Eternal Father
- Intent: Flesh out the Black Empire's Graug Army
- Image Credit: Click - Destinypedia
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- Army Name:
- Dark Legion (Daeux Los'ar)
- Glorious Horde (Grau'ait Haubo)
- Classification: Elective Nomadic Confederation
- Affiliation: The Black Empire
- Army Symbol: The symbol of the Dark Legion is a pair of two angular horseshoe geometric shapes, one located within the order, and colored metallic red. This symbol is frequently featured on the armor of its warriors, on the hull of its vehicles, and on the banners flown wherever the Legion treads.
- Description: The Black Legion is the result of decades of bioengineering and selective breeding, culminating in the creation of an army so gluttonous, so barbaric, that there were none in the galaxy who could stand as its equal. Discipline and professionalism were concepts utterly alien to the Dark Legion, who prioritized brute strength and raw savagery over cunning and guile. Less a unified front and more a collection of warbands, tribes, and slave castes, the Dark Legion was the largest concentration of Graug warriors in the entire cosmos.
Led by the ruthless tyrant Malgrog, the Dark Legion seeks nothing else by the violation of other species by the sword and the spear. They pillage, ravage, and upheave worlds to suit their needs. Wherever the Dark Legion goes, entire worlds are left desolate in their wake.
Though comprised primarily of pureblood Graug, there exist dozens of greater and lesser sub-species born through Sith Alchemy. The Dark Lord of the Sith, whom Malgrog ultimately serves, has taken a keen interest in experimenting with the Graug genome and combining it with other vicious species from across the galaxy. These specializations have led to a wide diversity in physical shape, temperament, mental capacity, and even Force Sensitivity.
Possessing no navy of their own, the Dark Legion has gone to appropriating the ships of lesser species and modifying them to suit their debased needs. The sight of a Graug war fleet is a grotesque amalgamation of a dozen different cultural designs, ugly black metal welded to the hull in various different configurations to primarily designate purpose and status. The Dark Legion's variety of siege weapon and crude vehicles is much more comprehensive, as the Graug blacksmiths are among the most venerated within the Legion and are crucial to the propagation of violence and war.
- Headquarters: New Gratos
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- Goals:
- Propagate and Expand
- Serve the Dark Lord of the Sith
- Reputation: The Dark Legion is infamous across the galaxy for their unyielding brutality and their suicidal devotion to the Dark Lord of the Sith. Tales of their savagery are widespread, their deeds meticulously recorded by those who have survived their wrath. There are few who do not know of their atrocities during the reign of the One Sith, few who do not remember when the worlds of the Galactic Republic were beset by monstrous beasts from distant Gratos.
- Army Size: Huge
- Composition:
- Graug Warriors
- Legionary - The brunt of the Dark Legion and the baseline warrior of the Graug, a Legionary is a frontline heavy warrior equipped with heavy slugthrower rifles or scatterguns along with heavy armor and a reinforced jump pack.
- Phalanx - Complementary to the slightly more numerous Legionary is the Phalanx, who, as their name suggests, carry heavy defensive shields alongside a single scattergun to support their more offensive counterparts.
- Incendior - Incendiors are specialized pyrotechnic warriors who wear heavy flame-resistant armor and carry flamethrowers into battle, where they use them to devastating effect to clear out entranced positions and the interior of structures.
- Gladiator - Gladiators are Graug warriors who primarily use large melee weapons, such as swords, axes, or cleavers, in close quarters battle. Though wearing little armor, their hide has been specially treated to incur a higher tolerance against wear and tear.
- Centurion - The field commanders of the Dark Legion, Centurions are noticeable more intelligence than their lesser counterparts and are often more inclined to guile and strategy than the base Graug. They wield energy-based weaponry and wear jump packs.
- Colossus - Larger than the majority of other Graug, Colossi are elite heavy infantry who use their tremendous size and strength to overwhelm enemy units. They wield massive slugthrowers alongside back-mounted mortar cannons.
- Hybridizations
- War Beasts
- Glycon - Native creature of Gratos, used by the Dark Legion as war mounts by strapping siege weapons to their broad backs.
- Ghashthran - Insectoid mites native to Gratos used for construction by the Graug, but can also be strapped with explosives and used as living bombs.
- Dread Spider - Colossal arachnoid beast native to Gratos primarily used as a war mount by the Graug.
- Were-wyrm - Massive burrowing creature native to Gratos, the Graug use the beasts to carve out underground dwellings and to undermine enemy fortifications.
- Warghest - Artificial creature made from Rekr, Bwarg, and Tuk'ata DNA.
- Graug Warriors
- High Warlord Malgrog, the God-Splitter
- Grand Seer Gok'roth
- Siege-Master Ukrauth
- Warlord Gorkai
- Warlord Amon
The foundations for the Dark Legion found their origin in the actions of the Graug Dark Lord of the Sith known as Imperial Krag, who briefly controlled the Eighth Sith Empire before the fall of Korriban the expulsion of the Sith from their ancestral holy land. Though the majority of Graug warriors within the Empire continued to follow their war-god back to Gratos, a substantial minority of warriors remained behind under the influence of another Dark Lord of the Sith; Kaine Zambrano.
Rallying under his banner, these Graug followed Zambrano from the fragmented Empire to the Pacanth Reach. There, they aided Zambrano in taking the Epicanthix throne and deposing the previous ruling family. With his power secure, Zambrano bequeathed the rebellious world of Fornow to the Graug to conquer and reshape in their image.
What followed was the utter destruction of Fornow.
The Graug established their own kingdom upon the ruins of Fornow, uprooting the land and polluting the seas to build their own dwellings. Noxious smog covered the world as thousands of foundries belched black smoke into the atmosphere, the once fertile land rendered a barren bog of jagged rock and mud. The Graug proliferated quickly on Fornow, canyon-sized breeding pits uplifting multiple new generations of warriors and shamans who were quickly thrown into fighting arenas to prove their strength. During this period, Kaine Zambrano began to experiment with the Graug genome and improved upon it by combining it with other creatures. Over the following decades many of these hybrid species, the Hyal'Hâsk, the Hyal'Sethi, and the Hyal'Raiskaz, quickly matured to comprise a sizable minority of the Graug hordes.
When Krag died on Atrisia, Zambrano was quick to capitalize on the Graug who were left relatively leaderless. By joining their strength to that of the Graug already under his command, the Dark Legion was born. It joined Zambrano in forming the Tenth Sith Empire on Bastion and was awarded the neutral world of Belkadan to do with as they pleased. Belkadan, like Fornow, suffered the same ignominious fate. There, two new sub-species were added to the Legion's growing might, the diminutive Graut and the hulking Graunk.
Eventually, the Graug established another outpost on the world Cazador, though their main prize was the upper hemisphere of Mandalore which they renamed New Gratos in homage to their devastated homeworld. New Gratos would serve as the seat of the Dark Legion's power under the auspices of the Dark Lord of the Sith, who would use them as a violent tool to excise his enemies from existence.
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