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As a fun worldbuilding notes, the nickname for Gendarmes being the 'Black-and-Tans' is (aside from the obvious parallels with the Troubles) because of a retarded funding dispute.
>Minister of Police puts forward a design for a new professional police force in the city
>One of the major families in the Dyer's Guild hates the minister because of a dispute with his family going back centuries
>Dyer's Guild convinces the other Guilds to support them in cockblocking the ordinance for the new police force
>Basically if the Minister wants to get his uniforms for his new guard, he'll either lose his whole budget on it or be stuck clothing his guys in smelly undyed wool
>Minister, a colonel who fought in one of the colonial wars, organizes a Veterans' Brigade to design a uniform that will get around the guild's fuckery
>Use volunteer labor to wash the uniforms and dye the jackets in black pigment sourced from Corza gangsters
>The uniform becomes a symbol across the Republic that the state shouldn't bow to Guild Interests, beloved by commoners, aristocrats, and the gentry alike.
And now I get to have stormtroopers patrolling my players' cobblestone streets. Mean mugs with strong esprit de corps who have a history of not being intimidated. So many opportunities to create conflict and smack their hand for getting too uppity.