Directorate Officer
"It's not wise to upset a wookiee..." ~a famous Corellian smuggler
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To make an updated Wookiee Regiment unit available to the Silver Jedi and Directorate
Image Credit: here
Role: Heavy Infantry
Links: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Directorate, Kwookrrr, Lucerne Personal Defense
- Unit Name: Kwookrrr Assault Regiment
Affiliation: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Directorate
Classification: Line Regiment
Equipment: Battle Scythes (standard repulsorcraft vehicle)
- Squad Command Element: 1 wookiee sergeant equipped as follows:
1 Bowcaster or Firestrike Machine Gun or Kashyyyk Long-gun (Sergeant primary weapon) - 1 Akk Dog Mobile Shield Generator
[*]Fire Team 1: (3 Arrichit-series Synthetic Soldiers) each with the following:
- 1 Firestrike Machine Gun
- 2 Silver Talon series Vibroblade (Ryyk Blade pattern)
[*]Fire Team 2 (3 Arrichit-series Synthetic Soldiers) each with the following:
[*]Fire Team 3 (2 Arrichit-series Synthetic Soldier Mortar Operators, 1 Arrichit-series Synthetic Soldier Rocketeer) with the following:
- 2 Flamefist Mortars (Mortar operator primary weapon)
- 1 Wookiee Guided Rocket Launcher (Rocketeer Primary weapon)
- 3 UR-G8 Blaster Pistol (secondary weapon for all fire team 3 members)
COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Large
Unit Availability: Common
Unit Experience: Trained
Combat Function:
Kwookrrr Assault Regiments function as heavy infantry much like their ancestors in the wookiee regiments that served the Rebel Alliance. On a strategic level, Kwookrrr Assault Regiments are organized based on the old Imperial Line Regiment model, meaning that while most of its troops act as basic foot soldiers, a smaller number are mobile through the use of refurbished Battle Scythes. This largely dictates long-term strategic movements, with the repulsorcraft being used to quickly taxi elements to strategic positions while the mass of the formation slugs it out direct combats. As the Kwookrrr Assault Regiments are typically directed deployed into the thick of combat as assault troops, quick movement is a secondary concern at best. As dedicated assault troops, Kwookrrr Assault troops embrace the "A best defense is a good offense" philosophy. This is exemplified in the impressive individual firepower carried by individual troopers, which allows them to use high rates of suppressive firepower from machine guns and mortars. Rather than use the imperial model for squad organization, Kwookrrr Assault squads are actually based on an old wookiee hunting party tradition, which uses three groups of three individuals guided by a hunt guide, who largely act as a conventional sergeant. The first two trios of soldiers typically use a combination of heavy suppressive firepower through their machine guns along with leap-frog tactics to rapidly advance up the battlefield, though their roles are partially differentiated by their second weapons. The first element can dual wield ryyk-pattern viboblades for close quarters combat while the second element is often called upon to eliminate clusters of troops or fortified positions by using cluster thermal detonators. The last fireteam typically lags behind the other two, but uses their heavy weapons to act as an embedded artillery unit to destroy enemy positions or vehicles or to drive targets into the kill zones of the other element's machine guns. The organic squad leader constantly moves among these fire teams, using his or her experience to better guide the synthetic soldiers or provide them with additional protection through his portable shield generator.
Strengths:
Heavy Firepower: Kwookrrr Assault troops carry far more personal firepower than most of their counterparts, largely due to the most common weapon in the regiment being a machine gun. This also means that the sheer volume of fire that these assault troops can produce can be staggering. Since the last fire team of a squad carrying heavy exposive weapons, a single squad of troops can be dangerous to enemy vehicles and fortified fighting positions.
Unwavering: Kwookrrr Assault troops have ample amounts of implacable courage that not only stems from their sanguine leadership and cultural traditions, but also from the biomechanical nature of most of their troops: a droid doesn't particularly care if it's shot as long as it accomplishes its mission.
Weak Defenses: Kwookrrr Assault troops are fairly weakly protected compared to many of their counterparts, who often wear encasing battle armor. Most Kwookrrr troops don't wear any armor, and those elements that do adopt any semblance of armor wear traditional wookiee bracers, pauldrons, and the like which provide almost no practical benefit on the modern battlefield. The one source of real protection within the squad is a portable shield generator, but even that has a notable limited use of battle and forces the squad to stay clustered up together in order to derive protection from it.
Beserkers: Wookiees are sometimes known for losing their tempers, and the wookiees of the Kwookrrr Assault Troops are no exception to this reputation. It is not uncommon to see hothead wookiee warriors leading their droids recklessly into battle without a plan against a foe who has angered them.
Kwookrrr has long been a relatively quiet if industrious arboreal world in wookiee space, but behind that peaceful facade remains the fact that it once was a slave factory world of the old Galactic Empire. With the overthrow of the Empire from that world, the wookiees of Kwookrr maintained militias scattered across the world in case the Empire rose again. This tradition has continued to persist until relatively recently. When Lucerne Labs made the world the home of its headquarters, the company began to casually influence the world's scattered martial traditions to become a more centrally controlled and maintained military. The relative success of the 6th Kwookrrr Armor Regiment encouraged the world's leaders to consider forming new professional units rather than rely on their traditional militias. This had previously been stymied by a lack of willing volunteers, but the advent of the Arrichit-series Synthetic Soldiers being churned out on the world from Lucerne Lab's factories resolved this issue. As Lucerne Labs began to roll out thousands of these synthetic soldiers, Lucerne Personal Defense equipped them just as quickly. While Lucerne Labs was responsible for vast majority of the regiments' troops, the organic cores actually from the world's venerable militia tradition, though the organic soldiers within those ranks quickly found themselves elevated into position, with baseline Wookiee warriors finding themselves leading squads of biomechanical Arrichit series Soldiers. Most of these newly dubbed "Kwookrrr Assault Regiments" act as heavy infantry in defense of the world or act as expeditionary troops for the Silver Jedi and its affiliated organizations. The Directorate itself has several of these regiments under its own banner, though the organic core is filled by wookiees from a variety of worlds (still predominantly Kwookrrr) who have joined the Directorate's over their homeworld's for political or financial considerations. Thus far, Kwookrrr Assault Regiments have only seen small scale use in limited engagements, where their combination of ferocity and heavy firepower have quickly decided engagements against decidedly lesser foes. While this has largely contributed to glory-seeking subculture within the regiment especially in its lower ranks, this limited service has also troubled many more senior officers who are worried that their troops may become overconfident. It thus far remains to be seen how these troops will fare against more regular and conventionally equipped opponents.