Hegemony Armed Forces
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Armed Forces |
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Defend and protect the Batarian Hegemony |
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52.4 million (active) |
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Batarian military |
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"The Pillars Are Strong." |
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Dark green and white |
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Ragbastar Day |
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Balak Uhtero |
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Balak Uhtero |
The Hegemony Armed Forces, also known as the Hegemony Defense Force and Batarian Armed Forces, was the military component of the Batarian Hegemony responsible for the defense and preservation of the Hegemony. It consisted of four branches: the Hegemony Army, Hegemony Navy, Hegemony Slaver Corps and the Hegemony Internal Security Forces. Under the direct command of the Hegemony Supreme Forces Command, the Hegemony Armed Forces performed numerous duties to which contributed the internal and external security of the Hegemony, serving as its warfighting arm and the central institution to which all of Hegemony society was geared towards, with military service being mandatory for all batarian males. Formed from the reorganized remnants of the People's Liberation Forces of Khar'Shan, the Hegemony military was designed to intimidate and suppress, with much of its early history spent crushing rebellions and solidifying its hold over what remained of batarian territory, and attempting to reclaim the past glories of the then-defunct Batarian People's Republic: while a shadow of its former power, the Hegemony military was still a force to be reckoned with, with fleets of powerful warships at their disposal and a heavily radicalized population. Members of the Hegemony military swore an oath of allegiance to the Supreme Regent, their head of state and commander-in-chief, upon their conscription, which was mandatory for all batarian males from the age of 13, while batarian females weren't allowed to serve due to batarian society being very patriarchal. As their commander-in-chief, the Hegemony military ultimately answered to the Supreme Regent, and while the Hegemony Supreme Forces Command coordinated the military as a whole, they too ultimately answered to the Regent. Possessing four main arms, the Hegemony military could perform four main roles: land warfare, naval warfare, slaver operations and internal security and intelligence. Initially the military only had three branches, with the Hegemony Slaver Corps being established as the fourth branch in 1550 CE, two years after the Hegemony officially adopted an institution of slavery. While the Army and Internal Security Forces had initially handled slaving operations, the military decided a dedicated branch was needed to address the increasing demand of the Hegemony's slave trade, especially if they were going to perform active operations to grab and capture slaves en masse. As such, the Hegemony Slaver Corps was a hybrid branch possessing army and naval assets with the equipment and tools needed to go out beyond Hegemony borders and wage mass slaver operations to capture as many slaves as possible and bring them back to Hegemony space. The Hegemony Slaver Corps was by far the most successful branch of the entire Hegemony military of its entire existence, and would receive the vast majority of the Armed Forces' funding. Despite this, the Army and Navy were still the military's primary offensive arms during times of war, while the Internal Security Forces were dedicated to crowd control, search-and-rescue, mass surveillance, national security and protecting the Regent through counter-espionage, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence, rooting out partisans, enemies of the state and fifth columns. The Hegemony military was ultimately a brutally efficient, ruthless organ of the batarian state that pledged total devotion to the Regent and to Khar'Shan, coded by an underlying, engrained sense of racial supremacy/destiny and militaristic ultranationalism.
For the majority of its history, the Hegemony military was mired in suppressing citizen and slave revolts, maintaining law and order within Hegemony core worlds, waging slave grab operations and occasionally bullying or intimidating another species through sabre-rattling or other deliberately provocative actions. The Hegemony Armed Forces were accused of committing a countless series of war crimes throughout the course of its history, some being false while others were true. The secretive and isolationist nature of the Hegemony lead to many run-ins between the other species' militaries, and skirmishes between the Turian Hierarchy and the Batarian Hegemony were common, with the Hierarchy almost always coming out on top, but the Hegemony military never fought a full-scale war: it came very close in 2115 CE with the Enael conflict before it was finally forced to withdraw after the Hegemony Army was given a very bloody nose. It wouldn't be until 2176 CE when the Hegemony fought its first full-scale conflict with the Systems Alliance during the Skyllian Blitz, following the Slaver Corps' failed slaver raid on Elysium. The Hegemony Armed Forces were thoroughly defeated, with the biggest loss being the fortress world of Torfan, which the Alliance successfully captured in the final stages of the Blitz, humiliating the batarian military and also temporarily setting back the Hegemony Navy, who had lost their primary shipbuilding yards when Torfan was lost. After the Blitz, the Hegemony finally closed its embassy and seceded from the Citadel Council, officially becoming a rogue state: the Hegemony military took quite some time to recover from its losses in the Blitz, during which time the Hegemony Slaver Corps only stepped up its operations. The Hegemony military suffered another major blow when the Bahak system was blown up, with several Navy ships and a dozen other military installations within the system being lost when Commander Shepard detonated the Alpha Relay, with a total loss of 11,000 military personnel and the additional loss of one of the Hegemony's two home-based helium-3 refineries. The Hegemony military faced its worst day on 2 June 2186 CE with the beginning of the Reaper invasion, with the Reapers starting with Hegemony space. In the ensuing battles, the Hegemony military was decimated and almost obliterated, with only about a quarter of its forces actually escaping the onslaught, and while it would participate in the rest of the war, it played a very minor role. After the Reaper War ended, the Hegemony military was a shell of what it was, but was able to begin rebuilding itself and soon had a sufficient Navy and Army again to patrol its borders, although it was once again mired with the slave and citizen rebellions of the past, which had only intensified and become harder to deal with. With the Border War in 2197 CE, and its end in 2198 CE and the total surrender of the Hegemony military, it was effectively finished, and upon the ratification of the Treaty of Khar'Shan, the Hegemony Armed Forces were dissolved and replaced by the Batarian Self Defense Forces.