierce defense of the Burgundian system adjacent to Champagne.
At the end of the war and despite a relative lenient peace between the two powers, Franchet was sorry to see the state of devastation of Gallia and its slow reconstruction beginning, he vowed to invest himself greatly to help rebuild Gallia, while now developing a sense of deep distrust towards the rest of Sirius.
Tired of war, Franchet d'Esperon now wants to see a unified Gallia a reality. Conceding to the political stability for a military government as strong as the old kingdom and that certain borders of Gallia be reaffirmed against these immediate neighbors, in particular Kusari which claims part of the Tau-53 system which should normally belong to Gallia as of right.
The border issues with Bretonia not being a region he knows a lot and rather vague temporary.
It was during the rise of the Gallic Union, that Franchet was approached as a candidate to govern one of the systems. To be entitled as the Seigneur of Champagne. Although hesitant with the use of noble title, for the good of Gallia he was willing to make more sacrifices.
Eléonore was the first and only child of Camille and Hugo de Bersaillin, as such she had a privileged upbringing on the Planet Metz, frequenting the family hunting lodge and her parent’s vast estate set aside for them by the Kingdom.
Having always been an intelligent child, she was pushed toward a military career as to follow in her fathers footsteps who himself had a relatively distinguished tour of duty. While she never excelled much with regards to tactical prowess and combat, the area that she managed to prove her worth in was logistical operations.
Having had success during the Marne uprising and the subsequent conflicts with the Council, she managed to work her way through the ranks and eventually was recognised for her ability by her superior officer, being promoted to the rank of Capitaine and being handed command of a Triumph-class vessel, mainly using it to oversee supply lines and ensure that Brigands and Maquis vessels were unable to disrupt her carefully planned operations.
With the GRN Invasion of the Tau sector, she had further success in ensuring that the Council were unable to intercept or disrupt convoys going to the front to keep the war effort supplied, while her vessel never left Gallic space, her contributions to the war were recognised and she quickly found herself in the spotlight, frequently advising the various war councils that were convened. She was eventually promoted to Commandant for her service.
After the conclusion of the war, she remained with the newly-founded Duchy and the Confederacy and due to the lack of manpower and plethora of issues within Lorraine itself she was drafted in to support the Confederate Defense Force in their efforts to stabilise the situation, this was cut short however and she soon found herself on the front lines of an invasion from the Reformed Empire of Kusari. Her vessel was critically damaged during the initial wave of the attack, it crash landed on Metz and while the majority of the crew managed to escape, they found themselves trapped on Metz behind the KNF blockade of the planet.
She spent the next months ensuring that the planet was able to survive the resource crisis brought on by the invasion and when the invaders were eventually removed from Gallic space, she was promoted for her service to the planet and the newly formed Gallic Union.
Joseph-Ignace was born in 702 AGS on Planet Marseille. He always thought of this as a mistake, but since it had already happened, he thought it proper to make the best of it. He was born by caesarian section, not breathing and without a heartbeat, but was miraculously revived by the best doctors available to a Gallic noble family. His parents married not out of love, but for wealth and influence, and their marriage was uneasy and full of disagreements. They rarely spent time together after the birth of the dynasty’s heir. They could not agree whether to name him Joseph or Ignace, so they settled on Joseph-Ignace. His father rarely spent time with him because he was busy managing his island fiefdom of Ratonneau. He died during one of the infrequent visits to his son: he slipped on a toy and fell down the stairs. Joseph-Ignace was 7 at the time, but he didn’t mourn his father, as he barely knew him. His mother had been raising him before this, but this was more out of obligation than out of love. After her husband’s death, she felt freed, but instead she was unbridled like a beast, and went to live a life of debauchery on her own, abandoning her son to a strict governess. Joseph-Ignace learned much from his mentor, but despite that he never spoke fondly of her, her methods made him despise and fear her. The governess was a former navy commander and maintained military discipline and, as was her obligation to a member of the Gallic feudal class, she taught Joseph-Ignace military matters. Yet Joseph-Ignace was by his own choice a pacifist, and all he wanted to do was dance, act and write poetry. When he turned 18 and assumed reign over Ratonneau, he gladly fired her, and cut his mother’s funding. However, he didn’t intend to use it to develop Ratonneau, he spent it to secure a life of debauchery for himself. Music, lights, parades of prominent guests, ornate dresses, scant skirts, pompous wigs, for two years that was the usual scenery on the island.
But by then, he had squandered all the wealth his father had painstakingly accumulated. At this time he received a call to duty -- the Council was preparing an offensive into Dauphine and the Royal Navy needed commanders for its newly built ships. He spent three years training on the gunboat Rapide, but in 725 AGS, the Council finally came. There were two major battles: at Gap and at Bourgoin-Jallieu. The Rapide participated in the latter and distinguished itself, but the lone gunboat could not prevent the tactical defeat at Bourgoin-Jallieu and the situation was only saved by the decisive victory at Gap Station. Joseph-Ignace was promoted to a cruiser commander for his courage and reposted to the RNS Ambitieux. It was on this day that he received the notice that his mother had passed away from liver cirrhosis. Or maybe it was the day before, he is not sure.
Military service never did much to change Joseph-Ignace’s personality, but it did change his priorities. He used to despise war as an unsanitary business only suitable for savages, but having seen it, he realised that, besides partying, it was the only thing that he was good at. He never began to like war, but he did come to terms with it and he embraced his fate and this necessary evil that it came with.
Aboard the Ambitieux Joseph-Ignace met his true love. At least he thought it was his first love -- he had never loved anyone before, so how could he be sure? It was his first officer, a commoner woman, the daughter of a wealthy Solar Engineering shareholder, called Barbara. But their love was short. In 729 the Council launched its overwhelming offensive into Languedoc. Being the fearless warrior he is, Joseph-Ignace sacrificed his ship to allow an ambushed Royalist squadron to escape. The Ambitieux was boarded, some crew were taken prisoner, some were killed. Joseph-Ignace was taken prisoner. Barbara was killed. Oh, Barbara! What nonsense is war!
Joseph-Ignace spent a year in a POW camp, begging for a bullet every day, but he was a worthy prisoner and the Council sought to exchange him for a worthy prisoner of their own one day. This day came.
In captivity, Joseph-Ignace mingled with various kinds of desperate and bored individuals and got himself addicted to gambling. When he was freed, this habit stayed. Every month, he would quickly burn through his imposing paycheck and fall into debt. He became heavily indebted to a Corsican mafia lord. He liked the dice, but he never won it, yet this didn’t worry him -- the worst that could happen was that it could get him killed. But Barbara’s wealthy brother Jacques, who also mourned Barbara, felt sorry for Joseph-Ignace, and paid him out of debt. This admission of empathy eventually turned into a romantic relationship. Jacques and Joseph-Ignace understood each other, they were of similar ideas practical, philosophical and erotic. Jacques was slightly older than Joseph-Ignace and he was one of the rare commoners who were given command of a Valor, and Joseph-Ignace saw him as some kind of a mentor that he had always wanted, but never had.
This relationship also had a tragic end. Jacques being a commoner, his ship was grouped with the Gallic spearhead in the invasion of Leeds. It was one of those few that were destroyed. Joseph-Ignace didn’t see this as personal business between him and the Bretonians, though he wasn’t fond of them or any other savage Sirians to start with, but between him and fate. And he accepted this fate and painfully embraced all the sorrow that it had and certainly will bring him, because there wasn’t more he could do.
He spent most of the Great War trying to get himself killed, and his crew, regardless of what they thought about it. But all this did was get him promoted for bravery. By the end, he was in command of the RNS Bonne Naissance, a state-of-the-art Valor class. At New London his ship was part of the Dax Fleet and it was thanks to his recklessness that the destroyer squadron was able to break through and reach the New London atmosphere.
But what savigary it was! Inadvertently, he had killed his father and his first love, but this he did by intent. All that was in his mind was victory, victory at all cost, and it had shrouded his mind. For a week after the defeat at New London, having seen the barbarity being done to Leeds, he entertained considerations to desert and join the Council. The formation of the Duchy of Burgundy was his salvation. He left Aquitaine as soon as the MRG gave the order, with his ship and most of its crew.
When he returned, Joseph-Ignace found himself stripped of his land, as it was on Minarchy soil. All that he had left were his title and his career. Why did he not die in New London? No, to hell with all of it, he started thinking. He will drink wine, he will make parties and he will make love, and he will forget everything. Nothing mattered any more. It was during one of such drunken weeks of his that he distinguished himself again, now for the Confederacy, against… he didn’t remember any more. The Outcasts? The Kusarians? Probably both on different occasions.
Without a fiefdom and with a gambling habit, he was again in debt, but these battles came at the right time. Saving his life, Joseph-Ignace came into close acquaintance with Pierre Vaillant, the admiral of the Confederate Navy. Joseph-Ignace was one of the few Vaillant trusted and this mattered when the Confederacy was abolished to form the Union. Vaillant needed a connection in the new government. When new regional governors were to be appointed, the new government sought to respect local traditions, everywhere except in the former Minarchy, which was seen as a decadent state and to be disestablished as thoroughly as possible and replaced with whatever remained of the Pre-Minarchy structure, yet without causing too much disarray. Joseph-Ignace, a baron from Marseilles, was second in line for a governor because all but one ahead of him had either been killed in the Marseille Revolt, or exiled, or were in hiding, or they simply weren’t politically suitable. The candidate that was in front of Joseph-Ignace passed away very suddenly and under suspicious circumstances. Some rumour that Pierre Vaillant smiled when he heard the news -- something he rarely does.
Back on Ratonneau. It was his again. His island, his people -- his memories. Was it a victory? Not really. Most of those memories were unpleasant. But the position of seigneur will help Joseph-Ignace pay off his debts and throw bigger parties. Until fate lets him go…
Good luck, Marseilles. What will be will be.
Born to Charlotte and Xavier Leclerc, Bartholomieu Fabrice Leclerc is the oldest of three children. The Leclerc is a traditional military family following strict codes of duty and often acting as shields of the Royal family for generations; it was no surprise that Bartholomieu and his siblings inherited these familial customs as well. Leclerc families were groomed for military service from a young age; strict conditioning and special sessions resulted in an almost fanatical loyalty to the Royal family. Their loyalty had been tested a number of times, and in each circumstance the family was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their liege. Bartholomieu did not consider himself an exception to the family tradition.
At the age of 19 Bartholomieu joined the Royal Navy with rank of Sous-lieutenant. He was assigned to the Carcassonne battlegroup during the Second Gallic war and at the beginning of his career he was tasked with reconnaissance missions in the Burgundy and Champagne systems. With invasion and loss of Languedoc, Leclercs went on to participate in numerous battles, probably the most known battle they joined was the skirmish for Gap station. Bartholomieu and his kin were mostly successful and the family enjoyed climbing the rank ladder quite fast. Bartholomieu however peaked, due to his missing relevant academy qualifications. This obstacle however did not stop him and he sought permission to leave on study. Permission was granted as his superiors noticed his potential, and wished to cultivate it further.
Bartholomieu missed several important events in Gallic crusade into Taus, but his studies permitted him to join Carcassonne battlegroup again shortly before the Leeds offensive. Now with the ability to climb higher, Bartholomieu commanded a small squadron of fighters into Leeds and took part in the Glasgow offensive; turned out to be a success for the Royal Navy against Armed Forces.
There was no time for celebration however because Armed forces didn't want to give up Glasgow so easily and Bartholomieu was tasked to defend the perimeter at all costs while other Royal battlegroups were assembling in Tau-31 for the large offensive. After all battlegroups entered Leeds, there was a plan to attack LD-14 in which Bartholomieu was assigned to lead a small taskforce to probe the LD-14 defences. LD-14 fell a few days later with Bartholomieu’s taskforce taking part. Later he took part in the New London offensive with Le Cendre battlegroup, but after partial success and news about Ile-de-France assaulted by Republican forces, everyone was ordered to retreat back to Leeds and eventually to Edinburgh. A great sight appeared in front of him and his men as soon as they entered Leeds. The planet was being glassed by Triumphs. While some found this disturbing and against just warfare, the Leclerc's fanaticism saw a greater purpose, show of strength and raw power of the Royal Navy, scorched earth of the industrial heart of Bretonia to make sure they will not be able to rebuild their fleets soon.
Leclercs made a crucial decision and joined the so-called Gallic Enclave in Edinburgh, few battlegroups of soldiers with the same loyalty, with the same purpose, serving the Royal family through these unexpected events. During the reorganisation of the royal forces, Bartholomieu was posted within the Dax battlegroup whose primary task was the safeguarding of the Aquaintaine system.
For several months the isolated Royal Navy was fighting on several fronts, but their time would come soon. Through their political maneuvering and combined service record the Leclercs were entrusted by the then Director-Regent trust. Bartholomieu rose in the ranks again, but the situation was turned on its head when the turmoil within the Royal Enclave bubbled over into a coup. The Director-Regent was disposed of during the rather quiet shift in those controlling seats. However his position remained still, thanks to the cooperation the Leclercs had with De Lusignan and his Enclave Defence Authority
During the period after the coup, and later the Kusari Gallia war, Bartholomieu became trusted by De Lusignan as a reliable commander. The Leclercs were a major proponent of assisting Gallia immediately against the Kusari aggressors. Luckily they weren't alone in that thinking. Bartholomieu led several wings of Royal squadrons into Languedoc where they tried to defend Gallic people against the Kusari menace. It was a clever move as the people of Gallia would view the men and women of the Royal Enclave as their saviours… It was deemed important as it could play well in their favour for the future of Gallia. Bartholomieu was aware of this one and tried his best to make the best image about Royalists in Languedoc.
When the war between Confederacy and Kusari was over, it became all too clear that the Confederacy was inept and Sirius could not be trusted to leave Gallia in peace. The Confederacy was dissolved and a new state of Gallia was born from its short existence. The Gallic Union. a united and militarised government with high command officers playing the role of local system governors was established. That was something Leclercs have never been able to achieve, neither think about it. With all wars gone, the most war afflicted system needed a very strong hand and authority. Bartholomieu was surprised by a sudden message from his Enclave colleague and trusted individual, Director Antonin de Lusignan. Antonin wished to position a preferred candidate to be in line to become the Seigneur of Languedoc, and offered to assist Bartholomieu to achieve the post. It would play into cards of both Leclerc and de Lusignan. Bartholomieu would have control over the system, a position of great power and prestige in the new regime. Lusignan would then have a friend in a very high place, and perhaps a system in which he would be permitted to operate clandestinely. Bartholomieu's mind of a strategist had to give it a proper thought, yet he couldn't come up with a clear decision for two days. He was skilled in military oriented strategy, however this one had almost nothing to do with it. Two days later, after the final consultation with the rest of family, he agreed and shared his final decision with de Lusignan, awaiting further instructions for his possibly brighter future.
Félix was the fourth son of the prominent Léandre ménage from Orléans. The family is known for its ownership of large tracts of arable land and animal husbandry before the fall of the Kingdom. The members of the Léandre often had only two choices in life, to join the military or work in the family business. Félix and most of his siblings chose the former, seeing it as a means to free themselves from what otherwise would be a stagnant life.
Due to his family’s place of wealth in Orleanais, Félix was welcomed into the ranks of the military with relative ease. Initially posted as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy fleet based out of Orleanais, through a mixture of nepotism and minor successes he managed to see himself promoted to the rank of Capitaine. While his promotion was celebrated by his family, he was now put into harm's way with more frequency and often by his own request. Many of the operations he performed at this rank were small scale actions against Brigands, Council and sometimes the Maquis.
However, on one occasion the unexpected arrival of an Council Obstinate Cruiser and the situation that developed from its arrival drew interest from his senior officers. The cruiser came at an inopportune time, and the situation Félix found himself was ill-suited for an easy victory. Through a number of desperate gambles, the Council Cruiser was disabled by the more agile Triumph at Félix command; the Obstinate cruiser was then finished off by the combined firepower of the destroyer and an arriving bomber wing. He was recognised for this victory, and earned commendations that merited a promotion.
In his time as a Commandant he was mostly deployed to fight against the Council, the zenith of the Gallic Civil war was fast approaching and their ferocity only became more intense. The engagements became larger and more bloodied, until finally they broke down the door to Ile-De-France.
Commanding his own Obstinate battlecruiser, Félix was in the thick of the fighting that took part in the system; through the chaos of battle his ship was caught out of position and almost annihilated. Suffering several injuries and most notably becoming blind in his right eye, the declared ceasefire was the only thing that saved what remained of his crew and himself from the cold grasp of space.
In the aftermath of the civil war, there was a great vacuum within the military. The loss of life and the spit which resulted in the Royalist occupied Hebridies had left the navy depopulated with senior officers. Although there was a coordinated effort for those who fought with the Council to now take various positions across Gallia, there was a strong push from Ile-De-France to unite instead of divide the realm further.
Félix Aurèle Léandre was recognised for his bravery during the defence of Ile-De-France, and received a promotion to Contre-amiral amid the political machinations of the time. Although it was not lost on him that his promotion was more a matter of maintaining stability than his own ability. He spent most of his time after the civil war commanding ships in the defence of Ile-De-France, rubbing shoulders with politicians and developing friendships with corporate interests.
The shock invasion of Gallia by the Kusari Navy threw what was becoming a comfortable status quo into disarray. Contre-amiral Léandre was deployed to assist in the defence of Burgundy from the invaders, commanding a Remembrance-class Battleship. He repeatedly proved an apt military commander in the operations attempting to repel the might of the Shogun’s Navy. Although to his surprise and to many others, word was passed around that the Languedoc front threw Gallia a rope; the Enclave returned to aid the state in its time of need.
Kusari was repulsed from Gallia, a victory which was well celebrated but not one without taking a toll on Gallia and Félix. Discovering only at the end of the war that his father and military siblings had been the unfortunate victims of war, leaving him as the sole Léandre alive. Fighting with the grief of loss, Félix secluded himself from all of his social engagements. His command performance greatly suffered as he found solitude more comforting, until he took an extended leave of absence.
Félix was later summoned before the Maréchal de Gaule, he was not given a reason why nor did he care much to inquire. The Maréchal organised the meeting to offer the Contre-amiral a new role, Seigneur des Orléanais. The governorship over a system and a promotion to Amiral. Félix initially hesitated to accept the offer, unsure as to why he would be chosen for such a position. The Maréchal eloquently explained that he needed able commanders to keep the peace and maintain unity within the realm, adding on that the family connections and influential friends could not hurt.
Seeing it as a way to find renewed purpose and escape grief, Félix agreed to take on the role.
These are halls of discourse once used by the highest military echelons of the former Kingdom, then the Confederacy and now used by the military governors of the Gallic Union. Many secretaries of the Union make themselves busy with the administrative tasks of Gallia, each one dutifully fulfilling the wishes of their assigned Seigneurs office within these halls. On occasion all of the Seigneurs gather to meet in the Chamber to discuss great matters of state, to deliberate on the best course of action and the allocation of the resources of the Union.
Please find for your consideration, the following proposals brought forward by Conseiller Pierre Lacroix.
Le Maréchal has put forward these ideas to ask for deliberation of the proposals. Le Maréchal stresses that the Union can only support two projects at once for the foreseeable future.
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