Queen's Own Anti-Revolutionary Company

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The Queen's Own Anti-Revolutionary Company was the premier special operations unit of the Commonwealth for ten years between 2970 and 2980. Founded and run by the MoD, its name was granted by the then Queen, Victoria, because of the need for an unit that monitors and disrupts rebellions within the Commonwealth.
In its short history, the QOARC was involved in activities against at least 15 rebellions, insurrection and revolts across the Commonwealth, before being shut down in favour of an army raised by the Ministry of Governmental Excellence because of the political infighting at Westminster.
In 2981, her officers and enlisted personnel were returned to unit or sent to the Solent colonies and Alastair Macgregor's new project.

Composition

Manpower

Approx 250 officers and enlisted MOD personnel spread across 10 sections.
Approx 300 non-MOD personnel including MOGE officers, MI5/6 personnel and civil servants.

Equipment

Standard Uniform and Equipment with, purple trim around rank insignia and cap badge, which is a shield containing the image of the galaxy, stylised.

Alastair Macgregor's Peak by Myself

However, on operations mostly in civilian clothing or clothing appropriate to their cover story, such as Medical relief.
Mk6A5 radio and Mk 12 Radio Set

Weaponry

EM-5 EM-9 DT-94 40mm Underbarrel Grenade Launcher, KM-X Rifles and Pistols (9, 18, 35 and 90) L-1812 Sniper Rifle L-1934 Anti-material Rifle L-530 LMG,  L-100 60mm Mortar, RT-75 Guided DC Rocket Launcher Mark 78 fighting knife

Vehicles

HMS Victoria Regina, Cepheid class Destroyers

Structure

Company Strength (2979):

10 sections of 20 personnel. 6 officers and 14 enlisted per section, apart from 9th section which is training, and 10th which is support.

Final Section Duties and Geographic Responsibilities (Commanding Officer)

1^st Section: Command and Operations, also first reserve (Col Alastair Macgregor)
2^nd Section: European Super Sector including Gibraltar and Malta. (Maj Damien Hill)
3^rd Section: African Super Sector including Cyprus, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria (Maj Nima Mahmoud)
4^th Section: United Kingdom Super Sector, including England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (LTC Richard Bartlett)
5^th Section: Burma, Indian and Hong Kong-in-exile Super Sector (Cheoung Lao-Tzu)
6^th Section: Oceania Super Sector including Australia, New Zealand and Fiji (Maj Finley Stevens)
7^th Section: Rehabilitation Section (Maj Lily Reed, attached, Royal Engineers)
8^th Section: American Super Sector (Maj Beverley Fletcher)
9^th Section: Training Section (Maj Freda Köhler)
10^th Section: EOD, FAC, Medical and Transport Section (Maj John Michaels/LTC Alexandra Macgregor)

Tactics

2-10 personnel teams, placed behind enemy lines, assassinating rebel leaders and disrupting rebel supplies and supplying intelligence through MI5 operators and MoGE officers. These teams include snipers, EOD specialists, medics and RE officers, teams are grouped together in sections. Generally, sections are lead by a Major, with a Captain and 2 Lieutenants, and are found as one per supersector, with the ability to use personnel from other sections, often all of them.
This allows for large tactical flexibility, with a normal team selection of 4 sniper teams, spotter and sniper, under the control of a control team of 4 army personnel, 1 Naval officer/ Airforce officer as well as MI5 liaison. These will be spread across the colony in revolt, with one section able to operate in one sector at a time, often with only one sniper team per planet or even colony. In the American Revolt, 13 sectors were in rebellion, required spreading these out to multiple sectors at once, leading to a command and control nightmare, although, this was helped by their cover story of medical support and aid.
A major part of the work of the QOARC was to start the reconstruction of the sector in rebellion. This was 7th sections role and was the most flexible of the

Training

Initial selection and training taking place on the Europa training grounds, the sections have low level rotation through them, as officers swap learning new skills and cultures as they move, allowing for dissemination of skills through the company.  Everybody has to learn at least one other human language, requiring a trip to university, as well as concealment, disguises, espionage and intelligence gathering. The SIS runs a course every 6 months or so for those skills that every frontline soldier has to attend at least once a year.  Most frontline soldiers have to meet the minimum accuracy standards.

Logistics

Recruitment

The officers and enlisted troops of the QOARC comes from troops that undergo selection. They could be from any MoD unit.

History

After Alastair Macgregor's interesting 6 months in the Indian mutiny, the MoD decided that to prevent the suck of manpower and cash that fighting rebellions conventionally had lead to they would setup a specialised unit, run by Lieutenant Colonel Macgregor.
The initial brief was for many four or eight man teams, collected into companies of 10 team's whose HQs were on the major planets of the 6 supersectors. This ideal was never quite reached in the ten years of operation, partly due to operational secrecy preventing recruitment, but also due to general operational losses, which at certain times were 150% of a section's strength.
Battle Honours include: The American Rebellion, The Troubles, Scotland and Kenya.
The change in federal government in 2978 lead to the disbanding of the Company, in favour of an MoGE run army.

Historical loyalties

Queen Victoria and Her Majesty's Ministry of Defence.