Knight Cavalry are the mech-based armor platform used by Babel Armed Military Force - 'BAMF' and are a staple part of its military.

Trained predominately for urban missions; cavalry is a specialty for BAMF. Marines who choose this profession are trained to operate in a variety of mechs with a wide array of utility ranging from specialized light scouts made to act as fast and maneuverable raiders and harassers, light mechs with powerful mass drivers that can act as snipers, sturdy and reliable medium mechs made as the background of BAMFs cavalry core, stalwart heavy artillery or force multiplier mechs that can change the flow of an entire battle, etc.

Knight Cavalry is taught how to supplement a force of BAMF marines, armor, other mechs, etc. with their mechs and is more than competent enough to drive or even fly most anything in BAMFs vehicle arsenal due to how less complex they are than their usual ride.

Knights are the elite of the BAMF when it comes to the operation of these machines above anyone else, and their elite aces; The Twelve Knights of Paradise put even them to shame when they take a mech to the field. These marines learn all the skills needed to operate their mech either alone or in a lance with other knights or squires.

There are two types of forces in the BAMF cavalry; Knights and Squires. Knights, as is their trade, are the main pilots and are always officers starting at a rank of Second Lieutenant, though they are often just referred to as their title of Knight and then their last name.

Knights are more than just pilots, however, and also oversee the maintenance and loadout of their machine as well as their overall combat readiness and act as the foreman or lead engineer of their team consisting of squires below them.

Squires on the other hand are also trained in the basic operation of their knights' mech and can even pilot in at a beginners level for logistic and testing reasons, but carry the main role of supporting their knight and his or her mech. This can range from acting as a pit crew for the mech when in need of field repairs or maintenance, or as security and support. As such squires will often trail or accompany their mech in fast-paced vehicles or even sometimes on foot and will carry the tools of their trade, ammunition, and other important features of their knights' mech.

Squires, as their name implies, are also on the track to one day take over the mantle of knight and veteran and senior squires often accompany veteran knights in scout mechs which are remarkably smaller than even light mechs and are much easier to control and learn.

Unique among even the most veteran of knights are the Twelve Knights of Paradise. These knights are not the most veteran but are the most skilled and promising of all knight prodigies and are often appointed by a vote by dozens of other knights who have witnessed their skill.

In the old world, the Twelve Knights were legends across the entire decades-long war for the heavens. These knights remarkably managed to escape death by the skin of their teeth time and time again over the course of the long war; All but one of them perished in the final battle for the tower, having few glorious deaths and were more often than not burned alive in their machines, or torn out of the wrecks of their machines when they finally fell, leaving eleven of the spots open for the now burgeoning BAMF to one day fill.

Each of the old twelve knights was legend and folk heroes of the Remnant Conglomerate. Their names and some facts about them were:

• Sappho - The leader, she was beloved by all.
• Ditch - The vagrant of a man, a charitable soul.
• Wraith - Never was she satisfied, always seeking.
• Tins - The youngest, did not deserve to die the way he did.
• The Woodsman - A butcher, distant but deserving of redemption.
• Cu - Who stood even in death for those who could not.
• La'funke - Whose machine danced among the flames.
• Sunbae - Who quenched her thirst with wine while Prospero burned around her.
• Garo - Who loved his world, even if it sought his death.
• Lian We - One of the Yue, a scholar.
• Gnat - A pest to all who crossed him.
• Allen el Allen - Who wept for all he lost.

The Tale of Twelve Knights is a book written by The Woodsman; The last surviving of the Twelve Knights. It covers the full span of the war for the heavens and focuses mostly on the other eleven knights and their history before the war and their encounters in it. The book covers little enough about the author other than to cover a lot of self-deprecating perspectives. What is spoken about the Woodsman is taken from snippets of diary entries recovered and edited into the book and show a much broader stroke about the man.

The book starts off with a light-hearted tone as shown by the general lack of concern from BAMF as shown in the earliest parts as the other nations warred amongst themselves.

But the book covers up into the end of the war and each of the other knights' deaths. Little is held back in regards of detail and the change of writing in the latter parts of the book shows a stark contrast to the unbiased and light-hearted earlier parts as The Woodsman slowly delves into seeming depression and anxiety.

Such quotes from the book include:

I don't know how long I've been at this now; I was never bored, far from it. My work is engaging, it is important, and the kindness of strangers continually surprises me even if I see the fear of me in their eyes; I am not as beloved as [they] were.

I don't have Sappho's charisma and smile, nor Tin's innocence. I can not cry as Allen el Allen could at all we lost, nor could I lose myself as Sunbae could in the catharsis of the bottle. I have always stood as Cu did, but death will not take me on my feet or otherwise…

More than anything all I wish is to stand beside them again. We always got things right, the thrill of success; Pieces falling into place, grateful cheers, and voices.

“You've done it again!”, “You're a legend!”, “You're the only one who can, you know!”. All wonderful things they would say to me, and only they would mean these things, only they would look me in the eyes and see not a butcher, not a pariah, but a comrade; A friend.

Back then when they fell, one by one, we all knew it would end. That [this place] would be our grave. I only wish then, not that I could have saved any of them I'm not so naive, that they would have said something else when they fell instead of urging me on.

“That's enough”, “You must be so tired”, “You've done so much already”.

It leaves a sour pit in my gut to have had them all put their expectations and dreams on my shoulders and to make me carry on with them. Lian-We had a daughter, he cried for her when a Gol breached his cockpit and tore him apart still in it; How can I face him and tell him one-day she's gone?

How can I face Sappho and tell her that her son never made it to the tower?

How can I face Tins mother and tell her I could not protect her son when they burned him alive in his machine while I watched, turning off my radio when I could bear his screams no longer?

We won the war, I'm told. It doesn't feel like it. Good people are happy with how things are now; I wonder if “good” is what I am anymore?

My machine doesn't have the armor it used to. Perhaps I've outgrown the need for it? Or perhaps I'm waiting for that one stray round so that I won't have to ask myself anymore; Am I strong enough to keep going, or am I brave enough to stop?

Generally, a cavalry corps of BAMF will incorporate dozens of mechs and tens of thousands of marines. In these corps mechs are usually broken up into lances with anywhere from two to a dozen knights and mechs and dozens more supporting squires in scout mechs and hundreds of other light vehicles.

As such most compositions look like this:¹⁾

Scout lance:

• x1 Medium mech
• x1-3 Light mech
• x3-5 Scout mech

Support Lance:

• x3-5 Light mech
• x1-2 Artillery or Support mech

Light Cavalry Lance:

• x1-2 Medium mech
• x1-5 Light mech
• x3-5 Scout mech

Medium Cavalry Lance:

• x2-3 Medium mech
• x1-5 Light mech
• x3-5 Scout mech

Heavy Mech Lance:

• x1 Heavy mech
• x2-3 Medium mech
• x2-3 Light mech

Below is a list of all mechs currently fielded by BAMF in order of class.

charmaylarg created this article on 2020/04/13 12:49.

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