Reaching
- Intent: To codify the will of the people of the Sith Empire in the shape of a militia.
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- Role: Militia: An army of non-professional volunteer soldiers fighting for a common cause.
- Permissions: N/A
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- Unit Name: SICA, Sith-Imperial Citizen's Army, Redtops.
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire.
- Classification: Militia, primarily infantry.
- Description: The most notable descriptor of SICA operatives is that they look by and large like citizens of their region; they blend into the crowd and are difficult to discern from other civilians when out of combat. There are, however, some unifying factors and symbols SICA operatives use to signal each other of their common cause. Like many non-militia citizens, they wear the Sith Empire's citizenry armbands, SICA operatives tend to layer the citizenry armband over an additional, black armband. Some SICA soldiers also wear special pins or tattoo themselves with symbols signifying their allegiance or rank. Most overtly, SICA soldiers are known to don red helmets of different make, or simply colour their faces red if lacking head protection. Their red headwear has garnered them the colloquial name: Redtops.
- Unit Size: Large.
- Unit Availability: Common.
- Unit Experience: Rabble.
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- Combat Function: The primary function of the Sith-Imperial Citizen's Army is to provide support to the Imperial Legion in the event of an attack on the Sith Empire's own sphere of influence. In the event of an unexpected attack, SICA soldiers may be the first ones to respond and hold out against professional soldiers until the Legion can lend aid. In other cases, they may be just the aid the Legion needs to keep a planet from falling to nefarious outside influences. As first responders to an act of war, SICA soldiers most often rely on guerrilla tactics and street-to-street combat. Their goal isn't to win the battle, but win the war by bleeding their enemies in any way they feel necessary. Sabotage and traps are among their common tactics, but they are not above laying waste to their own homes in order to stall the enemy. On occasion, SICA soldiers may infiltrate other civilian groups to gather information about traitors and relay it to Sith-Imperial intelligence. In summary: Their goal is to protect their Empire, even if that means destroying their homes to keep them out of the hands of the enemy.
- One of the People: SICA operatives easily blend into a crowd. Until they draw a blaster or vibroblade, they are difficult to designate from non-combatants. This allows them to slip past security measures and plant supply caches or set traps reasonably undetected. This also aids their efficacy as a guerrilla force as they are difficult to find and exterminate.
- My Home Turf: SICA operatives most often work on their home planet, or even home-town. This gives SICA an edge in street-to-street combat as they are familiar with the layout and all the secret ways to move about their home turf. What they may lack in equipment, they make up for in mobility and ingenuity as they lay down traps and ambushes.
- Imperius!: SICA are staunch loyalists to the Sith Empire. Many are inspired by the Meliora and the worship of the Left-Handed God, Typhojem.
- Un-Drilled: Compared to a professional army, SICA soldiers are poorly drilled in their armament. They are armed with simple blasters and an occasional drip of military grade weapons, but a majority have little to no training in using the heavier and more exotic equipment. This may lead to mishaps, misfires, and general misfortune when facing a better armed and better trained force.
- No Match for a Jedi: Be it Jedi, Sith, or some other Force adept, SICA soldiers are like chaff before the wind. They stand no chance but burning everything in retreat. In capture, a SICA operative will rarely be able to stand up against the mind-probes of a force-user.
- Disorganised: Being an Empire-spanning militia that is also highly decentralised has made SICA very disorganised. They may efficiently mount the defence of their local planet, but lack the coordination to mount any kind of inter-planetary defence.
SICA did not form cohesively in one place, rather they formed out of hundreds of Sith-Loyalist groups across the Empire and their protectorates. While some were staunch local loyalists, or religious fanatics, others were ardent followers of the Sith Empress who had made a concerted effort to win the people to her side through shows of grace and the much publicised story of the Empress who fought her way up through the ranks of an army to prove her worth to the people before taking on any mantle. Many of the founding members of SICA were Legion veterans, seeking to give their civilian life some purpose. They trained loyalists and helped them get weapons permits.
As SICA grew and swallowed up other factions, they were able to expand their their material acquisition network. This allowed a greater spread of weapons, as well as resources to modify cargo ships, speeders, and the like to makeshift mechanical cavalry. As they grew in power, they were also recognised as a greater asset by Sith Intelligence, garnering them drips of covert funding and surplus military caches to be used in the event of an attack.
The first time SICA got a taste for war was on Bastion, and it was a sound defeat. Some assumed the organisation would never rise again.
However, with the growth of the Meliora, SICA's influence and member base grew exponentially. Whipped up in a fervor, religious fanatics armed themselves and helped organise new chapters. The army grew vast, but increasingly more decentralised. Rather than relying on a few, experienced commanders, they trained local chapter heads in tactics suitable to their environment and encouraged them to be ready. Should the Sith Empire come under attack, they were the fist line of defence. Fervor was more important than strategic skill at this point. If nothing else, they would burn everything to the ground and deprive their conquerors anything but ash and toxic fumes.
Homes could be rebuildt, crops resown, but the Empire must stand!
In every system, there is a presence of SICA. Their numbers vary from great to diminutive; a majority live on the rim of the Empire, where the threat of invasion is ever-looming. In the core of the Empire, they work tirelessly to supply their brethren on the front lines, and to send willing fighters to train them in the brutal tactics of a guerrilla force.
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