Imperial Military Academy · Carthage
The Family Packet
A state-approved guide to the opening of the Ludi Troiani · AUC 2750
To the households of the graduating class
Service made visible
The Ludi Troiani — the Troy Games — is the Academy’s final field examination, held under Founding Statutes first promulgated in AUC 2555. Its opening day grants three temporary command warrants and begins the campaign through which the graduating class completes the Academy path.
Families may take pride in a distinction already earned. A place among the ninety records six years of instruction, examination, and conduct under the standards of Rome. The campaign ahead does not diminish that achievement. It gives the achievement its proper field.
Ordo Diei
The order of the day
The ceremony proceeds as it has for generations. Households are asked to know the order so that the released record may be followed without commentary.
- First bell and wakeup at 06:00.
- Breakfast from 06:00 until 07:30.
- Every attendee inside the Hall of Standards by 07:45.
- The third bell at 08:00. The hall rises.
- A priest of Mars gives the benediction, head ritually covered, in silence.
- The officer commanding the academy addresses all six years and the visiting regional graduates as Cadets of Rome.
- A clerk reads each of the three command warrants in turn.
- Each named cadet lays a hand on the foremost academy standard and accepts the command and its duties.
- The crimson command mantle is fastened at one shoulder. The Games begin.
What families will see
The approved record
A public account is issued in the form authorized by the Military Triumvirate. It withholds protected capabilities, doctrine, telemetry, intelligence, communications, medical information, and personal assessment. It may compress the record for presentation, but it shall not alter the certified result or falsely attribute conduct.
What service requires
Silence during the campaign
Training and field operations are not broadcast live. Once cadets report, outside communication is monitored and contact with home is permitted during designated weekly periods. This protects every participant and preserves the integrity of the assessment.
On risk
What no ordinance may require
No ordinance shall make death or disabling injury a condition of victory or a measure of merit. Such risk as military examination necessarily entails is governed by military law and by the limits prescribed for the Games. A death or an injury beyond Rome’s medicine is rare, and either compels formal investigation.
On the laurel
What victory confers
Upon certification of the campaign judgment, the commander of the victorious army receives the laurel before the standards and the Roman people. It is entered into the record of service and grants no rank, office, or command beyond the warrant already held. Every graduate enters service, chosen for the Games or not.