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Approved NPC Acolytes of the Revered Shadow

Enyo Typhos

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Enyo Typhos
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Codify a unit established in rp.
Image Credit: Here. Here.
Role: Special forces.
Permissions: Permission for all ArmaTech gear and all other subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here.
Links: Dantooine Invasion, New Imperial Order, Sith Empire, Galactic Alliance, Emperor's Hands, Loske, Ziost Invasion, Invasion of Bastion, Geister, Thalia Palaiologos, Choices.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Unit Name: Official name is Special Combat Team 9 - SCT9. The unofficial name is Acolytes of the Revered Shadow. Enyo dislikes it.
Affiliation: Archangel Research and Design, Typhos Clone Family, Enyo, Iron Fist Consortium, Alexia Zarides, The Awakened, Spectres.
Classification: Special forces.
Description:
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A special unit composed of Sith acolytes who were recruited by Enyo during the closing stages of the Battle of Dantooine. The acolytes – mostly in their mid to late teens – had hidden in the archives of the former Jedi enclave during the fighting. It is a trainee unit, and thus not given excessively complex or dangerous tasks yet. However, they are trained for sabotage, theft, intelligence gathering, assassination and kidnapping missions. Broadly speaking, comparisons can be drawn with the Emperor's Hands, with the difference that the Acolytes are less elite for the time being and do not operate as solo operatives. Moreover, they are not under the illusion that they are Enyo's only Force-Sensitive agents.

The unit is small and many of its members have limited field experience, but there is a lot of potential for growth. Furthermore, they have been well-equipped. Due to their shared background, the members of the group are quite tight-knit. Enyo has decided to keep them together rather than distributing them among different units. She views this as better for morale and cohesion. Ambrosia HRDs have been assigned to the group to provide direction and supervision. As these assassin droids are created by using a modified entechment process to transfer the essence of an organic being in an HRD body, they have a better understanding of organic emotion than more conventional replicants. The acolytes need discipline, but also the feeling they can trust their supervisors, so the HRDs assigned to the group are particularly adept at emulating organic behaviour.

A good number of the Acolytes are natives of Dantooine – the sons and daughters of farmers and minor landowners. Others come from other planets that used to be under Sith dominion. A few of them used to attend the Bastion Academy, which was a target during the battle between the New Imperials and the Sith, or have friends who did. It has made them hostile to the Imperials and their Jedi allies. They have thrown in their lot with Enyo to escape a ruinous war they believe they would have been cruelly sacrificed in. Furthermore, she has promised to help them develop their talents. Having gone through Sith indoctrination, they are now being shaped by her nihilistic world view. But they are also youngsters trying to find themselves and their place in the universe.

Enyo has some experience dealing with children, since she has a clone posse to look after and has already recruited young gang members from the slums of Coruscant and Vorzyd. She is hardly lovable, but has become a mother surrogate for some. She is stern and cold, but not cruel, and has made it very clear that she will not tolerate it if an Acolyte tries to sabotage a comrade to get ahead. Several of the Acolytes still have families on Dantooine, but they have had to leave them behind. And Enyo is shaping them into reflections of herself. To a degree, the Terminatrix feels empathy for them. They did not have a choice to join the Sith or fight in a galactic war, much like she did not have a choice whether to do Archangel's bidding. Her claim that she has given them a choice is not completely insincere...but very manipulative.

Enyo views them as an investment, so she is not inclined to waste their lives needlessly – or sadistically abuse them to make a point. Her makes treated her cruelly to the point where they forcibly cyborgised her and that backfired. However, it is clear to everyone involved that she is always watching. The Force philosophy they have been taught is a mixture of Sith tenets and Enyo’s own personal beliefs. Enyo has no truck with mysticism or dualism. If asked to describe the Force, she’d call it a giant clock ticking down until the end of time. While she has often worked with many Sith Orders and Lords, she has little respect for them.

The members of the team receive training in Force use and lightsabre combat, but also in medicine, demolitions, slicing, marksmanship, knife fighting, climbing and so on. This is supposed to give them a well-rounded education and ensure they are not slavishly dependent on their preternatural abilities. It mirrors the way Enyo was trained. They are taught to fight as a group and incorporate their abilities into an overall plan instead of acting like a band of lone wolves. All in all, the unit is about platoon-sized and its members are trained in small unit tactics. The group still has a long way to go before they can match veterans, but they have good trainers and officers. Furthermore, they have become adept at using their innocuous appearance to their advantage. After all, many people may feel an urge to protect people who seem young and nonthreatening and let down their guard around them.

Because Enyo is running a paramilitary organisation, not a religious cult, they have received military-style ranks. Being former Sith acolytes, the boys and girls are obviously used to hardship. However, adjusting to regimented, military life has taken getting used to. At the same time, there is a measure of security because Enyo does not consider murdering the person above you a valid path to promotion. Moreover, she disdains the idea of a leader being deified, so there is no ridiculous cult of personality. Each Acolyte receives regular remuneration as well as free room and board.

Because Special Combat Team 9 is a dull name, Enyo’s clone posse has christened them the Acolytes of the Reverend Shadow. Enyo protests that the name makes no sense, but her siblings came up with it to troll her and it has become popular. Much to Enyo's annoyance, her 'sister' Thalia has been trying to pass on some of her bad habits to the Acolytes. Alexia Zarides exercises a supervisory role. Of all members of the clone posse, she is the closest to Enyo in ideology and temperament. Enyo is grooming her for a senior role in her syndicate, so guiding a couple acolytes is a good test. Enyo's brother Valerian urged her to assign the Acolytes to him, but his pushiness and jealousy irritated her. However, because Enyo is displeased by Alexia's humanocentric beliefs, she tends to assign HRDs with alien templates to the unit. They are the ones who lead it on a day-to-day basis.

Nakara Velismar is a human female and the 'idealist' of the group. Raised on Serenno, she youngest daughter of a landowner who had Sith blood in the family. She was taught about the Sith ways from early on and learned about them eagerly. She was an ambitious type. However when she reached the Academy she felt betrayed because the actual Sith traditions were replaced with a blind devotion to the Emperor, a suppression of the ruthless power and drive to exalt oneself. When recovered by Enyo she found her ideals matched much closer to her dour cyborg guardian than the Sith who trained her.

Dram Hastur is a male Zabrak. The Sith in their heyday drove into the core, laying waste to their foes. Dram was an orphan living on the streets of Commenor. A bully, leader of a group of kids. An outburst with the Force called Sith down upon he who 'recruited' him. He found, for the opposite reason to Nakara, it most unsatisfying. Too many rules and worshipping a distant figure. Instead he sees Enyo as a powerful figure who will give him strength to punish those who wronged him.

Rufius Marrow is a human male member. He grew up in a loving family when his home was taken over by the Sith. They knew from an early age that he had Force potential, but tried to hide it. However, when the Sith detected his presence and forcefully removed him from his home on Bastion. When that Academy was sacked he learned during the fighting that his family were also killed. Now he has clutched onto Enyo's band as a way for him to survive and thrive.

Adara Varn is a Twi'lek Acolyte who has caught Enyo's eye. One could consider her the rebellious one. She is neither the oldest nor the most powerful, but she has spirit and an independent mind. She was born on Dantooine to a family of minor farmers, but was inducted into the Sith Academy as soon as her Force-Sensitivity was discovered. At first, it seemed like a fun adventure and she was told it was an honour. The truth turned out to be very different, and a lot darker.

The Sith are all about strength and power, but also demanded blind submission to the Empire. It has left her with a deep seated anger. Her family later disappeared. Officially they had been killed by rbels after agreeing to serve the Sith on the frontier. Necessity has forced her to hide her feelings, but they can also be unleashed. When Enyo intruded into the archives, Adara attacked her with Force Lightning, believing her to be a Jedi or Imperial. The Cyborg disarmed her and held her at sabre point, but spared her. Adara is unwilling to be turned into a 'borg' and has made it clear that she would rather die than let that happen to her.

Iroa Kushu is a Cathar male member of the group. Like the others he was brought into the fold of the Sith at an early age. However, he remained invested in the cause longer. He grew up low class and had to put up with discrimination from more well-off humans. But to the Sith the Force was the great equaliser that placed its wielders above the crude masses. The price was submission to the Empire and its emperor.

It was a price he was ready to pay and he was a diligent pupil, learning all he could to serve the Empire and become stronger. It helped that he got the eye of a good instructor, who was invested in training a strong apprentice so that he could be moulded into an instrument of the Sith. When the Imperial Civil War broke out, he saw the rebels as traitors. He saw combat, and was one of the few students in his group to survive. His teacher perished during the fighting. He is more respectful of authority than Adara and recognised Enyo as a Sith ally when the Terminatrix found them. Iroa was reluctant to join her, seeing it as a betrayal, but has joined for survival and out of loyalty to the other Acolytes.

Enyo has her net spread wide with various interests. She has contacts or owns some hospitals through shell companies to acquire people who are incurable but still have useful talents. With that in mind, her minions were able to acquire a critically ill Mirialan woman, a psychologist and doctor called Dethara Visz. Enyo's minions made her a Faustian deal; become whole and strong, but become a machine and serve Enyo. She has taken the deal and is now one of the Ambrosia HRDs supervising the Acolytes. She uses every opportunity to expand her research and investigate more about the state she and others are in. Her comments annoy Alexia to no end. Much to the clone's annoyance, she has to actually listen to the droid.

COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Medium
Unit Availability: Unique
Unit Experience: Trained
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Cybernetics: Not used by HRDs obviously.
Combat Function: Special Combat Team 9 is a special purpose unit composed of Force-Sensitive operatives. They are trained to carry out unconventional tasks such as espionage, sabotage, abductions, direct actíon and targeted assassinations. This means they are not a frontline combat unit. The members of the team are former Sith apprentices and have thus received training in lightsabre combat and the dark side of the Force, though their commitment to the latter varies. Many of Enyo's minions are cyborgs, but the Acolytes have only received minor cybernetic implants. In short, all their body parts are still flesh and blood, though they have received augmentations that say boost their reflexes or regeneration. This means they do not get the benefits of extensively augmented individuals, but also makes them less reliant on modifications.

The Acolytes' training is not limited to Force use, but also covers things like marksmanship, demolitions, climbing, diving, slicing, operating basic vehicles and shuttles. They are skilled in utilising telekinesis and its many sub-applications. They have been trained in basic physical enhancement abilities, Force Slow, mind tricks, Force Fear and Force Scattering. A few can summon Force Lightning. However, they are still fairly young and only have limited combat experience. This means that they will often be partnered with a more experienced unit to act as a 'big sister', so to speak. An example for a unit she might work with would be the Geister or the Lurkers. They are not a unit that will be thrown into the meat grinder.

Moreover, Ambrosia HRDs have been assigned to supervise them and provide direction. These HRDs are talented infiltrators and lethal assassins who are very skilled at emulating organic behaviour and passing as organic beings. Because they possess enteched essence, even Force-Users will have difficulty discovering that they are in fact machines, not organics. In short, they are individuals, not drones manufactured on the assembly line.

Like the Acolytes, the HRDs have received training in lightsabre combat. They cannot use lightsabres to their full potential since they obviously lack the ability to use the Force. Their weight and lack of Force potential makes it more difficult for them to block blaster bolts, even though they might be able to calculate the path of an enemy shot, but it is still a useful weapon for them. Depending on the mission profile, the Acolytes may be able to call upon automated drones for the purpose of surveillance, target acquisition or targeted assassinations of high-value targets.

Strengths:
  • Versatile, stealthy operatives who are skilled in the use of the Force as well as conventional tactics and weapons' use. They make good spies and assassins.
  • HRDs are impressive combatants and infiltrators. The nature of their design means that even Force-Users will have difficulty discerning their nature.
Weaknesses:
  • The Acolytes have heart, training and good equipment, but at the moment most of them only have limited battlefield experience. Their supervisors are experienced, but the unit is new. They will fight and do so bravely, but at the moment lack the experience and professionalism of veteran units.
  • As a special operations unit, they lack heavy integrated support such as walkers, bombers and so on. To stay mobile, they forego heavy weapons such as anti-tank weapons Moreover, the unit is very small, being about platoon-sized. Thus they are not suited for storming entrenched fortifications or fighting tank hordes.
  • The unit is largely composed of Force-Users, who are obviously susceptible to Force suppression fields such as those generated by ysalamiri. They are trained in conventional combat, so they will still be able to fight, but it would cut off a notable portion of their skill set.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
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"No, Jedi and Sith don't give their minions a choice. So now you have one. You can stay and take your chances - I won't stop you - or come with me if you want to live."

- Enyo Typhos. The fine print is not included.

When the New Imperial Order and their New Jedi Order allies deployed troops to Dantooine to wrest control from the Sith Empire, the Sith Emple was one of their tactical objectives. Formerly it had been a Jedi enclave. But the enclave had been destroyed by the Sith, who erected a dark temple. Enyo Typhos was among the defenders. While not a Sith or even particularly respectful of them, she had contracted with the Sith Empire for many battles and saw profit in supporting them. Moreover, it was a chance to fight Jedi.

She was not disappointed in that regard. When the Imperials and the Jedi breached the temple gates, Enyo engaged a member of the Jedi strike force, Loske Treicolt. The result was a savage duel. The Terminatrix ultimately prevailed, but sustained significant damage. Moreover, at the time the invaders seemed to have the upper hand in the battle for the temple. The New Jedi Order's flag had been hoisted upon the rubble. Being the truly pragmatic sort, Enyo decided to leave the battlefield and use the chance loot a bit. Thus she spared her worthy opponent, whose valour had earned her respect. When she arrived at the Sith archives, she came across a group of young Sith apprentices.

Not wanting to perish in the battle, the child soldiers had sought refuge there. Or rather, as they put it, they were guarding the archives from the evil Jedi. Enyo persuaded them to join her, using the argument that they were doomed no matter what. According to her, the Imperials would not spare them, while the Sith would sacrifice them in a ruinous war they had not chosen to be a part of. Of course, Enyo was not a neutral observer or motivated by altruism. She was a manipulative Dark Master who saw potential assets. Nonetheless, with the battle drawing closer, her words proved convincing for the time being. After doing some pillaging, Enyo evacuated her new posse aboard her ship, managing to weave a way through the battle going on in space. She brought the Sith neophytes to her base. What the apprentices encountered was both familiar and unfamiliar.

For one, there were droids everywhere. Like their masters, Enyo was a ruthless darkside master, but of a different type. For starters, she was stoic to the point of often seeming unemotional, scorned the idea of being venerated and lived a very Spartan life. The training focused a lot of self-discipline and little on unleashing their rage. An overbearing acolyte who had been privileged under the Sith due to being related to a Master was punished for trying to bully and plot against his comrades.

Enyo sparred with them intensely. She was a strict disciplinarian and a harsh taskmistress, but very patient. Some of her HRDs minions and members of her clone posse also pitched in. They also met some minions of Enyo who were about the same age and had belonged to youth gangs before the Terminatrix recruited them. The group was organised as a unit and subject to military discipline. Once Enyo deemed their progress sufficient, they were given their first missions.

These involved abductions and assassinations of minor government officials, and rivals on Vorzyd. Moreover, Enyo had them stage a breakout to retrieve an asset of her criminal group who had been arrested for murder once bribes did not work out. Enyo focused them on - at first sight - 'deserving' targets to get them acclimated to working for her, and more used to undertaking ethically dubious or plain amoral missions. These missions occured under supervision and they were often partnered with a team of more experienced operatives. During training, a group of Acolytes turned out to be particularly promising. Organised into their own special squad, they formed Alpha Squad, or as the posse preferred to it call it, the Spectres. Having taken notice of them while supervising their training, Enyo intended for them to be the core of the group and serve as a model squad others could learn from. At the same time it was a way to keep an eye on talents and mould them more closely. Dethara Visz, a former psychologist who had been processed into an Ambrosia HRD as part of a deal to save her from an incurable illness, was put in charge of supervising and directing this team.

In select cases, Enyo facilitated opportunities for the Acolytes to avenge themselves on people who had wronged them or their families. Enyo had fought to break the chains her creators had placed on her and understood vengeance well. It led to something close to bonding. The Acolytes also provided security for criminal dealings and for Enyo's senior subordinates at important events. While Enyo ran Archangel from the shadows, she had HRDs to manage the day-to-day business and present it with a friendly public face.

As part of their training, Enyo arranged for the abduction of select individuals who had wronged the trainees in some way. This served two purposes: firstly, it allowed the trainees to close unresolved chapters of their past and mete out what they considered justice, for they were the ones who passed sentence. Secondly, it was a test of character that gave Enyo insight into their personalities. In her view, it served that purpose far better than any written test could.

The Acolytes were present at the Battle of Ziost, but did not participate directly in combat. Rather they were utilised for intelligence gathering to identify targets for Archangel forces and keep an eye on enemy movements. In addition, they guarded and questioned prisoners under supervision. It was a test of their discipline and stealthiness. This kept them out of heavy combat and meant they avoided contact with their former employers.
 
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