Ernst Röhm demonstrated his full potential almost immediately after Bruno appointed him commander of the shadowy mercenary force tasked with conducting "black operations" on behalf of the German Reich beyond its borders.
This unit would handle the security operations Germany would normally finance across its soon-to-be former colonial empire while also serving as an unseen blade, delivering decisive blows against enemies without direct ties to the Reich.
A seasoned expert in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, Röhm had led stormtroopers through the trenches of the Great War and was bound by the brotherhood of 1906—the foundation of the newly reconstituted "Iron Division," whose name had yet to be decided.
Over the next few months, Bruno brought him up to speed on combined arms warfare and unit cohesion. This mercenary force would serve as the ideal testing ground for new weapons that Bruno's engineers had efficiently adapted from the previous E-10 pattern weapon systems.
