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During the [[Great Wars]], '''Yonderian volunteers''', also known as '''''Volonderres''''', made up a considerable amount of the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] serving in both combat and non-combat roles on land, air and sea for the entirety of the war. Although the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] already had a number of regiments of Yonderians even before the [[First Great War]], it received a number of major influxes of volunteers, chiefly at the very beginning of the war in 1928 and 1929, after which a steady flow of new volunteers was maintained throughout the war. Although it is hard to determine the exact number of Yonderians who served as volunteers, it is generally estimated to be around 1.5 million, making Yonderre by far the neutral nation to have contributed the most combatants to any warring nation of the [[Second Great War]]. It is known that at it's height in 1938, the Yonderian contingency of the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] numbered more than 300.000 men under arms, chiefly in frontline units.
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| name              = SR-9
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| image_size        = 300
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| type              = Bolt-action rifle
| origin            = {{flag|Urcea}}
<!-- Type selection -->| is_ranged          = yes
<!-- Service history -->| service            = 1904–1953
| used_by            = See ''[[#Users|Users]]''
| wars              = [[First Great War]]<br>[[New Burgundie Secession War]]
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| design_date        = 1903
| manufacturer      = Royal Hunting and Munitions Company
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| production_date    = 1904-1940
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| variants          = See ''[[#Variants|Variants]]''
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| weight            = 4.09 kg (9.0 lb) with empty magazine
| length            = 1,250 mm (49.2 in)
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| passengers        = <!-- Ranged weapon specifications -->
| cartridge          = .324 Royal
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| action            = Bolt action
| rate              = 15 rounds/minute
| velocity          = 878 m/s (2,881 ft/s)
| range              = 500 m (550 yd) (with iron sights)<br>800 m (870 yd) (with optics)
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| feed              = 5 round stripper clips in an internal box magazine
| sights            = Iron sights
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The '''SR-9''', officially known as the '''Standard Rifle Mk. 9''' is a bolt action rifle firing cartridges from a 5-round internal clip-loaded magazine. It was the primary infantry weapon of the [[Urcea|Urcean]] [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal Army]] until its replacement by the SR-9C, a shorter weapon using the same basic design. The SR-9 action, using a stripper clip loaded with the .324 Royal cartridge, successfully combined and improved several bolt action engineering concepts which were soon adopted by many other countries.  


Due to universal Yonderian conscription policies the Volonderres had already completed national service in the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], and so were only given courtesy training in [[Burgundie]]. Yonderian volunteers were a welcome addition to the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]], and Volonderres holding enlisted and non-commissioned officer ranks in the YDF were generally inducted into the Legion at their respective ranks, while volunteer officers would go on to retrain with the Legion and generally go a rank down from their YDF standpoint before joining their units.
== History ==
During the last years of the reign of King Aedanicus VIII in the 1880s, Urcea began to search for a standard rifle design for all uses, replacing a myriad of weapons from earlier generations and failed experiments in revolving rifles and other repeaters. Though bolt-action rifles had been viable since the late 1860s, Urcea was slow to adopt it. In 1880, Urcea adopted its standard rifle classification system. Following several rifles deemed unsatisfactory, the Regal Army finally hit upon the SR-8, a licensed design from Veltorina, in 1894. Despite its smooth action and unique cartridge loading system, the rifle was not popular within the army, and it became evident that the SR-8 was unsuited for further use in the Red Interregnum, when the armies of smaller states from the Kingdom of Dericania outclassed and out-fired the much larger Regal Army. Legitimist forces largely used weapons designed in Burgundie and other parts of the Holy Levantine Empire, and found them far superior to the SR-8. Upon the restoration of King Patrick III, integrated Legitimist forces found the SR-8 completely unsatisfactory. As with the rest of the restoration, the newly reformed Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea began to investigate how to improve the military hardware employed at every level.


==History==
After a year of trying various rifles from throughout the Holy Levantine Empire and Caphiria, the Royal Army decided to launch a domestic arms competition based on a few specifications learned from the foreign rifles. Among these specifications were the replacement of the .308 Regal with the .324 Royal based on some of the other rifles throughout the Holy Levantine Empire. The Royal Hunting and Munitions Company, up until then a minor producer of rifles, won the competition and won the contract to build Urcea's new rifles - the SR-9. The Royal Hunting and Munitions Company had previously produced the SR-2, which was not popular or reliable but was the design basis for the new weapon designed in the late 1880s, which would become the SR-9. The rifle became immediately popular in the Royal Army for its reliability, ease of use relative to the SR-8, and powerful round. Its reputation was enhanced by reports coming from the Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company, which purchased 2,500 rifles for colonial use, receiving glowing appraisals from its users. The SR-9's considerable length and weight was considered a drawback by the mid-1920s, leading to the design of the shortened [[SR-9C]], which didn't enter service until 1929. The SR-9 was nonetheless popular with the Royal and Imperial Army during its use in the first two years of the Great War. That popularity lead to the adaptation of most of the existing stock of rifles into sniper rifles upon the adoption of the SR-9C, and the SR-9 sniper variant would serve as the standard Urcean sniper rifle until the end of the war. After the war, SR-9's were distributed during the Occidental Cold War to many nations in Punth and Crona, and they can still often be found in reserve armories or in the hands of local militias.
===Background and name===
Since the days of the [[Knights of the Realm]] in the late middle ages, [[Yonderre|Yonderian]] mercenaries have had a reputation for fearless military prowess, a notable early example being [[Siegmar von Willing]]'s [[Black Company]] which took part in many major battles of the [[Great Confessional War]] and other conflicts of the time. Long before the [[Second Great War]], the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] had already raised several regiments of Yonderians to fight in wars for [[Burgundie]], supplementing the mercenary soldiers that were already being hired from Yonderre. A common and recurring joke from the 17th century told in Yonderre and Burgundie alike was that the Yonderian army was at all times "''on loan''" to the Bergendii. Beginning with the influx of Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the [[Second Great War]], the Yonderian volunteers were often referred to as ''Volonderres'', a contraction of the [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] word ''Volonteuer'' ([[Julian Ænglish]]: Volunteer) and ''[[Yonderre]]'', a term which would later spread into general use in [[Levantia]] to refer to Yonderian volunteers.


Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie came chiefly, but not exclusively, from the ethnic and cultural [[Bergendii]] communities of Yonderre. Incentives to join were many for the would-be volunteers; for many it was a way out of unemployment that had been present in Yonderre following the [[Great Depression]] and stock market crashes of 1910. For others, it was a question of protecting Yonderre's [[Culture in Burgundie#Cultural hegemony|historic and cultural motherland]] in the face of increasing [[Burgophobia]].
== Design ==
===SR-9C===
== Users ==


===Immediately prior to the Great War===
== Conflicts ==
===Beginning of the Great War and first influx (1928-29)===


==Volonderre units==
== Impact and legacy ==


==Notable Volonderres==
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[[File:Einar-Vihma-1943.jpg|thumb|[[Rachet d'Everard]], Captain in the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] and later [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] of [[Yonderre]]]]
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*[[Rachet d'Everard]] (1903-1997) - Recipient of the [[Ordre d'Distintiu]], later [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] of [[Yonderre]] and [[Yonderian Ambassador to Burgundie]]<br>
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