Approved NPC Sullustan Pioneers

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To submit a unit of Sullustan combat engineers which highlights their racial advantages and ties into OPA's rebel tactics.
• Image Credit: Saga Edition Core Rulebook
• Role: Specialists and support for the Sullustan Home Guard, a local defense force which functions in an auxiliary capacity to OPA rebels. Also usable as private contractors for SoroSuub.
• Permissions: Directorate, REC
• Links: Pioneer

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Unit Name: Sullustan Pioneers
• Affiliation:
  • Sullustan Home Guard
  • SoroSuub Corporation
• Classification: Combat Engineers
• Description: Like their fellow Home Guard infantrymen the Pioneers are more or less indistinguishable from any other rebel trooper save for they are predominantly sullustan whether born on the homeworld or one of its outlying colonies. A Pioneer is often recognized for their backpack crammed with tools and soot stained faces. According to their reputation Home Guard combat engineers are able to fix or build anything and navigate no matter the terrain.

COMBAT INFORMATION

• Unit Size: Medium
• Unit Availability: Uncommon
• Unit Experience: Veteran
• Equipment:
  • Weapons
    • GLX Firelance or J-7b Beamdrill
    • Doombringer Combat Scattergun
    • SC-4 Blaster Pistol
    • Vibrosaw
  • Armor
    • Partisan Field Kit
    • Savior Grav Chute (optional)
  • Droid
    • BD Unit
  • Tools
    • Detonite
    • Fusioncutter
    • Fusion Lantern
    • Diagnostic Link-Up
    • Emergency Repair Kit
    • Basic Climbing Gear
    • Intelligent Handless System
  • Vehicles
    • Recon Speeder
    • Tactical Mole Miner
    • Combat Hauler
• Combat Function: An elite sapper unit specializing in field construction, breaching and demolitions, setting up or clearing out minefields, as well as vehicle and starship repair. Sullustans are natural tunnelers and craftsman, able to see and navigate far more effectively than a species unused to subterranean environments. As defensive siege experts a properly dug sullustan tunnel network is a marvel of the military galaxy.

STRENGTHS

• Combat Engineers
• Tunnel Experts
• Siege Warfare

WEAKNESSES

• Light Scouts
• Close Range Scans
• Work Site Hazards

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Sullustan Pioneers are the Home Guard's Corps of Engineers, trained sappers and field technicians. A cave dwelling species of thriving industrialists the natives of Sullust are both talented diggers and builders. They are defensive minded creatures who excel in constructing elaborate tunnel networks and sturdy fortifications. Pioneers have a keen sense for tracking and navigation. Their wilderness survival skills are far more developed than the average infantry trooper. They are well suited for guerilla and partisan operations and have been a valuable ally of rebel forces in the past.

While they are highly adaptable soldiers their work requires that they remain lightly armed and protected so they can haul all their excess gear into and out of frontline combat. Despite their training and education being a Pioneer is an extremely dangerous assignment with all kinds of unpredictable battlefield and construction hazards that can permanently end a sapper's career through no fault of their own. Although they take precautions to mask heat signatures and dampen the sound of their work, a Pioneer's worst enemy remains the common lifeform scanner pinging at just the wrong moment.

 

[Zak Dymo]

Miel Tevv

Approved.