Imperial Guard (Star Wars)

Imperial Royal Guard(English) Imperial Royal Guard listen)) is a fictional unit of the Imperial army from the Star Wars universe. This unit served as bodyguards under Emperor Palpatine.

History and traditions of the Guard

The forerunners of the Imperial Guards were those of the Senate of the Old Republic. When Palpatine became Supreme Chancellor, he created an entire order of bodyguards that answered only to him personally. The guards did not take all the people who wanted to. Most of the future guardsmen were battle-hardened fighters of the elite stormtrooper units. The Imperial Guard is the pinnacle of an Imperial stormtrooper's career. With the exception of the Emperor himself and a few of Palpatine's closest advisors, no one knew the exact number of the Guard.

Imperial Guard

The Imperial Guard is one of the most formidable military formations. She obeys only the Emperor himself and is fanatically devoted to him personally. The Emperor's Guard does not seek orders and privileges. Their life purpose and most desired cause of death is service to Emperor Palpatine and his Empire.

The Imperial Guard never openly took part in hostilities. However, in order to maintain combat readiness, some Guardsmen served in ordinary units under the guise of simple stormtroopers and wore the same uniform as ordinary soldiers of the Empire. Usually all the guardsmen served in one unit, and were not scattered in different parts. It is said that not a single guardsman died in battle during the "training".

While some Guardsmen served in the Empire's assault squads, others carried out Palpatine's orders: they organized covert attacks, eliminated assassins, and eliminated the enemies of the Emperor. They protected the emperor's palaces and temples and the cloning cylinders on Byss. Only the Emperor himself knew about their assignments, and he very rarely appeared without at least two guards accompanying him. Occasionally, the guards accompanied the most important persons of the Empire, for example, one of the twelve grand admirals or grand moffs. But such escort was only if there was a corresponding order from Emperor Palpatine.

Training Center

The training center and headquarters of the guard is located on the planet Inchhorr (eng. Yinchorr). Future soldiers of the Guard had to be tall, have excellent physical training, outstanding intelligence. Also, and most importantly, all Guardsmen must be loyal to Emperor Palpatine. Future guardsmen were subjected to a mass of tests to determine their endurance and reflexes in battle. Each new guardsman learned to fight, using two short knives with pointed blades in battle. The education and training of a guardsman lasted one standard year. The Imperial Guards fought each other in endless duels, honing and improving their skills in this way. Defeat for a guardsman, even in training, most often meant his death. Seeing the skill and strength of his partner, the Imperial Guardsman had to reach his level, and seeing his weaknesses, he had to overcome his own shortcomings. Trainings were held at the arena "Shkval". Of more than 40 candidates, only a small part of them survived to the last test in the face of Emperor Palpatine himself. In this test, candidates for the Guard had to prove their loyalty to the Emperor by fighting their partner to the death of one of them.

The training center on Yinhorr was headed by master Ved Kennede, who himself served in the guard at one time. Palpatine recognized him as one of the best warriors and honored him with becoming the senior instructor of his entire guard. The identity of the guardsman is a mystery to ordinary people. Their faces and names are known only to Emperor Palpatine and other guardsmen. According to tradition, the guardsmen called each other brothers.

Weapons and organization

The Imperial Guard has its own ranks. The best of the guardsmen are called Supreme Imperial Protectors (eng. Imperial Sovereign Protectors). Their armor looks much more ceremonial than that of the regular guardsmen, and is also decorated with ornaments. Some say that the Protectors' abilities have been enhanced by the Dark Side of the Force.

The usual weapon of the Imperial Guardsman is a two-meter power lance, more like a harmless addition to ceremonial armor, but in the capable hands of any of the guards of the Empire, it turns into a deadly weapon - as deadly as heavy blaster pistols hidden in the folds of red cloaks. Sometimes the Imperial Royal Guards were armed with light poles.

After the death of Emperor Palpatine, the ranks of the Guard quickly dispersed. The Rebel Alliance has long believed that virtually the entire Guard perished along with their overlord on the second Death Star. But the Imperial Guard survived. Some of the guards followed the warlords, who became the new leaders of the Empire. The other warriors of the Guard retreated to the worlds at the center of the galaxy, only to take their place next to the resurrected Emperor. Little is known about the further fate of the guardsmen. It is said that they tried to seize power in some worlds of the Core, committed mass suicide, etc. It is possible that some guardsmen serve in the assault units of the Empire, others could hide in the Outer Regions.

Dress

The vestments of the Imperial Guard are red in color and consist of a wide cloak, helmet and armor. The flowing ceremonial cloaks were designed in such a way as not to interfere with the movements of warriors in battle. The uniforms of the Guardsmen were taken from the uniforms of the Solar Guard from Thyrsus and the Deathguard from Mandalore. These ancient associations of warriors are famous for their ferocity and courage. The brilliance of the armor of the Imperial Guard made even the most daring opponents tremble with fear. The external, ceremonial, appearance of the armor of the guards is deceptive. Although it is thin and smooth, it is far superior in strength to the armor of stormtroopers.

Insignia

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The Roman emperor had personal bodyguards. Several cohorts of 1000 warriors each. They were called Praetorians. These were the only people who were allowed to be in Rome with weapons in their hands.

The army usually fought on the outskirts of the empire and the Praetorians pretty soon realized that there was no one in the capital who could resist them. Already the second Roman emperor, Tiberius, was faced with a conspiracy by the head of the Praetorian guard Sejanus, and the third, Caligula, was simply killed by conspirators led by the Praetorian tribune Cassius Hereia.

And from that moment on, not a single emperor could become one or hold his power for any long time without the support of the Praetorian Guard. Moreover: many emperors came from Praetorians.

Something similar was in Russia for almost the entire 18th century after the death of Peter the Great. The guard overthrew the Russian emperors, put others in their place, and this continued until the Decembrist uprising, which, as you know, was also an uprising of part of the guard.

Beginning with the reign of Nicholas I, who just crushed the Decembrist uprising, the authorities never allowed the guards to be omnipotent. She always had something to oppose: since then, troops and Cossacks have been stationed in the capital, the police have been strengthened, a secret investigation has been established, etc.

Since then, the supreme Russian government has always professed the principle of "divide and rule" and never again allowed such a concentration of military force in the capital and its environs within the framework of one department.

The Bolsheviks also understood this well. Therefore, contradictions and competition between the troops of the GPU / NKVD and the army have always been inspired. And after the division of the NKVD into the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs - between them.

Suffice it to recall how much Brezhnev paid attention to keeping parity between Andropov (KGB) and Shchelokov (MVD) and never allowed either of them to take over.

Even Yeltsin, forgetting for a moment these basics of power, was about to create a monster in the form of a united KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the leadership of Barannikov, but he immediately came to his senses and abandoned this idea.

And only our wise leader Putin went to recreate the Praetorian, sorry, Russian Guard: the only serious armed force in the capital and in the vicinity of 100 km around it. Who can oppose something to her in the capital?

Police? No! After the internal troops and OMON were taken away from her, and they were transferred to the Russian Guard, she does not have serious forces. It is impossible to take seriously the operatives of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, armed with PM.

FSB? Where is it: from the strength of a special forces battalion ...

Army? Her main forces are far away. Much further than the Kadyrovites, who are part of the National Guard, by the way. The Kadyrovites will be in the capital on their cayennes during daylight hours: they left in the morning and in the evening they are already in Moscow. This is not counting those who are already in the capital ...

FSO? The main forces are scattered at security sites throughout Russia. I think that in Moscow no more than three or four battalions can be brought into battle.

This is against the Peresvet detachment (the former 55th division of the MVD), located right in Moscow, on the Leningradskoe highway. And a few more divisions of the Russian Guard, standing a couple of hours away from Moscow!

And if Zolotov has not yet come up with the idea that he is the only support and guard of the throne, then he has especially intelligent assistants and subordinates from Chechnya who will soon explain this to him. If not already explained.

And if so, this means that he, Zolotov, the head of the emperor's Praetorian Guard, can demand from Putin much greater privileges and consideration of opinion than it is now.

And what can Putin object to him when he points the barrel at him? Ask, as in your favorite joke: "What time is it?" Hehe… Security, as they say, quickly turns into an escort…

Zolotov himself, judging by what they say about him, frankly speaking, is not an intellectual. And it is unlikely that he will dopret before this. But it is precisely because of this position that he is in Moscow in a certain vacuum of communication.

It is clear that the leadership of other law enforcement agencies are also not Schopenhauers, but their self-esteem does not allow them to seriously communicate with a person who, as his former boss Korzhakov (who hired him from locksmiths) says, "forgot the letters."

And that's what I think ... Here is his "challenge to a duel" Navalny. This is a purely Chechen approach: "Let's go out and talk like a man to a man." Russian generals don't behave like that. Especially in relation to those arrested ...

The vacuum of communication was filled by Zolotov with glorious Chechen fans of MMA, masters of pankration, broken ears and stabbing. This is their code of honor. It was in front of them that he considered himself humiliated, slandered, and according to their rules, this insult can only be washed away by scuffle ...

Characteristically, the first (and so far the only!) official who supported Zolotov on this issue was Ramzan Kadyrov.

But, unlike Zolotov, Kadyrov, Delimkhanov and Daudov are smart, experienced guys with colossal endurance and deceit. The Chechens have not forgiven the Russians for anything. Neither the 19th century, nor the Stalinist deportation, nor the two Chechen wars in our time. No need for illusions.

And I cannot be particularly worried about this, being myself, in some way, a victim of a similar deportation. In a sense, I understand this mood of theirs ...

And why, in fact, could a Georgian rule over the Russian people, but a Chechen cannot? Anyone can rule these people. Even Putin.

Chapter 1
Horde

1.1. Who are the Mongols and Tatars?

L. Gumilyov writes: “According to the testimonies of contemporaries, the Mongols were a tall, bearded, fair-haired and blue-eyed people.” The Steel Emperor himself ("Genghis Khan") "... was very tall, with a large forehead and a long beard".

The “Church-Historical Dictionary”, published at the end of the 19th century under the editorship of Archpriest L. Petrov, says: “The Mongols are the same as the Tatars - the Ugric tribe, the inhabitants of Siberia, the ancestors of the Hungarians, the founders of Ugric or Hungarian Rus', inhabited by Rusyns.” For a long time, historians simply ignored this information because they could not understand it. From the point of view of the doctrine of Eurocentrism that prevailed in the past, this information looks ridiculous. However, if we get rid of false political attitudes and accept that the names "Mongols", "Tatars", "Ugrians" ("Huns") belong to the Cossacks (Scythians) - the ancestors of the modern Russian people - everything falls into place.

The specified dictionary, the reliability and authority of which has never been disputed by anyone, also contains other important information for us: “The Rosses, a Varangian tribe, lived in southern Russia; with Byzantium they either did trade or fought. From them, they say, St. Cyril borrowed the letters. Thus, summarizing all the above data into one whole, we come to the conclusion that it is the Scythian-Cossacks - the direct ancestors of the modern Russian people, nicknamed the "Varangians", who inhabited the territory of modern Russia, including southern Russia, from ancient times, - are the primary source of modern Russian language and alphabet!

The history of the Russian people has not been interrupted since the prehistoric era and goes back many thousands of years. And all this time, the Russian people lived on their ancestral lands - on the territory of modern Russia, which until the 17th century was called "Scythia" or "Great Tartaria" on Western European maps and scientific encyclopedias.

As follows from the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1771, on the site of present-day Russia there was a huge country, the provinces of which were of different sizes. The largest area of ​​this empire was called "Great Tartaria" and covered the lands of Western and Eastern Siberia and the Far East. In the southeast, it adjoined the "Chinese Tartary" (Chinese Tartary). To the south of the "Great Tartary" there was the so-called "Independent Tartary" in Central Asia. "Tibetan Tartaria" (Tibet) was located southwest of the "Chinese Tartaria". In the north of modern India was the "Mongolian Tartaria" (Mogul Empire). "Uzbek Tartaria" (Bukaria) was sandwiched between "Independent Tartaria" in the north, "Chinese Tartaria" in the northeast, "Tibetan Tartaria" in the southeast, "Mongolian Tartaria" in the south and Persia (Persia) in the southwest . In Europe, there were also several Tartaria: “Muscovy”, or “Moscow Tartaria” (Muscovite Tartary), “Kuban Tartaria” (Kuban Tartars) and “Little Tartaria” (Little Tartary) on the site of the future Little Russia. As you can see, all these were regions of a single country that had a thousand-year tradition and in the 20th century almost completely recovered within its historical borders under a new name - the USSR.

1.2. Mono-ethnic composition of the troops of the "Golden Horde"

We have a sufficient amount of data on the ethnic composition of the Golden Horde armed forces in the period of the XIV-XVI centuries.

The mono-ethnic composition of the horde army under the Grand Duke Uz (from his name the Russian surnames Uzov, Uzin, Uzkov, etc. originated), who ruled in 1313-1341, can be characterized from the words of el-Omari: “The Sultan of the Golden Horde Uzbek rati Circassians, Russians and Yasses. These are residents of well-maintained, crowded cities and forested, prolific mountains. They grow sown grain, livestock and produce fruits.

According to Sheref-ad-Din Yezidi, the Horde army under Tokhtamysh in 1388 looked like this: “A fairly large army gathered from the Russians, Circassians, Bulgars, Kipchaks, Alans, Crimea with Kafa and Azak, Bashkirs.”

Here is a complete list of these supposedly "tribes and peoples" from which mobilization into the army-horde came:

1) Russians,

2) Alans (Ases, Yases),

3) Eastern Cumans (called Rashid ad-Din and Yezidi "Kipchaks"),

4) Magyar Hungarians,

5) Bulgars (future Kazan Tatars),

6) Circassians,

7) population of Crimea,

8) Bashkirs,

It should be noted that all of the above authors adhered to a single position, referring Russians, Yass-Alans, Cumans-Kipchaks, Hungarians-Huns, Bulgars, Circassians to one large Scythian people with a common cultural tradition. The allocation of these groups occurs only on a territorial or religious basis. Thus, the messages are primarily about the geography of the settlement of this single people and their religion, and not about different ethnic groups or tribes. The Scythian-Cossacks in these sources are listed according to their place of origin, residence and beliefs at that time, as they were drafted into the ranks of the armed forces of the horde troops. M. Mekhovsky writes about the Circassians: “Further south there are still some remnants of the Circassians (Circassorum). This is a very wild and warlike people, Russian in origin and language. Armenian sources also report that the army of the horde was made up of Russians, Cumans (Polovtsy) and Cherkasy (Cossacks). And all of them, according to the authors, were Scythians.

For Western European authors, the Russian people have always remained "Tartars" - Scythians. However, we do not find the term "Tartar" among Eastern researchers - instead, the same people are often called "Rus". Western Europeans always put a purely negative meaning into the name tartar and made this name itself synonymous with the word “hell”: “So that the joy of mortals would not be eternal, so that they would not stay long in worldly fun without groaning, in that year people were satanically cursed, namely, countless hordes of tartars , suddenly appeared from his terrain, surrounded by mountains, breaking through the solidity of motionless stones, coming out like demons liberated from Tartarus (which is why they are called tartars, as if "[immigrants] from Tartarus") ".

It is not surprising that, following the European authors, the Russian Eurocentric historical tradition proper began to use the name "Tartar" in a purely negative context, leaving this common name only to those descendants of the Cossacks who did not accept the Christian faith. At the suggestion of European researchers of the 18th century, the opinion was initially established that there was one human race on earth - the white ("yellow" and "black", according to the ideas of these "great scientists", were not full-fledged races), which in turn is divided into "pure - beautiful - creative", which originated in Western Europe, and "impure - destructive", formed on the territory of modern Russia by mixing with Asians. This misanthropic doctrine has passed into the "history of Russia", which, unfortunately, is still being studied in our schools. Through the pages of textbooks, in illustrated fairy tales, feature and animated films, in the paintings of artists, since then, the mythical hordes of Asian Mongoloids, necessarily terrifying in appearance, have been jumping - ugly, evil, incomprehensible and undeveloped, destroying everything in their path. And according to this tradition, they are opposed by the civilized inhabitants of Western Europe, in particular, and the Slavic tribes, who allegedly were enslaved by this "evil spirit" for three hundred years. In the first, still Miller's edition of the "History of Russia", the main positive "heroes" were the Germans (since it was they who wrote the history of the state), who came to the lands of the Slavs, on the territory of modern Ukraine and Belarus (Kievan Rus), and, having trained the local supposedly wild tribes of civilization, gave them their own name "Rus". The question immediately arises: why has our language not been German or Swedish since then? In the 19th century, when the inconsistency of this theory became obvious, additional historical heaps appeared: they say, the Norman Varangians, perhaps, came from Scandinavia - and this seems to be not quite Germans. The Slavophiles went even further and came up with the idea that the "civilizers" were their own nationalities - some kind of "Baltic Slavs". But in general, the main idea remained unchanged: the Russians are a purely European people, who descended from Slavic tribes that originated somewhere in central Europe, and have nothing to do with the terrible Scythians. This absurd attempt to hide its true history by any means in Europe itself has always aroused a smile, because there they never doubted who the Russians were and where they came from. And just as “our” modern racists from history invent images of half-devils, half-savages, for some reason necessarily with Asian features, from the times of the mythical “Tatar-Mongol yoke”, this is exactly how, distortedly, Western Europeans imagine modern Russians.

1.3. The myth of the "Tatar-Mongol yoke"

Perhaps the authors of the multi-volume historical works of the past, devoted to the resettlement of the Cossacks of the Central Horde (under the code name "Kalmyks"), were honestly mistaken, describing them as a small Mongoloid ethnic group of peaceful nomadic shepherds. This could be due to the lack of historical knowledge accumulated by that time, in connection with which the proposed hypotheses did not correlate with the real scale of the events taking place. But we should not forget that these authors were influenced by the concept of such a fantastic "historical monster" as the "Tatar-Mongol yoke". “Kalmyks” and “Mongols” are different historical names of the same ethnic group, and they called themselves Cossacks or Aryans (distorted versions of “Oirats”, “Arats”, “Ariats” have survived to this day). Cossacks is the only correct name for this people. This people has always been Caucasoid and remains so to this day, now called the "Russian people". Until the second half of the 18th century, Caucasoid Cossacks inhabited vast expanses of the Eurasian continent from the Black Sea to the Yellow River. The population of the Mongoloid racial type appeared massively in modern Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan only after the occupation of these ancestral lands of Caucasoid Cossacks by the troops of Qing China and the transfer of a multi-million population from China to these territories. The history of the Cossacks, who settled Russia in the 17th century and founded the Volga (Kalmyk) army in the south of Russia, is inextricably linked with the history of the Mongols of the 13th century and the founding of the world empire of the Steel Emperor from the Blue-eyed (Borjigids) family. This circumstance is the key to understanding the events of the 17th century and the history of Russia and the Russian people as a whole.

The myth of the "Tatar-Mongol yoke" is rooted in the theory of such European scientists as S. Morton, J. Nott, J. Gliddon, who, despite their undeniable scientific achievements, unfortunately, were subject to racism in its most extreme and disgusting manifestations. The creators of “Russian history” were also under pressure from their strongest scientific authority: G. F. Miller, G. Z. Bayer, A. L. Schletser and other “scientific Germans”. They were specially invited to the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences to write a new history with generous funding and on the political order of the ruling German dynasty of Holstein-Gottorp - the House of Romanov. A private fantasy, called the "Tatar-Mongol yoke", within the framework of the broader doctrine of Eurocentrism, proceeds from the presence of two opposing principles: the European (beautiful, creative) force of peace and goodness and the hostile Asian (ugly and destructive) force of death and darkness . A race called “Mongol-Tatars” was chosen for the role of the latter, which allegedly captured the vast expanses of Russia, surging from the unknown depths of Asia, establishing a yoke and discarding the enslaved peoples in development for centuries ago. All sorts of vices, bloodthirstiness and a pathological craving for the destruction of everything around were attributed to these mythical "Tatar-Mongols", as opposed to the noble mission of the Europeans - to create good things and enlighten the rest of the world.

The "ugly appearance" of these mythical "Asiatics" was described in the same way. Somewhat later, the real type of the modern Mongoloid race, which at that time was called "yellow", was adjusted to their image. The catchphrase "scratch any Russian - you will find a Tatar" is well known, said by one of the European scientists - researchers of Russia. It was understood that inside any Russian, who only looks like a European, there is a “tartar from Tartarus-Hell” hiding - a destructive, ugly force of chaos that opposes the European creative principle. Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), in his On the Inequality of the Races (1853), tried to explain the superiority of white Europeans over all other peoples by biological and genetic "predestination." He also said that only a certain circle of people of the superior race is its true representative. These ideas were supported by the world-famous scientists E. Haeckel and F. Galton, who tried to substantiate them scientifically. Under the dictates of the same utopian ideology of Eurocentrism, another postulate was formulated: the homeland of the “white” race is Europe. And Asia and, in particular, Russia (Asia in the views of European scientists began from the borders of modern Ukraine) was proclaimed the source of everything destructive and terrible.

Although racial theories in their extreme forms are a thing of the past, their basis, including their attitude towards Russia, has remained the same. Perhaps, in the 21st century, the time has finally come to get rid of the theories of opposition, which literally permeate the scientific European thought of the past and present. In the entire history of mankind, the race now called "Mongoloid" has never opposed the Caucasoid race militarily, politically or in any other way, has not seized any land by force. Outside their original habitat, in particular beyond the borders of China, they were forced to move exclusively as labor migrants. Perhaps there are no more peaceful, hardworking and law-abiding people on earth than representatives of the Mongoloid race.

The world power of the Steel Emperor was created by the Caucasoid Cossacks, who originated on the territory of modern Russia and still live on their own land to this day. The whole history of civil and religious conflicts and self-destruction of this great empire is the result of internal contradictions among the Cossacks themselves and military clashes between their horde armies. Attempts to find the culprits in the mythical "Asian hordes of the Tatar-Mongols" and shift the responsibility to some "Mongoloid" conquerors are immoral, unhistorical and have initially false racial motives.

While a large-scale internecine conflict flared up among the Cossacks, which eventually led to the isolation of many regions and the formation of new small peoples of Russia, the inhabitants of Western Europe remained on the sidelines. In a relatively calm region (in relation to the rest of the Eurasian continent), all those who wanted peace and tried to stay away from the devastating fire of civil war rushed. First of all, these were merchants and entrepreneurs, carriers of a special worldview, which we now know as the liberal ideology of capitalism. In the conditions of decentralization and the war of all against all, these European businessmen were left to their own devices. Having created quite effective self-governing city-states, and later the first capitalist republic - the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands - they gradually changed the political landscape of Europe.

What does the brief history of "Muscovy", invented by the Romanov writer Miller, have to do with the true chronicle of the existence of our state?

The history of Russia is the history of the emergence and development of the Russian people, called Scythians in antiquity and divided according to religious principles in the 16th-17th centuries into Muslims, Orthodox and Buddhists. Then, from the rest of the surviving Cossacks - the ancestors of the Russian people - various small ethnic groups separated and gradually took shape.

Russian culture and the tradition of military communist democracy reached the beginning of the 20th century in the form of free Cossack troops, and then took shape in the state - the USSR. It was a barracks country with a warrior people. Tsars - military leaders and atamans - were always only elected, although the electoral procedure was sometimes observed only formally. The most important issues were resolved by a collegial governing body - the Cossack Circle. Therefore, the slogan of the beginning of the 20th century “All power to the Soviets!” was not empty at all - this is the formula of historical culture and tradition that has existed in Russia-Scythia for thousands of years. The Cossack Circle is the council at which the assembled Cossacks approved or disapproved of the political line pursued by the central government or the ataman (leadership). This scheme of power is fundamentally different from the Western European model. This is a different democracy - a communist, military type. From the point of view of a Western European, this is not democracy at all, but totalitarianism with formal signs of approval by the people, but without a real opportunity to choose. However, for us, the political regime in the countries of Western Europe is nothing more than a set of tricks and electoral tricks, riddled with deceit and behind-the-scenes deals. This mutual rejection manifests the difference in our mentalities, rooted in the depths of our genotype. In principle, the ideal models of social order in the views of a warrior and a merchant cannot coincide, and attempts to impose their models of democracy on each other and force them to live by their own rules will not end in anything good. It is for this reason that the international policy of the USSR was doomed to failure, and the modern foreign policy of the United States also seems unpromising.

1.4. Turks

“Turks” is a term synonymous with the word “Cossacks”, which means “warriors” in translation. The Scythians began to be called Turks even before the adoption of Islam. Immediately after the Scythian-Hunnic empire of Attila, the time of the “Eternal El” begins, that is, the era of the same Scythian state, but under the rule of another noble Cossack family - the Yasinov (in the Chinese reading “Yaashina” or “Ashina”), who named themselves and their subjects "Turks", that is, "victorious warriors". In the Turkic Empire, all religions were equal, but by the 9th century, a third of the noble Cossack families had already become Muslims. In the XIII-XIV centuries, in the era of the Empire of the Steel Emperor, when the Yasin dynasty - "Clear" ("Shining") - was replaced by the "Blue-eyed" ("Borji-guides") dynasty, the Turks, called by many authors "Tartars" or " Polovtsy", still retained their Aryan genotype.

The modern descendants of the Cossacks, called "Turkic peoples", are characterized by Mongoloid and Negroid genetic characteristics. These racial differences are explained by the fact that after the religious split of the 16th-17th centuries, the Cossacks, who retained their early medieval name "Turks", remained in the southern, richer part of the world power of the Steel Emperor and very quickly assimilated with the predominant local, non-Cossack population. This was facilitated by Islam, which proclaimed all equal and did not allow caste barriers or the preservation of "blood purity". This is how the “memory” of all modern Turkic peoples that they were once white Aryans is explained, although outwardly and according to the genotype this is far from being the case. No one wrote the history of the conquered peoples - the victorious Cossacks created only their own. Ironically, this written history of the Cossacks was inherited by the conquered peoples, in which the genes of the Cossacks were dissolved almost without a trace.

1.5. Mission and ideology of the Horde

If you believe the vaults of Yasa (translated as “law” or “code”), the surviving evidence of the “Blue-eyed” (“Genghisids”) themselves and research data, the goal of the Horde was extremely noble: restoring order, establishing interreligious peace and justice in everything the world.

G. Vernadsky in the book “Mongols and Rus'” noted: “The Mongol Emperors waged their wars with the obvious goal of achieving universal peace and international stability. In the event of achieving this goal, the price of the security of mankind was the constant service to the state of each and all; this was to establish order of life and social equality. The rich will serve the state as well as the poor; and the poor must be protected from injustice and exploitation by the rich.”

Armenian historian Gregory Akantsu argues that the basis of Yasa's law was "respect for the old and the poor". Ibn al Atir says that the Mongols were only cruel to the rich. The basis for understanding the nature of imperial power was clearly expressed in the letters of the first great rulers of the world state of the Steel Emperor to the leaders of the powers of the West.

Examples include Guyuk's letter to the Pope (1246), brought to Europe by the monk John de Plano Carpini, and Möngke's letter to Saint Louis (1254), delivered by the monk Williams from Rubruk, as well as Möngke's edict, supplementing his message .

Möngke's letter to King Louis IX is only known in Latin. The accompanying edict set the general legal formula upon which the international documents of the heirs of the Steel Emperor were to be based. As Eric Voegelin points out, this formula comes from Yasa.

Letter: Per virtutem eterni Dei, per magnum mundum Moallorum, preceptum Mangu chan.

In English translation by W. W. Rockhill, the documents read as follows.

Edict: “[This is] the command of the Eternal God. In Heaven there is only one eternal God, and on Earth there is only one ruler, Genghis Khan, the Son of God. This is what you've been told."

Letter: “Through the virtue of the eternal God, through the great world of the Mongols. This is the word of Möngke Khan.”

On the basis of these documents and other letters of the Mongolian monarchs of this period, it is possible to establish a hierarchy of three main elements of the concept of power: God - the Eternal Sky, the Steel Emperor (the founder of the world empire) bestowed on people and the current ruler - the heir to the Steel Emperor.

The Mongol Empire, in the understanding of its rulers, was God's instrument for establishing order on earth. As Eric Voegelin says: “The Khan bases his claim to rule over the world on the Divine Order to which he himself is subject. He has only a right derived from the Divine Order, but he acts in accordance with duty.

Feeling himself an instrument of God, the Mongol emperor, in addressing his enemies, does not brag about the strength of the army, but simply refers to the will of the Almighty. The Great Yasa of the Steel Emperor recommended the following formula: “If you resist, what can we know from our side? The eternal God knows what will happen to you.” It was this form that Guyuk Khan used in his letter to the pope. Even if, in fact, some nations did not recognize the power of the Mongols, then legally, from the point of view of the heirs of the Steel Emperor, all states on planet Earth were still their subjects. In accordance with this principle, in their letters to the pontiff and kings, the supreme leaders of the Cossacks insisted that the Western rulers recognize themselves as vassals of the Steel Emperor and his descendants.

It is quite obvious that the Empire of the Steel Emperor had a powerful ideological base and united around a central doctrine. This ideology was shared by both the elite and the entire population of each autonomous Cossack horde that was part of the empire. The main idea was not invented by the Steel Emperor - it was formed before him and is still part of the Russian mentality, clearly manifesting itself in the messianism of the Russian-Soviet people of the 20th century. However, the most striking historical evidence remained precisely from the time of the Steel Emperor, who systematized and formulated the ideology of the scientific order, described in the book - the code of laws, and called "Yasa".

In fact, this doctrine boiled down to the following: the entire world, without exception, is the responsibility of the Cossack people, that is, the Horde is the army of the world, and any injustice in any part of the world directly and directly concerns the Steel Emperor and the Cossack people as a whole. In our time, a similar situation developed with the communist ideology of the Soviet Union, which had the same messianic meaning of supreme justice, which was to triumph on the entire planet. Thus, we see that the dominant and truly state idea was embedded in the genes of the Russian people from the time of their inception, when our people were still called Scythians, and before that - Aryans. During the era of the Steel Emperor, this doctrine was scientifically described and actively introduced into everyday life. She was guided by all those close to the ruler, the elite of the empire and all the Cossacks up to the rank and file. Russian Cossacks of the 17th and 18th centuries, just like their distant ancestors, went on military campaigns with the confidence that they rightfully take for themselves what God himself has given them, and thus establish divine order in the world.

Letters from Mongol emperors have been preserved testifying to their faith. Here, for example, is an excerpt from a letter sent on November 11, 1246 by the great Emperor Guyuk to Pope Innocent IV:

“The words of the ruler, who became the khan of the great people by the will of the Eternal Sky… By the will of God, all territories from East to West are under our rule. If it were not for the will of God, how could this happen? Now you must say with all your heart: we will be your subjects, we will give you our strength. You, in person, at the head of kings, all together and without exception, must come to us, offer your service and pay respect ... And if you do not obey the will of God, then you will become our enemies.

Rubruk quotes a letter from the Great Khan Möngke to Saint Louis, written in 1254:

“This is the commandment of the eternal God. There is only one God in heaven and only one master on earth, Genghis Khan ... When, by the will of the Eternal Heaven, the whole world, from the very east, where the sun rises, to the very west, where it sets, will be united in joy and peace, then it will be clear what we have to do."

Rubruk witnessed another interesting statement by Möngke: "We Mongols believe that there is only one God ... He gave man many fingers, and in the same way he gave him many ways." What is meant here is that God has given humanity many religions to find its way to.

To all subjects, without exception, from senior officials and atamans to the rank and file, the Steel Emperor and the institutions of power he created made very strict moral requirements, comparable to the “code of an aristocrat” or “communist code”. The fact is that in the Cossack empire, in fact, everyone was an elite, even simple warriors, and everyone was equal to each other. There is a persistent delusion that the aristocracy is the ruling class in the states of past eras, which was formed directly from the peoples inhabiting them. In fact, the aristocracy was formed on a global scale almost exclusively on the territory of historical Russia, and only as a result of campaigns in neighboring territories and the construction of states in these principalities, kingdoms and empires did the Cossacks become an elite. Thus, the segregation of society took place: the population living on the conquered lands played the role of productive forces, and the Cossacks - the builders of the new state - were the aristocracy and bearers of a special creative ideology of state building. At the same time, their code of conduct, outlook on life, mentality remained the same (communist) until they assimilated with the local population to such an extent that they lost the moral code embedded in them. As a result of natural assimilation, the genetic foundations were lost, the aristocracy degenerated and degraded, then a new wave of Cossacks came, which swept away the old elite by military force and completely replaced it, thereby reviving the Code of the Aristocrat. This was typical for the Ottoman and Qing empires, the Mughal empire, and before that - for all countries of the world without exception. Of course, there was a center of such a social phenomenon in which there was no division into classes, because in the Horde everyone was by birthright aristocrats and there simply were no other classes, with the exception of an extremely small group of invited hired workers - foreigners (no more than 5% of the number Cossacks). We can say that the world elite was structured according to the geographical principle. From the point of view of the Steel Emperor and his predecessors, the world was not divided into independent territories - states. There was no such thing as a "sovereign state" in the modern sense of the word until the formation of the bourgeois powers. The Steel Emperor and his predecessors considered a segregated geographic model. There was a global center inhabited by the aristocracy - the Horde - and the periphery, which were more densely populated and consisted of productive forces, that is, labor resources - from the common population in need of patronage, protection and the establishment of a fair order. It was precisely such protection that the Horde-Army provided, in which everyone lived according to communist rules and were equal among themselves. Authority in such a society was based solely on military achievements and valor, which guaranteed a special attitude towards the hero. This Code of the aristocrat and hero was a kind of charter of life and activity for the entire Cossack society within any of the hordes and for each Cossack individually.

Prince N. Trubetskoy describes the Steel Emperor and his associates in the following words:

“In their minds there always lives a special code, a charter of acceptable and unacceptable actions for an honest and self-respecting person; they value this charter most of all, treating it religiously, as divinely established, and they cannot allow its violation, because if it were violated, they would begin to despise themselves, which is more terrible for them than death. Respecting themselves, they respect others who keep the same inner charter.<…>A person of the type under consideration is always aware of himself as a part of a certain hierarchical system and is ultimately subordinate not to a person, but to God.<…>Genghis Khan himself belonged to this type of people. Even after he defeated everyone and everything and became the unlimited ruler of the most enormous state that ever existed on earth, he continued to constantly vividly feel and realize his complete subordination to the highest will and look at himself as an instrument in the hands of God.

L. Gumilyov writes: “According to the testimonies of contemporaries, the Mongols were a tall, bearded, fair-haired and blue-eyed people.” The Steel Emperor himself ("Genghis Khan") "... was very tall, with a large forehead and a long beard".

The “Church-Historical Dictionary”, published at the end of the 19th century under the editorship of Archpriest L. Petrov, says: “The Mongols are the same as the Tatars - the Ugric tribe, the inhabitants of Siberia, the ancestors of the Hungarians, the founders of Ugric or Hungarian Rus', inhabited by Rusyns.” For a long time, historians simply ignored this information because they could not understand it. From the point of view of the doctrine of Eurocentrism that prevailed in the past, this information looks ridiculous. However, if we get rid of false political attitudes and accept that the names "Mongols", "Tatars", "Ugrians" ("Huns") belong to the Cossacks (Scythians) - the ancestors of the modern Russian people - everything falls into place.

The specified dictionary, the reliability and authority of which has never been disputed by anyone, also contains other important information for us: “The Rosses, a Varangian tribe, lived in southern Russia; with Byzantium they either did trade or fought. From them, they say, St. Cyril borrowed the letters. Thus, summarizing all the above data into one whole, we come to the conclusion that it is the Scythian-Cossacks - the direct ancestors of the modern Russian people, nicknamed the "Varangians", who inhabited the territory of modern Russia, including southern Russia, from ancient times, - are the primary source of modern Russian language and alphabet!

The history of the Russian people has not been interrupted since the prehistoric era and goes back many thousands of years. And all this time, the Russian people lived on their ancestral lands - on the territory of modern Russia, which until the 17th century was called "Scythia" or "Great Tartaria" on Western European maps and scientific encyclopedias.

As follows from the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1771, on the site of present-day Russia there was a huge country, the provinces of which were of different sizes. The largest area of ​​this empire was called "Great Tartaria" and covered the lands of Western and Eastern Siberia and the Far East. In the southeast, it adjoined the "Chinese Tartary" (Chinese Tartary). To the south of the "Great Tartary" there was the so-called "Independent Tartary" in Central Asia. "Tibetan Tartaria" (Tibet) was located southwest of the "Chinese Tartaria". In the north of modern India was the "Mongolian Tartaria" (Mogul Empire). "Uzbek Tartaria" (Bukaria) was sandwiched between "Independent Tartaria" in the north, "Chinese Tartaria" in the northeast, "Tibetan Tartaria" in the southeast, "Mongolian Tartaria" in the south and Persia (Persia) in the southwest . In Europe, there were also several Tartaria: “Muscovy”, or “Moscow Tartaria” (Muscovite Tartary), “Kuban Tartaria” (Kuban Tartars) and “Little Tartaria” (Little Tartary) on the site of the future Little Russia. As you can see, all these were regions of a single country that had a thousand-year tradition and in the 20th century almost completely recovered within its historical borders under a new name - the USSR.

We have a sufficient amount of data on the ethnic composition of the Golden Horde armed forces in the period of the XIV-XVI centuries.

The mono-ethnic composition of the horde army under the Grand Duke Uz (from his name the Russian surnames Uzov, Uzin, Uzkov, etc. originated), who ruled in 1313-1341, can be characterized from the words of el-Omari: “The Sultan of the Golden Horde Uzbek rati Circassians, Russians and Yasses. These are residents of well-maintained, crowded cities and forested, prolific mountains. They grow sown grain, livestock and produce fruits.

According to Sheref-ad-Din Yezidi, the Horde army under Tokhtamysh in 1388 looked like this: “A fairly large army gathered from the Russians, Circassians, Bulgars, Kipchaks, Alans, Crimea with Kafa and Azak, Bashkirs.”

Here is a complete list of these supposedly "tribes and peoples" from which mobilization into the army-horde came:

1) Russians,

2) Alans (Ases, Yases),

3) Eastern Cumans (called Rashid ad-Din and Yezidi "Kipchaks"),

4) Magyar Hungarians,

5) Bulgars (future Kazan Tatars),

6) Circassians,

7) population of Crimea,

8) Bashkirs,

It should be noted that all of the above authors adhered to a single position, referring Russians, Yass-Alans, Cumans-Kipchaks, Hungarians-Huns, Bulgars, Circassians to one large Scythian people with a common cultural tradition. The allocation of these groups occurs only on a territorial or religious basis. Thus, the messages are primarily about the geography of the settlement of this single people and their religion, and not about different ethnic groups or tribes. The Scythian-Cossacks in these sources are listed according to their place of origin, residence and beliefs at that time, as they were drafted into the ranks of the armed forces of the horde troops. M. Mekhovsky writes about the Circassians: “Further south there are still some remnants of the Circassians (Circassorum). This is a very wild and warlike people, Russian in origin and language. Armenian sources also report that the army of the horde was made up of Russians, Cumans (Polovtsy) and Cherkasy (Cossacks). And all of them, according to the authors, were Scythians.

For Western European authors, the Russian people have always remained "Tartars" - Scythians. However, we do not find the term "Tartar" among Eastern researchers - instead, the same people are often called "Rus". Western Europeans always put a purely negative meaning into the name tartar and made this name itself synonymous with the word “hell”: “So that the joy of mortals would not be eternal, so that they would not stay long in worldly fun without groaning, in that year people were satanically cursed, namely, countless hordes of tartars , suddenly appeared from his terrain, surrounded by mountains, breaking through the solidity of motionless stones, coming out like demons liberated from Tartarus (which is why they are called tartars, as if "[immigrants] from Tartarus") ".

It is not surprising that, following the European authors, the Russian Eurocentric historical tradition proper began to use the name "Tartar" in a purely negative context, leaving this common name only to those descendants of the Cossacks who did not accept the Christian faith. At the suggestion of European researchers of the 18th century, the opinion was initially established that there was one human race on earth - the white ("yellow" and "black", according to the ideas of these "great scientists", were not full-fledged races), which in turn is divided into "pure - beautiful - creative", which originated in Western Europe, and "impure - destructive", formed on the territory of modern Russia by mixing with Asians. This misanthropic doctrine has passed into the "history of Russia", which, unfortunately, is still being studied in our schools. Through the pages of textbooks, in illustrated fairy tales, feature and animated films, in the paintings of artists, since then, the mythical hordes of Asian Mongoloids, necessarily terrifying in appearance, have been jumping - ugly, evil, incomprehensible and undeveloped, destroying everything in their path. And according to this tradition, they are opposed by the civilized inhabitants of Western Europe, in particular, and the Slavic tribes, who allegedly were enslaved by this "evil spirit" for three hundred years. In the first, still Miller's edition of the "History of Russia", the main positive "heroes" were the Germans (since it was they who wrote the history of the state), who came to the lands of the Slavs, on the territory of modern Ukraine and Belarus (Kievan Rus), and, having trained the local supposedly wild tribes of civilization, gave them their own name "Rus". The question immediately arises: why has our language not been German or Swedish since then? In the 19th century, when the inconsistency of this theory became obvious, additional historical heaps appeared: they say, the Norman Varangians, perhaps, came from Scandinavia - and this seems to be not quite Germans. The Slavophiles went even further and came up with the idea that the "civilizers" were their own nationalities - some kind of "Baltic Slavs". But in general, the main idea remained unchanged: the Russians are a purely European people, who descended from Slavic tribes that originated somewhere in central Europe, and have nothing to do with the terrible Scythians. This absurd attempt to hide its true history by any means in Europe itself has always aroused a smile, because there they never doubted who the Russians were and where they came from. And just as “our” modern racists from history invent images of half-devils, half-savages, for some reason necessarily with Asian features, from the times of the mythical “Tatar-Mongol yoke”, this is exactly how, distortedly, Western Europeans imagine modern Russians.

An Imperial unit of elite fighters whose exact numbers and whose capabilities have remained a mystery to the galaxy. Constantly accompanying Emperor Palpatine, the red-cloaked warriors were deservedly considered the best of the best in the imperial forces. No one ever knew exactly how many of these warriors the ruler of the Empire could defend - there could be from several tens to several thousand. Always a part of the Imperial Armed Forces, the Guard had only one person to answer to: Emperor Scythe Palpatine.

The Guard was created back in the days of the Old Republic shortly before the Clone Wars, as a special division of the Senate Guard, and was called the Scarlet Guard. The new formation consisted of the best soldiers of the Republican army, but not from clones. The establishment of a bodyguard squad was prompted by an incident involving an attempt on the lives of Chancellor Palpatine and several senators. Only the quick and effective actions of the Jedi Ronhar Kim from Naboo saved the Chancellor from death. Since the creation of the guards detachment was not legalized, this became an occasion for the opposition, led by Bail Organna, to criticize this decision and advocate the dissolution of the Guard. In this, the Jedi agreed with the senators, who believed that a mysterious Sith Lord might be hiding among the Scarlet Guards.

But soon the Scarlet Guard showed themselves during the Battle of Coruscant, when only their squads, led by Master Windu, defended the Senate Building from attacks by the Separatists. Being next to the Supreme Chancellor during the battle, the guards tried for a long time, but unsuccessfully, to persuade him to leave the residence and go under the protection of the Coruscant defense forces or to the Jedi Temple. During the kidnapping of Palpatine, many guardsmen died, but before they died, they took with them a great many Separatist soldiers.

Personnel for the highest military unit in the Galaxy were chosen with extreme care. Only the best representatives of the military academies were taken into the Guard after lengthy checks. Warriors were selected to meet strict criteria of physical strength, mental ability, personal allegiance to Scythe Palpatine and the New Order, and Force sensitivity was sometimes tested and required. At the same time, the Guard itself had its own hierarchy, the highest level of which was the elite layer of elites - the Imperial bodyguards. These fighters, passing through the most difficult trials, were trained in all types of martial arts, hand-to-hand combat, the use of any technique, as well as the feeling of the Force and its adepts and the use of the basics of the Dark Side to fight them. Personal bodyguards accompanied Palpatine everywhere and at all times, and the main forces were assembled on the Eclipse destroyer, at the Academy on the planet Yinchor and at a secret base in the Byss system. To constantly accompany the Emperor, special Guards TIE interceptors were created, painted in red, equipped with a hyperdrive and a protective field generator.

The rest of the Guard also trained under the best warrior training programs in the galaxy. Especially for them, a special language was developed, which only the guards themselves knew. No one outside of the guard knew the names of the warriors who were part of it, except for Emperor Palpatine.

Despite the comprehensive education and the ability to fight in any circumstances using any forces and means, the guards never fought as part of a large formation. Any operations were carried out either in small groups or individually. To constantly maintain their uniforms, the soldiers of the guard secretly went to the rank and file and other special units, where they fought on a par with ordinary soldiers.

After the death of Palpatine at Endor, the bulk of the guardsmen gathered at their bases located on the planets Yinchor and Byss. Many Imperial leaders, such as Sate Pestage or Rear Admiral Teradoc, used men in the armor of the Guard for their escorts to increase their weight in the political world of the Empire, but there were no real Guardsmen. Among Isane Isard's entourage were real Imperial Guardsmen who had served under her even before Endor, at the behest of the Emperor. Several guardsmen were given by her to the Dark Lady Lumiya and served as the main shock fist of her forces. Among them was the young, but already attained the rank of personal bodyguard, Carnor Jax. Lumiya discovered in him a predisposition to the use of the Force and taught him the basics of Sith skills.

Another Guardsman served the mutant pretender Trioculus, who led the Grand Moff council and opposition to Isana Isard.
Some members of the Imperial Guard showed that they were not so loyal to Kos Palpatine: Guardsman Vyn Northal defected to the rebels, and Major Grodien Tiers gladly served Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Admiral Daala's attempt to recreate the Scarlet Guard from loyal stormtroopers was unsuccessful. After serving for some time as a symbol of the rebirth and rebirth of the Empire, the new guard fell apart. Four of these guardsmen, in the years following the defeat of Daala's Liberation Campaign, became the leaders and inspirations of the Second Empire, creating the image of the surviving Emperor. With this idea, they took control of the Dark Jedi Academy and its Fallen Jedi Master Brakiss. After their plot was revealed, the false guards fell to the sword of Brakiss himself.

Information about the fate of the surviving Guardsmen, such as Kir Kanos and Dark Lady Lumiya's subordinates, remains unknown. One fact is indisputable - the Imperial Guard disappeared along with their Emperor.

Known Guardsmen:

Imperial bodyguards:

Karnor Jax is a student of the Dark Lady Lumiya, the commander of her guards, the killer of Palpatine's clones, the Supreme Ruler of the Empire.

Ordinary Guardsmen:

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Kyle Hannad is a survivor on Byss who reached Yinchor and reported Carnor Jax's betrayal to the others.
Kir Kanos - Imperial Avenger.
Ved Kennede - Guardsman, master at the Academy on Yinchor.
Ming Kainyo is a master at the Yinchor Academy and accompanied the Emperor on the Death Star.
Vin Northal is a Guardsman who defected to the New Republic.
Grodien Tiers is a Guardsman who served under Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Yinchor Academy students who did not reach the final test:

Boer Dunnid
Alum Frost
Lemet Tauk

Chick Apla is a Guardsman who orchestrated the assassination attempt on Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade during their wedding.