Strecha

Strecha
The emblem of the Strecha, featuring the "ram's horn" burric rune symbolising courage.
Industry		Paramilitary Organization
Location
Headquaters		Slovale
Area Served		Sahr
CEO		Tekina Sinclair

The Strecha (literally "meeting") was a Sahren paramilitary organization created as a security force for the National Salvation Party in 2138. They answered directly to the National Salvation League but in practice followed Gerbin Ostalost directly. Its primary purposes were to disrupt the meeting of opposing organizations, intimidate voters, provide security during rallies, and extrajudicial killings of minorities, political opposition, and prisoners of war.

origins

The term "Strecha" literally translates as meeting. The vague term was used informally as a way to describe the National Salvation League, as it was technically a banned organization. For a while after the initial founding of the NSP they operated without a dedicated security force, instead performing these duties with ad-hoc units which in practice functioned as the first Strecha.

By 2136 the ad-hoc security units (numbering around 38,000) were merged into the Strecha, and planned to intimidate voters at the polling stations to elect the NSP when parliament was put back into session. The 2139 coup dashed all hopes of using the parliament to advance the NSP, prompting Strecha leaders to instead aim to make the organization an effective fighting force.

Sahren Civil War 2144-2146

The Strecha were the first NSP organization to begin open hostilities on the 16th of kamprazdnoir, having just formed three divisions from their ranks.

Due to high casualties the division in Slovale was downgraded to a brigade and assigned directly to the National Salvation Army.

Vagani Campaign 2146-2153

The Vagani Campaign saw a gradual decline of the united front, eventually forcing a Republican withdrawal back into Sahrland but at such high cost that a second civil war was impossible to begin. The Strecha found their numbers declining, and refilling it were hastily promoted recruits or tribesmen who often barely spoke a word of Egercian. By 2152 the Strecha was no longer the seasoned asymmetric fighting force it used to be.

Integration into the Korych 2146-2149

Militant elements in the new commonwealth hoped to build a new hedgemoney with Sahrland-Bastia as a new great power, able to drive a wedge between Phoenia and Zokesia, while building upon the legacy of Nemqurpolitik and the new ideals of Svobodism. This movement was short lived and died with the hysteria of 2160 but they succeeded at pressuring parliament into creating the Korych, which would be treated as a paramilitary organization able to be sent abroad without invoking wartime measures. With the Republican Guard gutted manpower had to be sourced from other areas. Since prisoner of war labour was already being used to rebuild Klensagrad and Slovale the militants successfully pushed through the approval of penal conscription into the Korych. Captured former Strecha members were quickly funneled into the Korych for their combat experience.