Autolycus
- Intent: Meliant needs some cool stormtroopers to yell at people for him (he's busy doing nothing).
- Image Credit:
- I made the logo by making some adjustments to the Restored Empire logo and the Sith logo. The headers are also by me. Tell me I'm pretty.
- Later on, you will see the Nova Trooper model that Deggial Nox made, which he shared on Twitter.
- Role: Evil bastards, set loose upon the galaxy to do evil, bastard things.
- Permissions: N/A
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- Unit Name: Night Legionaries
- Affiliation:
- Classification: Special Forces, Death Squad, Field Commanders
- Description:
The Night Legionary was the face of Meliant's Night Legion and emblematic of his rule over Coruscant. Which was to say: they were the face of an evil system of extortion, over which the thin veneer of Imperial government was crudely draped. With jet-black armor, accented in burnished gold, there was no question of who these stormtroopers served and why.
Night Legionaries were found deployed individually, overseeing larger groups of stormtroopers, army troopers, battle droids, or mercenaries. They were most commonly sighted undertaking garrison duties in the former Federal District of Coruscant, but frequently participated in military deployments on behalf of the Sith Covenant. When acting in concert, they would function in fireteams of up to six members.
Legionaries operated with impunity and often engaged in criminal activity. This most commonly amounted to trafficking in narcotics, war materiel, antiquities, and sentient beings. These were very rarely cared out in secret, as the Legionaries were themselves invariably rapacious, erratic, arrogant, ruthless, and cavalier. Their taste for violence was matched only by their proficiency in inflicting it.
Legionaries formed an informal but tightly-knit brotherhood, refusing to betray or undermine their peers and superiors. They did not feel this attachment towards regular soldiery, who they viewed as irrelevant and expendable. Regular soldiers feared and despised the Legionaries.
Many Legionaries were enthralled through sorcery to their Tribunes, who were Sith Battlelords.
- Unit Size: Sith Temple, Federal District, Coruscant
- Unit Availability: Uncommon
- Unit Experience: Elite
- Equipment:
- E11D Blaster Carbine, Electrobatons, Electrohammers, Electrostaves
- Wrist Mounted: Flamethrowers, Whipcord Launchers, Dart Launchers
- Beskar-Alloy Armor, Jetpacks (Rarely), Vocal Scramblers, Micro-Motion Sensors
- Experimental Cybernetic Augments, Combat Inhalants
- Night Legionaries had unlimited access to both standard Imperial military surplus and secret, experimental programs. If they had the opportunity to prepare, they almost certainly would, and all sorts of equipment would find its way into their hands.
- Combat Function: Night Legionaries were usually deployed in small teams of 1-6, supported by larger units of typical stormtroopers or army troopers. They fought both as commandos and officers. Mostly, the Legionaries were expected to deal with atypical threats considered beyond the abilities of rank-and-file soldiers. Namely: Force Sensitives, and other "elite warrior-culture" types. Enemy rank-and-file units were rarely of consideration to them.
- Force Abilities: (Praetorian Elite only) Enhance Attribute, Precognition
[ + ] Enhanced strength, endurance, reflexes through cybernetic augmentation
[ + ] Preeminently skilled in converting living creatures into corpses
[ + ] Wide array of specialized equipment and training to draw on; flexible
[ - ] Criminal, self-serving, and insular - don't work well with others
[ - ] Loathed by regular soldiers and most everyone else
[ - ] A nearly perpetual source of destabilization wherever they are garrisoned
The collapse of the Galactic Empire of Darth Solipsis left no shortage of elite, professional soldiers without purpose and (perhaps more importantly) without pay. These individuals required only a little incentive to swear themselves to the new Emperor of Coruscant: Hasuras Na-Amoun, better known as Meliant. They were promised ample opportunity to enrich themselves, total impunity while on Coruscant, and access to the very best equipment the former Empire had been prototyping.
Those soldiers who accepted - and there were many - were intermingled with the veteran regulars of the former 551st Stormtrooper Legion, and reorganized into the Night Legionaries. Many of them were also sorcerously bound into thralldom under his Tribunes, who had long been turned into Sith Battlelords. The consequences of these Dark Side rituals, joined the already frankly maladjusted nature of Imperial special forces operators gave the Night Legionaries their uniquely unpleasant aura.
The best and most infamous of the Legionaries were appointed to the Praetorian Elite, the Emperor's personal honor-guard. Their induction ceremony saw them suffused with the power of the Dark Side, granting them limited abilities and binding them irrevocably to Meliant himself.
