Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a force of Sith Alchemists within the power base of the Lady of Secrets
- Image Credit: https://scryfall.com/card/afc/107/plaguecrafter
- Role: A cabal of Sith Alchemists that specialize in creating alchemically or scientifically replicated viruses, bacteria, and other biological agents that can be used by the Sith against their enemies.
- Permissions: N/A
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- Unit Name: Malaise Adepts
- Affiliation:
- Classification: Biological Warfare Specialists and Alchemists
- Description: Formed as the power base of Darth Arcanix expanded and evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Tenth Sith Empire and the fall of Odavessa, Malaise Adepts are specially trained Enigma Adepts (Sith Knights) that are used by their Master for infiltration, sabotage, and research missions revolving around the use of biological warfare and various developed or replicated pathogens. The insignia of the cabal is the Order of Arcane Syn symbol with a green and white coloration.
- Unit Size: Small
- Unit Availability: Rare
- Unit Experience: Elite
- Equipment:
- Weapons
- Lightsabers (Vary among members)
- Armor/Attire
- Various disguises when deployed in the field
- Sith Robes
- Other Equipment
- Needle Gloves
- Vials that carry a variety of pathogens to unleash
- Vials that carry the vaccines or cures to their various pathogens
- Various pieces of medical equipment
- ALBATROSS Triage Drone
- Starships
- Weapons
- Combat Function:
- If a Malaise Adept joins a combat situation or military campaign, they prefer to take on roles that debilitate and weaken enemy forces while making sure their allies are not affected by their machinations. They will slink onto an enemy world as part of a vanguard or infiltration force, generally disguised as a civilian or refugee, and quietly begin spreading their various pathogens throughout the civilian and military populations of a location. If forced into active combat, they prefer to stick to long-range Force techniques that weaken their opponents and utilize Soresu and Niman as their primary lightsaber forms.
- Force Abilities (Force User Units Only):
- Sith Alchemy
- Force Slow
- Force Affliction
- Force Plague
- Force Sense
- Life Detection
- Dim Other's Senses
- Inflict Pain
- Malaise Adepts are fully trained Sith Knights, with Darth Arcanix and other Sith Masters in her power base training them in techniques to hinder and weaken their enemies and Sith Alchemy practices to create various new pathogens and biological agents.
- Malaise Adepts have been taught how to be professional actors and undercover agents when they are out in the field, whether on their Master's orders or testing their own creations. One of their favorite tactics is to quietly unleash the latest pathogen they are studying by disguising themselves and watch it wreak havoc on a population before, at the height of the chaos, they appear as a benevolent doctor or scientist that has been frantically working on a cure to whatever ailment they secretly unleashed.
- Many of the pathogens they carry on their persons, whether in vials or syringes, are potent weapons they can use in a variety of situations. They carry the vaccines and cures for the pathogens they are researching for both data retrieval and because they can also be susceptible to their own work and need to make sure they can cure themselves if they become infected.
- While they have some training in lightsaber forms, if they are engaged directly by an enemy in close quarters combat, especially enemies more skilled than they are, they will quickly be overwhelmed and defeated.
- While their Force techniques can be quite potent, against a stronger individual in the Force that can resist their effects, Malaise Adepts do not have very many tools left they can use against such a stronger opponent.
With the fall of the Tenth Sith Empire, and the continued evolution and shadowy plans of the Order of Arcane Syn, Darth Arcanix began adapting and altering the structure and composition of her field units. While she could field a small army if needed, many of her desires and objectives required quieter force, especially in the current state of the galaxy. Many of the Sith that followed her; many of whom had been Jedi that she had suborned and joined her during the first Galactic Alliance of the modern era in Operation Eclipse, along with others she had recruited from Sith space would be reorganized into units and specialized adept classifications based on their skills.
Malaise Adepts, the Sith Adepts that form this cabal of alchemists and Sith scientists, are a mixture of corrupted Jedi that have become fascinated by Sith-created bioweapons, initially to counter them and then to develop them, and Sith alchemists that follow in the footsteps of Sith such as Vul Isen. Whatever their origins, the Sith that form the Malaise Adepts within the Order of Arcane Syn are constantly at work to develop new bioweapons for use against the Sith's enemies and for their own curiosity. Many split their time between the laboratories on Valrar or on a newly established facility on Coyerti and deploying into the field to test their creations for valuable data by inflicting them on random samples in various cities and planets.
