State of the Duranium Legion in the Year 4005
As by this point the Duranium Legion had been engaged in spacefaring activities for fully five years, the Legion high command ordered an assessment and potential re-evaluation of the state of the Legion. Key excerpts from this assessment are included here for the benefit of the reader.
The most pressing challenge facing the Duranium Legion as the year 4005 began was the looming shortage of several key TNEs. While lunar mining operations had proven essential to address the gallicite shortage, the deposits remaining on Duratus were projected to last for not much longer than four months. In addition to Luna, automated mining operations on the Machholz and Whipple comets would have to be expanded. The other critical shortage looming on the horizon was a deficit of duranium despite generally good deposits on Duratus and at several other mining operations, which would likely have to be addressed through a curtailing of construction operations in some noncritical area. Other TNEs causing concern at Legion high command were corundium, necessary for mining operations and weapons development, and neutronium which was crucial for shipyard expansions. Across the board, TNE accessibilities at Duratus had fallen off in the past five years, but it remained the most productive mining operation out of all the Legion’s holdings, both in total and on a per-mine basis.
While the mineral situation was concerning, it existed only as a consequence of the Legion’s voracious appetite for interstellar expansion. In just five years, the Duranium Legion had established four populated colonies including two beyond the solar system housing nearly 4 four and a half million colonists. Other establishments included seven automated mining operations, with five located in Sol and two in the Olympia system, and the budding research outpost in the Mongolica system. These were supplemented by four civilian-owned mining operations in the Sol system, all of which provided their mineral outputs to the Legion for a modest annual fee.
Duratus
Population: 2135.03m
Naval Shipyard Capacity: 132,241 tons
Commercial Shipyard Capacity: 1,278,160 tons
Maintenance Capacity: 750,000 tons
Research Facility: 57
Ground Force Construction Complex: 10
Construction Factory: 1,800
Ordnance Factory: 400
Fighter Factory: 160
Mine: 1,667
Automated Mine: 274
Fuel Refinery: 400
Maintenance Facility: 600
Financial Centre: 531
Deep Space Tracking Station: 9
Mass Driver: 5
Military Academy: 5
Naval Headquarters: 2
Spaceport: 1
Refuelling Station: 1
Ordnance Transfer Station: 1
Cargo Shuttle Station: 1
Infrastructure: 172
Low Gravity Infrastructure: 100
Populated Colonies:
Mars
Population: 47.94m
Financial Centre: 352
Infrastructure: 9,520
Luna
Population: 13.23m
Mine: 136
Mass Driver: 1
Infrastructure: 2,643
Olympia III
Population: 4.03m
Deep Space Tracking Station: 1
Mass Driver: 1
Infrastructure: 806
Alpha Centauri-A II
Population: 0.41m
Deep Space Tracking Station: 1
Infrastructure: 80
Automated Mining Bases:
Borrelly (20x Orbital Miner)
Machholz (20x Orbital Miner)
Oumuamua (20x Orbital Miner)
Tempel 1 (20x Orbital Miner)
Whipple (20x Orbital Miner)
Olympia-A VII - Moon 8 (35x Automated Mine)
Olympia-A IX - Moon 2 (20x Orbital Miner)
Civilian Mining Operations:
Centaurus Mining Group (4x CMC)
Aleus Mining Corporation (3x CMC)
Troy Group (3x CMC)
Seelix Ventures Limited (2x CMC)
Xenoarcheological Research Outpost:
Mongolica Outpost
Deep Space Tracking Station: 1
Ordnance Transfer Station: 1
Despite the losses suffered in the Battle of Gliese 1, the Duranium Legion Navy had still grown in size during this five-year period by a bit more than 20%, with only the Charybdis-class destroyers numbering fewer than they had five years ago. The commercial or auxiliary elements of the fleet had by comparison exploded in volume, with an increase of around 60% in both tonnage and crew numbers as the auxiliaries had not been hindered by any combat losses. Combat losses did affect the ground forces, but not nearly as much as the Navy, as they still grew by 20% in numbers of personnel and vehicles with the primary limiting factor being a lack of facilities for new recruits to be trained and equipped. Both the Navy and Ground Forces considered their positions to be fairly strong, but had some concerns over a lack of relevant technological advancements made during the previous half-decade.
Duranium Legion Navy
8x Defiant class Light Cruiser: Dauntless, Deadly Poison, Defenstrator, Denouement, Devastator, Disruptor, Dissolution, Domination
3x Grand Cross class Light Jump Cruiser: Garrote, Gothic, Grand Cross
11x Charybdis class Destroyer: Calamitous, Caliban, Catharsis, Centaur, Chainsaw, Champion, Charon, Covenanter, Creeping Death, Crushing Blow, Cry, Ye Wicked
5x Furious class Jump Destroyer: Fade To Black, Final Blow, Final Judgment, Flayer, Furious
7x Bellerophon class Frigate: Bad Omen, Barbette, Bat Country, Battery, Blastwave, Broken Wind, Brutal Legend
3x Excelsior class Jump Frigate: Endless Night, Excelsior, Executor
12x Ars Magica class Survey Frigate: Adamant, Adjudicator, Aether Net, Amalgam of the Void, Angel of Ares, Apollo, Archon, Archrival, Ardent Knight, Ars Magica, Athena, Avenging Wrath
11x R-56 class Recon Fighter
Total: 465,250 tons, 12,866 personnel
Duranium Legion Auxiliary Fleet
6x Knossos class Fuel Harvester Platform
6x Obsidian class Orbital Mining Platform
5x Achelous class Terraforming Platform
4x Dragon class Tanker
6x Ogre class Tug
6x Typhon class Colony Ship
22x Phaeton class Freighter
4x Andromeda class Stabilisation Ship
5x Salamander class Troop Transport
8x Libra class Fleet Tender
2x Olympia class Cargo Shuttle
4x Gatekeeper class Traffic Monitor
8x Warden class Traffic Monitor
Total: 5,841,794 tons, 29,494 personnel
Duranium Legion Ground Forces
Imperial Guard Legion
- I. Imperial Guard Corps: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Imperial Guard Brigade
- II. Imperial Guard Corps: 4th, 5th, 6th Imperial Guard Brigade
- IV. Imperial Guard Corps: 7th, 8th, 9th Imperial Guard Brigade
Emperor’s Hand Legion
- III. Armored Corps: 101st, 102nd, 103rd Tank Brigade
- V. Armored Corps: 104th, 105th, 106th Tank Brigade
- VI. Mechanized Corps: 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
107th Tank Brigade
108th Tank Brigade (forming)
109th Tank Brigade (forming)
16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (forming)
Geosurvey Brigade
Luna Garrison: 13th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Mars Garrison: 14th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Olympia Garrison: 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Alpha Centauri-A II Garrison: 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Mongolica Outpost Garrison: 12th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Total: 72,058 personnel, 9,571 vehicles, 620,110 transport tons
