Marshal, Journeyman Protector
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To worldbuild a special heavy unit of the Infantry Battle Companies
Image Credit: Source
Role: Spaceborne Infantry
Permissions: N/A
Links: Codex Oyu'baat
GENERAL INFORMATION
Unit Name: The Reds, Marines, IBC Red
Affiliation: Mandalorian Protectors
Classification: Siege Infantry
Description: Hulking warriors in space-grade armour equipped with specialist weapons for clearing friendly ships and stations of hostiles
COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Medium
Unit Availability: Rare
Unit Experience: Trained
Equipment: PHW-66 Repeating Fusion Scattergun
Power Suit
Combat Function: Shipboard and Station Heavy Infantry
Strengths:
Absurd Firepower
Big and strong individuals in heavy armour plates
Weaknesses:
Somewhat of a blunt instrument
Slow moving
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Created on Mandalore under the Codex Oyu'baat, along with the other three founding Infantry Battle Companies, this unit was unlike the others, trained in orbit above the planet Tracyn, near Mandalore in the shipdock above the Tracyn Academy. There they learn against the commando and supercommando trainees from the elite training facilities below. Though as numerous and varied as any of the other companies, save the Blacks, they are deployed in smaller numbers, half the size of a full hundred.
Alone among the Battle Companies, the Reds rarely fight alongside the other IBCs, for they alone are responsible for shipboard security on the Mandalorian Protectors starships and space stations. This is their assigned role, and they are proud of it, and though they do not wear the Tracyn patch of the elites, the supercommandos, its well known that they have trained with them. Also unlike the other IBCs, the Reds are mainly non-human, with the rare human indeed who can match their size and strength requirements.
The biggest bodied, physically strongest, and they would say fiercest of the IBCs, they wear heavy armor and pack the deadly PHW-66. Their individual strength is magnified by the powerful armor they are geared with. They are death incarnate when in battle, advancing behind a wall of explosive nuclear fire. Their job is to eliminate threats from their home, and they are well equipped to do so. With this, the Reds alone among the Infantry Battle Companies seldom recieve verbal taunts from their peers.
