Huiha Esoyatre - an Aslan Minor State Part 3

I needed to create new Aslan terms to describe some of the larger formations deployed by the Trekhyair of Huiha Esoyatre. Using Space Corsair's Word Generator, I added to the word list I had already found:

Trokh Word List
aikoho	"many ships", fleet
afeahyalhtow	popular Aslan pet; flying carnivore/killer
ayakyuir	carnivore native to Kusyu, noted for speed and ferocity
Akoaft	"Far Throwing" - artillery
Khoiaya	armor
Soarl	"elite"
Trekhyair	"land protector" clan military force
Areiale	"they who sprint" – marines
Hraye	"wanderer" – scout
Ekho’ear	"armed family" – squad
Ahr’eah	"armed pride" - platoon or company
Hryo	"half dozen" - a squadron
Huih’eal	"armed clan" – battalion or regiment
Ahr'ekhaoa	"pride brotherhood" – brigade
Huih'aisai	"dewclaw of the clan" – division
Kheheasoikhir	"gathering of warriors" – corp or army

With terminology established for the higher echelons of the Trekhyair, and a basic plan of unit assignments worked out, I began thinking how large Aslan forces might be mustered.

While I otherwise enjoy and use the material in GURPs: Traveller Alien Races 2, I am reluctant to accept that the Aslan military is essentially based around Light Infantry formations. Perhaps this is how clan military units operate in the Aslan Hierate, but in the RimWorlds, Aslan ground forces face opponents who do not follow the Rules of War and Honour. Consequently, the Aslan of the Huiha Esoyatre have evolved formations that match those that they come into conflict with.

Given that Aslan forces are clan based, and that Aslan culture shares parallels with Medieval and Early Renaissance Japanese culture, I had a brief look at some famous Japanese battles of the Edo Period, such as Sekigahara. I also looked at another clan-based military culture, that of the Scots and their order of battle at Culloden. It occurred to me that the name of the officer who leads a formation might be significant in Aslan culture, as names accrue power in a culture that values individual prowess.

This made me consider a culture in transition between the individual prowess of heroic feudal leaders
and the mass produced, die stamped military of the machine age of total warfare. If the Huiha Esoyatre is currently working its way through this process, we might see the numerically inferior, but dominate, Esoyatre Clan producing the numbered regiments of a modern society, while the numerically superior clans that owe fealty to the Esoyatre muster battalions or regiments of various sizes under the personal names and banners of their Colonels. And even the Esoyatre, in their elite formations, may still know their brigades by the Brigadier-Generals who take control of the groupings of battalions, much as Americans recall the brigades of their Civil War.

So, a first pass at part of the Huiha Esoyatre's elite formations:

1st TL14 Elite Amoured Corp			Kheheassoikhir Soarl fyo Esoyatre Khoiaya
1st Armoured Division			Alr Huih’aisai Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
	Ahr’ekhaoa fyo Ye'oa'ai (Ye’oa’ai’s Brigade)
		1st Elite Regiment Scouts of Yuwe				Alr Huih’eal Soarl Hraye fyo Yuwe
		Taulauh’s Elite Armoured Regiment				Huih’eal fyo Taulauh Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		Waoeha’s Elite Armoured Regiment				Huih’eal fyo Waoeha Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		1st Elite Infantry Regiment of Yuwe				Alr Huih’eal Soarl Khir fyo Yuwe
		1st Elite Artillery Regiment of Yuwe				Alr Huih’eal Soarl Akoaft fyo Yuwe
		Ahr’ekhaoa fyo Khteaes (Khteaes' Brigade)
		2nd Elite Regiment Scouts of Yuwe				Hlai Huih’eal Soarl Hraye fyo Yuwe
		Koaaiea’s Elite Armoured Regiment of Yuwe				Huih’eal fyo Koaaiea Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		Hkehealr’s Elite Armoured Regiment				Huih’eal fyo Hkehealr Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		2nd Elite Infantry Regiment of Yuwe				Hlai Huih’eal Soarl Khir fyo Yuwe
		2nd Elite Artillery Regiment of Yuwe				Hlai Huih’eal Soarl Akoaft fyo Yuwe
		Ahr’ekhaoa fyo Ealeiktyes (Ealeiktyes’ Brigade)
		3rd Elite Regiment Scouts of Yuwe				Kheh Huih’eal Soarl Hraye fyo Yuwe
		Uikhaiw’s Elite Armoured Regiment of Yuwe				Huih’eal fyo Uikhaiw Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		Eariylu’s Elite Armoured Regiment of Yuwe				Huih’eal fyo Eariylu Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe
		3rd Elite Infantry Regiment of Yuwe				Kheh Huih’eal Soarl Khir fyo Yuwe
		3rd Elite Artillery Regiment of Yuwe				Kheh Huih’eal Soarl Akoaft fyo Yuwe
		Syehoiye's Brigade Artillery				Ahr’ekhaoa fyo Syehoiye Akoaft
		4th Elite Artillery Regiment of Yuwe				Hryeh Huih’eal Soarl Akoaft fyo Yuwe
		1st Elite Esoyatre COACC Regiment of Yuwe				Alr Huih’eal fyo Esoyatre Soarl Afeahyalhtow fyo Yuwe

The First Armoured Division, Alr Huih’aisai Soarl Khoiaya fyo Yuwe, is an Elite formation raised from E'kho Hleahayaou on Yuwe. As E'kho Hleahayaou is a progressive family, and is the dominant family within Huiha Esoyatre, the Huih'aisai has adopted the progressive fashion of numbering individual battalion-regiments, at least within their elite formations. Brigades are still known by the name of their commanding Brigadier.