Rucina Outreach Command

The Outreach Command is a mercenary military group that provides governance and defense for the Rucina system and its accompanying asteroid belt. None of the Rucinian planets are any amount of habitable, but in the past 30 years with the aid of The Exchange of Light they formed an asteroid colony chain. Fiercely independent of the planets they came from, the first generation of spaceborn Rucinians are coming into political power, marking a strong shift to trading partners and mercenaries rather than isolated system.

Rapidly becoming the trade hub of the southern half of the sector, you can buy goods from anywhere, going to anywhere. From slaves to psionics, bread to bioware, Thornthistle made or Federal Society stamped, you can find it in Rucina.

The Outreach Command directs it all. Lead by Vice Admiral Haty-a al-Sharif, the officer corp of the Command is formed 70% of women. It boasts that female military command excels at heroism, and exhibits superior combat skills at discipline, weapon use, and altertness. Every Outreach Command Fleet ship is skippered by a female commander.

Admiral al-Sharif rose to power eleven years ago after an accident that wiped out most of the male military commanders in the unit. After then Rear Admiral Bruce Gurveich Mikoyanislav made a disparaging comment toward the female gender, quite publicly, and was backed by the laughter of his flag officer staff, the shuttle containing the good Admiral exploded under mysterious circumstances, with only a female mechanic surviving long enough to reach an escape pod.

Outreach sells its units in any quantity to any bidder, from a businessperson seeking a bodyguard to a world seeking planetary invasion. It has one of the largest fleets numerically, though they tend to be either fighters or free traders. Admiral al-Sharif commands from the Carrier-Cruiser ROCS Sky Raptor.