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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Dirigent Mercenary Corps does not allow you to command until you've seen combat, so in the field an officer cadet is a grunt like the enlisted.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The Dirigent Mercenary Corps does not allow you to command until you've seen combat, so in the field an officer cadet is a grunt like the enlisted.
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The ''Dirigent Mercenary Corps'' is a series of MilitaryScienceFiction novels by Creator/RickShelley that follows the career of Lon Nolan, an officer in the eponymous {{PMC}}.
Having been washed out of Earth's MilitaryAcademy on purpose so that he wouldn't have to go into StateSec, Lon winds up on Dirigent, a planet whose primary business is supplying weapons and mercenary armies to the galaxy at large. He's granted a commission as an officer cadet, but the DMC does not allow you to command until you've seen a tour of duty. It's a waiting game until the DMC gets a contract for a battalion-strength job to put down a rebellion on some rock in the middle of nowhere.
Things get complicated, ''fast''.
The books cover a broad span of years, following Lon as he rises from an EnsignNewbie to a ColonelBadass. They've received critical praise for their realistic depictions of life in a military unit (Shelley was a US Army veteran).
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!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Dirigent Mercenary Corps does not allow you to command until you've seen combat, so in the field an officer cadet is a grunt like the enlisted.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book is named for the rank Lon holds in it.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Hand-held energy weapons exist and are prized for being basically silent, but the standard weapons are chemical firearms.
%%MyGreatestFailure: Really bad campaign long ago that led to the court-martial of most of the DMC's generals. Don't remember the details ATM.
* OneProductPlanet: Dirigent's industries are built around the DMC, and their primary exports are soldiers and guns.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: The DMC has strict limits on what jobs it will take and the soldiers pride themselves on professionalism, but they're in it for the money.
* StandardSciFiArmy: The DMC provides mainly light infantry, although they also use their {{drop ship}}s for close air support.
* UnproblematicProstitution: One of Lon's fellow cadets is engaged to a prostitute at a brothel, and recommends her to all his friends. The implication is that on Dirigent it's a legal, regulated profession. Lon still isn't comfortable with it, although it's more having a hangup about not sleeping with another man's fiancee.
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The ''Dirigent Mercenary Corps'' is a series of MilitaryScienceFiction novels by Creator/RickShelley that follows the career of Lon Nolan, an officer in the eponymous {{PMC}}.
Having been washed out of Earth's MilitaryAcademy on purpose so that he wouldn't have to go into StateSec, Lon winds up on Dirigent, a planet whose primary business is supplying weapons and mercenary armies to the galaxy at large. He's granted a commission as an officer cadet, but the DMC does not allow you to command until you've seen a tour of duty. It's a waiting game until the DMC gets a contract for a battalion-strength job to put down a rebellion on some rock in the middle of nowhere.
Things get complicated, ''fast''.
The books cover a broad span of years, following Lon as he rises from an EnsignNewbie to a ColonelBadass. They've received critical praise for their realistic depictions of life in a military unit (Shelley was a US Army veteran).
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!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Dirigent Mercenary Corps does not allow you to command until you've seen combat, so in the field an officer cadet is a grunt like the enlisted.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book is named for the rank Lon holds in it.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Hand-held energy weapons exist and are prized for being basically silent, but the standard weapons are chemical firearms.
%%MyGreatestFailure: Really bad campaign long ago that led to the court-martial of most of the DMC's generals. Don't remember the details ATM.
* OneProductPlanet: Dirigent's industries are built around the DMC, and their primary exports are soldiers and guns.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: The DMC has strict limits on what jobs it will take and the soldiers pride themselves on professionalism, but they're in it for the money.
* StandardSciFiArmy: The DMC provides mainly light infantry, although they also use their {{drop ship}}s for close air support.
* UnproblematicProstitution: One of Lon's fellow cadets is engaged to a prostitute at a brothel, and recommends her to all his friends. The implication is that on Dirigent it's a legal, regulated profession. Lon still isn't comfortable with it, although it's more having a hangup about not sleeping with another man's fiancee.
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