Tegaea Alcori
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- Intent: Expand on Firemane. Sub made with assistance of [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
- Image Credit: Unknown. Tineye sends me here, but the image does not show.
- Role: Assault infantry.
- Links: Flashpoint Roche, Into Darkness, The Outbreak.
Equipment: They obviously will not carry all these weapons into combat at once. Rather this is a list of what they would have access to. They can use Abregado-Rae Guild of Hammers equipment due to Firemane gaining access to ARGH tech in this thread. Firemane obtained a supply contract that allows it to use Fire for Effect gear here. Firemane obtained a supply contract that allows it to use Fire for Effect gear here.
Armour:
- Centurion Battle Armour or Ironside Heavy Assault Armour. Commlink has encryption device (available for Firemane per this thread).
- Paragon-class Personal Energy Shield (request here, permission here)
- Sky-Strike Jetpack (purchase request here, permission here).
- Electro Cestus (Firemane has access to ARGH gear per this thread).
- Neural Band.
- Reaper Plasma Shotgun
- Boltgun (can use APE rounds).
- ACS-205 Advanced Dual Weapon System (storefront request here, permission here)
- ACS-202 Vanquisher Light Repeating Blaster (storefront request here, permission here.) For automatic rifleman.
- Magnetic Repeater
- ACS-205 Blackblade Modular Rifle (storefront request here, permission here).
Wrist or Underbarrel Weapons:
- ACS-208 Wrist Ion Beamer (storefront request here, permission here).
- Under-Barrel Sonic Blaster (storefent request here, permission here).
- ACS-207 Aerosolblaster (purchase request here, approved here). Wrist Bolter.
- ACS-207 Cryoban Gun (storefent request here, permission here).
Sidearms:
Heavy Weapons:
- Portable Shattergun Rotary Cannon.
- Firestorm Multiple Missile Launcher (requires Ironside armour) or Lance Missile Launcher.
- Shatterboltgun.
- ARGH flamethrower (any version).
Explosives:
- Grenades, thermal detonators, det charges.
- Devastator multipurpose mines (mission-specific).
Melee weapons:
- Vibroknife
- Phrik swords.
Misc:
- Access to ACS-602 High Explosive Specialty Ammunition for slugthrowers (request here, permission here).
They have access to a Ghoush transport for insertion into a combat zone. Alternately they have access to ACS Modular Drop Pods (purchase request here, approved here)
COMBAT INFORMATION
- Availability: Unique.
- Deployment: Limited. It's just one squad.
- Unit Experience: Elite
Strengths & Weaknesses: Reaper Squad is an elite assault force. Bravery, skill and tenacity are key characteristics of this unit. It has access to a potent arsenal of weapons and equipment, including formidable Power Armour. It has an experienced, tough and ruthless team leader in form of Freya Solveig. They are also very experienced in fighting Force-Users.
However, it is only one squad. As a result it is easily outnumbered by superior enemy forces. These may not be able to match its skill on an individual level, but this only helps so much against force of numbers. Moreover, it is a pure infantry unit. As a result its members are vulnerable to tanks and long range bombardment via air or artillery strikes. This means they will be dependent on support in larger engagements. Its members are tough and have been conditioned to resist mental assaults, but they are still only mortal. Lacking Force powers, cybernetic implants or genetic modifications, they must rely on skill, training and leadership to prevail in a fight.
If they use their Power Armour, it gives them to solid to very good protection against a variety of attacks. In addition, it also significantly increases their strength. However, they are also very slow in it, which is a disadvantage against light infantry that uses guerilla tactics, hit-and-fade attacks and traps such as land mines. Heavy weapons would obviously also be effective. The power armour is heavy, which makes it an extremely poor choice for operations that require stealth or subterfuge. Alternately they wear Centurion Armour, which is made of Phrik. This suit grants better protection against lightsabres, but obviously does not increase the wearer's strength and they cannot carry Firestorm missile launchers if they use it.
Use of drop pods increases their mobility and can give them a tactical advantage over the enemy by allowing them to say deploy on top of the enemy or in their rear. As a tradeoff, they are very vulnerable to flak if deployed in drop pods. These are particularly weak against starfighters and only have minimal guidance. While minor course corrections can be made, it is like turning around a Star Destroyer.
Description:
The history of Reaper Squad is closely tied to that of Tegaea Alcori, Siobhan Kerrigan and Sergeant Freya Solveig. Back when Tegaea was the commander of the Dark Stars mercenary company, the unit served as the strike force she led into battle. Like her, several of her fellow sellswords were former Republic soldiers. Others had served the Sith, the Mandalorians or criminal organisations. When Tegaea was recruited by Cira to become her second-in-command, she merged the Dark Stars with the fledgling Omega Pyre. Reaper Squad became her personal squad. It played a prominent role in the early battles Tegaea and Siobhan fought in the name of the Pyre, such as Dahomey, Vandelhelm and in overcomong a zombie apocalypse on Denon.
There Freya Solveig was recruited for the unit. Freya was a native of Denon. The harsh conditions on her homeworld and the constant risk of death or worse had hardened her. Having managed to stow away on a vessel, she joined the Pyre and caught the eye of Tegaea due to her leadership skills and valour in combat. Sensing a kindred spirit due to their similar backgrounds, Tegaea put her in charge of the unit. When the Pyre transitioned into the Omega Protectorate, Reaper Squad swore allegiance to the new government. As Tegaea presence on the battlefield became a rarity due to her bureaucratic and diplomatic duties as an Exarch, the unit was transferred to Colonel Siobhan Kerrigan. Corporal Freya Solveig and her squadmates fought bravely at Eriadu and Bespin.
At Roche, they distinguished themselves when a Pyre company led by Siobhan faced a numerically superior Sith force on the asteroid G99. Though they suffered heavy casualties, the Pyre soldiers were able to successfully hold off the Sith offensive and help the captured 73rd Republic Battalion, commanded by Delila Castillon, escape and rejoin the fight. Ultimately the allied forces were forced to retreat into a hangar. Facing overwhelming odds, Kerrigan displayed her ruthlessness by tearing down the roof, denying the Sith key tactical data and preventing them from overrunning her unit, albeit at the cost of many of her own troops. Freya was among those who survived the fight and managed to evacuate.
After being reformed to make up for the casualties, Reaper Squad fought in the final battles of the Bando Gora War. Freya fought with courage at Gehenna, where the unit served as a heavy infantry strike force, taking down a Bando Gora Chieftain. She was awarded a medal for her efforts. When Tegaea Alcori was forced to leave the government of the Protectorate after the Sith Assassin Kaelin Isandros inflicted near-fatal injuries on her, Freya joined them in the formation of Firemane and was promoted to Sergeant. Reaper Squad provided training for recruits and taught the Eldorai how to use modern weapons.
Though obviously membership would change over the years, as squad members died in battle, retired or were moved to other positions, Reaper Squad retained a reputation for being part of the Old Guard. This is a moniker given to Firemane employees and troops that have been in the services of Tegaea and Siobhan since their Pyre days or in some cases even prior to that. While one should not make sweeping generalisations, on average members of the Old Guard tend to get liberties that are more difficult to obtain for the so-called new blood. Lady Kerrigan tends to listen to their advice more and they are far less inclined to fawn over her. For a while, Freya was in command at Firemane HQ because so many of her superiors had vanished during the Netherworld Event. Faced with Eldorai insurgents, Bando Gora zealots and traitors, she carried out an extremely ruthless crackdown to keep order. Lady Kerrigan later legitimised her actions.
Ever since the foundation, Reaper Squad has been involved in many of the company's campaigns. Examples would be battles with Eldorai rebels and dynasts, the One Sith War and the First Galactic Alliance-First Order War, the conquest of the Xioquo and the eradication of a zombie outbreak on an island on Arkas. When Firemane lost contact with a mixed Eldorai/human settlement called Serenade, a small Firemane/Eldorai task force was dispatched to investigate. However, the small force soon discovered that the entire island had been overrun by zombies. In contrast to the usual stereotype, these zombies were intelligent due to being guided by a hive mind. Turning the settlement's defences against their foes, they used anti-air batteries to bombard the gunships, cutting the soldiers off from support. Hazardous weather conditions made it difficult to reinforce them.
On the Firemane side, Major Tempest and the Alderaanians Laira Darkhold and Dimeria Nykerian infiltrated the settlement to destroy one of the AA guns. Meanwhile, elements of Reaper Squad and Firemane regulars held off a zombie assault. Eventually the zombies threatened to outflank them by appearing in their rear after swimming through the sea, so Freya led the Firemane troops in a fighting retreat to their evac point. In the process she personally killed a huge zombie abomination with a shatterbolter. Eventually Firemane carpet-bombed the island after both AA guns had been knocked out and the task force had retreated. After this battle, Reaper Squad received some of the first suits of Ironside Power Armour that left Firemane production centres.
When Firemane discovered the isolated planet of Tephrike, it established first contact with the Jedi-led Dominion of Light, a totalitarian theocracy that was at war with two other factions. However, the negotiations were torpedoed by an extremist faction within the Dominion, which attacked the Firemane delegation. In response, Firemane declared war and entered an alliance of convenience with the Republican Guard, an anti-Force-User rebel faction.
After carrying out surgical air strikes against the Jedi Temple, communication centres and military installations in the capital, Firemane deployed elite forces to the surface. Reaper Squad was one of them. In concert with the Republican Guards, they were charged with seizing the Fortress of Purity, a crucial citadel on the way to the capital. The indoctrination of the Jedi and their treachery caused Siobhan to suspend the Rules of Engagement and declare the area a free fire zone. The fight was a bloody one, for the Dominion compensated its technological backwardness with religious zealotry and Force prowess. In the final stages of the battle, the Dominion attacked the allied forces with hordes of Younglings who had been fanaticised by constant indoctrination. Reaper Squad's experience in combating Force-Users and Freya's leadership prowess made it an asset in the fight, though Firemane only prevailed at a cost.
Reaper Squad remains in Firemane's services to this day. Due to its record and long period of service, it is one of the corporation's prestige units. Cross-training with members of the Order of Fire, Firemane's Force-using branch, is common. Indeed, Lady Kerrigan has made it a deliberate policy to assign the squad to train Acolytes who have shown promise in terms of raw power, but are naive or have an inflated sense of self-importance.
Freya is notoriously foul-mouthed, thoroughly unimpressed by Force-Users and frankly a bit of a sadist. In other words, the perfect nasty drill sergeant. Those Acolytes who get an attitude adjustment and are able to meet her exacting standards have proved they have what it takes. Those that break down or lash out get the boot. Sergeant Solveig is fond of telling the story of the spoilt Princess Kasoka Starwalker, who was convinced she had a great destiny as the next chosen one. Until Freya beat her up in the boxing ring. The girl was in tears by the time the match was over.
