Re-reading this thread, I see that both Aramis and Hans started off by asserting flatly that there is no Imperial Army. They're not wrong, but that's also very misleading: a lot of folks who had never read GURPS: Ground Forces appeared to misunderstand what Aramis and Hans meant and went on to pillory the author of that book for ignoring canon. A couple of posters tried to correct the record, but it didn't seem to take.
So because there seemed to be a lot of confusion, I want to back up and clarify: In Ground Forces, there definitely IS an Imperial Army -- but no Imperium-wide central command.
In G:GF the Imperial Army is organized at the subsector level, and those forces report to the Sector Duke and a sector-level command. There is no Grand General of the Imperium. But the Sector Dukes ultimately report to the Emperor, and these Imperial Armies are all very much Imperial asserts. There also appears to be considerable standardization for all Imperial Armies across the Imperium -- equipment, rank, organization, tactics, so on.
The Imperial Army units detailed in Invasion: Earth and other places in CT canon? G:GF doesn't invalidate them, and in fact several get named dropped in the text. The existence of an Imperial Intelligence branch? G:GF doesn't invalidate that either; it's described on page 32.
In fact, I'm not sure there's any specific canon that G:GF outright invalidates.
So because there seemed to be a lot of confusion, I want to back up and clarify: In Ground Forces, there definitely IS an Imperial Army -- but no Imperium-wide central command.
In G:GF the Imperial Army is organized at the subsector level, and those forces report to the Sector Duke and a sector-level command. There is no Grand General of the Imperium. But the Sector Dukes ultimately report to the Emperor, and these Imperial Armies are all very much Imperial asserts. There also appears to be considerable standardization for all Imperial Armies across the Imperium -- equipment, rank, organization, tactics, so on.
The Imperial Army units detailed in Invasion: Earth and other places in CT canon? G:GF doesn't invalidate them, and in fact several get named dropped in the text. The existence of an Imperial Intelligence branch? G:GF doesn't invalidate that either; it's described on page 32.
In fact, I'm not sure there's any specific canon that G:GF outright invalidates.
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