Aboriginal Bannerets in the Revolutionary Ages

There was an enormous demand for well-trained junior officers during the Revolutionary Age, for which a number of officer schools were established throughout the western realms of Oceanyka. Men of this socio-military class were almost always subservient to their feudal overlords or elected officials, though numerous coups and revolutions spearheaded by the bannerets are known of. They filled the role of sergeants, lieutenants and captains, as the landed nobility and bourgeoise were normally commanders of greater units, though most staff officers were also of this class. Regardless, their distinguishing characteristic was that most bannerets were professional soldiers, compared to the often haphazardly levied enlisted troops and the upper-class senior officers whose preoccupations were often tied to their own interests. Military families, who had at this point been firmly established, now held an enormous power over local politics and governance, for which Aboriginal regional governments were often quasi-juntas. As with their Ferozen equivalents, most people belonging to this socio-miltiary class were slaughtered during and after the Revolutionary Wars and the societal collapse which followed. However, stubborn as always, military families continued training their children in the art of war, hoping to prove themselves in the battlefield one day. That opportunity came with the Second Boer War, and the subsequent creation of the Aboriginal Bannerets in Contemporary Oceanyka.