Noah Corek
Cocked, Locked and a Smoking Barrel
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Noah had always envisioned as the Legion having an elite unit but he realized that he would first need to establish the Legion as a force to begin with. It took a few years to establish the Legion but once done he garnered a plentiful fighting force he could use to build this elite he had envisioned. Instead of picking people out of the Legion he decided to go with a open recruitment drive, figuring that those who wanted it more would rise to the top. While the recruitment drive was going on Noah began to construct the training regimen, a lot of which was based on his own training he received when training to be a commando.
The first part of the training, known simply as 'Selection', is a grueling physical and psychological test. 'Selection' starts off with a fairly routine physical exam consisting of push ups, sit ups, a timed run and a time swim. If recruits pass this phase they move on to the second phase which includes a series of timed land navigation courses in a wide variety of environments, all of which are done with a weighted rucksack. With the candidate pool slimmed down even further they move on to the third phase and last physical phase, this phase consist of a ruck march over sixty kilometers with a twenty kilogram rucksack. Those who finish this phase move onto the fourth and final stage. While the previous stages were physical the fourth stage focuses on the mental aspect with recruits being subject to battery of mental tests with the objective to push them as far as they can mentally.
With the end of the fourth phase of selection the remaining candidates are not yet ARC's and instead must go through the Commando Training Course, a three month long training school designed to teach them all the skills they will need as ARC's. They start off with languages, learning the most common languages in the galaxy including: Huttese, Durese, Rodese, Bocce, Binary and Mando'a. Next they learn advanced markmanship, starting off with stationary targets until they hone their skills to a razors edge. Once their skills are honed they begin moving on to moving targets, targets in enclosed environments, targets at long range and targets mixed in with hostages. With marksmanship training done they move onto skills involved with demolitions and breaching, these skills including things such as lockpicking and hacking door controls, breaching walls with tools and explosives and even constructing explosives out of both common and uncommon materials. After finishing this they move on to tradecraft and learn a wide variety of espionage and counter-espionage skills. The last portion of CTC consists of teaching 'executive protection' in which they learn how to protect VIP's through close protection tactics and how to use vehicles as both offensive and defensive weapons. With CTC complete a final training exercise takes place to test the candidates new found skills.
Once CTC is complete the candidates are still not consider ARC's as they have another hurdle to pass over. Each candidate takes an aptitude test to decide what job they will be sorted into. Once they have been sorted they are assigned to their specific Skills Based Training Course, designed to hone the skills that their aptitude tests indicated they were proficient in, the course being divided into seven different sub-courses to achieve this goal. Team Leaders go through a course designed to teach them how to effectively command and utilize their teams in as effective as manner as possible. Team Chiefs go through a course very similar to Team Leaders but geared towards supporting team leaders and managing ARC teams. Both Team Leaders and Chiefs go through cross training to better understand the specialists that they will command. Intel and Ops Specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to gather intel and plan operations for their teams. Comms Specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to effectively utilize a wide variety of communications technologies both orthodox and unorthodox. Medical Officers go through a course designed to teach them a wide variety of medical techniques that can be applied to just as wide a variety of species. Weapons specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to use a wide variety of weapons from small arms to heavy weapons and everything in between. Lastly Engineering Specialists go through a course designed how to both construct and deconstruct obstacles, build even more complicated explosives and even IED's.
Once these SBTC's are finished the candidates are formed into teams consisting of a Team Leader, a Team Chief and two of each specialists, with one specialist being more senior than the other and teaching the other specialist 'on the job' as it were. These teams are then ran through a final training exercise to test all the skills they have learned and how to use them in tandem with the teams they were now grouped into. Upon completion of this exercise they are finally considered ARC's and the team they have been grouped into will be the teams they will fight in unless otherwise reassigned.
- Intent: To create a elite unit for the Galactic Foreign Legion
- Image Credit: N/A
- Role: To provide an elite and highly trained unit for the GFL that can take on some of its most difficult missions
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Unit Name: Galactic Foreign Legion Advanced Reconnaissance Commando Team
- Affiliation: Galactic Foreign Legion
- Classification: Commandos/Special Forces
- Description: The Legion's ARC teams are the most elite of any member of the Legion, being described by one independent observer as: "One of the most well-trained, well disciplined and well equipped units I've ever seen."
- Unit Size: Small, 12 Members
- Team Leader
- Team Chief
- 2x Intel and Ops Specialists
- 2x Comms Specialists
- 2x Medical Officers
- 2x Weapons Specialists
- 2x Engineering Specialists
- Unit Availability: Rare
- Unit Experience: Elite
- Equipment:
- Combat Function: The Legion's ARC Team has two main functions: 'butcher and bolt' or 'clandestine reconnaissance'. Butcher and bolt describes fast-paced extremely violent raids and assaults that are designed to inflict maximum damage in as limited time as possible. On the other end of the spectrum clandestine reconnaissance consists of inserting as quietly as possible, finding out all information they can and leaving just as quietly.
- Duality: The ARC teams are two sides of a coin when it comes to combat, being capable of being either able to inflict deep damage or stealthily insert and extract
- Small: Like most elite units the ARC teams are rather small, only consisting of a dozen ARC's and while definitely better fighters than your common soldier they can still be overrun
Noah had always envisioned as the Legion having an elite unit but he realized that he would first need to establish the Legion as a force to begin with. It took a few years to establish the Legion but once done he garnered a plentiful fighting force he could use to build this elite he had envisioned. Instead of picking people out of the Legion he decided to go with a open recruitment drive, figuring that those who wanted it more would rise to the top. While the recruitment drive was going on Noah began to construct the training regimen, a lot of which was based on his own training he received when training to be a commando.
The first part of the training, known simply as 'Selection', is a grueling physical and psychological test. 'Selection' starts off with a fairly routine physical exam consisting of push ups, sit ups, a timed run and a time swim. If recruits pass this phase they move on to the second phase which includes a series of timed land navigation courses in a wide variety of environments, all of which are done with a weighted rucksack. With the candidate pool slimmed down even further they move on to the third phase and last physical phase, this phase consist of a ruck march over sixty kilometers with a twenty kilogram rucksack. Those who finish this phase move onto the fourth and final stage. While the previous stages were physical the fourth stage focuses on the mental aspect with recruits being subject to battery of mental tests with the objective to push them as far as they can mentally.
With the end of the fourth phase of selection the remaining candidates are not yet ARC's and instead must go through the Commando Training Course, a three month long training school designed to teach them all the skills they will need as ARC's. They start off with languages, learning the most common languages in the galaxy including: Huttese, Durese, Rodese, Bocce, Binary and Mando'a. Next they learn advanced markmanship, starting off with stationary targets until they hone their skills to a razors edge. Once their skills are honed they begin moving on to moving targets, targets in enclosed environments, targets at long range and targets mixed in with hostages. With marksmanship training done they move onto skills involved with demolitions and breaching, these skills including things such as lockpicking and hacking door controls, breaching walls with tools and explosives and even constructing explosives out of both common and uncommon materials. After finishing this they move on to tradecraft and learn a wide variety of espionage and counter-espionage skills. The last portion of CTC consists of teaching 'executive protection' in which they learn how to protect VIP's through close protection tactics and how to use vehicles as both offensive and defensive weapons. With CTC complete a final training exercise takes place to test the candidates new found skills.
Once CTC is complete the candidates are still not consider ARC's as they have another hurdle to pass over. Each candidate takes an aptitude test to decide what job they will be sorted into. Once they have been sorted they are assigned to their specific Skills Based Training Course, designed to hone the skills that their aptitude tests indicated they were proficient in, the course being divided into seven different sub-courses to achieve this goal. Team Leaders go through a course designed to teach them how to effectively command and utilize their teams in as effective as manner as possible. Team Chiefs go through a course very similar to Team Leaders but geared towards supporting team leaders and managing ARC teams. Both Team Leaders and Chiefs go through cross training to better understand the specialists that they will command. Intel and Ops Specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to gather intel and plan operations for their teams. Comms Specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to effectively utilize a wide variety of communications technologies both orthodox and unorthodox. Medical Officers go through a course designed to teach them a wide variety of medical techniques that can be applied to just as wide a variety of species. Weapons specialists go through a course designed to teach them how to use a wide variety of weapons from small arms to heavy weapons and everything in between. Lastly Engineering Specialists go through a course designed how to both construct and deconstruct obstacles, build even more complicated explosives and even IED's.
Once these SBTC's are finished the candidates are formed into teams consisting of a Team Leader, a Team Chief and two of each specialists, with one specialist being more senior than the other and teaching the other specialist 'on the job' as it were. These teams are then ran through a final training exercise to test all the skills they have learned and how to use them in tandem with the teams they were now grouped into. Upon completion of this exercise they are finally considered ARC's and the team they have been grouped into will be the teams they will fight in unless otherwise reassigned.
Last edited:
