Faction Seven: The Royal Army In Exile (4)

Scout-Forager, Princess Thanaba's Fusiliers.

 

Faction Seven: The Royal Army In Exile (3)

Faction Seven: The Royal Army In Exile (2)

Rifleman with the Duke of Tapika's Household Guard during the ill-fated attack along the causeway, day four. The Battle of Gerst Landing, 963.

Note the distinctive drum magazine on this soldier's Type 214 rifle, almost certainly of Arbuti design from the armory at Wellspring.

The Royal Court bought a good deal of small arms under contract in Arbutus, likely extending their welcome through their business dealings even after the assassinations in 972.

Faction Seven: The Royal Army In Exile

Seven: The Royal Army.

When His Majesty Delvar II fled the Hunchbacks and went into exile you can believe he had every intention of returning, and bringing Kalkovac back under the lazy-eyed stewardship of the Domestice Family.

 

By planting season of 957 the remnants of the Royal Army, including many rather excellent units, are launching raids from Arbutus and the King begins to entertain whatever diplomatic channels he can open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions (6)

Verso.

 

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions (5)

Depicted- another Volunteer under the Rezik command in the fighting for the mountain passes around Mettia Harbor.

Note the combat shotgun and improvised uniform, both quite typical of these formations.

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions (4)

Certainly the soldier's weapon, an advanced fission technology (AFT) rifle, would have been captured on the battlefield from an opposing force with much greater resources than the Amalgam Divisions.

His unusual helmet is of an unknown tribal design and function, and probably denotes the position and responsibility inherent with carrying such a priceless and powerful relic weapon.

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions (3)

AD irregular with the Rezik Volunteers.

For centuries the Amalgam have participated in every aspect of Kalkovac society, and the ranks of the AD would include a large number of regimental veterans from off-planet deployment with the 302nd.

  

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions (2)

Pulba (2nd Class) with Number 8 Division, Amalgam Command.

In the Earon Sphere. Shortly before the first assault on Velikuka, outside the Courthouse. 

Late season, 986.

Faction Six: The Amalgam Divisions

Six: these Divisions were formed from the indigenous population of the Amalgam peoples, a minority sect that has co-existed more or less peacefully on Kalkovac for several millenia.

There have been a long standing list of grievances that remain unaddressed for the Amalgam by their own estimation. Though poorly equipped and self-funded they are apt at civil war and stayed in the conflict through the end. 

Even now, some thirteen years after the armistice(s), there are significant units in the Stall Ranges that are holding out and refuse to capitulate. 



















 

Faction Five: The Hunchbacks (4)

Faction Five: The Hunchbacks (3)

Their followers seemed to just appear

thin air.

 

Faction Five: The Hunchbacks (2)

Faction Five: The Hunchbacks

Five: the Hunchbacks, or Advocates (depending on where you stand).

By the time of the Abdication in 956, the Hunchbacks were openly controlling the main gates in and out of the capitol. They would be central to every phase of the war over the next thirty years, and indeed their presence is still felt to this day.

By 957 one bothered to call them Advocates anymore.

Faction Four: The Publishers and Trade Unionists

And there are other parties and organizations that decide
for various reasons 
that they have legitimate reasons to militarize. . .

A Journeyman-Grenadier of Local 91 during the assault on the Limbus Chimney Facility, 958. 

Scholars of this phase of the war, the so-called Defiant Negotiations Outcome, wildly disagree the extent to which this phase of the conflict effected the overall outcome.

  

Faction Three: The Regiment (2)

 

 

For more than six centuries it has operated under the charter to raise, train, and equip 19,640 soldiers and form a new Regiment every five years, and then ship them off and never think about them again.

 

That's the confidence that comes from operating outside of any other authority, anywhere.

 

 

Dragoon with 25-3 patrolling the aerodrome, Cetina. Early 956, Kalkovak deployment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Faction Three: The Regiment

Three: the 302nd Wasteland Reconnaissance Regiment. As the planet's main export, it is a political entity with interests to protect and obligations to uphold.

The Regiment mobilizes its reserves and moves to occupy the mustering fields, 957.



Faction Two: The Lesser Nobility (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Faction Two: The Lesser Nobility

 

 

Two: the so-called Lesser Nobility, under the nominal leadership of the Charter-Duke of Ganges.

You cannot have 800 years of feudal structure and Imperial antecedence, after all, without also having 800 years of petty squabbles and aggrieved affluence. There were those on Kalkovac that wished the King gone for their own advantage, and now they came together in a sort of confederacy.

 

Irregular infantryman with the Eagon Monopoly during the divisive slab-clearing skirmishes in the outskirts of False Positive, 961. The ablative flak armor, pictured, is non-issue, privately sourced gear and almost certainly marks this soldier as a mercenary. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Faction One: The Greater Nobility

 

 

One: there is the faction that remained loyal to the way things have been for centuries on Kalkovac, and to the King-in-Exile.

 

These are the so-called Greater Nobility.

 

 

 

ChMR Armored Transport with the No.14 House Guard on station in Blandot center, 958. The evident winter-pattern paint and exhaust modifications suggest this picture preceeds the crossing of the Auseil and the debacle that followed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Civil War, continued

The planet basically broke into five main factions, though informally there were at least seventeen others.

Pictured is a Nominal-Sergent aligned to Green Rowl, a Parliamentary interest with mostly loyalist backing. Note the advanced suppressor and scope system on his rifle, indicative of the substantial resources Green Rowl had in the early months of the war.

Date and location of this photo-pic are unsubstantiated.

 

  

Civil War on Kalkovac

This began our civil war.

Plasma rifleman with an unidentified House of Lesser Nobility, near the West Gate. Arbutus, 956.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Whispers

Eventually the whispering turned, and was a storm. It doesn't matter if the words made sense or not.

In 956 His Majesty Delvar II left Kalkovac by chartered shuttle and went to exile. After just over sixteen hundred years safeguarding the royal house, the Domestice Family was unavailable for further judgement.

The throne is empty.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: XXVIII

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Language

Perhaps the worst betrayal of all

is language.

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (d*)

We say, "Drasenk nabb culat." And then, "Buzade ko-kaym."

And the king

sags in our memory.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (c*)

We say, "All Hail, Tok-Fugaeth! All Hail the Zillion!"

But these are not our words. Utterances.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (b*)

They say "Ha syzykeo" and the television flickers. They say 

"Ha syzykeo kaseve, kaseve syzykeo"-

and we say "Yi-kaseve, yi-syzykeo".

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words

They make a certain sense anyway.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Stars

The Advocates appeared on the picture-vision too

but they don't talk.

Advocates/Hunchbacks XXI

Advocates/Hunchbacks XX

He took to appearing on the picture-vision

selling things

and reassuring us that all our efforts were worthwhile.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks IXX

The King became sullen.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks XVIII

Everything changed overnight.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks XVII

Advocates/Hunchbacks XVI

Advocates/Hunchbacks XV

The Advocates came to collect the tab.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks XIV

. . . His Majesty Delvar II, Head of the Royal Patronage and Father of Kalkovac

was borrowing heavily.

Advocates/Hunchbacks XIII

And about the time that the Phisolanka sailed in 953. . .

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Unlikely Places

Advocates/Hunchbacks XI

Advocates/Hunchbacks X

Must have been kind of a relief.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Highway Appropriations

That bridge and highway deal, that runs for 1700 zerbits along

the North Coast. It went

on 

for generations.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks VIII

Investments.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks VII

A really expensive wedding.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks VI

Some bad decision making.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Finally

After nearly 600 years

of mediocre fiscal policy.

A hallmark of our beloved planet, Kalkovac.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Bankrupt

Mid-7th Dynasty (circa 948)

the Royal House runs into financial

trouble.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks III

They always know what you read.