Ordis Sancti Draconis [ORDISDRACO] - Organizations

History

Grin so we were one of the crusader orders back in his day and age. We follow the rules set down by his way. I have traveled the verse looking for answers and found answers in the simplest and craziest of places.

I asked why of his way´s faith and they told me take it on faith. I still don´t agree with that but they keep telling me as long as I keep coming up with the same answers they have, they see only good in asking questions. The order died off once because we were a wee bit psychotic, we are still refereed to Irift in some countries. The armor was steel when most people had bronze and we coated it in cooling glass. A little greek fire dripping off the armour and swords and armies start break screaming and running away. If only people had behaved. All ancient history aside the one child order dead with the founder burned alive poor Vlad. So the last time around a very kindly old priest decided to give the reconsecration of the order a chance to live past twenty four, he decided to saint him for some reason. So the name changed from the Order of Drakkon to the Ordis of the Sanctified ‘Ðraconis. Or Ordis Sancti ‘Ðraconis. It sorta worked well he lived a long time but scary fellow that dude.

So we have moved the Order house several times and currently located on Surfer’s Paradise. The mother house is still on earth in this little town called Roma. We make our Knights go through our training then the Church’s training, then the military’s where they live training, then they have to pass their local bar. It makes things simple for us.

So being a militant ordis we follow orders of the militaries we owe oaths to and often provide help to the local governments and help those in need when we can. We got into ship building way back at the start back on earth over a bet over a race car, would it be faster with the seats in or out. I some times wonder if we build them out duty to ask why, or simply because we are all adrenaline jenkies…

The order was founded to ask the question why. Originally it was simply called a crusader order of the holy roman catholic church then it became the Order of the Dragons a sect of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, since we have mostly merged with the main branch with brief periods were people question our right to one soul plus one soul equals one soul only if all agree. Amé being both soul and love in french it is so easier to say but harder to comprehend.

The Commander is always a Knight Commander it is spelled with an ‘Ð mark to signify they are the Knight Commander Actual, not someone running around with a fake title. Some times it is Lord or Lady, some times it is a Crown Commander, some times it is cross or grail knight, but it is always someone chosen by the faith not the Ordis. In some countries it is LCÐ and other LCÐSÐ depends on the local laws. Where the L stands for a person of standing a Lord or Lady in their own name. All that requires is two Esquires that have a kid born of the mother’s hips.
So we make all our knights go through the exam and live up the bar they set. Military service plus ethics of the bar, and morality of the church is what makes a Knight a Knight.

Several times in the past it has hired out legionaries only to find out the cause that was agreed to, is the not the battlefield the warriors find them selves on. This lead to the creation of Drakken Wold by one of the Lord Commanders Amortis Vas’Drakken in the first technology age on earth. Drakken Wold is an alliance of mercenaries that trade information. It eventually ended up being part of OSD to be able to grant diplomatic passports to the agents with critical info in hot spot around the world.

In the current age the order has an inner circle and outer circle. Those in the inner circle are the Knights of the Order and are chosen for ethics and morals that run parallel to the orders. Those in the outer circle have joined the order seeking the protection the order provides to easy money from lucrative contracts as a merc or trader representing the order. They represent potential but have not been forged in crucible of life that the knights all have gone through.

The orders roots in space are quite lost to the ages but from a revival of the Ordis as the Sanctified Dragons by Pope John Paul the Second, and the old Nation of the Unites States of America’s US Space
Command finds a middle aged general by United States standards and quite a young one by his father Icelandic standards, leading the Ordis into Space to rescue victims of the second expansive gold
rush the main asteroid belt.

Manifesto

The order is looking for answers to life. In this pursuit space and science must be explored to their fullest possible, as we do not know where we will find the answers we are looking for.

That said the order understands that if you can not look yourself in the mirror, shaving gets really hard. Joking aside the order has a strong moral outlook on life that breaks down to treat others the way you want to be treated, unless they attack you, then retaliate with all force possible to warn others from trying this. This tends to simply down to walk quietly and carry a big stick. The order respects other beliefs as long those beliefs respect basic human rights. The order sees aliens as people with different genetic structure, so deserving of basic human rights as well.

This gets them in trouble when they start going on holy crusades against smugglers dealing in human trafficking and other ills. As there is always some one making a lot of money off these activities.

Charter

First this is kinda of confusing for some people but Orders contain subtypes bases on millennia old rules.
Ordis are founded by people who were found to be saints in their life time and beautified over more than
two hundred years, look up the beautification of Saint Mary an unusual roman, if you want to understand the process.
Orders are every order that is not an Ordis or Ordo.
Ordo are orders made of priests.

Ordis Sancti Draconis is an Ordis as the original Military Order was the order of the holy dragons back in the good old days of the roman empire. So I tend to use Order and Ordis interchangeable but technically it is always supposed to be Ordis type of Military Order.

The order is about two things.

Be polite if you don’t like someone ignore them.

The good of the Order is to be held higher than the good of the individual.

We are not a nation of individuals but a single Ordis with the purpose of seeking truth and helping those in need of our help. If you come seeking to damage or hurt the Ordis by asking for help we are not the priests giving the sermon but the guy in the Armoury who is making sure that the place does not get robbed in the middle of sermon, which might prevent someone finding enlightenment in a stupid comment or phrase said by someone thinking it is a safe place to hear the wisdom we have collected and had vetted by the priests who spend more time praying and thinking about things than worrying about how to stop evil that is not listening to reason.

There are plenty of orders who will promote those who lack depth perception here we only promote those who are an example to the rest of the order. Much like the bar you raise to the example you set then you have to live that example in all you do. That does not mean stiff necked sob, but if you see cargo fall out of ship and the person does not notice point it out to them, it might be fuel they
need to get to their destination.

Respect the uniform not the person. Your friends are not the rank they serve by your friends and you can laugh at the stupid things but for unknowns respect their face value not an assumption of what
they are worth based on the ship they fly, unless it is a ship with corpses hanging off it then vaporizing the grave site to cleanse it of evil is a good thing.

As to the good of the order coming first, well the order has goals and being a member means supporting those goals. That said we will look out for our members inner and outer because the more capable you are, the more effective we are. The higher you are in the leadership the more that is expected from you for less rewards. With power comes responsibility, if you are un-willing to shoulder this burden there is nothing wrong will staying in the lower ranks. Having higher rank in this order means you actively are making it a better place.

As to ranks the Order respects a international rank structure and as knights you have a grade of knight within the order and a military rank of Service that you hold an oath to.

So the ranks we respect are as follows:

L7 General
L6 Colonel
L5 Adjutant Commander
L4 Lieutenant Commander / Sargent Major
L3 Senior Warrant
L2 Junior Warrant
L1 Bachelor Officer
T3 Sargent
T2 Corporal
T1 Troop
L0/T0 Cadet/Recruit

Strategic Planning Staff level (Major AOR Commanders) Rank of General:: L7 (Unified Force Oversight) General = Limited in scope to Military Matters {General} {Admiral} RankGrade

07G13 – Sovereign Commander and Capitén General (Armies of Armies) Ethos of the Populi (Most August Person)* Never issued
07G12 – Field Marshall NATO Commander (Army of Armies or Supreme Commander) Ethos of the Militia (August Person)
07G11 – Knight Commander Ethos of an Order (Most Dignified Sir or Lord or Lady or Dame)
07G11 – Knighted Royal Leadership (completed warfare college program) (Most Dignified and Gracious Sir or Lord or Lady or Dame)
07G10 – Senior Leadership (Sr General or Sr Admiral in charge of numbered Militia) Ethos of Leadership (Most Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07G9 – Knighted Royal (completed warfare college program) (Most Dignified and Gracious Sir or Lord or Lady or Dame)
07G8 – Congress Person Under Arms (completed warfare college program) (Most Esteemed Sir or Ma’am)
07G7 – Knighted Lord or Lady (completed warfare college program) (Dignified and Esteemed Sir or Lord or Lady or Dame)
07G6 – Aides de Camp (Lieutenant General or Lieutenant Admiral) (Most Able Sir or Ma’am)
07G5 – Knighted Wing Commander (Dignified and Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07G4 – Wing Commander (commands personnel at multiple bases) (Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07G3 – Vice Admiral (Commands Multiple Vehicles) (Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07G2 – Base Commander (In charge of Militia Base) (Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07G1 – Regiment Commander (Ten Thousand Personnel) (Forthright Sir or Ma’am)
07LY – Lieutenant Royals (has not completed Hosting Country Officer Selection Course) (Most Gracious Sir or Lady)
07LP – Lieutenant Peerage (has not completed Hosting Country Officer Selection Course) (Gracious Sir or Lady)
07LM – Lieutenant Militia Commander (has not completed Hosting Country Officer Selection Course) (Respected Sir or Ma’am)
07LN – Lieutenant NATO Commander (has not completed Hosting Country Basic including Military Academies Basic) (Elegant Sir or Ma’am)
07FG – Foreigne General (has not completed any recognized training) (Respected Sir or Ma’am)

Combat Staff level (Combat Staff Officer Level) “boots on ground rule” you don’t over rule the person getting shot at. Rank of Colonel:: L6 (Staff Officer) Colonel = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Colonel} {Knighted Colonel} {Ordained Colonel} {Lieutenant Colonel} Colonel’s tend to be battalion commanders they have a group of companies, squadrons, boat, ships and so forth. RankGrade

06KC – Knighted Colonel (Dignified Sir or Lady)
06OL – Colonel (Sir or Ma’am)
06OR – Ordained Colonel (Faithful Sir or Ma’am)
06LC – Lieutenant Colonel (Sir or Ma’am)

Rank of Adjutant Commander:: L5 (Combat Staff Level) Adjutant Commander = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Adjutant Commander} {Knighted Adjutant} {Ordained Adjutant} {Lieutenant Adjutant} Adjutants tend to be company commander or squadron commanders, be it a small medical squadron to a company of tanks, to infantry troops. RankGrade

05KAC – Knighted Adjutant Commander (Dignified Sir or Lady)
05COM – Adjutant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
05WXO – Weather Adjutant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
05REL – Religious Chaplin Adjutant Commander (Faithful Sir or Ma’am)
05CAG – Commander of Adjutant Group (Sir or Ma’am)
05ACT – Adjutant Commander of Training Instruction (Sir or Ma’am)
05CB – FMOP Adjutant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
05FM – Fire Master of Fire Station (Sir or Ma’am)
05RPC – Religious Practicing Chaplin or Religions Priest Chaplin (Sir or Ma’am)
05FS – Flight Surgeon Space Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
05FA – Flight Surgeon Atmosphere Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
05MD – Medical Doctor (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
05QM – Quartermaster (Sir or Ma’am)
05RO – Adjutant Range Officer (Sir or Ma’am)
05LC – Lieutenant Adjutant (Sir or Ma’am)

Support Staff level (Support Staff Level) Rank of Lieutenant Commander / Sargent Major:: L4 (Staff Officer) Lieutenant Commander / Sargent Major = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Lieutenant Commander} {Knighted LC} {Ordained LC} {Sargent Major} Ordained Knights of recognized orders in that country start as Commanders, due to having most of the training at a chapter house before enlisting much like Sargent Majors holding the rank and grade of Lieutenant Commander. They have to make it through leadership school or the warfare college or the academies before the rank is more than honorum. Knights are recognized by aygulets’ similar to Marine infantry men but in their order’s colors. They go through basic training like everyone else to confirm the training actually happened. Commanders are required to go through operations training as well before their first duty station, due to having tactical and possible combat experience but nothing documented in leadership files. RankGrade

04KL – Knighted Lieutenant Commander (Dignified Sir or Lady)
04KL – Knighted Sargent Major (Dignified Sir or Lady)
04LC – Lieutenant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
04WXO – Weather Lieutenant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
04CB – FMOP Adjutant Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
04FM – Lieutenant Commander of the Fire Station (Sir or Ma’am)
04RPC – Religious Practicing Chaplin or Religions Priest Chaplin (Sir or Ma’am)
04FS – Flight Surgeon Space Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
04FA – Flight Surgeon Atmosphere Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
04MD – Medical Doctor (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
04MTI – Lieutenant Command Master Training Officer (Sir or Ma’am)
04QM – Quartermaster (Sir or Ma’am)
04RC – Range Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
04RP – Recruiting Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
04QM – Quartermaster (Sir or Ma’am)
04SM – Sargent Major (Sir or Ma’am)
04TI – Sargent Major Technical Instructor (Sir or Ma’am)
04FM – Sargent Major of the Fire Station (Sir or Ma’am)
04PM – Post Master (Sir or Ma’am)
04RS – Range Sargent (Sir or Ma’am)

Rank of Senior Warrant:: L3 (Support Staff Level) Senior Warrant = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Senior Warrant} {} {} {} These are experienced combat platoon commanders. All small unit combat units draw leadership from here. Senior Warrants start with two bars, and gain a horizontal bar outside the vertical bars every year until they retire at twenty years as a senior warrant if they can not gain promotion to LT Commander or switch to support track. RankGrade

O3W9 – Senior Warrant Nine (Sir or Ma’am)
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O3W1 – Senior Warrant One (Sir or Ma’am)
03TI – Warrant Training Instructor (Sir or Ma’am)
03WX – Senior Weather Warrant (Sir or Ma’am)
03CB – FMOP Warrants (Sir or Ma’am)
03FM – Senior Warrant of the Fire Station (Sir or Ma’am)
03RPC – Religious Practicing Chaplin or Religions Priest Chaplin (Sir or Ma’am)
03FS – Flight Surgeon Space Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
03FA – Flight Surgeon Atmosphere Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
03MD – Medical Doctor (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
O3JC – Junior Commander (Sir or Ma’am)
03QM – Quartermaster (Sir or Ma’am)
03PW – Post Warrant (Sir or Ma’am)
03RW – Range Warrant (Sir or Ma’am)
03RP – Recruiting Warrant (Sir or Ma’am)

Junior Officer level (Junior Officers) Rank of Junior Warrant:: L2 (Staff Officer) Junior Warrant = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Junior Warrant Officer} {Warrant Officer} {Warrant} {} These are platoon commanders. Junior Warrants start with one circle, and gain a circular dot clockwise around the outside the circle until they add two dots to form a horizontal bars every year until they retire at ten years as a junior warrant if they can not gain promotion to senior warrant or switch to support track. RankGrade

O2W9 – Junior Warrant Nine (Sir or Ma’am)
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O2W1 – Junior Warrant One (Sir or Ma’am)
02TI – Warrant Training Instructor (Sir or Ma’am)
02WX – Junior Weather Warrant (Sir or Ma’am)
02CB – FMOP Warrants (Sir or Ma’am)
02FM – Junior Warrant of the Fire Station (Sir or Ma’am)
02QA – Quartermaster’s Assistant (Sir or Ma’am)
02PA – Post Warrant’s Assistant (Sir or Ma’am)
02RA – Range Warrant’s Assistant (Sir or Ma’am)
02RP – Recruiting Warrant’s Assistant (Sir or Ma’am)

Rank of Bachelor Officer:: L1 (Junior Officers) Bachelor Officer = Limited in scope to Area of Responsibility {Bachelor Officer} {Bachelor} Bachelor Officers are educated and trained personnel that have just graduated their first degree program or enlisted personnel that have completed the educational requirements and have gone through education and operational training before their first duty station to bring them up to the level of a bachelor’s of applied science in their field, due to having experience but possibly not enough documented in leadership files. This also applies to medical doctors, attorneys, and other programs of science that enter service with the training but not the military grounding. RankGrade

01BO – Bachelor Officer (Sir or Ma’am)
01WX – Weather Bachelor (Sir or Ma’am)
01CB – FMOP Bachelor (Sir or Ma’am)
01FM – Fire Station Bachelors (Sir or Ma’am)
01RC – Religious Chaplin (Sir or Ma’am)
01FS – Flight Surgeon Space Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
01FA – Flight Surgeon Atmosphere Rated (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
01MD – Medical Doctor (Doctor, Doc, Sir Doctor, Eminent Doctor, Eminent Sir, Eminent Lady)
01SO – Supply Bachelor (Sir or Ma’am)
01RB – Range Bachelor (Sir or Ma’am)

Rank and File (Sargents, Corporals, and Troops) Rank of Sargent:: T3 (Sargents) Sargent = Limited in scope to following lawful orders. {Sargent} {Sarge} {Gunny} {First Shirt} {Master Sargent} {Technical Sargent} {Tech Sargent} Sergeants are the experienced personal at doing a job without formal education. Chevrons represent military training schools, and rockers represent grounding or comprehension. All sergeants have a primary Military Operational Specialty and alternate Military Operational Specialty based on training they have been graded with a passing grade by a training officer. They are expected to know military curtsy and protocol. The grade of Sargent is selected by class in officer selection school and these are the personnel who are better at turning a wrench than explaining how threads hold the bolt to the washer. They can be required to go above and beyond but are only expected to do what they can. They are expected to have served two years in the military before being award this rank, and in their second re-enlistment or later. Basically if I can hand a troop a technical order of words and they can complete the task with no further input they are a sergeant or higher. If they don’t have a technical order and can get the task completed they are an officer. RankGrade

FSE9 – The First Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or First Shirt or First Sargent or Sargent)
MSE8 – Master Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or Master Sargent or Sargent)
GSE7 – Gunny Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or Gunny Sargent or Gunny)
TSE6 – Technical Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or Technical Sargent or Tech Sargent or Sargent)
SSE5 – Staff Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or Staff Sargent or Sargent)
SGE4 – Sargent (Sir or Ma’am or Sargent or Sergeant or Sarge)

Rank of Corporal:: T2 (Corporal) Corporal = Limited in scope to following lawful orders. {Corporal} {Lance Corporal} Corporals have completed military protocol and standards, a military technical specialty school, and have passed a graded exam on what it means to give a lawful order, and a graded essay on what orders are supposed to be followed and why. Chevrons represent military training schools, and rockers represent grounding or comprehension. They have more comprehension of what it means to give and follow orders and military arms drill. They can shoot at and hit a target in visible distance, with no unsafe issues. The are responsible to the institute of heraldry to maintain the unit’s heraldry in accordance to guiding regulation. This is their first leadership test. Depending on the length of their technical school troops may end up skipping this rank. RankGrade

CE3 – Corporal (Corporal)
LCE2 – Lance Corporal (Corporal or Lance Corporal)

Rank of (Troop):: T1 (Troop) Troop = Limited in scope to following lawful orders. {Troop} {Airman} {Solider} {Sailor} Troops are the personnel that have proven they can understand military curtsy and protocol. They have graduated basic military instruction with a passing grade of suited for military service. Troops have gone through special forces selection school while undergoing military standards and protocol instruction and attitude selection for leadership school. The first steps on complex journey. The chevron is set by the selection process to entry the military and the rocker is to show that you understood the training to the first minimum level. RankGrade

TE1 – Troop (Troop) They have graduate from a military specialty school to stay in the military or be released from the military as could not complete.

Potential Military Personnel (Cadets and Recruits) Rank of Cadet Trainee:: L0 (Trainees)* Note Cadets are the same rank as recruits. Cadet Trainee = Limited in scope to training {Cadet Trainee} {Cadet} Cadet Trainee are personnel recruited into the academies possibly with no prior military experience, and personnel going through officer selection school. The personnel that have prior military experience are denoted by a circular pip for every grade or rank above corporal they made prior to entry into officer selection school. They have to be enrolled in or have completed a bachelor degree. All civilians entering military service have to complete at bare minimum officer selection school, and be assigned the rank of Cadet Trainee, otherwise they can try to get a entry date at one of the military academies and spend the four years learning what it is to be military. RankGrade

00CT – Cadet Trainee (Sir or Ma’am)

Rank of Recruit:: T0 (Recruit) Recruit = Limited in scope to following lawful orders. {Recruit} {Private} {Meatbag} {Swabie} These are civilians that are found by recruiting command and processed by military entrance protocol to be of sound mind and body to to attempt basic military instruction and special forces selection process. RankGrade

RE0 – Recruit (Recruit) They are attempting basic military instruction on customs and curtsies, and understanding of military protocol. They are gaining a fit body shape to enter into their military specialty school. They have to graduate basic military instruction to stay in the military or be released from the military as could not complete. They are issued this rank on their first day of basic and hold it until failing to complete basic training or promoting to Troop at graduation. The military recruit is handed a tee shirt and is instructed to paints a veggie dye or food coloring dye on the shoulder of light colored tee shirts and wear. The dye washes out over the weeks time and each week they air brush a new line back on.