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A solution for two problems at once was figured out. First Company would be withdrawn from the position they’d taken and held to be sent down with the rest of the Legion, where their talent would be better suited. The outpost wouldn’t simply be surrendered, however. Despite serving little use at present, it was a fortified position and one that the Sovereignty continued to harass. An easy position for a new unit to occupy itself with, not only to get used to working with one another, but to acclimate to the demands and quirks of the new terrain they’d be fighting in.
So, the newly formed Sixth Company would be switched in for First Company, and given the task of holding the outpost, even conducting probes if the opportunity presented itself. A meager duty, but one that demanded little and forgave much. The only remaining question was how to form it- or rather, whom to form it under. As much as the utopian ideal was to elect leaders from within the unit, the demands of the situation meant that could be impractical. Instead, one of your other companies would donate platoon sergeants and squad leaders, as well as a commanding officer in order to ensure the structure of the company was well constructed from the start.
Whoever donated leadership personnel to Sixth Company would by nature instill much of their character into them as they led and trained them. The expectation, naturally, was that the new company would become quite similar in tactics and disposition to its “parent” donor. With that in mind, you reviewed the candidates.
For First Company, Captain Ponte had recommended a man who he thought highly of, likely because he was quite similar in command style. Rigid and conventional, competent and steadfast, Federigo Pastore was a hulking slab of a warrior, a bloody brawler whose practicality made him quick to decide and react, though he seldom thought of consequences beyond victory. Not possessed of a calculating mind rather than an efficient one, he had a heavy hand rather than a delicate one, though at times that was preferable to anybody trying to act cleverly.
Second Company’s Captain Waltz had put forward his own second in command, much as he commented that he would be loath to lose such a useful officer. Jonaz Horak had been with the Legion as long as Waltz had, and followed practically the same tactical theorem in helping to conduct the Raider Company. Light infantry, quick movement, long range engagements if they had to escape, and close in ambushes if they intended for the enemy not to. An officer for the skirmish and the riposte, a bullfighter rather than the beast itself.
