Into the Spider's Web
Echelon Vanta
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATIONIntent: To create a unique, professional mercenary infantry unit aligned with Serina Calis, composed of exiled Hapan military veterans. This unit provides specialized counter-insurgency and frontline suppression services in RP.
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Role: Echelon Vanta serves as an elite rapid-deployment mercenary infantry company under the long-term employ of Governor Serina Calis. Their role includes suppression of rebellion, pacification of unrest, insurgency containment, and tactical enforcement during planetary occupations.
Permissions: N/A
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Unit Name: Echelon Vanta
Affiliation: Serina Calis
Classification: Elite Infantry / Anti-Insurgency Operations
Population: Heavily Staffed
Profit: High
Description:
Echelon Vanta is a professional, all-female mercenary unit composed of exiled veterans from the Hapan Royal military's internal security branches. Clad in fully enclosed, sensor-sealed combat armor bearing crimson tactical sigils, they present an imposing figure — anonymous, adaptive, and execution-focused.
Once tied to Hapan military death squads responsible for atrocities during the Hapan Crisis, they were excommunicated and exiled before galactic authorities could bring charges. In exile, they reformed into Echelon Vanta: a precision infantry unit for hire with a specialization in counter-insurgency warfare and hostile zone enforcement.
Their behavior is cool, coordinated, and quiet. They speak in code, move in synchronization, and rarely engage in unnecessary communication. The red markings on their helmets are relics of their original unit, worn now as a threat and a warning.
COMBAT INFORMATION
Unit Size:
Medium
Unit Availability:
Rare
Unit Experience:
Elite
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Combat Function:
Echelon Vanta operates as a frontline and flanking suppression force, often deployed in hostile urban or subterranean zones. Their core strengths lie in insurgent containment, civilian pacification, and overwhelming control through synchronized movement and superior fire discipline.
They are often used to secure key locations prior to the arrival of larger forces or during planetary uprisings. They function without emotional interference, employing pre-programmed formations and lethal discretion. Echelon Vanta integrates seamlessly with droid forces, Sith operatives, or local security teams, typically taking command during joint operations.
Force Abilities:
None. All members are Non-Force Users.
STRENGTHS:
- Elite Urban Warfare Capability: Highly trained in subterranean, corridor, and dense urban combat; masters of flanking, breaching, and suppressing rebellion cells.
- Fear Tactics + Uniform Silence: Their appearance, discipline, and cold methods are engineered to instill panic and surrender in insurgent forces.
- Infamy: Their past war crimes are known in intelligence circles. Deploying them publicly can cause unrest, diplomatic fallout, or political blowback.
- Rigid Doctrine: Echelon Vanta is optimized for anti-insurgency and precision warfare — they are poorly suited to prolonged open-field campaigns or guerilla pursuit across vast terrains.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Echelon Vanta traces its origins to the 9th Internal Compliance Regiment of the Hapan Consortium — a once-classified all-female unit tasked with suppressing dissidence during the final weeks of the Hapan Crisis. Their conduct escalated into extrajudicial assassinations, civilian purges, and mass disappearances in rebel-aligned provinces.
As the Galactic Alliance moved to intervene, several high-ranking officers were arrested or executed, but one contingent — known internally as "Vanta Section" — escaped through backdoor routes provided by loyalist remnants. In exile, they reorganized into a mercenary formation, shedding Hapan colors but keeping the discipline, doctrine, and masks of their fallen order.
Their first known contract was on Saijo, under Serina Calis, where they executed a brutal urban sweep through rebel districts with zero recorded civilian survivors. Since then, they have remained under her extended contract, used in off-the-record operations across space.