Editing Exploring the Halls of Arden Vul: Institutions (section)

==Archontean Army==
The Archontean emperor maintains a standing army composed of five legions of heavy cavalry (cataphracts), six legions of heavy infantry (scutarii), and three legions of light infantry (velites). In addition, the emperor directly controls nine cohorts of the tagmata, or imperial guard.

Each legion is led by a polemarch and is supposed to contain 3,000 soldiers. Legions are subdivided into 6 cohorts of 500 soldiers, each led by a komes; each cohort has 5 kentarchia of 100 soldiers, each led by a kentarch; each kentarchia has two pentarchia of 50 soldiers, each led by a pentarch; each pentarchia is divided into five konturbia of 10 soldiers, each led by a dekarch.

The imperial tagmata are slightly different. Each cohort contains 1,000 soldiers and is led by a taxiarch. Each cohort is divided into two banda of 500 soldiers, each led by a komes; each bandon is divided into 5 kentarchia of 100 soldiers, each led by a kentarch; each kentarchia is divided into 5 konturbia of 20 soldiers, each led by a dekarch. Common soldiers (privates) are called spatharii.