The Legions
(a.k.a. psychokinetics, PKs, Legionnaires or war dogs - textfile conversion, Robert Linsey Marsden, Æon Trinity, Proteus Division)

Considering we psychokinetics tend to be a fiercely independent lot, some wags marvel that enough of us PKs can stick together to make a single legion, let alone an entire order. How we do it isn't such a surprise. Take a bunch of folks with something in common - beating Aberrants arse - and they'll stick together just fine.

Course, things would've fallen apart by now if not for the General - who you'd call our proxy. General Solveig Larssen is a holy terror disguised as a Scandinavian woman in her 50s. She's the shining example of psychokinetic achievement. It boggles the mind to see her in the trenches, using all three PK modes at once while us poor sods are trying to et our brains around one, yeh?

She's the only proxy I know who still goes into the field 'stead of hiding behind a desk. Be sure, the men - oh, and women - in the Legions love her for it. General Larssen isn't just a great soldier, she's one of the most brilliant tacticians that ever lived. Alexander, Attila, Napoleon, Bradley, Osner - and Larssen. If you don't agree, I've got a few thousand friends who beg to differ.

The noeticits say psychokinesis is the most common of all the aptitudes. Looking at the Legions, I'd say they're right. We're a damn big mob! Tens of thousands of screamin' psions getting up close and personal with Aberrants. It's a good thing PK's so common, I suppose, considering out attrition rate.

The General uses our numbers to best advantage by maintaining seven PK groups, each geared to a different kind of Legionnaire. she lets her commanders run their Legions how they will, but makes sure they always remember who calls the shots (and if you have to ask, this interview is over). Sure, we have standard four year tours, and a lot of Legionnaires muster out at the end of theirs, but General Larssen allows us to hook up with other organizations while we're still with the Legions.

I don't mean buddy up with some upstart country or paranoid metacorp. With a Legion post in almost every nation on Earth and every territory in settled space, we make sure the three Cs are in effect for all our troops - communication, coordination and confidence. Our loyalty is to the Legions before anyone else. That's why "Legions First," yeh?

Scattered across the continent of Australia, the Legionnaire Home Guard is characterized by its psions' blue and white uniforms, and is adored by not only Australians, but by humanity in general.

The First is the home defense, honor guard and constabulary of the Legions. The only Guardsmen abroad act as military police for the other Legions. Ask an Aussie to describe a Legionnaire and he'll likely mention blue jackets and white berets and the Seven Legions' signature star burst emblem - he'll describe a Guardsman, a soldier of the First.

The First is the most respected of the Legions, not that the rest of use are unwashed louts. It's simply the prettiest. Soldiers of the First appear in vidcast commercials, sponsoring everything from lager to lasers. Although they're happy to rake in what cash they can, the blue and whites are less mercenary than the rest of us war dogs. They don't take independent contract work, mainly carrying out assignments handed down by General Larssen.

A new breed or warrior was born centuries ago: the soldier of fortune. We PKs distilled this decades old pedigree into the Second Legion - the children of a hundred warrior cultures, also called Fortune's Knights.

The Second is the core of the Legions' mercenary crowd. When a country or metacorp wants to hire Legionnaires - as shock troops, special forces or glorified security guards - it turns to the Mercenaries. Whether they're commandos or reserve flankers, troops of the Second serve with distinction.... and at a hefty price, yeh?

Although the Mercs take money - cheerfully, even - they also demand some odd fees for difficult contracts. Favors can change hands rather than cash, especially when a client represents someone particularly influential. Some of the Legion's most infamous stories were inspired but such payments. Truth be told, Fortune's Knights are as prone to tall tales as they are to soldiering - and they do both exceptionally well.

The Third is the smallest of the Legions, generally made up of nonpsychokinetic Gifted, or neuts who are associated with the Legion peripherally. The Third provides support, such as transportation, logistics, latent testing and the like.

This Legion doesn't have a ranking commander. Its members are attached to the other six Legions, instead, and they report directly to General Larssen herself. The group's grown quite a bit in the last couple years, so I imagine it's only a matter of time before the General lets'em toddle off on their own.