Directorate Officer
"Sure...they totally did that. The next thing you'll be telling me is that they're actually from the moon..." ~anonymous Antarian Ranger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To make a fighting unit from Contruum
Image Credit: here
Role: Guerillas / Special Forces
Links: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Lucerne Personal Defense, Contruum
Unit Name: Contruum Special Warfare Regiment (CSWR) - "Cracken's Legacy"
Affiliation: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Contruum
Classification: Guerillas / Special Forces
Equipment:
All Troops
Massiff Blast Armor with Vornskr Blast Helmet and Bantha MLBS
1 Cracken Combat Knife
[*]Squad Command Element (1 sergeant, 1 demolitions expert)
- 1 LPD-31 Stormshard Ripper Rifle (standard sergeant and demolition expert primary weapon)
- 1 Interference Box (Sergeant)
- 2 Thermal Wells (demolitions expert)
- 1 large container of Plasticene Thermite Gel (demolitions expert)
- 1 T-44 Power Shunt (demolitions expert)
[*]Fire Team 1 (3 Riflemen, 1 Close-Quarters specialist):
1 LPD-31 Stormshard Ripper Rifle (standard rifleman weapon)
1 LPD-20 Hailstorm Flechette Carbine (CQ specialist primary weapon)
2 LPD-24 Fireblast Dual Purpose Grenades (per team member)
2 7-PrG Proton Grenades (per team member)
2 LPD-35 Shadowcaster Gaseous Grenades (per team member)
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Fire Team 2 (3 Riflemen, 1 Heavy Gunner) :
1 LPD-31 Stormshard Ripper Rifle (standard rifleman weapon)
1 LPD-15 Stormfire Heavy Repeater (heavy gunner primary weapon)
2 LPD-24 Fireblast Dual Purpose Grenades (per team member)
2 7-PrG Proton Grenades (per team member)
2 LPD-35 Shadowcaster Gaseous Grenades (per team member)
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Description: The Contruum Special Warfare Regiment (CSWR) is a moderately famed military organization that traces its past to Airen Cracken's militia formed during the Galactic Civil War. So much so that they are often referred to as "Cracken's Legacy". True to their past, the CSWR remain highly proficient jury-riggers and stealthy guerillas who excel in conducting small unit sabotage, infiltrations, and other like special operations. While highly vaunted for their abilities in their local Truum Sector, the soldiers of the CSWR are not without their faults. Being so steeped in Cracken's legacy and past means that their overall methods can be predictable to knowledgeable foes, and the troopers are hampered in conventional engagements by short-ranged weaponry and a stubborn independence that manifests as an unwillingness to cooperate in larger groups or with friendly forces. Consequently, while troops of the CSWR are unlikely to ever win a conventional battle, they are an invaluable supplement to the Contruum Defense Forces and their Silver Jedi allies.
COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Large
Unit Availability: Common
Unit Experience: Trained
Combat Function: While many military formations have operational formations that differ from their official organization charts, the CSWR takes that practice to the extreme. While officially commanded by phlegmatic General Scorja and a cadre of senior officers and NCOs, in day to day practice the regiment's operation tempo is instead run by mid-level NCOs because the CSWR performs most of its field work in small platoon and squad level teams. Scorja and his officers typically plan out the strategic objectives and acquire any additional resources, but typically leave actual mission planning and operations to these NCOs. The decentralized nature of this command means that elements of CSWR aren't coordinated with each other, nor is there any cohesive command group ensuring that they can or will cooperate with each other, let alone outside forces. This can be advantageous for maintaining secrecy in many of their missions, but it also means that CSWR elements often do not react effectively or cohesively to the appearance of large enemy forces: they typically retreat when faced with large numbers of conventional forces. However, the CSWR is highly effective in small unit actions, particularly in staging ambushes or executing infiltrations behind enemy lines. Here the CSWR soldier's stealth comes into its own, allowing the troops to conduct effective guerrilla operations to sabotage enemy vehicles and assets or conduct abductions of enemy personnel for intelligence gathering. CSWR soldiers have a fondness for operating in pairs to strike at targets from multiple directions, overwhelming them with converging fields of fire. When faced with a significant threat or prolonged conventional fighting, they typically exfiltrate in the same team pairs, using Shadowcaster grenades to mask their disappearance from their fighting positions.
Stealthy: CSWR soldiers are stealthier than the average soldier, having carefully developed movement patterns over the years that makes them difficult to hear. CSWR soldiers are tend to be fairly good at hiding and moving with a minimal chance of being spotted. Being issued Shadowcaster grenades and Interference Boxes only enhance these almost innate abilities. CSWR soldiers consequently excel at executing ambushes and infiltrations in a variety of environments.
Tough: CSWR soldiers are picked men from Contruum's Defense Forces, making them already physically and mentally tougher than many of their peers. The selection process and subsequent experience gained afterwards only refines and solidifies these qualities.
Jury-Riggers: Taking much inspiration from their distant founder, famed rebel Airen Cracken, the CSWR are excellent if unusually subtle saboteurs because of an extensive skillset of jury-rigging. As an example, while a typical saboteur might destroy a vehicle with a massive, fiery explosion, a CSWR group is more likely to replace a landspeeder's power conduit with a T-44 Power Shunt or "accidentally" connect a negative power coupler with a positive flow detonator. Likewise, they can be quite resourceful in acquiring or repairing any vehicles they find or solving other problems by cobbling together solutions from common technological parts.
Loners: CSWR soldiers tend to stick to small groups even within the Regiment. This lack of cohesiveness within the regiment is even worse to outside units within the Contruum Defense Forces or the Silver Jedi, and CSWR soldiers rarely cooperate with those units in the field even if they are near each other.
Predictable: CSWR troops take much of their inspiration from Cracken's exploits, and anyone with a passing familiarity will notice that much of their tactics and strategies that aren't direct copies of that man's work are easily guessed variations of the same tactics. This lack of creativity can make them predictable to those who have a good knowledge of Cracken's career or who have encountered CSWR troops before.
Short-Range Weapons: The vast majority of weapons issued to CSWR soldiers are fairly short-ranged, which can easily become a liability in the field against many foes.
The CSWR trace its heritage to a cell of the Contruum militia organized by Airen Cracken himself during the world's occupation by the Galactic Empire. Later on, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the group was assigned to the Contruum Moonbase on standby for expected hostilities with the extragalactic invaders. Since then, the group has steadily grown in size to its current state as a full-fledged regiment, though the group has never forgotten its origins as a much smaller group. In embracing its roots, much of the day to day operations are run on a much smaller level than is normal for a military unit with typical company level activities being run at a platoon level, platoon level activities being run on a squad level, and so forth. This has fostered an independence and self-sufficiency within CSWR troops that while invaluable when fighting in small guerilla groups, has also led to a well-deserved reputation among their allies as being difficult or even impossible to work with. Consequently, the CSWR has not developed as good as a reputation among the other Contruum Defense Forces as it should probably have based on performance alone. Despite this aloofness, the CSWR has seen limited deployments with the Silver Jedi and the ISAF against politically sensitive targets where it was desirable to conceal ISAF involvement. One of these was the destruction of a drug cartel's warehouse in an apparent power generator overload. Another event was the mysterious extradiction of the notorious slaver Y'toul Terel from Nal Hutta to the federal courts on Kashyyyk. While their success's are obscured and not ever likely to be known by the galaxy at large, the warriors of Cracken's Legacy seem content to remain in the shadows whether abroad or in their secret moonbase.
