OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To codify special forces operators for the Alliance Armed Forces.
- Image Credit: Rogue One
- Role: A military support unit to reference for any military or Force user PCs during Outer Rim uprisings.
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- Unit Name: Alliance Pathfinders
- Affiliation: New Alliance
- Classification: Force Recon
- Equipment:
Alliance Scout Armor - A320-CFE Blaster or DLT-29 Heavy Blaster
- SSK-7 Heavy Blaster Pistol
- Combat Vibroknife
- HOB Heavy Repeating Blaster (two man teams)
- Equalizer (heavy weapons specialists)
[*]Description: An elite special forces division of the Alliance Armed Forces, Pathfinders compete with the SpaceOps Marines for the most highly trained combat units the Galactic Alliance once had to offer. Noteworthy for the high percentage of soldiers who answered the call to fall back and regroup in the Outer Rim, it was the Pathfinders' unconventional tactics and fanatic loyalty that overthrew the One Sith and it is that same fervor that keeps them operating even after the dissolution of their government.
COMBAT INFORMATION:
- Unit Size: Medium
- Unit Availability: Rare
- Unit Experience: Elite
- Combat Function: Alliance Pathfinders are elite guerilla fighters, trained in force reconnaissance and resistance operations. For all their skill, as a special forces outfit they are best employed as a force multiplier, still reliant on conventional infantry units like Twilight Company in direct engagements.
- Special Forces: Pathfinders are hand selected from the most promising young warriors the Alliance still has to offer. Trained in teräs käsi by monks of the Light Hand, even against trained Force users a team of these soldiers could be considered a threat.
- Resistance Fighters: Any good Pathfinder knows how to blend in with his surroundings, to use the local terrain to their advantage. Specializing in sabotage as well as search and destroy missions, these soldiers are far less likely to be encountered on the front lines of a combat zone than they are behind enemy lines with their blades to a sentry's throat.
- Equipment Quality: Imperial stormtroopers and Sith legionnaires may get issued only the best equipment, but Alliance Pathfinders make do. Although they are trained to scavenge supplies from the area, refurbished weapons and limited ammunition can make the difference in a life and death situation.
- Targeted Surveillance: Pathfinders are trained to evade the rank and file, but they are not intelligence operatives. Counter-espionage specialists and enemy agents would be able to pick up their trail even after they've gone to ground.
Once considered among the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy, Alliance Pathfinders are now soldiers of a fallen empire.
Proving themselves throughout the One Sith and First Order campaigns, this elite cadre of army specialists was thought to have been annihilated along with the Galactic Alliance government. Due to the actions of a brave few, however, the GAAF special forces branches suffered the least in casualties and defections during the Fall. Now a more significant component of Alliance-in-Exile military operations, the Pathfinders have been deployed once again in force as resistance operations ramp up against First Order holdouts in the Outer Rim.
Rarely deployed in numbers larger than a handful of companies across an entire system, Pathfinders have nevertheless long ago made a name for themselves as the laser scalpel of the Alliance's military arsenal.