User:Alethiophile/Veriocracy/Armed forces

The Veriocracy, while a peaceful nation, has formidable armed forces. There are four branches, three that specialize and a fourth that retains elements of all of the other three. These are the Army, the Navy, the Air Shock, and the Marines.

Army
The Army is equipped with pods that are dropped out of spacecraft or large atmosphere craft. The pods have multiple layers that burn off to reduce the speed of not only atmospheric reentry, but the extreme speed imparted by the launch of the pod. The pods have no weaponry themselves and no maneuverability except for that provided by parachutes. They are fired at high speed by explosives and leave behind bits of metal behind to confuse ballistic computers and human marksmen. There is a special class of Navy starship that drops army pods. On the ground, the Army is equipped with suits rather like the Technic Single Battle Unit, but with less emphasis on combat and more on smash-and-destroy. They have guns that can, with parts added or subtracted, act as a pistol, a rifle, a shotgun or a machine gun. They also have rockets, H.E. grenades, and flamethrowers.

Navy
The Navy is in charge of Veriocracy military shipping and space combat. It is equipped with starships, which are large, heavy ships with heavy weaponry and ultraspacial capabilities.