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From left to right, a trucker-ganger who hauls shady freight through crime-ridden areas, a corpo with a million-credit name and a thousand-credit suit, and a humble farmer of a state-owned vertical farm. To the foreign eye, they are all completely different, and live in completely different worlds.

But to you, me and them, they are all part of the same Company - the 2nd Company of the 143rd Motorized Infantry Brigade to be exact. Take a closer look, and you will see the 2nd Company's horned snake on the ganger's jacket, as a lapel pin on the corpo's collar and as a patch on the farmer's apron.

How did such an identification to their reservist companies become such a huge thing in RANGSI?

After 3 months of basic training, conscripts are posted to their brigades either during or after vocational training. These brigades’ bases however are often located far beyond the confines of their hometowns and cities, and this is a deliberate policy on the military’s part to mix men and women from all around the planet together, and discourage excessive regional or district attachments in favour of developing loyalties to the greater nation. In early developing colonies, this additionally serves the purpose of seeding new settlements in uninhabited parts of the planet. Thus, for the remainder of their 3-year National Service and the 10 years of reservist cycles thereafter, the companies that form the brigade often become the conscripts’ new community; home away from home, family away from family.

So central is ‘The Company’ to a citizen’s life that they all even live together in the same state apartment block well after the end of their military service as they start their new lives as adult civilians. So common are marriages and the formation of new families between members of The Company that it is even more surprising for them not to do so under the conditions of intense camaraderie. Over time as they climb the social ladder some may opt to move out into larger homes or where work requires them to be, but The Company will always remain with them, the most visible form of which come as patches which citizens will wear on their clothes. The trend is so ubiquitous that RANGSI clothing typically have velcro patches somewhere and anywhere for Company patches to be displayed. Reservists and regular soldiers alike will proudly dorn their Company patches on their right breast pocket. Not even the highest corpos who moved out to live in luxurious penthouses in the central business district are beneath displaying their affiliations to their Company, wearing lapel pins bearing its insignia on their thousand-credit suits. After all, being filthy rich does not exempt one from their annual reservist obligations, so it pays to be humble.

Description
From left to right, a trucker-ganger who hauls shady freight through crime-ridden areas, a corpo with a million-credit name and a thousand-credit suit, and a humble farmer of a state-owned vertical farm. To the foreign eye, they are all completely different, and live in completely different worlds.

But to you, me and them, they are all part of the same Company - the 2nd Company of the 143rd Motorized Infantry Brigade to be exact. Take a closer look, and you will see the 2nd Company's horned snake on the ganger's jacket, as a lapel pin on the corpo's collar and as a patch on the farmer's apron.

How did such an identification to their reservist companies become such a huge thing in RANGSI?

After 3 months of basic training, conscripts are posted to their brigades either during or after vocational training. These brigades’ bases however are often located far beyond the confines of their hometowns and cities, and this is a deliberate policy on the military’s part to mix men and women from all around the planet together, and discourage excessive regional or district attachments in favour of developing loyalties to the greater nation. In early developing colonies, this additionally serves the purpose of seeding new settlements in uninhabited parts of the planet. Thus, for the remainder of their 3-year National Service and the 10 years of reservist cycles thereafter, the companies that form the brigade often become the conscripts’ new community; home away from home, family away from family.

So central is ‘The Company’ to a citizen’s life that they all even live together in the same state apartment block well after the end of their military service as they start their new lives as adult civilians. So common are marriages and the formation of new families between members of The Company that it is even more surprising for them not to do so under the conditions of intense camaraderie. Over time as they climb the social ladder some may opt to move out into larger homes or where work requires them to be, but The Company will always remain with them, the most visible form of which come as patches which citizens will wear on their clothes. The trend is so ubiquitous that RANGSI clothing typically have velcro patches somewhere and anywhere for Company patches to be displayed. Reservists and regular soldiers alike will proudly dorn their Company patches on their right breast pocket. Not even the highest corpos who moved out to live in luxurious penthouses in the central business district are beneath displaying their affiliations to their Company, wearing lapel pins bearing its insignia on their thousand-credit suits. After all, being filthy rich does not exempt one from their annual reservist obligations, so it pays to be humble.