Prophet of Bogan
- Intent: Flesh out my cult forces with a spoopy enforcer group and explore a different concept of their faith.
- Image Credit: Made using Midjourney
- Role: Specialized shock troopers and enforcers for Wonosan forces, Force Sensitive and NFU alike. Sometimes used as honor guards.
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Unit Name: Sith Executioners/Nihilite Clerics
- Affiliation: Order of Wonosa
- Classification: Shock Trooper
- Description: Clad in scarlet robes, adorned in gleaming plates of armor, wielding menacing axes, and donning the visage of Darth Nihilus the Nihilite Clerics are an unmistakable presence when they arrive on the scene. They are reapers amongst the fields, looming over their allies as a constant reminder of what fate should await failure or treachery. To their enemies they are butcherers of the most elite degree, able to carve through squads of soldiers at a time while keeping their souless gazes fixed on their chosen target.
- Unit Size: Small
- Unit Availability: Rare
- Unit Experience: Veteran
- Equipment:
- Combat Function: The Executioners favor brutal yet precise assaults, often being deployed to capture or kill particular targets on a battlefield rather than being frontline warriors outright. They are experts in sowing chaos by decapitating, literally, the chains of command and communication of their enemies using deliberate yet brief engagements. They cut a bloody swathe through battle to whatever unfortunate soul has been designated as their target, not stopping until death has been rendered and caring little for those that would stand in their way. Outside of combat they are executioners of the captured and the treasonous, their solemn visages serving as the last sight for many that would dare to cross the forces of Wonosa and are unfortunate enough to survive a battle with them. Despite not wielding lightsabers themselves they are also all trained in Juyo and Ataru, able to somewhat reliably fend off lightsaber wielders via this knowledge.
- Force Abilities (Force User Units Only): Force Weapon, Life Detection, Convection, Basic Force Drain, Inertia
- Dark Hunters: The Executioners are adept at hunting down targets of interest and slaying them, typically being leaders or otherwise integral to the operations of their opponents in some way. Their senses in the Force have been honed to track down their targets even amidst the chaos of a battle or across an entire city, allowing them to stalk and execute their designated prey with a vicious efficiency.
- Imposing Warriors: When engaging other Force Sensitives the Executioners present a somewhat unusual challenge due to their choice of weaponry and ability to drain their foes, or even allies, during combat. While Sith Lords or Jedi Masters for example can reliably dispatch the Executioners due to their weaker Force abilities, those Force Sensitives of lesser experience would likely be caught off-guard and overwhelmed if not properly prepared beforehand.
- Anathema to Light: Given that almost all of the Executioners are enhanced with Sith Alchemy and Sorcery, techniques such as Force Light or the presence of significant Light Side energies such as from a Nexus will make them far less effective, stun them for short periods, or even outright disable some of their abilities for a short time.
- Executioners: Despite their ability to make quick work of opponents and with respectable protection due to their armor, extended frontline combat isn't ideal due to their fairly limited loadout and power set. They are best utilized in swift assaults but aside from being able to serve reliably as guards they boast little to no real capabilities of defense in a battlefield sense.
Due to the zealous recruitment and indoctrination of the Order of Wonosa's membership in general, dissention within their ranks is all but unheard of. When Darth Strosius returned to His followers after His apparent demise however, He would come to learn that in His absence there were many that gave into despair and had started exhibiting doubt in His teachings or had seen His death as a sign to embrace some unorthodox beliefs. Additionally the effort to expand the cult's forces led to slackened recruitment and indoctrination processes, allowing for more independently minded and less fatally loyal forces to be gathered so that their ranks could swell and be replenished easier.
The issues of faith being lacking amongst His followers and the subset which had developed an odd fascination with death would be solved with one rather simple maneuver, the creation of a new sect within the existing Order of Wonosa. The Clerics of Nihilus consist of Force Sensitive individuals, usually weaker in their connection to the Force and thus incapable of being considered "true" Sith for the most part, that believe firmly and devoutly in the concept of death not only as the ultimate result of all life but as the Force's greatest blessing due to one becoming part of the Force after their demise.
The Clerics, even among the typical fanaticism of Wonosan followers, stand out in their stalwart adherence to death as a blessing and their reverence of one of the Sith "saints" that they see as the embodiment of that blessing, Darth Nihilus. While Darth Strosius will always be first and foremost in their worship, Darth Nihilus serves as something of a role model and aspiration to the clerics, to the point that they style their masks to imitate his and even speak only in the Sith tongues once they have been inducted into the sect.
These foreboding faithful fanatics would become the executioners and enforcers of the Order of Wonosa, able to root out dissent and treachery as well as banish any such thoughts with their mere presence from the ranks of the cult. They are the ones who bring death to the enemies of Wonosa and unlike Sith Assassins do not guise themselves in stealth or trickery to do so. They are an overt and present force that will dispatch all who would dare oppose Darth Strosius and His followers, culling enemies both internal and external not just as a means of defending their siblings in faith but also as a sick means of "saving" their foes by granting them the chance to become one with the Force and thus have their "sins and transgressions forgiven."
