Red Mobius
Tormented Prophet
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Permanent Commander: The title of every Alor that runs Clan Hades. They are the primary diplomat when negotiating for the dying to be given to them. The Alor holds the title until death
Permanent Captain: Heavily Cyberized Veterans deemed to valuable to allow to die, instead given permanent cybernetic conversion. They oversee all special operations that do not warrant the direct involvement of their Alor.
Hellhound: Vicious Marshalls, the equivalent of Super Commandos in other Mandalorian Factions, undertaking special operations against the enemies of Mandalorians
Dead Man Walking: Members of the Clan who have made it to Rally Master Rank. These Mandalorians lead scores of troops beneath them and one of their primary duties is to uphold morale
Dead on Arrival: Those who have been inducted into Clan Hades for having a terminal illness. Given experimental drugs and cybernetics along with cryosleep to buy them time
Clan Hades Membership
HISTORICAL INFORMATION (Note: The description is borrowed almost entirely from the very old sub, Armor of The Permanent Commander, save the very final paragraph. Various grammar corrections added.)
And so it came to pass during the height of the Gulag Plague, that the Chieftain of the great Clan Hades, his flesh covered in the iron of his people, its color's the scheme of a Skeleton, gathered the last gasps of dying men and cloth'd them in the visage of a phantom of the Mando'ade, and let these ghostly legions, whose hunt for more to add to their ranks never ends, rampaged against the disorder in the space claim'd by the Taung millenia past.
The suicidal legions, accepting their doom, contained the worst of the plague from the world's they controlled, and the most opportunistic of villains whose darken'd hands were raised in shadows against the holy children of Mand'Alor.
And at the head of these legions of the dying, a Permanent Commander to lead the armies of decay and to pass the grim honor to the next to be chosen by Clan Hades when he can lead no longer...
--translated from a stone tablet in Mandalorian Commando Verse.
The Phantom Legion was a sort of "Emergency Army" organized to defend Mandalorian space from both its chief rivals in the region and primarily from the horror of the Gulag Plague. Created by Jeremiah Hades, the A'lor of Clan Hades when the Gulag Plague was at its worst.
Clan Hades, at the time among the best medical specialists in all the clans, had kept their numbers high through a calculated strategy of isolation, immeasurable wealth from being the head of several Mandalorian-owned medical research companies on the verge of failure due to the galaxy wide economic crisis as a result of the plague, consolidating their assets by liquidating the firms holdings and gathered those suffering from terminal, non transmissible conditions by offering incentives such as credits and access to their advanced medical tech to other clans willing to bite. Only those who were still combat capable were accepted, fitted with experimental cybernetics, implants and drugs to keep them alive and capable as long as possible, putting them in cryonic preservation between missions. Clan Hades controlled The Phantom Legion utterly, sending the infamously ghostly-armored warriors to death containing the plague, or fighting in truly hellish conditions other mercenaries wouldn't even think of touching. Ever the pragmatists, the Phantom Legion soon began accepting dying warriors from outside the clan. Many in the clans feared Hades' subjects would ever increase, as they efficiently converted whatever they took from their battles into the ranks, and then turn their eyes to conquering Mandalorian Space with an army of the dead. Clan Hades soon came to be known by the (At times prejorative) terms "Plague Doctors", "The Pale Vultures" (Though that last one could mean, at times, a back handed compliment). Jeremiah himself was known by the sobriquet "The Marching-Far-Away-Man." This title was inherited by his successors during the plague.
However, the only thing that separated Clan Hades from Mandalore The Uniter was a lack of ambition, and as soon as the other clans demanded they cease their efforts, they immediately decommissioned a vast majority of Legion forces, put the rest of the army in cold storage, to keep them alive as long as possible until a cure perhaps could be found for their various conditions, discharging the rest to their respective clan as they desired, and shared with them the full profits of their ventures. Though the clan itself along with its greatly reduced army is long considered vanished, their selfless surrender of the unexpectedly massive amount of power they accrued to avoid needless bloodshed caused them to be remembered fondly as "The ones who knew when enough was enough."
As of late, Clan Hades made an unexpected resurgence, their numbers and weapons and ships swelled significantly enough to possibly make the other clans nervous. Time will tell if the Clan has become more ambitious than it used to be though they are still ostensibly loyal to whoever is recognized by the majority as Mandalore.
- Intent: To create a Mandalorian Organization to serve as plot points, allies/enemies in future threads
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- Organization Name: Clan Hades
- Classification: Mandalorian Clan/Mercenary Group
- Affiliation: They are for hire for the most part
- Organization Symbol:
- Description: Clan Hades is a twisted take on a disposable Mercenary unit. They do not fear death, taking only the most hopeless, suicidal missions no other clan would even dream of attempting, wielding the most destructive and lethal weapons possible. They fight with nothing held back and show absolutely no hesitance, for they are already dead. They specialize in lightning massed infantry attacks or Bounty Hunting.
- Headquarters: They are Nomadic, relying on Space Stations and warships to store their warriors
- Domain: They operate in the fringes of both Mandalorian and GA space
- Notable Assets: Their most notable assets are operating Golan Arms Space Stations of various models and Interdiction Cruisers
- Hierarchy:
Permanent Commander: The title of every Alor that runs Clan Hades. They are the primary diplomat when negotiating for the dying to be given to them. The Alor holds the title until death
Permanent Captain: Heavily Cyberized Veterans deemed to valuable to allow to die, instead given permanent cybernetic conversion. They oversee all special operations that do not warrant the direct involvement of their Alor.
Hellhound: Vicious Marshalls, the equivalent of Super Commandos in other Mandalorian Factions, undertaking special operations against the enemies of Mandalorians
Dead Man Walking: Members of the Clan who have made it to Rally Master Rank. These Mandalorians lead scores of troops beneath them and one of their primary duties is to uphold morale
Dead on Arrival: Those who have been inducted into Clan Hades for having a terminal illness. Given experimental drugs and cybernetics along with cryosleep to buy them time
- Membership: The Organization consists of at least three thousand regularly utilized members with six thousand in cryo stasis. The only prerequisite is that you must be a Mandalorian who suffers from a terminal illness that WILL eventually kill you. Clan Hades finds Mandalorians or other warriors in their darkest personal hour, and essentially offer to buy them extra time by keeping them in cryogenic stasis, freezing them for months or even years. Only unfreezing them for when it's their turn to participate in a round of missions almost certain to result in death. Should a cure be discovered, The Mandalorian is quietly released from the clan to go back to others their original if it's still around, or form their own. Upon joining the Clan, someone is guaranteed a minimum of three years in some stasis pods before being unfrozen for a round of six, extremely dangerous missions (With a round of cryosleep between each mission) other clans would balk out at due to possibly suicidal odds. If they survive all six, they are refrozen for another three years. Young children of teenagers are given twelve years in cryosleep and the entire clan collectively treats them as their own children whenever they are awakened, not being sent on combat missions until they are at least sixteen. Weddings are arranged almost purely to adhere to the Resol'Nare
- Climate: Morale and climate is understandably grim, bordering on grimdark. Clan Hades members rarely focus on anything but the mission, but still develop close ties to those they fight alongside repeatedly. Anything that compromises the safety of those in cryostasis is punished extremely harshly
- Reputation: Mandalorians are wary of them, due to their willingness to take on suicidal odds even normal Mandalorians balk at. Though they can still win respect from Mandalorians who have fought alongside them repeatedly, there are those who still think of them as vultures
- Curios: They are distinctive for wearing all white Mandalorian armor, which may be made of various materials depending on their rank. All are commonly known to wield the DC-17m
- Rules: All Mandalorians in this clan are bound by the Six Actions and are forbidden from taking any action that would compromise their utter neutral approach to politics otherwise. They are forbidden from taking actions that would compromise those in cryosleep
- Goals: The Clan seeks funds to fight the various terminal illnesses they are afflicted with and to constantly raise their standing in the clans by fighting as fiercely as possible. They are always on the lookout for better ships and weapons
Clan Hades Membership
HISTORICAL INFORMATION (Note: The description is borrowed almost entirely from the very old sub, Armor of The Permanent Commander, save the very final paragraph. Various grammar corrections added.)
And so it came to pass during the height of the Gulag Plague, that the Chieftain of the great Clan Hades, his flesh covered in the iron of his people, its color's the scheme of a Skeleton, gathered the last gasps of dying men and cloth'd them in the visage of a phantom of the Mando'ade, and let these ghostly legions, whose hunt for more to add to their ranks never ends, rampaged against the disorder in the space claim'd by the Taung millenia past.
The suicidal legions, accepting their doom, contained the worst of the plague from the world's they controlled, and the most opportunistic of villains whose darken'd hands were raised in shadows against the holy children of Mand'Alor.
And at the head of these legions of the dying, a Permanent Commander to lead the armies of decay and to pass the grim honor to the next to be chosen by Clan Hades when he can lead no longer...
--translated from a stone tablet in Mandalorian Commando Verse.
The Phantom Legion was a sort of "Emergency Army" organized to defend Mandalorian space from both its chief rivals in the region and primarily from the horror of the Gulag Plague. Created by Jeremiah Hades, the A'lor of Clan Hades when the Gulag Plague was at its worst.
Clan Hades, at the time among the best medical specialists in all the clans, had kept their numbers high through a calculated strategy of isolation, immeasurable wealth from being the head of several Mandalorian-owned medical research companies on the verge of failure due to the galaxy wide economic crisis as a result of the plague, consolidating their assets by liquidating the firms holdings and gathered those suffering from terminal, non transmissible conditions by offering incentives such as credits and access to their advanced medical tech to other clans willing to bite. Only those who were still combat capable were accepted, fitted with experimental cybernetics, implants and drugs to keep them alive and capable as long as possible, putting them in cryonic preservation between missions. Clan Hades controlled The Phantom Legion utterly, sending the infamously ghostly-armored warriors to death containing the plague, or fighting in truly hellish conditions other mercenaries wouldn't even think of touching. Ever the pragmatists, the Phantom Legion soon began accepting dying warriors from outside the clan. Many in the clans feared Hades' subjects would ever increase, as they efficiently converted whatever they took from their battles into the ranks, and then turn their eyes to conquering Mandalorian Space with an army of the dead. Clan Hades soon came to be known by the (At times prejorative) terms "Plague Doctors", "The Pale Vultures" (Though that last one could mean, at times, a back handed compliment). Jeremiah himself was known by the sobriquet "The Marching-Far-Away-Man." This title was inherited by his successors during the plague.
However, the only thing that separated Clan Hades from Mandalore The Uniter was a lack of ambition, and as soon as the other clans demanded they cease their efforts, they immediately decommissioned a vast majority of Legion forces, put the rest of the army in cold storage, to keep them alive as long as possible until a cure perhaps could be found for their various conditions, discharging the rest to their respective clan as they desired, and shared with them the full profits of their ventures. Though the clan itself along with its greatly reduced army is long considered vanished, their selfless surrender of the unexpectedly massive amount of power they accrued to avoid needless bloodshed caused them to be remembered fondly as "The ones who knew when enough was enough."
As of late, Clan Hades made an unexpected resurgence, their numbers and weapons and ships swelled significantly enough to possibly make the other clans nervous. Time will tell if the Clan has become more ambitious than it used to be though they are still ostensibly loyal to whoever is recognized by the majority as Mandalore.
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