The 42nd Order Recon Division has been re-activated, and this posting is to serve as notice of the organization's re-institution as an official division of The Order.
Below is the description of the division as laid out by the division's scribe, Lieutenant Arnold Frei, and its previous commander, Meredith Savoy. I, Ash Falthion, will be taking over command of the re-activated division.
The 42nd
Name: 42nd Reconnaissance Division
NPC Alignment: The Order
ID: Order ID
Faction tags: 42|
Naming Convention: Craft are named for the Egyptian pantheon, structures, and notable leaders.
The 42nd Reconnaissance is a division composed of pilots re-assigned from their parent units to serve under the command of Meredith Savoy, a young captain grown frustrated with an admiralty perceived to be placing a higher emphasis on turtling and concentration of power than in maintaining vigil over the greater Sirius sector. A frustration that would eventually reveal itself to be shared amongst a large number of junior officers.
The feelings of restlessness came to a head with the edict that the fleets of the Order return to Toledo for review by the authoritative body of the admiralty. With nearly all flights grounded as the debates on structure and objectives raged in the halls of the planet below the mounting discontent grew with a wave of muttering across the ready rooms and chow halls of the orbiting fleet.
Savoy, deciding to put career behind her loathing for a flightline of cooling snubships, put out the call through what contacts she had in search for a means of circumventing the lockdown. With no small amount of luck the scuttlebutt found its way to the ears of Lt. Simon Young, of the Sanctifierae and aid to the commanding rear admiral Rathebone. Communiques were issued and a meeting arranged.
The outline was simple, cut orders to re-instate a long patrol while the bulk of the fleet continued to maintain itself on Toledo local orbit. A group of pilots outside of the command structure who wouldn't be missed if re-assigned, a group of pilots who wanted to get their hands back in the dirt. The admiral, sympathetic and somewhat snubbed in his role of being left in space to maintain order in the fleet, consented and issued the appropriate orders for the wing to be formed and dispatched.
The Skinny
The purpose of the 42nd is to press the Order presence beyond the confines of Minor and surrounding systems, for purposes of maintaining a vigil over the four houses and border territory in an ongoing search to curb Nomadic influence and infection.
As such the nature of the endeavor encourages stealth, subterfuge and a froggy disposition over an aggressive mentality, which would likely result in a frozen Order corpse being picked over by a half dozen Bounty Hunters a couple hundred AU from the nearest friendly face.
This was the past...
The 42nd's purpose, as dictated above, still remains, but it is now officially recognized and supported by The Order's High Command, and will commit its duties to the assistance and defense of Order primary fleet facilities, as well as the grueling task of policing all of Sirius and its population for Nomad presence, infection, and those who would sympathize with and support them. It's available ship complement has also expanded, due to fluctuating relationships Sirius wide, and the division's intent on remaining as transparent and unseen as possible amongst the population across the 'verse.
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The 42nd Armory
Weapons:
Order standard issue space superiority weapons.
Zoner standard issue space superiority weapons.
Nomad Weaponry
I'll be requiring a Pilot Service Record and communique before accepting any possible applicants into the division. You will obviously already need to be serving with The Order, and have one individual who can vouch for your validity of service - we can't be too safe with the rate of infection spreading these days now can we?
The deposit box for applications, as well as examples (to include my own) may be found here: Applicants please go here
Universal Outlook (past)
Allied: The Corsairs, Hogosha, Zoners
Agreeable: Corsair affiliated parties. The Coalition.
Neutral: Everyone Else.
Wary: House Authorities.
Extremely wary, like, with guns: Outcasts and associated parties. Libertonian authorities. Bounty Hunters.
War: Burn the Alien. Kill the Infected. Purge the unclean. Roughly.
Outlook (present)
The 42nd is in line with The Order Primary Fleet's standings and intentions towards respective groups across Sirius. Ties are currently shifting, as they are with many groups across Sirius, and tensions are likely to flare in these coming and trying times. Please see transmissions from The Order's Primary Fleet and direct questions to them if necessary concerning current standings.
Thank you, and I will be available for further questioning both here, and on my personal channel.
Safe flying, and as always,
Commander Ash Falthion
(//For anyone particularly interested, the original start of the 42nd and related posts can be found here)
OCV-Montu: //NPC = not particularly capable 42|Khonsu: //Friggin hilarious Critius
A little piece of info, the Order is no longer allied with the Corsairs. They may not allow you to use their tech. Looks great though. Maybe I'll apply at some later point.:laugh:
Yes, sorry my bad on the whole Corsair thing. It was late and that was apparently one of the corrections I intended to make on the post and missed. That was Colonel Savoy's/Lieutenant Frei's set of standings created when the 42nd was first started. We're set with the Order Primary Fleet's standings Sirius-wide, with as I said are shifting just as many other organizations' ties are. I'll have a finalized list once the Primary Fleet and High Command send something my way (4.86), and list it here.
OCV-Montu: //NPC = not particularly capable 42|Khonsu: //Friggin hilarious Critius