Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-24994749-20151122223613

Michael.halpern.52 wrote: it would have been a set up closer to what Isreal has, everyone joins the military for x amount of years unless they have some disability, (in which case they normally do non-combatant stuff I actually have been thinking that if any Kingdom might have something along the lines of conscription might be Vacuo. Not something so much along the lines of Israel but perhaps more resembling to Finland's conscription where you might serve in the military or civilian service.

I mean, Vacuo seems to be the most individualist of the Kingdoms to the point the students from Shade not even wear uniforms. It's possible there is a mentality of "everybody be ready to defend your freedom" or "everybody be ready to stand for yourselves" or just as a way to lessen the divide between hunters and civilians.

And with a generally rough environment, the idea of a civilian service that leaves a general amount of the population trained on how to act in case of a disaster is not that bad of an idea.

They are also located in the middle of a desert, which means that whenever they need more resources, they are likely to need to explore for land more often. In that sense, having the average citizen trained to defend himself or the others could help prevent a Mountain Glenn situation.

Also, the students we have seen from Vacuo seem to both have the simpler weapons and the more balanced fighting styles. Suns seems to be just as comfortable with hand-to-hand combat, melee combat or gun fire; Nebula switched rather fluently between shooting and melee; Dew seems to be just fine using her spear as a mage or as a pole arm; and... we didn't really see much more from everybody else.