The Madenci Empire

The tribes of the Madenci are like the bits of ore

that lay at the Artisans workbench; individually
they are too small, too petty to ever rise to
greatness, but forged together, they are strong,
they are beautiful, they are deadly -Mehmed Rajeesh,
commenting on the military parade at Gorkemli, the Imperial capital.
Hailing from the harsh, sun scorched planets of the Eremus region of the galaxy, the madenci
Empire has rapidly built the infrastructure and economy to become a formidable power in human
space. Blessed with a culture made hardy and warlike by constant civil strife, imperial incursion
and raiding from alien and human factions, and the harsh nature of their worlds, the Madenci
have vowed to right the wrongs done to them by the outsiders.
Strengths: Cheap, high morale army, with large numbers of light, fast, hardhitting,
affordable units, capable of critically outmaneuvering most opponets.
Weaknesses: Units depend upon maneuver, and so often take heavy casualties when forced
to frontally assault the juggernaut-like assault forces some factions can field.
Infantry:











Azaps

The harsh, warring communities of the Medenci are one of the empires greatest assets; the
low-level fueds between rival tribes and the constant threat of incursion by foreign forces
after the mineral fruit of the Medencis labor provide the imperial army with a huge pool
of glory hungry and adventurous youth, often already with a fair amount of training and
experience in mobile warfare before entering the official military. Because of the
demographically and economically large number of such willing recruits, the empire finds
it unnecessary and impractical to accept most of them into the full time professional units
that form of the backbone of its military. Instead, most are enrolled into the Azaps, units
who, although not regularly on the army payroll, are kept up to a certain level of training
by monthly drills and regular inter-unit competitions, not to mention the normal violent
factors of life in the Eremus system. Fighting as fast, universally motorized units of
infantry (foot-slogging has little to no place within the doctrine of the Medenci Imperial
army) the Azap divisions, although scoffed at by foreigners, are far more deadly than
comparable militia units in most armies. In time of war, units are chosen, either by lottery
or by proximity to the front, to serve in fully-paid positions, providing the great mass of
manpower in most large-scale campaigns waged by the Medenci empire.