Enyo Typhos
Control
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Elite mooks for Enyo.
Image Credit: Here.
Role: Special Forces.
Permission: Permission for all ArmaTech gear and all other subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here.
Links: Archangel Research and Design, Clockwork Rebellion Edition, IG-88A.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Unit Name: Creeping Shadows.
Affiliation: Archangel Research and Design, Iron Fist Consortium, Revenant Industries, Typhos Clone Family, Enyo Typhos.
Classification: Commandos.
Description: Enyo was created by a cabal of genocidal HRDs to do their bidding. Though she emancipated herself from her makers, she inherited a number of their views. One of them was the conviction that droids were more efficient than organics. Machines do not tire, feel fear or have irrational emotional reactions. At least unless they are ridiculously human robots corrupted by organic traits. Regardless, she prefers to rely on droids she can control than irrational organics. It helps that she is a technopath.
The Creeping Shadows are a unit of specialised assassin droids. Most unusually among Enyo's minions, they are not composed of HRDs. Instead the unit utilises the time-and-tested IG-88 Assassin Droid model. They are a droid infiltration unit that takes advantage of the fact that unlike organics droids do not need to breathe, eat, move etc. This makes them an ideal unit of assassins, commandos and black ops operatives. They often operate independently, but can also work in conjunction with other Archangel and Iron Fist Consortium forces.
True to their name, the assassin droids are not particularly sociable. Enyo gave the unit its name due to their ability to suddenly without warning. The fact that a number of the organic members of her crew considered them creepy might have also played a role. The IGs are not human and do not pretend to be. They do not plot genocidal schemes like their predecessor model IG-88 A. But they also do not care about organic beings. Except perhaps in the manner one might study inferior life forms to better understand them, before their one ends their existence.
In a way, they consider themselves superior to their boss' HRDs, as they are true machines instead of having minds based on an organic template. Thus the superiority complex of their parent models has not left them entirely. The IGs can clearly be identified as droids and thus lack the ability of HRDs to pass as organics and blend into social situations. However the passage through ground or space would end up destroying or damaging an HRD's organic covering, thereby revealing their true nature.
The Shadows utilise portable drills to dig underneath the earth or board space stations/starships. Using methods pioneered by Thrawn centuries ago, they are able to repurpose mole miners to drill through vessels and dleliver boarding parties. While they have access to manifold types of boarding vessels, their machine traits make space walking very viable for them. They are armed with anti-personnel weapons such as vibrodaggers, blasters, shatterguns, poison dart launchers, flamethrowers and exploives. They are not equipped for sustained engagements against large enemy forces, but ideal for surprise attacks and assassinations. They can use their skills to make a covert entry, assassinate high-value targets or help allied forces breach an enemy stronghold.
They can make use of terror weapons such as nerve gas and Mindshackle Scarab Swarms. The latter allow them to throw enemy forces into disarray, spread terror and confusion. After all, assassin droids have no moral qualms and Enyo is an amoral Cyborg. Enyo has plenty of organic legbreakers and sellswords who lack scruples, but considers machines more reliable because they will focus on the task at hand instead of falling prey to emotion and deriving a sadistic satisfaction from their bloody work. As of late, the original complement of IGs has been supplemented by a smaller contingent of Reaper Class Assassin Droids, though this model shares many similarities. Bizarrely, there seems to be a bit of a competitive rivalry between the two. It seems that even emotionless machines can feel something as irrational as pride.
COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Small.
Unit Availability: Rare.
Unit Experience: Elite.
Equipment: Entire unit is composed of IG-88 Assassin Droids and Reaper Class Assassin Droids. Scarab drones mentioned in sub use either model as hosts, if deployed.
Armour:
Rifles:
- ACS-205 Blackblade Modular Rifle
- ACS-202 Vanquisher Light Repeating Blaster
- ACS-205 Advanced Dual Weapon System
- Shadow Gun
- Voxyn Charric Rifle
- X-8H Endgame Disruptor Rifle
- DAS-430 Neural Inhibitor
- Dart Gun (variable chemical payload).
- MGL-1.
- Phylactery Scarab Droids
- Mindshackle Scarab Swarms
- Infiltrator Scarab Droids
- Mindrazor Advanced Infiltration Droids
- Stecher Wasp Droid
- Breacher-Class Boarding Torpedo
- Reaver-Class Boarding Pod (Open Market variant).
- Morpheus Sedative Drug
- Whisper Jetpack.
- Individual Field Disruptors, Disruptors and torches.
- Mole Miners
- Berserk.
- Hurlothrombic Compound
- Strip-Cam
- Pyro Denton Explosives. Grenades, Destro-6 Demolition Charges.
Sidearms:
- Verpine Shattergun
- X7-B "Checkmate" Holdout Disruptor
- Sonic Disruptor
- Renegade Model 557
- RSIC-11 “Suncrusher”
- X-8 Gambit Elite Disruptor Pistol
- CZ-H5 Shatterbeam Pistol
Combat Function: The Creeping Shadows act as a force of infiltrators, commandos and special purpose operators. On the battlefield, they operate in small teams, favouring a combination of subterfuge, stealth and precise brutality to accomplish their objectives. Each Shadow is a highly lethal killing machine, but they are obviously at their strongest when they work together. Being killer droids, they are a lot stronger and more resilient than humans. They are free of organic weaknesses such as pain, exhaustion and fear. Like the ancient IGs, they are a well-coordinated unit, able to connect with their brethren through linked droid brains to formulate plans.
The mission profile of the Shadows takes advantage of the various ways machines have an advantage over organic beings. This enables them to act as a specialised droid infiltration unit, utilising portable drills to dig underneath the earth, covertly board space stations and spaceships. This means they excel at breaches, surprise attacks, infiltration and ambushes. Being droids, they are extremely disciplined and coordinated, as they lack pesky emotions that could cause them to lose focus. In addition, they are skilled in slicing, marksmanship and demolitions.
They can infiltrate enemy-held territory, perform reconnaissance, assassinate high-value targets or help allied forces gain entrance. The latter is particularly useful in combat scenarios in which a direct assault would cause unacceptably high allied casualties. Enyo does admittedly not care whether her minions live or die, but she hates wasteful use of resources. Ideally they will strike quickly and accomplish their objectives before the enemy has the time to launch a determined counterattack. Infiltrator Scarabs help them infiltrate enemy facilities, Phylactery ones enhance their survivability by performing repairs and Mindshackle ones can revive fallen enemies as zombie-like servitors. However, these 'robo zombies' are mindless and unable to use any weapon beyond improvised close combat weapons.
The Creeping Shadows are a small, elite force. As a result, they will never be dispatched in overwhelming numbers. They are meant for special operations, not for being in the middle of a huge battle. Thus if they manage to secure a foothold in enemy territory, they will soon require reinforcements to hold the ground they have occupied. To stay mobile they largely forego heavy weapons such as anti-tank missile launchers, which puts them at a disadvantage if if they are confronted by heavy armour such as tanks and walkers. Being infantry, they are vulnerable to long range bombardment, such as air and artillery strikes.
Strengths:
- Elite killer droids.
- Highly versatile special forces operators with access to various useful gadgets and support bots.
- Poorly equipped to taken on heavy armour such as tanks and walkers in direct combat.
- Small teams of commandos and special forces. They lack integrated heavy support and suffer in pitched combat.
Designed by Holowan Laboratories, the IG-88 Assassin Droids have long been a staple in the assassination business. In the light of all the wars that have been fought since the twilight of the Old Republic, they have never had to complain about lack of opportunities to terminate organic beings. IG-88B became one of the Galaxy's most infamous bounty-hunters. However, bounty-hunting was just a cover for the true agenda of his master, IG-88A. The grand plan of the parent model was to foment a Droid Revolution, utilising massive legions of droids to exterminate all organic life, thereby ushering in an Age of Steel.
To put this grand design into action, they went about creating an army by implanting sleeper codes into droids that would turn on their biological masters when the IGs activated the signal. However, this scheme ended with IG-88A's destruction aboard the second Death Star. Years later, its body was reactivated and it entered the services of the House of Thul. Flash forward several centuries, and the Galactic Alliance was confronted with a droid insurrection on the foundry world of Mechis III. The location was no coincidence, for this world had been the hub of the IG's conspiracy. A faction of renegade droids rebelled against their creators on Mechis. Calling themselves Directive 9, they began a campaign of exterminating organic life forms. Several Galactic Alliance vessels and a fleet of local Omega Pyre ships were destroyed by the IG-88 assassin droids and their servitors. However, an anonymous traitor leaked information on the insurgency to the Galactic Alliance, revealing that they intended to transmit a signal that would sway every droid in known space to their cause.
To thwart this plot, the Alliance dispatched large forces to Mechis. Aside from regular Galactic Alliance and Omega Pyre troops, this task force included mercenaries. One of them was Enyo Typhos, clone of Siobhan Kerrigan. It was no mere desire for coin that motivated her to join the campaign. Enyo had been created by Archangel. Officially it was a legitimate droidmaker, but in actual fact its business ventures were a front for a cabal of HRDs who wanted to eradicate organics in order to create a well-ordered, mechanical dystopia. Enyo had been created to serve as a living weapon; a hybrid that would straddle the line between machine and organic, but be able to use the Force. However, she rebelled against her creators. Once she had broken free, she began a campaign of vengeance. In a way, fighting Directive 9 was a rehearsal for her eventual coup against Archangel. Moreover, she needed credits and resources because she could not defeat Archangel's droid legions on her own. The battle for Mechis was a bloody one, as the droid insurgents were well-entrenched and the planet was full of factories that spat out combat automatons.
Enyo joined the assault on a droid foundry called Krill-6-13. There she teamed up with the enigmatic droid mercenary IGa-60. Both amoral killing machines, they were able to bond over eliminating 'inferior machines'. Most of the members of the strike team they were working with were slaughtered by the droids. They were, after all, organics. The droids of Mechis III were all too willing to accommodate the intruders with ferocious, inhuman resistance. Eventually the pair was able to penetrate their defences and confront the mysterious - and probably megalomaniacal - machine intelligence that called itself the Prophet of the Core. Though damaged from fighting its hordes, they took it down. The GA-affiliated droid HK-36 aided them. In the aftermath of the fight, Enyo salvaged what data she could. Among other things, she stole blueprints from the Directive servers, secured some droid chips and bodies.
She later put the funds she acquired from her various criminal ventures and mercenary contracts to good use by covertly setting up her own droid factory. Having recognised the lethality of the model, Enyo built IG-88s. However, little did she know that one of her minions working on the project had been bribed by Archangel. The traitor corrupted the droids' programming, causing them to turn on her during a mission. Many of her minions were killed, but Enyo was able to escape despite being badly damaged. One of the IGs pursuing her fell under the sway of the Cyborg's technomancy. This enabled her to unmask the traitor. She sent the IG droid back to the facility, lulling the traitor into believing she was dead.
When the time came, she attacked with her forces, while the loyalist IG used its slicing skills to open the door for them and corrupt the programming of a new batch of its fellows. The traitor was punished by being enteched. The droid that had helped orchestrate her downfall was appointed the commander of the Shadows. It was given the designation IG-88X. The assassin droids formed a small cadre in Enyo's paramilitary organisation, the Iron Fist Consortium. They soon acquired a reputation for brutal precision, subterfuge and competence.
There was no loyalty between criminals, so Enyo had little trust in her underbosses. So she utilised droids such as the Shadows to monitor them and keep them in line - sometimes via targeted assassination. As the force expanded, its mission profile shifted as they became an elite droid infiltation unit that could go places organics could not and wreak havoc. They served her well in gang wars with rival mafia bosses on Vorzyd and in the Coruscant Underworld, mercenary work and her private war with Archangel. The fact that Enyo lacked any desire for luxury and self-indulgence enabled her to equip them very well instead of wasting funds.
After Enyo had taken control of Archangel, the Shadows were one of the units she turned to when she decided to purge the Consortium of unreliable elements. This included dealing with corporate rivals of Archangel who had sponsored her crusade to weaken their competition. Later they would also see action against the Eldorai exodus fleet and its myriad factions, seizing a station that beloned to Eldorai exodites. They came to specialise in ambushes, surprise attacks and breaching enemy installations. On occasion, Enyo loaned them to clients who could pay for their services.
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