Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Recreate the Imperial Sentinels for TSE
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- Role: Dark Side Shock Troopers
- Links: Imperial Sentinel
- Unit Name: Imperial Sentinels
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire
- Classification: Dark Side Shock Troopers
- Equipment:
Vibro-Ax - CF6 Concussion Rifle
- VP-9 Heavy Particle Beam Pistol
- Heavy Battle Armor
COMBAT INFORMATION
- Availability: Uncommon
- Deployment: Minor
- Strengths:
Dark Side Strength: Enhanced by Sith Alchemy, the Imperial Sentinels are imposing gargantuans with increased strength, resilience, and an unflinching desire to carry out their Handler's orders no matter the opposition. - Shock Troopers: Outfitted with heavy armor, vibro-axes, and state-of-the-art weaponry; the Imperial Sentinels are excellent hard-hitting shock troops meant to support the standard Legionnaires in punching through enemy positions alongside their dark Handlers.
[*]Weaknesses:
- Dependent: Chemical injections early in the development cycle suppress the Sentinel's higher brain functions, turning them into utterly mute subservient behemoths. To direct and control the Sentinels, a new caste of Sith was created deemed the Handlers. These men and women are picked from the ranks of the Dark Magus by the Dark Lord and his mystical entourage for the purpose of coordinating these brutes in battle.
- Force Light Weakness: Like anything else augmented by Sith Alchemy, the Sentinels possess a crippling weakness against the application of Force Light; and can be critically weakened or even killed by the Force power depending on its strength.
Description:
The origins of the modern Imperial Sentinel project could be traced back to Kaine Zambrano's earliest experiments as the Old Empire's Grand Vizier, where he toyed with the idea of accelerated growth in infants to produce front-line soldiers of the Empire more quickly. His first trials involved children stolen from hospitals all over the Republic, either acquired by himself or through his web of spies and thugs. The first several trials ended in failure, as the artificially aged children proved too mentally unstable or undeveloped to serve any real purpose.
They were incinerated to make way for a new batch of test subjects. These children were gradually aged, injected with chemicals, and manipulated by the Dark Side of the Force; and the first generation of the Sentinels were considered a partial success. However, as time wore on they too suffered insanity and degradation and were rendered unfit and subsequently burned.
For decades Kaine Zambrano tinkered and worked to perfect the process of creating Imperial Sentinels, more and more children falling into his clutches as the One Sith dominated the Core Worlds. He even passed a secret edict requiring that 1/10th of every child born in a Sith hospital to be handed over to his bureau for experimentation. To cover up his heinous crimes, the parents of the infant were told their child died from complications shortly after childbirth and, by Imperial mandate, was destroyed.
Hundreds of newborns were subjected to the Sith Lord's diabolical machinations, their bodies and minds warped beyond all recognition into monsters of the Dark Side. Yet, time and time again he was met with failure after failure until, at last, he had found the perfect balance between accelerated aging, chemical injections, and infusion of the Dark Side that created the warrior he so desperately sought.
However, it came at a price.
The Imperial Sentinels were devoid of higher brain function and speech capabilities, though they possessed sufficient motor skills to fight with melee weapons, blasters, and even hand-to-hand combat. Because of this, the Imperial Sentinels had to be coordinated by a Sith Handler chosen from among the ranks of the highly esoteric Secret Order of the Empire. When done so, the Sentinels became a fearsome weapon for the New Sith Empire.
