What Austrins are to guns, the Fomalhautians are to melee weapons.

The Orions provided the central ideal. The Orlamus provided the Lighthouse. VoidCorp transferred the contracts on a half-billion sesheyans. But perhaps the most defining gift to the Concord came from a defeated and dissolved Nation: the tri-staff. Sultanate researchers have long been known for furthering the development of personal combat weapons. Pulse batons, chain swords and gravmaces are merely the most commonly seen of their advances. They have even shared notes with the Austrins on the development of exchangeable lanth cells so that a soldier would only need to carry one part. Thankfully for those who have to face weren in combat, the attempts to create a chainbladed chuurkhna have so far failed.

The Sultanate developed an extensive but thinly settled nation, governed from the desiccated husk of Fomalhaut. This was considered a blessing to the Sultanate, as it gave breathing room to a proud and contentious people and provided plenty of drivespace time for swordsmanship practice. With scattered settlements abounding, the Sultanate developed two useful institutions: an intelligence agency skilled at piecing together bits and pieces (The Eyes of the Vizier) and a large fleet of armed merchant craft with modular arrangements for adding extra weapons as needed. Both of these became lifesavers in the months leading up to GW2. As more and more fragmentary reports came in to Vizier Amel regarding the Taurean Star Republic, the Sultan Bayazeid IX ordered the navy to arm the auxiliaries for an extended anti-corsair campaign. When the Taureans attacked, they charged right into the teeth of a waiting Task Force in what came to be referred to as the Jebel 6 Turkey Shoot. Subsequent campaigns revealed that the auxiliary navy was exceptionally good and that it’s very hard to defeat a Fomalhautian in close combat. And then the Thuldans attacked. A Sultanate Task Group, built around the “Saleh-en-Din” escort carrier as flagship, served with the Austrins until the end of the war. The peace split the fleet, with most returning home to serve the new Galactic Concord (most notably in the Sanguine Outriders of the 145th Division at Hammer’s Star). A few, however, have either remained with the Austrins or moved to the former Sultanate colony in the Far Reach.