Interviewer: Since you’ve stopped making art, how do you spend your time?Paul Chan Breathers: Oh, I’m a breather. I’m a respirateur. Isn’t that enough?
Additionally, the Federated Suns possesses several Combat Training Centers (CTCs) which allow for realistic combat training. At each center, sensors mounted on every combat unit and trooper allow the Ground-Aerospace Combat Tracking Instrumentation computer system to track every simulated weapons attack and assign hits and damage for each, while dedicated OpFor units accurately mimic the Federation's enemies.
The task of Combat centers is to train the RCTs as a cohesive unit. Their sophisticated networks (which record all battle damage and simulate the result like a vehicle cannot move) is the centerpiece of each CTC. Throughout the Federated Suns there are 6 of such centers located and on [sic] was in the former St. Ives Compact.
Does anyone besides ComStar have a unit that mimics the Clan structure, using their machines or ones upgraded to similar profiles to train their own regiments against? Something like ComStar's Invader Galaxy though I think some cultures would not run with that idea.
This assignment kept the Commandos mostly out of the Clan war, though each of its battalions were rotated through the Lyran front to bolster weakened defenses and to give their own personnel some experience against the Clans. Yet it was only after Operation Guerrero and the Lyran secession that Cunningham’s Commandos took on a key role within the Federated Suns. At Duke Hasek’s behest, the Second Commandos regiment relocated to the St. Ives Compact when the Capellans invaded, while the First Commandos escorted relief supplies into the embattled nation until the end of the war. After the conflict, both regiments returned to Novaya Zemlya, now the temporary seat of the Kathil Combat Region.
Since MercSup Update is in a box somewhere, did it give any clue how long? B/c hiring mercs to supplement the OpFor when a larger command is scheduled to make its way through the combat training centers- like one of the oversized RCTs- makes some sense . . . it also makes me think Novaya Zemlya would have been one of the CTC sites. I also think Small World could have been one of the AFFC CTCs due to the planet information in Chaos March SB.
Though the War [of 39] itself proved disastrous, [...] their loyalty to the Federated Suns ensured that the AFFS would continue to use them. The mercenaries bounced from one border world to another before ultimately receiving semi-permanent assignment to the Novaya Zemlya Combat Training Center as a regular “opposition force.”
