Darth Voyance
Dark Saint of the Sith
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a comprehensive guide to the Sith Battle Chapters - the various Sith Chapter Trooper units that NFU PC's will be RPing within the Warlords of the Sith
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GENERAL INFORMATION
- Army Name: Sith Battle Chapters
- Classification: Sith Warlord's Host - Armed Forces - Sith Chapter Troopers
- Army Symbol: See Above
- Description:
- Headquarters:
- Currently, (although there are worlds claimed by the Sith Warlords), the Sith Battle Chapters are tied to crusading fleets that the Warlords command. They headquartered on battleships and use them as their mobile bases. Currently there are three major Warlord Fleets under the command of the ruling Warlord's - Darth Voyance (Praxeum Fleet),
Kascalion Giedfield
(Dread Fleet) and
Vora Kaar
(Errant Fleet).
- Goals:
- Sith Battle Chapter Troopers [pictured right in their black and red armor] are a unique brand of soldiers in the galaxy - some fight for the Imperial Idea of Order and Liberation like the Stormtrooper Legions of the New Imperial Order, others fight under the boot of Threatened Reprisals and Enforced Servitude like those under the command of the Sith Empire, and some fight for others, for the idea of true freedom (however flawed it maybe) like the Troopers of the Galactic Alliance - the Battle Chapter Troopers of the Warlords of the Sith fight for just two things: Avarice and Themselves.
- Rather than duty, threats or ideology - they fight for the Feudal gains that they are entitled to if they render a great service to the conquests of the Warlords. Like a sort of peerage of merit - any person can ascend the ranks of the Warlords Non-Sith Sphere of Power and rise from humble Trooper to Sith Baron.
- This Feudal System of Elevation attracts the ambitious warrior, the opportunistic despot, and the hungry battle-borne to the side of the Warlords, swelling their ranks with Soldiers of Fortune - for one does not have to be a Force User to cultivate the Sith Code - fighting to gain strength and power is what being Sith is.
- As a result of this the collective goals of the Sith Battle Chapters is the same as their Sith Warlord feudal patrons - Conquest, Sith Warlord Supremacy, and Power.
- Reputation:
- Unlike other Sith ruling bodies which treat their Non-Force Users as nameless minions - those of the Sith Battle Chapters are respected and venerated by Non-Force User and Sith Warlord a like for their warrior might.
- The philosophy of Might Makes Right - and that even a Non-Force Users can cultivate the tenants of the Sith Code (striving for power and breaking bonds of weakness) - flows into the Sith Battle Chapters.
- Within the Warlords of the Sith they are seen as Knights of a Different Sort - rewarded with patronages, peerages, and elevations to Sith Baron and given their own claims to Sith Feoffment and wealth.
COMPOSITION INFORMATION
- Army Size: [Medium]
- How Big is a Sith Battle Chapter?
- A single Sith Battle Chapter is comparable to an Imperial Line Regiment - with an estimated personnel count of 3,300
- This is further subdivided into 4 Sith Chapter Battalions - this unit is estimated to have 750 personnel and are commanded by Battle Chapter Captains (or Chapter Captains)
- One of these Chapter Battalions is given overall tactical command as the Command Chapter Battalion and this is the unit the Lord Chapter Commander personally commands
- Within each Sith Chapter Battalions are Sith Special Force Attachments known as Sith Dark Platoons - this unit has an estimated 30 personnel - including:
- Sith Lords/Knights specialized in Tactical Anti-Force User Warfare known as Sith Battle Lords
- Sith Lords/Knights who specialize in Dark Side Force Buffs/Battle Meditation and Altering Arts called Sith Battle Priests
- Sith Lords/Knights who specialize in Sith Spawn Attack/Siege Weaponry called Sith Spawn Masters
- Despite their numbers they are not as numerous as the more numerous Sith Battle Corps (which are made up of more numerous indoctrinated and conscripted war-levies).
- As such Sith Battle Chapters are made up the most well-trained, the most loyal, and the most well equipped Non-Force Users - which makes their numbers a precious few.
- How Big is a Sith Battle Chapter?
- Composition:
MEMBERS
- Known Sith Battle Chapters:
- The Red Sons of Korriban Sith Battle Chapter:
- The First Sith Pure-Blood Clone Trooper Battle Chapter (from which all other Sith Clone Trooper Battle Chapters are modeled)
- Commanded by
Zassat Rond
- The Embers Sith Battle Chapter:
- Special Shock Troop Battle Chapter
- Includes the infamous: 13th Ember Battalion led by Chapter Captain Ilitherna
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Formed by Darth Voyance during the creation of the Qotsisajakaar (the Keepers of the Sith - the first Schism Sith Order), they Sith Battle Chapters were created with the intelligence gathered from the infant New Imperial Order. Voyance had witnessed first hand the crippling system of Sith Lord Command in military operations under the Sith Empire's Legion structure. Thus, when Voyance seceded from the Sith Empire, she took her own band of soldiers and drilled them to comply to a more secular command. Sith Battle Chapters became their own separate command structure - led by soldiers not Sith Lords and Knights. As such they have developed in a fighting force more meritocratic, kraterocratic, and feudal in nature. The First Chapters like the Red Sons of Korriban and the Embers were forged on Sepulcher - in this moment this was called THE FIRST MUSTER.
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