Imperial Planetary Guard

=Drakon Imperium Imperial Planetary Guard=

The Imperial Planetary Guard of the Drakon Imperium is a reserve military force composed of state Imperial Planetary Guard militia members or units under imperially recognized active or inactive armed force service for the Drakon Imperium. Militia members are citizen soldiers, meaning they work part time for the Imperial Planetary Guard and hold a civilian job as well. The Imperial Planetary Guard of the Drakon Imperium is a joint reserve component of the Drakon Imperium Imperial Army and the Drakon Imperium Imperial Fighter Force and maintains two subcomponents: the Imperial Planetary Guard for Ground Defense, and the Imperial Planetary Guard for Aerial Defense.

The Imperial Planetary Guard is divided into units stationed in each of the Drakon Imperium worlds, and operates under their respective governor or territorial adjutant general. The Imperial Planetary Guard may be called up for active duty by governors or territorial adjutant general to help respond to domestic emergencies and disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes.

Duties and administrative organization
Imperial Planetary Guard units can be mobilized for active duty to supplement regular armed forces during times of war or imperial emergency declared by the senate, the Imperator or the Minister of Defense. They can also be activated for service in their respective worlds upon declaration of a state of emergency by the governor of the world or territory in which they serve. Unlike Imperial Army Reserve members, Imperial Planetary Guard members cannot be mobilized individually, except through voluntary transfers and Temporary Duty Assignments (TDY).

Structure
The Imperial Planetary Guard is led by a civilian Minister of the Planetary Guard, who has the statutory authority to conduct all the affairs of the Planetary Guard; under the authority, direction and control of the Minister of War. The Chief of the Imperial Planetary Guard who is the highest ranked military officer in the Imperial Planetary Guard has dual roles; one as the principal military adviser and executive agent for the Minister of the Imperial Planetary Guard, i.e. its service chief; and secondly as a member of the Military Council, a body composed of the service chiefs from each of the eight military services belonging to the Ministry of the War who advise the Imperator of the Drakon Imperium, the Minister of War, and the Imperial Security Council on operational military matters, under the guidance of the First Minister of the Military Council.

Operational control of the services follows a chain of command from the Imperator to the Minister of War directly to the Unified Combatant Commanders, who have control of all armed forces units in their geographic or function area of responsibility. Thus, the Ministers of the military ministries (and their respective service chiefs underneath them) only have the responsibility to organize, train and equip their service components. The Imperial Planetary Guard provides trained forces to the Combatant Commanders for use as directed by the Minister of War.