Avesian Rebel Slave Captain By Imperator-Zor Watch

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The slaves of the Avesian islands were generally worked hard, lived in squalid conditions, subjected to frequent violence and other abuse by their masters and kept in line by fear. Needless to say most of that when the Infrastructural army came in and gave them their freedom for the vast majority of them it was their dream come true. In many cases they saw the arrival of these invaders as the opportunity to rise up with slavers facing Landing Parties attacking from the front and rebel slaves striking from the rear. A fair number of those were killed, but they brought down some handlers and militia regardless, as well as confusing the issue for the defenders enough to give the Infrastructurals even more of an advantage. While plenty of them simply wanted to take advantage of their freedom after the fall of Porta Liberium to enjoy themselves, build a decent life or leave Avesia altogether many more were not done with their former masters.



On the order of Drive these rebel groups were to be armed and equipped. Thousands of Rifles, Pistols and Shotguns and a large store of ammunition had been brought along with the campaign and have salvaged a fair amount of weaponry from dead militia, mercenaries and janissaries. To get said guns, groups of Rebels of about a hundred would need to present a request and name a leader and four seconds in command (which they usually did by acclamation with the runners up getting the secondary position) and ask for them. Said leaders were usually given star badges with triangular badges being handed out. In addition they got a day's worth of training with those weapons, which included a few demonstrations of operations and maintinece, some practice shots and basic drills. The Infrastructurals also had about ten thousand sets of riveted canvas shorts (of a pattern often used in the Petroleum Colony) and cotton shirts (of a type used as undergarments and with a design used to gather war funds both at home and abroad) which were issued as a simple form of rebel uniform, though many elected to augment this with captured clothes from the elite and secondary weapons. Signing up for this basic training was purely optional, those who did not want to deal with those terms were free to go out on their own with stolen Avesian weapons, hand tools and rocks. As they free more estates and towns, their ranks grow with such individuals.



Rebel slaves are as a rule bad soldiers as they generally lack any of the skills of soldiering. Giving them some basic understanding of firearms operation and badges to indicate some basic concept of rank does little to change this beyond increasing the likelihood them shooting their foes rather than shooting themselves. Even so they do have one quality: determination. Rebel slaves are as a rule driven by a hatred of those who'd brutalized them, a desire to free others from said oppression, the hope for a better tomorrow and the fact that defeat means nothing but pain and death. For this reason Rebels are as a rule quite ruthless to their former masters. Part of the reason why the Infrastructural Army armed rebel slaves was as a tool to get Avesian slavers to surrender if the Alternative was to end up in the hands of their former property.

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