Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Sub an NPC enemy for TSE
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- Role: Anti-Force Marauders
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- Group Name: Dabida Yalilyr [Force Hunters]
- Classification: Mandalorian Warband
- Headquarters: Nirauan
- Loyalties: Themselves, the Resol'nare
- Group Sigil: The symbol of the Force Hunters is a slightly modified blue Mythosaur skull
- Description: The Dabida Yalilyr (Mando’a for Force Hunters) are a renegade warband of Mandalorians who remained active in the Braxant Run long after the collapse of Isley Verd’s Crusader Empire. They have taken the fear and superstition of the Force to the extreme, carrying out mass slaughters against any population they suspected of possessing an abnormal amount of Force sensitive individuals. Terror became the rule of law, with the Manda Oya’karir exercising absolute control over his territory before they were driven out by the New Sith Empire.
Internal division and conflict with the Sith Empire have dwindled their numbers and reduced their territory to mere scraps. Some abandoned the order to flock to Ra Vizsla’s banner, and those who remained decried Vizsla and his successors as false prophets.
- Hierarchy: The Force Hunters are led by the Oya'karir Naor, a position that is comparable to the position of Mand'alor in contemporary Mandalorian society. This position is currently held by Volru Skorr, and under him are a council of four Warmasters who oversee the group's simultaneous crusades against the Sith and other perceived enemies.
- Membership: Only true Mandalorians may count themselves among the Force Hunters' ranks, those that are wholly dedicated to the group's dogmatic view of the Resol'nare and their staunch rejection of the Mandalorians who still remain on Mandalore and the surrounding worlds.
- Dogma/Doctrines: The Force Hunters possess an extremist view of the Resol'nare, rejecting any Mand'alor proclaimed by those outside of the group as false and heretical; with their own Oya'karir Naor elevated to the same status in all but name.
- Curios: Though the Force Hunters dress similarly to their cousins in the Mandalorian Empire, they are easily distinguished by their symbolism involving the Hunter's crest; which is often displayed on their helmets and shoulder armor.
- Goals: Volru Skorr has insane ambitions to eventually legitimize his claim to the title of Mand'alor by destroying the Sith and the heretical false prophets in the Mandalorian Empire. Though his clan is weaker and hounded by Imperial patrols, his delusional belief in the righteousness and infallibility of his cause is unwavering.
- Oya'karir Naor Volru Skorr (Human Male)
- Warmaster Anyk Rhi (Togorian Female)
- Warmaster Vizelum Norodiog (Lasat Male)
- Warmaster Irbra Skuc (Shistavanen Male)
- Warmaster Zhem Skooc (Human Female)
The origins of the Force Hunters could be traced back to the first conflict between the Mandalorians and the Sith after the Four Hundred Year Darkness. The Sith, ruthless and expansionist, declared war upon the Mandalorian Clans after the latter failed to come to an accord with the Empire, with the great Sith Emperor Darth Moridin leading the charge at the tradeworld of Junction in the Outer Rim.
Junction suffered heavily at the hands of the Sith, with the entire world becoming subject to a monstrous campaign of extermination spearheaded by Emperor Moridin's Grand Vizier, Kaine Zambrano.
Over a million and a half sentients were put to the sword, their bodies stacked like cordwood as the whole of Junction burned with atomic fire. That was how Volru Skorr, wayward son of Junction, found his birthworld when he returned from a life of bounty hunting. Cradling the ashes of his homeworld he vowed to destroy the Sith no matter what, pledging this oath upon the scorched remains of everyone and everything he had once known and loved.
Skorr fought alongside the Mandalorian Clans against the Empire, participating heartily in the Sacking of Dromund Kaas which left the entire planet a ruined nuclear tundra. He conducted a series of hunts to uncover any Sith who had fled into hiding after the collapse of their Empire, publicizing their highly grotesque executions across open public channels. His radical and extremist methods distanced himself from his more moderate contemporaries, but amassed him a following of those who had suffered atrocities at the hands of the Sith.
He formed his own clan, Clan Skorr, that would eventually serve as the nucleus of his anti-Force regime.
For years he and his clan continued to stalk the Tingel Arm, enforcing their will upon the despondent populations left defenseless after the collapse of centralized authority. Governments came and went, but Clan Skorr continued to be a constant force of terror and barbarity against anyone who they considered unclean.
It was around this time that Skorr met the charismatic Mandalorian, Ra Vizsla. Vizsla embodied the traits that Skorr visualized a Mandalorian should possess, and quickly pledged his clan to House Vizsla's cause. Skorr fought to punish the Republic at Kashyyyk, and followed his Mand'alor to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in the Omega War. Yet it would be on the snowy plains of Castameer where Skorr would lose his greatest idol, again splintering away from the other Clans after Ra's death.
He led his followers to Nirauan and took up residence in the Hand of Thrawn, refurbishing it as a marauder's hideaway and using it as a base of operations to resume his campaign of raiding and pillaging the Tingel Arm. By this time the clan's firm anti-Force ideology had been cemented, and they rechristened themselves as the Dabida Yalilyr; the Force Hunters.
The group suffered a rift in membership with the return of Ra Vizsla and the establishment of the Mandalorian Empire and its firm anti-Force policies, but those that had left the Force Hunters would eventually return upon his disappearance and the rise of a new more moderate Mand'alor.
