Directorate Officer
Intent: To provide the Silver Jedi 4th Fleet with a Repulsorlift Regiment
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Role: Repulsorlift Regiment - Fast, mobile firepower on the battlefield
Links: Gir Quee, V-19 Landspeeder, Howlrunner-class Repulsor Tank, Carabello-class Armored Clothes, Bantha Modular Load-bearing System, Neti Field Cloak, Stormburst Pistol, Shockwave Missile Launcher , Silver Jedi
Unit Name: 1st Lisal Volunteer's Repulsorlift Regiment - "Raider Rangers"
Affiliation: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi
Classification: Repulsorlift Regiment
Equipment: V-19 Landspeeder (equips 75% of unit), Howlrunner-class Repulsor Tank (equips 25% of unit), Carabello-class Armored Clothes (all troops), Bantha Modular Load-bearing System (all troops), Neti Field Cloak (all troops), Stormburst Pistol (all troops), Shockwave Missile Launcher (Landspeeder passengers (37.5% of unit)
A Repulsorlift Platoon is made out of four 8-man squads with supervised by a lieutenant (CO), platoon sergeant, and a pair of repair droids or mechanics. Each squad contains two V-19 Speeders manned by four troopers.
Repulsorlift Squad Order of Battle
Vehicle team 1: V-19 Gian Speeder
1 Driver: 1 Stormburst Pistol
1 Gunner: 1 Stormburst Pistol
2 Heavy Gunners (each): 1 Shockwave Missile Launcher, 1 Stormburst Pistol each
Vehicle team 2: V-19 Gian Speeder
1 Driver: 1 Stormburst Pistol
1 Gunner: 1 Stormburst Pistol
2 Heavy Gunners (each): 1 Shockwave Missile Launcher, 1 Stormburst Pistol each
Availability: Unique.
Deployment: Minor
Strengths & Weaknesses:
- Swift: The entire regiment is based and travels on repulsorlift vehicles, making them capable of rapid movements on the battlefield.
- Hardhitting: The Raider Ranger's are exceptionally well-armed, incorporating a battalion of Howlrunner Repulsor Tankss. The other three battalions may only travel on V-19s, but each of the landspeeder's two passengers wield Shockwave Missile Launchers, making the landspeeder crews quite dangerous in their own right.
- Lightly Armored: Both the vehicles and the assigned troops are rather lightly armored to maximize their mobility at the cost of durability on the battlefield.
- Collateral: Most of the Regiment's firepower is in heavy weapons, which while effective against armored vehicles and large formations, are largely a liability in closely confined areas such as inside of starships, cities, or other areas prone to collateral damage.
History:The Lisal Volunteers originally were a group of locally raised Antarrian Rangers that were quickly thrown together in 324 BBY when numerous darksiders came to the world in search for a fabled Sith artifact. As the incursions became more periodic, the Volunteer's formation became more regular until the artifact was ultimately found and disposed of by the ancient Silver Jedi. This began the Lisal Volunteer's long association with the Silver Jedi Order. As years passed, the 1st Lisal Volunteers have waxed and waned and change their composition countless times as they continually adapted to the circumstances of the outside galaxy. The present form of the Lisal Volunteers can be traced just shortly after the prime years of the Gulag Plague as a local policing unit primarily concerned chasing down bandits and other criminals who sought to settle their world with the return of mainstream space travel. A young officer named Masnach rose up the ranks with a ruthless drive to crush this new criminal underclass. Through a combination of tenacious fervor and sheer luck, Masnach became its commander and shaped this obsolete militia into the mostly modern and professional force it is today. During this modernization, the 1st Volunteers managed to acquire a large number of V-19 Landspeeders which became the basis for the Regiment's mobility. With the recent spread of the Silver Jedi's influence to the region, the Volunteer's have enjoyed a surge in recruitment and funding, allowing the group to attain the status of a reserve unit within the ISAF, along with more modern equipment, vehicles, and armaments. The Lisal Volunteers now primarily find themselves not as a local defense force, but as a reserve expeditionary unit. In this capacity, the Volunteers frequently find themselves traveling with the Silver Jedi's 4th Fleet and its attached 4th ISAF Corps. With these new connections and experiences, Colonel Masnach has developed a reputation as a single-minded gloryhound, throwing the Volunteers into the thick of battle at key points in the engagement without much thought for strategy. While this made the command staff of the Volunteers scoffed at within the ISAF, the individual troopers and small units within the Volunteers have developed a reputation as among the most dedicated fighters even in the hardest engagements. This has led the 1st Volunteers being used as "fire brigade" units, thrust into areas to quickly shore up defenses and turn around poorly fairing engagements.
Equipment: Unsurprisingly as a repulsorlift regiment, unit procurement has largely focused on obtaining vehicles. A difficult task given the limited budget of what originally was a militia force. However, additional funding from the ISAF and steep discounts from the allied Lucerne Labs has made the force much better equipped. To that end, the sole armor battalion within the Volunteers has acquired the Howlrunner tank, known for its relatively high speed and cutting-edge components. The bulk of the regiment, however, relies on the time-proven V-19 Landspeeders acquired decades ago because of a lack of funding. To better augment these speeder's capabilities, Masnach has issued the two passengers of each speeder with a missile launcher. Otherwise, individual Risal Volunteers do not appear impressive, with each trooper wearing armored clothes, utility gear, and wielding a single projectile pistol. This makes individual Volunteers not particularly dangerous on their own, but Masnach counters that they were never intended to fight alone, or outside of their vehicles.
Tactics: The Risal Volunteer's doctrine is largely based on the high speed afforded to the regiment by its extensive use of V-19s and Howlrunner Tanks. On a strategic level, the repulsorcraft can quickly take the regiment across battlefields to swing the tide on certain points on the battlefield. Doctrine states that in set piece battles, this speed should be used to quickly break through gaps in enemy formations to conduct penetrating strikes. In actual practice, however, it's more common the Volunteers to quickly congregrate at weaker points to temporarily hold areas until heavier reinforcements can arrive. On a lower level, platoons typically employ hit-and-fade techniques, using the rapid speed of their vehicles to make sudden strikes with overwhelming firepower before zipping away into the distance. While much of this firepower comes from their vehicles, the rear landspeeder passengers often mount their missile launchers on either side of the landspeeder, providing the speeders with a versatile and indirect source of firepower. While the Volunteers usually fight mounted, it's not unheard of for the landspeeder passengers to dismount and blend into the environment by some expedient fieldcraft and creative use of their field cloak. From such hastily constructed hiding spots, the Volunteers excel at ambushing enemy vehicles and large formations, pelting them in sudden salvos of munitions before disappearing or fleeing away.
Deployment:The Lisal Volunteers spend most of their time based on their homeworld of Lisal as an inactive reserve unit. Troops typically a mustered regularly for extended drills on a monthly basis. The entire regiment itself is rarely pulled to active duty except in emergencies or major ISAF operations, though it's not unusual for smaller elements of the Volunteers to be activated for extended amounts of time as they rotate in among the more regular ISAF units. Most of these rotations are to the Silver Jedi's 4th Fleet, which regularly patrols and maintains order in the Volunteer's native Sarka Sector.
