OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a narrative terror cell to operate within New Imperial Order Space.
- Image Credit: Emblem made by me inspired by H4LCY0N | Blood Pact guerilla WIP By kriegsmachine14
- Role: This unit will act as the shadows in the dark for the Qo’krataa cult. Compared to actual military rank and file of the cult, the men and women of the Qo'grotthukut could be anyone. Your neighbor, your mailman, your mother, son, maybe even yourself. They operate between the normal rules of engagement, willing to perform the most deprived acts of wanton slaughter for their masters.
- Permissions: NA
- Links: Supreme Commander of the Qo’krataa Forces, the Qorit’taral. The Black Paladin Gatlin, the figure of the iconoclast worship of the cult. The Rallying of the Qo’kratta. The New Imperial Order
- Unit Name: Qo'grotthukut, Way of the Slaves in Sith. Though commonly, different news sources will have different names for this highly informal group of combatants. Normally, phrases like the Unidentified Sith Cell, the Sith Terrorists, and other such phrases will be thrown around in common Galactic Media.
- Affiliation: Supreme Commander of the Qo’krataa Forces, the Qorit’taral. The Black Paladin Gatlin, the figure of the iconoclast worship of the cult. The New Imperial Order | the Qo’krataa, the factions this sub will be used by.
- Classification: Terror Cell
- Description: The Qo'grotthukut (TQG) are, at their heart, nothing more than a loose collection of terrorists operating on the whims and suggestions of the Qorit’taral and their perceived Sith’ari in Gatlin. Many of their deeds are never given as direct commands by these two elements, and instead are simply actions taken in the name of these individuals. This has led to many of the actions they’ve taken being rather displaced from the actual intent of the cult, and giving it a much more public face than was originally wished.
- Unit Size: Small
- Unit Availability: Uncommon
- Unit Experience: Rabble
- Equipment: Generally, there is no common standard equipment among an organization such as this. Often, the Grotthukut will use anything from a simple kitchen knife, a hunting blaster rifle, or even repurposed farming equipment. Whatever they can get their hands on, concealed until their attack, will be used. Stolen equipment from more properly armed forces is common. Armor is a rarity between these members, and normally their operations never last long enough for it to matter. Some common weapons are listed below.
Thermal Detonators
General Civilian Grade blasters
Improvised Explosives
- Combat Function: In open combat, the Qo'grotthukut prove to be more of a liability to the more trained members of the Qo’krataa, thus, this is not where their strength lies. False flag attacks, terrorist strikes, and other forms of insurrectionist attacks are their common function. While it would be rare to see the members of the Qo'grotthukut forming the backing to a gunline, it is very common to see a busy market place suddenly burst to life with blaster fire as hidden agents pull blasters from their jackets and coats, letting rip into whoever dares stand in their path. They are untrained, unfocused, a pure device of blind hate and random terror.
- Untraceable. Due to the nature of being pseudo-members of the Qo’kataa cult, most of these members would have been radicalized through holonet sites, normally on the darker sides of the net. Generally, unless the government they’re operating in is actively tracing all holonet servers active, it’s impossible to tell who could be affected by the propaganda. There are, of course, certain groups that will be more taking to the cult, normally those with pre-existing social conditions that leave them wanting some form of acceptance. Though profiling can only go so far, and generally, anyone has the capability of being a member of the Qo'grotthukut.
- Unpredictable. Another benefit of being sourced primarily on the holonet, normally though secure server connections, most of the planning done by the Qo'grotthukut cells throughout the Outer Rim are done spontaneously, through ciphered phrases in Sith. True believers in the faith will press through these, though someone that managed to happen upon them will pass right by, not seeing anything of worth. This is a double edged sword, however, as many self-proclaimed members of the Qo'grotthukut will still go out of their way to make strikes and statements outside of the command structure. Bombings, shootings, and other actions born from the individual’s own thoughts, outside of a command from a higher up.
- Untrained. Most of the actual “training” that members of the Qo'grotthukut go through are nothing more than simple propagandized grimdark holovideos they find online. Normally with far too much bassy music, purposely edgy and angsty imagery, and plenty of white noise. If they are lucky, they might be linked to a few pages of a military infantryman’s primer, though more often than not, it’s not much past “point blaster and shoot.” Though, homemade explosive recipes are heavily common between sympathetic forums and other holonet sites.
- Unorganized. There exists no formal head of the Qo'grotthukut. While Gatlin and the Qorit’taral are viewed as their leaders, the amount of influence that they have over this group is minimal at best. Neither of those individuals have ever issued a direct command to the Qo'grotthukut, as they simply act on what they believe their leaders would wish of them. Local cell leaders generally have much more sway than Gatlin or the Qorit’taral, with some of them even using the guise of Gatlin and Qorit’taral to keep command over their cells. The best the command structure of the Qo’krataa can do to keep the Qo’grotthukut in line is make statements, infiltrate their sites, and attempt to suggest them in a particular direction.
The Qo’krataa cult in itself is nebulous in it’s forming, and the creation of it’s most lax hounds is hardly any well documented. What most New Imperial authorities have managed to gather, especially Corporal Haupont Rowlvent, the head of studies related to the cult, is that with the emergence of the figure known as “Gatlin”, there was a spark in Dark Side energy throughout the Outer Rim. This acts as a pseudo-nexus surrounding his vessel, and as it has moved through the bleakest portions of the Rim, those weak of mind have slowly heard voices clawing at the base of their skulls. Something was no longer quite right with their normal lives, and they yearned for something more, something more that they couldn’t quite place. This eventually led to the formation of the first conspiracy groups surrounding the concept, based off of the holonet. From there, investigations by the curious or morbidly ill would see more and more people edging closer and closer to the location of the Black Ship. Gatlin, being mainly unaware of these developments, hardly paid mind to the new vessels skirting on the edge of the ship graveyard his cruiser called home. Though, eventually, he was found. The most sensitive of these men and women had actually dared landings, and for the first couple doze, Gatlin had simply slaughtered them wholesale. Though, eventually they came in more and more deprived states, their humanity hardly seemed conceptual anymore. Gatlin simply no longer had the time to take away from his studies to deal with the mobs, so he allowed them to stay. Servants and admirers, and through that, the basis of the Qo’krataa cult was formed.
The more stable of these deranged sentients took to the holonet, the same trigger that had originally brought them into the fold, and set to work setting up sites and various rabbit holes that would slowly radicalize those curious enough to seek out the rumors that were left behind from the first wave of converts. The Holonet was the staging ground for change, and the media specialists within the cult would set out to groom new converts. While they would never reach the same level of maddening devotion as those within the inner circle aboard Gatlin’s ship, they kept a confused sanity about themselves. This wave of new, outside converts would become the base of the Qo'grotthukut and the foundation for the Qo’krataa. Eventually, spiraling into a full blown religious order that we see today. The Qo'grotthukut, by this nature, have always been an enigma to the more clean polished and professional members of the Qo’krataa, such as the Qorit’taral.
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