- Intent: To create a narrative insurgent force to operate within New Imperial Order Space.
- Image Credit: Emblem made by me inspired by H4LCY0N | sithtroopersundercity.png by Ruthless Xero at wookiepedia.com
- Role: In sharp contrast to the other elements of the Qo’krataa, the Qo'massassi, the Way of the Warriors, may be the only true answer the Qo’krataa has to a standard military force. Much of their duties are similar to what most rank and file would be charged with in standard militaries, though, their deployments are generally to support pre-planned uprisings and to clean up after terror strikes. The Qo’massassi are rarely directly deployed, and operate from a variety of cell locations. Mainly scattered throughout the Outer Rim, with isolated, forgotten planets acting as perfect staging locations for forward bases. Though, most often, they are found inside of the various cruisers and other light vessels owned by their immediate commanders. Following in the footsteps of their leader, Gatlin, they stay to the shadows of real space.
- 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: The Qo'massassi
- 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: Strike force.
- Description: The Qo'massassi directly mimic the combat tactics, strategies, and culture of the old Sith Triumvirate forces. Whether this is from historical understanding or simple random chance hasn’t been properly seen. It would be farfetched to call the Qo'massassi a standing army of any kind, however. They do not have the numbers, nor general organizational ability, to be classified as an army proper. They act as the militant arm of the Qo’krataa cult. This infers a strict code of religious adherence, normally following in the footsteps of the cult’s laymen, and radical devotion to the cause. The dividing line is that the Qo'massassi look to the terror of warfare as their inspiration. While the more common rabble of the Qo’krataa may be fine with random strikes and firebombs to governmental buildings, the Qo'massassi desire something more. They revel in the organization of war and conflict, seeing it as the necessary step to bring Gatlin’s vision of the Sith Order to fruition. While the dredges may soften up the target with terrorist strikes on the ground level, the Qo'massassi plot out campaigns and wargame in their spare time.
- COMBAT INFORMATION:
- Unit Size: Medium
- Unit Availability: Rare
- Unit Experience: Trained
- Equipment: Sith Trooper Armor, silver for common infantry and red for commanders. | KXR SFR-58 'Bozdugan' Blaster Rifle | DT-57 heavy blaster pistol | Mark II medium repeating blaster cannon | Thermal Detonators | Whatever they can get their hands on, generally more out of date tech than what is the common norm.
- Combat Function: When Gatlin requires boots on the ground to make his will be known, the Qo'massassi are who he sends. Though more ragtag than most combat groups, with the only accepted commonality between the different subunits being armor design, they are still all drilled to execute his commands. Their function in combat, generally, is securing locations originally disrupted by earlier strikes by other members of the Qo’krataa cult. Though lacking the numbers to operate in any large scale encounter, they are apt when it comes to securing buildings and other high profile targets via automatic blaster fire. They strike quick, they strike hard, and they keep their range of targets narrow. This is not a unit that you would find spread thin battering against the lines of an opposing army, this is a unit that would breach the doors to a capital building and gundown the planetary governor where they stood. Though they fancy themselves commandos, they are little more than terrorists with some former training.
- Devoted. While there is no common accepted scripture for the Qo’krataa cult, there are general beliefs. The idea that the Sith of the new age of weak and malignant due to their success is a major one, the idea that the Galaxy would be better off dead and lifeless another, and the final ideal that the cycle would resume after said dead and the Sith-Jedi conflict would rise again with a different name. These men and women believe in the Qo’krataa’s message, and are willing to lay down their lives to see it through.
- Irregular Warfare. While more organized than other elements within the Qo’krataa, the Qo'massassi still follow radically different regulations than most standard military units do. Any generally agreed upon norm of warfare isn’t something they feel the need to follow. Hospitals are just as valid to turn into an emergency forward base as any other military target. Firing upon medics is just as valid to them as any other combatant. Chemical warfare? Just another normal day.
- Low numbers. Due to their nature of being formed from traitors and deserters of more established armies, along with the fact that the commanding officers aren’t above executing anyone who’s devotion doesn’t go the extra required numbers, they have very little in the way of spare numbers. Every member of the Qo'massassi is valuable, each name is worth having, as missing a single member could entail an entire operation requiring massive reworking to work as wished.
- Poor support. Outside of other Qo'massassi cells, there’s not an established chain of supplies to this unit. It’s common for Qo'massassi cells to raid, raze, and plunder smaller settlements across the Outer Rim just to keep food on the table. Within the Cult as a whole, they have even less direct supply. The rambling madmen can’t serve and the priests are more comfortable fasting for the fun of it. They operate on a razor thin margin of having just enough to scrape by.
As the legend of Gatlin and the Qo’krataa cult spread across the Holonet, it is a simple chance and luck that the message would eventually make it’s way to derelict and lost New Imperial and Sith Imperial commanders and soldiers operating in the area. Through the searing warfare that arched throughout the Outer Rim, many men and women were left weary and lost, without a cause or purpose that actually held meaning. Thus, the nihilistic nature of the Qo’krataa spoke directly to these wayward warriors. If your current allegiance didn’t care for you, if they didn’t value warriors willing to die in their service, come with us, it claimed. This message of “burn it all down” spoke directly to the broken and damned. It’s difficult to say when the first examples of Outer Rim military personnel simply “vanishing” beyond the veil of real space became something commanders had to worry about, but soon after the emergence of Gatlin as a force upon the New Imperial battlefields, occurrences like this became more and more common.
While many of these units were displaced from their general command structure at their leaving, and there was no general central authority to guide or direct them, due to the sheer number of random naval, military, and civilian elements that fell to the arms of Qo’krataa, many of these soldiers found one way or another to locate themselves beyond the Braxant Run. Finding home on one of the many ships taken to the Qo’krataa name, or rarer still, one of the few hidden bases scattered between the least populous sections of the Rim.
