II Enri background - flavor text Jeffrey Schwartz 31 Jan 2023 14:50 UTC

I'm using this as background and flavor for the Carmel project and the
game i'm running
Figured I'd share so people could get a laugh this morning
The Carmel document has illustrations that go with it.....
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II Enri, a True Imperial Hero

“Imperial Issue Enri” is a video or tri-vid show shown across the
Imperium intended to be viewed by 6 to 16 year old kids.  There's a
different Enri show produced in each sector. The main character is
Marine O3 Enri __. For the Pratoria sector where Carmel is, it's Enri
Peters

The enemy is that primary that that sector faces. For Carmel, right on
the border of Vargr space, its Vargr pirates

There's always a member of that race that's "The Good", showing that
the Imperium will accept anyone who is "good". One of Enri's catch
phrases is 'if love for the Imperium in their heart, then the shape of
their skin does not matter"

There's always "the Bad", a figurehead bad guy who makes the event a
personal but respected foe. For Carmel, it is the Vargr Corsair called
Wolfeyes

And there's the Ugly - the low rank slacker that Enri gives a new
leadership lesson to in each episode, showing the patience and
fatherly leadership that those chosen by the Emperor all have... And
showing why it's wrong to be a slacker. For Carmel, it's Corporal
Clink

There’s always an Imperial Navy ship which is Enri and his team’s
home. For the show the kids on Carmel watch, that ship is the New
Georgia, with Captain Young in command. Ensign Rodger is the coxswain
who pilots their drop-boat.

II Enri’s team is rounded out by different enlisted who have short
life expectancies in the show (Think ‘Red Shirts’)

Occasionally, they are visited by The Old Scout, a Detached Duty Scout
who is pretty obviously a secret agent. Sometimes he shows up at the
start of the episode to deliver the plot hook. Sometimes in the middle
to deliver  key clue. Sometimes at the end for an unexpected landing
of his Type-S to pull them out of a hot LZ.

Sometimes O5 Army Colonel makes an appearance, with much the same role
as the Old Scout, but with grav tanks and GCarriers and infantry
instead of a Type-S.

Unlike solomani cartoons, people and (bad people) die in firefights.
Usually this is dealt with like a 1950s John Wayne movie. Sometimes
when an actor needs to move on to another job, they're killed in the
show with a strong message of "Service Is Dangerous" ... The death is
usually a heroic one, sometimes a heroic act to fix what the Ugly
should have fixed at the start of the episode

This teaches the dual lesson that screwing up gets your friends
killed.... And true warriors of the Imperium take responsibility to
fix that mistakes in their service

Catch phrases:

Good teamwork solves half your problems

Preparation and training make the war half won

The Emperor serves the Imperium by choosing the best subordinates. We
can serve the Imperium by being those subordinates.

"Go Joe" in the Solomani cartoons becomes "for the Imperium!'

"just as we in the Marines trust the emperor's wisdom in choosing the
top of our chain of command, and by the commutative principle each
layer between us and Him, the civilians must be able to trust the
Nobles between them and Him"

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