SALVETE AMICI

Hi Folks ....... Group description above ..... Group Charta (rules) below....
th is the actual version...please note that it replaces former versions.

Thanks for visiting this draft site of our Second Life group. It will be with pictures etc. when I have some time to do.

THE ROMAN LEGIONARY CAVALRY
LEGIO COHORS EQUITATA

Representing the Roman Cavalry in 1st century a.c.e, we try to follow more or less the description of Marcus Junkelmann (German expert on Ancient Roman Militaria), but we feel free to ad some outfit features cause this unit was always looking for an excellent impressive appearance specially on the Pompa representing proudly the whole Army (Festivity March).

BASIC FORMATION:
 The unit is divided in three sub groups: turmae (for fast attack) the (pompa troup) and the ala (large unit).
In our group we are more interested in the festivities representation so we also included some triumph chariots for honourable members of higher rank. We want to thank to Spritely Pixel and Kristivon Kolache from AKK for their kind support in helping programming the chariots. These chariots are selled exclusively at AKK.

ARMORY & DRESS
All members of our unit do not wear the lorica segmentata, this is to unflexible for horseriders. Instead we wear the chainshirt or the scale armor (a special version is created for female riders)* The sword is similar to the gladius but a little bit longer and is called spatha.

The horseman buckler is oval instead of rectangular and can - in his "festivities"-version - be painted very artistic

Also the helmet: In the neck a little bit longer. But here we are very free to improvise cause the raiders helmet "festivities" version was more decorated sometimes even a facial mask was made by artists to protect the equites. A guild of soldiers from a rich , mostly patrician family.

Our unit has also cornifer (with cornu a kind of "trumpet") and signifier (standards sign holder, vexillum, aquilarium and portrait of the emperor called imago) these raiders have the honourable job of representing the glorius Legion and bringing luck with the symbols they care for. These soldiers wear helmets with animal fur heads like lions and wolfes.

* To all the historic experts: We know that there where no female riders but today we do not want to copy the past, and we liked the idea of Vectus (Praefectus Legio XIII) so we did the same for our ladies in the group.

RANKS:
The ranks: LegioEquit.Milites, Legio.Equit.Decurio, LegioEquit.Optio, LegioEquit.Beneficarius, Legio.Equit.Cornifer, LegioEquit.Signifier, LegioEquit.Centurio, LegioEquit.Tribunus, LegioEquit.Legatus, LegioEquit.DuxBelli,

Our first act will be the assistance an the next festival in SL Roma S.P.Q.R. in honour of our emperor Agustus and the neverending Roman empire as well in honour the priestess of Vesta and our Troup commander Vectus.

We also like to thank to Torin Golding for building a wonderful environment in which we all feel well and understanded as people who like the ancient history of Rome.

Signing:
Commander Dux Belli, VarusPublius Argus, (Head of Role Play)
Subcommander Legatus, Francis Lukas, (Head of Ancient History & Science)
Subcommander Tribuna, Ix Hax (Head of HR and Partner Group LEGIO CLASSIS MARINA)
Subcommander Tribunus, Valerianus Gaudio (Head of Organizational Affairs)

* The rank of Leg.Equit.Supr. =
Supreme Legio Equitata Consul or Imperator (identical with SL ROMA SPQR Imperator)
Supremus is reserved for the sim owners (JULIAN AUGUSTUS, TORIN GOLDING, ANGELA REES) which we are thankful to may use the land we mainly act on . This gives opportunity to open temporarly some rights e.g. to put chariots on the road when our processions occur etc.

Literature proposals on topic: coming soon

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CHARTA ROMA EQUITATA (Version 1.0 given on 14.Feb.2007)

1.) COHORS EQUITATA is a roleplay and presentation group with the purpose of presenting festive procession and militaria in Ancient Rome. The group is not officially affiliated with ROMA or its commercial business but in fully compliance and aceptance of the sim owner authority and the emperor AUGUSTUS (Leg.Equit.Supr.)* We fully accept and follow the given SL ROMA SPQR: rules cause we are not only under the command of ROMA and serving by protection to civites we are also interested in excellent reputation for ROMA. There is no exeption on the rules given for our group and every member of our group MUST be a citizen of Roma before beeing accepted or getting a call to action. Members of EQUITATA do not have special rights in ROMA, they have to follow strictly the advices of the owner and the Legio XIII commander.

2.) Members of ROMA COHORS EQUITATA shall have a horse, better early than late, cause we are a Horse unit. If members cannot pay for a horse (costs normally 2000 L$) we vote for a donation out of our fund be reaching the honour of beeing promoted to a centurio in our team and donate 600 L$ to this member if the cashier says we have founds to act so. Thatfore every new member pays 4 Linden Dollars by sharing the group.

3.) All members are free to participate festivities or not. Anti-Discrinimation is a topic we care for and thatfore we follow the Unesco Code of Conduct in his Kofi Anan fully described version.

4.) Officers can organize Events on ROMA SPQR sim in accordance of the ROMA representatives of Owner rank or Main representative rank.

5.) The languages of our group are: main german, and in every moment multilanguage audience or members are online we switch to english. So thatfore every EQUITATO shall have a minimum on english langauge skills.

6.) This charta can be modified by the members in rank of Tribune or higher. A vote of two members is necessary to implement new versions. The group supports freely and without obligation nor alliance the following groups we have friendship with as they are the famous AKK Horsefarm and Group Social Skills HippoCampus on Plush Phi

Thanks, Responsable Persons: Francis Lukas , Valerianus Gaudio, Ix Hax