Banner Company
To qualify as a banner company, a force must meet certain readiness and compatibility standards, must have the backing and patronage of a Musuran Royal Guild, and cannot field more than a thousand mechs. Every merchant guild capable of fielding a company is required to do so; together, these guild companies make up the armed forces of a given Guild Fleet – that major guild’s military forces. One guild company from each major guild has the honor of being that guild’s banner company. After the banner company come other, numbered companies, generally ordered by some combination of date of founding, composition, and minor guild favor.
How the leaders of a merchant guild choose their banner company varies: some hold trials of skill and wit, others pit champions against each other in firstblood combat, some have a rotational schedule or a ballot system, others lean on tradition, and so on.
In their comparatively short history, banner companies – far more than the Musura Federation's federal armed forces – have become the face of the Musuran military. A well organized and equipped banner companies is a mark of guild honor. They are the noble sword, shield, and mirror of the Federation and their major guilds. Their adherence to the call to arms is trumpeted as exemplary of their high chivalric honor and martial ability. Banner company guards in the noble quarters of major cities are a common sight, and merchants and noble pedestrians credit them with keeping them safe.
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Cavalry
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