A friendly hello to the Illy-Community

The Old Republic [TOR] is looking for members of all races, sizes, experience levels and play-styles!

Membership requirements:

• Minimum pop 2000 (If you are smaller you are very welcome in http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/join-tor-university-training-alliance_topic3571.html" rel="nofollow - our training alliance The Old Republic University ).
• You should be interested in our republic political system.
• You need to be able and willing to communicate and coordinate with your alliance.
• We require our members to build strong armies and defend the freedom of the Old Republic and its members. 

Brief introduction:

The Old Republic is the only truly democratic alliance of Illyriad (with a constitution, a parliament, an executive and judicative body). We have a participative and representative governmental structure. Our leaders are elected and accountable to the Senate. In many alliances the important decisions (for example about peace and war) are made by large players only and small players are not even properly informed. In other words, a few players exercise all power and restrict the independence of the rest. Therefore we are committed to democracy, mutual defence, transparency and to respect the sovereignty of each member

http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/Alliance/Alliance/516" rel="nofollow - For more information check out or alliance profile and forum!

Settlement policy:

We are open to players on the entire map. But we do have a central hub area in Azura (south-west of the map). We do respect the ten square zone of players inside or next to our hub. We are interested in good relations with our neighbours. We particularly ask others to respect our ten square zone inside our hub area. We can offer excellent settlement locations for our members. Our hub area is roughly depicted below and above.

Some additional stuff:

• You are free to leave again whenever you desire. Only members that settle inside our hub need to exodus there cities in case they leave (this is not valid for players that join and already have cities in our hub).
• We have a well-structured training program offered by the Old Republic University and the Republic Legions.
• We have a strong military branch and many trade oriented players.
• We are particularly looking for players that demonstrate the ability to pursue their own goals and propose policy directions in our Senate.
• Due to our political structure, we offer a new political dimension in this game and therefore a new possibilities to enjoy this game and get involved in various ways.
• The Senate has to approve the budget. Therefore, our tax will only be spend for projects the majority of the Republic will benefit from.

In case you are interested in joining such an alliance or have any questions, feel free to contact our leadership or any other player.

Edit: Spelling correction, updates

Replaced "non-authoritarian" with "democratic"

Latest Edit: Added settlement policy. Minor changes.

Thanks. Since the end of LWO (which was referred to as anarchistic somewhere), I think there is no non-authoritarian alliance?

Wikipedia defines authoritarian as: “In politics, an authoritarian government is one in which political authority is concentrated in a small group of politicians.”

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism )

Properly most alliances are based on a very cooperative style. At the end however, the alliance leadership makes the important decisions (therefore the alliance is authoritarian). Are there other alliances that have polls to make decisions? I do not think so. But if I am mistaken, I am happy to fix that mistake.

Okay. I did not want to offend any of you Postmaster Generals . I have replaced “non-authoritarian” with “democratic”.

I do not want to intensify this theoretical debate. But I am not sure, if occasional votes make you (patently) “non-authoritarian”.

I have indeed realised the need for quick decisions in times of war and crisis.

Therefore we are in the process of founding the Republic Legions. It will be the first large guild of the Republic and eventually later a sister alliance. It might also be a basis for a possible training alliance. It might work like this:

The Legion:

Training Program:

Recruit (Population requirements: 0-300)
A Recruit is trained to become a member of the Republic Legions. You have to understand the basics of Illy before you can join the ranks of our glorious Army.

Legionnaire (Population requirements: 300-600)
The Legionnaire is the normal soldier of the Republic Legions. When you are a Legionnaire you have to follow the commands of the military chain, if a crisis occurs or you decide to participate in a tournament or manoeuvre. You will still feel quite confused and need time to learn. Do not worry about military attacks. If there is a threat, it is likely thieves. It is unlikely useful to build military units. You have a much more important and very difficult task: Build your second city and decide if and where to relocate your capital.

Decanus (Population requirements: 600-1000)
The Decanus commands a contubernium (eight man tent party). You are in a phase to build your first troops now. Move out of your city and fight some giant rats, baboons or roaming trolls and other NPCs to get some experience with troops and level your commanders.

Optio (Population requirements: 1000-1500)
There is one Optio for each Centurion (a legion has 24 centurions divided in four cohorts), they are appointed by the centurion from within the ranks to act as his second in command. You can only become an Optio if you are a full member of the Republic. You start building up your first centurion.

Centurion (Population requirements: 1500-2000)
The rank of centurion is an officer rank that included many grades, meaning centurions have very good prospects for promotion. There are a total of 24 centurions. The pilus prior centurion and the three pilus prior centurions are each followed by five lower rank centurions. Each centurion should be prepared to lead his centurion to battles or participate in tournaments and manoeuvres.

Centurion (pilus prior) (Population requirements: 2000 and more)
Within the second to fourth cohorts, the commander of each cohort's 1st century is known as a pilus prior and is in command of his entire respective cohort when in battle. A cohort has 750-3000 legionnaires. The Pilus prior centurions were the senior centurions of the cohorts. While the legion was in battle formation, the Pilus Prior was given command of the entire cohort. You start to build up an entire cohort as pilius prior centurion. You are expected to help with your entire forces to defend the interest of the republic.

Higher Ranks:

 Centurion (primus pilus) (Troop Requirements: One cohort)
The most senior centurion in a legion was known as the primus pilus who directly commanded the 1st century of the first cohort and commanded the whole first cohort when in battle. First File: The Primus Pilus was the commanding centurion of the first cohort and the senior centurion of the entire legion. As pilius prior you should get involved in the planning of the military manoeuvres and be prepared to fight with your cohort for the Republic.

Prefect (Troop Requirements: Two cohorts)
The Camp Prefect is third in command of the legion. Generally he is a long serving veteran from a lower social status than the tribune whom he outranked, and who previously had served as primus pilus and finished his 25 years with the legions. He was used as a senior officer in charge of training a legion.

Tribune (Requirements: Must have been a Consul, President of the Assembly or a Praetor.)
Named for the broad striped tunic worn by men of high rank, the tribune can be appointed by the Consul or the Assembly. Though generally quite young and less experienced than the Prefect, he served as second in command of the legion, behind the legate. Because of his age and inexperience he was not the actual second in command in battle, but if the legate died he would take command of the legion. This tribunate was often a early, but optional, step in a young man's political career.

Legate (Legatus legionis): (Requirements: One Legion & Must have been a Consul or President of the Assembly)
The overall legion commander.

This might currently not be of major interest to many of you. But I want to let you know that THE OLD REPUBLIC has reformed its political structure. Maybe, I was too much carried away by the details of creating a Republic. So we had to drastically simplify the entire structure of our Republic. Things do work much more smoothly since the reform of our Covenant (the name for our constitution). I have mad this simple graph to show how things work:

Maybe more alliances should adapt a real participative structure? Some political scientists claim that democracies fight fewer wars. Not sure if I should believe that. Anyway, players that do not want to participate in the current war are very welcome to join. Refugees, republicans, democrats and even royalists or communists are welcome to pm me (we do not take fascists).