General Garendin, former commander of the HCS 140th Infantry Brigade and current adviser to the HCS Future Strategy CommitteeSo after a lot of effort the move to reorganise the armed forces of the empire along role based arms has been given up. I'm not bitter (well maybe slightly) but i am more relieved as the more we discussed how the HCS was to be broken up and reorganised the more problems and potential pitfalls emerged.
Maybe this reorganisation as well as the cascading of second and third-line units to local control was too much, the latter plan is still going ahead and a trial on a couple of planets including Taragargi has begun. I had a chat to a Colonel Vominder who is the commanding officer of the 171th Infantry (Light) Regiment on Taragargi the other day. He has just transferred from the HCS to the Taragargi Army along with all of his men.
In reality much of the change is cosmetic, the unit was already funded by the Taragargi federal government, all the organisation and equipment will remain the same except for a new patch on the uniforms. The hope is that local control will help build a more locally biased esprit d'corps. It will also enable a layer of bureucracy to be removed at central level.
We will be closely watching these pilots anyway, if successful the HCS might well see the biggest change in its history, just not the change we were thinking of.
