⚝ Intercepted At April 15, 2026
Prologue (Cont.)
Barmanne has always been adventurous and favoured risks over certainty. The vast majority of Sorebon's military is stationed in-home than sent storming at field. The authority favours tactics and precision over brute force. There is a separate wing of Sorebon military known as Les exelsiors, and they are functionally the only ones whose main focus is field operations. He and Doctor Bruisseau were not acquainted before Barmanne joined Sorebon as a cadet. Bruisseau was still in student phase then but two years senior and in A&R. The two did not meet before Barmanne had reached the point where he could join Les exelsiors. Les exelsiors had a daunting set of selection criteria, as Sorebon preferred maximum elite skills for their field military. The corps was still subject to the Sorebon's top brass; however, in field, they were given a decentralised decisive authority. It is a massive freedom; in military, freedom can impose fatal lacerations on the big picture.The corps hence recquire extreme levels of foresight. Not simply of military nature, the caution needs to include the environmental and the governmental. Les exelsiors are simply Sorebon military's special unit and answer directly to the top brass but due to their decentralised operation tactics, they have their own tacit forces, of military nature and otherwise. Barmanne is a field officer of Les exelsiors; Sorebon has an unorthodox method of recruiting for Les exelsiors. They are not just selected from the cadets but from the undergraduate academics as well. After the preliminary selection, the candidates then go through an elite training program that's not much shorter than either a whole cadet or undergraduate program. Finally, the cream is something more than a military officer. In Les exelsiors program, Barmanne had specialised in explosives. But of course, being an exelsior, he did things of greater significance than simply draining the ordnance. There's a reason the vast majority of Sorebon's academics and military alike are strictly stationed.
Gumtitled #17
For Thomas Ligotti VIII / Nethescurial