TL;DR Summary
- Galactic Civil War era, maybe slightly before the events of Scarif.
- Starting out in the ass end backwater of the Outer Rim.
- Mandalorians.
- 'Mandalorians' means, not Jedi.
- And, no offense, not really feeling HRD's and so forth.
- Sort of Rebels, but way more Mandalorian than Rebel.
- One role is loosely defined, and up for grabs.
- Mandalorians.
- Discord.
- Starting out in the ass end backwater of the Outer Rim.
- Mandalorians.
- 'Mandalorians' means, not Jedi.
- And, no offense, not really feeling HRD's and so forth.
- Sort of Rebels, but way more Mandalorian than Rebel.
- One role is loosely defined, and up for grabs.
- Mandalorians.
- Discord.
In Character Info
Every military formation has its misfits, its iconoclasts, its troublemakers, its brig rats, its nonconformists. Colonel Ghill Jest, ex-Imperial Captain, thank you very much, has the misfortune to lead a unit of green recruits for the Rebel Alliance, by the Force, that are going to be a crack unit, boots polished, chins out, shoulders back. Like the Clone Troopers he once led. Tengaru might be a fetid stinking jungle world, wet where it's not overgrown, but it's his slice of the war against the Empire that passed him over for promotion to Major.
The problem, of course, is that damned Mandalorian, a grizzled old bounty hunter that claims to have fought in a number of different battles and worlds. Undeniably a good warrior, the man is not a truly disciplined soldier and he continually questions -everything-. So, in a move of brilliance suggested at an officer's mess dinner, which are held nightly, the Mandalorian is given an independent command and the company commanders are fast to recommend the people they want least, the misfits that hold back the unit from its true potential as a crack unit in every aspect.
Resol Squad, the man calls them, and then he trains them. And then he trains some more. And somewhere down the line, they start talking in that Mando nonsense, wearing the armor and swaggering. And smirking. They're cocky, and nothing seems to be able to bring that lot into line. So they get sent out on 'independent' missions.
But they keep coming back.
They come back with kills, intelligence, prisoners (embarrassingly enough, one of the Imperial officers that sat on his promotion board. Awkward.)
Around this time, the Sultana of Tengaru is taken prisoner and held hostage by the Empire, to quell support for the rebellion. The tactic is devastating for morale.
Intelligence sends an agent, who sends for a crack team of SpecForces to rescue her. The team, en route to the system, is waylaid and destroyed in transit by Imperial Forces. Stuck on a base in the middle of some swamp, with a martinet colonel that shouldn't hold command and no suitable troops, she begins to consider her options for leaving with the mission not even attempted, leaving Tengaru without its hereditary leader to push the resistance.
The Agent, Kare Hadaj, spots a group of rebel soldiers in their base, deep in the swamps, that is actually putting a dent in the Imperials; they aren't standing sentry and saluting anything that moves, they're bringing back prisoners in their own captured vehicles. Their armor is dented, nothing matches, and her interrogation of the prisoner reveals that the local Imperials fear this unit like nothing else.
Kare Hadaj immediately realizes that she has a way to pull this Tengaru operation out of the bag. She has little trouble convincing the Colonel to turn this squad over to her. The idiot has no idea what an asset he's giving away...
The problem, of course, is that damned Mandalorian, a grizzled old bounty hunter that claims to have fought in a number of different battles and worlds. Undeniably a good warrior, the man is not a truly disciplined soldier and he continually questions -everything-. So, in a move of brilliance suggested at an officer's mess dinner, which are held nightly, the Mandalorian is given an independent command and the company commanders are fast to recommend the people they want least, the misfits that hold back the unit from its true potential as a crack unit in every aspect.
Resol Squad, the man calls them, and then he trains them. And then he trains some more. And somewhere down the line, they start talking in that Mando nonsense, wearing the armor and swaggering. And smirking. They're cocky, and nothing seems to be able to bring that lot into line. So they get sent out on 'independent' missions.
But they keep coming back.
They come back with kills, intelligence, prisoners (embarrassingly enough, one of the Imperial officers that sat on his promotion board. Awkward.)
Around this time, the Sultana of Tengaru is taken prisoner and held hostage by the Empire, to quell support for the rebellion. The tactic is devastating for morale.
Intelligence sends an agent, who sends for a crack team of SpecForces to rescue her. The team, en route to the system, is waylaid and destroyed in transit by Imperial Forces. Stuck on a base in the middle of some swamp, with a martinet colonel that shouldn't hold command and no suitable troops, she begins to consider her options for leaving with the mission not even attempted, leaving Tengaru without its hereditary leader to push the resistance.
The Agent, Kare Hadaj, spots a group of rebel soldiers in their base, deep in the swamps, that is actually putting a dent in the Imperials; they aren't standing sentry and saluting anything that moves, they're bringing back prisoners in their own captured vehicles. Their armor is dented, nothing matches, and her interrogation of the prisoner reveals that the local Imperials fear this unit like nothing else.
Kare Hadaj immediately realizes that she has a way to pull this Tengaru operation out of the bag. She has little trouble convincing the Colonel to turn this squad over to her. The idiot has no idea what an asset he's giving away...
Out of Character Info
So where does this tale of Mandalorians start? Well, it starts like a good commando action flick, of course! They're three seconds away from storming the place and rescuing the Sultana.
The backstory, of course, is that these misfits of the alliance fall under the mentorship of a Mandalorian warrior (and maybe a biological son or daughter, why not?) and become quickly swept up in the survivalist, self-sufficient, dangerously libertarian ways of the Mandalorians, who are warriors to the bone, but not necessarily the most easily led. Old Man Resol (that's his name) is a damned good trainer, knows a lot of tricks and has a paternal streak, often a thing with old school Mandos, a mile wide. Another old school Mando thing is adopting people into the ways. So he takes these wayward ducklings and turned them into a pack of Nexu; loud, resourceful, audacious, dangerous. These were the ones the Colonel couldn't mold into ideal toy soldiers, they instead became highly dangerous, independent thinking warriors under Old Man Resol...and then they forged themselves in fire, as a Mandalorian must do eventually in a hard world.
The basis of the RP is this squad. The intent is to take this unit out into the wider galaxy as a fire brigade. Kare Hadaj knows she has a valuable asset here for high risk missions. So, of course, there is a larger mission, for high stakes. The Rebellion needs dangerous beings...
Currently available roles - Kare Hadaj and Old Man Resol. These are named characters, but beyond that, people can develop them as they see fit as they create them. Or come up with a character entirely on your own, assuming this gets interest and we take off here.
The backstory, of course, is that these misfits of the alliance fall under the mentorship of a Mandalorian warrior (and maybe a biological son or daughter, why not?) and become quickly swept up in the survivalist, self-sufficient, dangerously libertarian ways of the Mandalorians, who are warriors to the bone, but not necessarily the most easily led. Old Man Resol (that's his name) is a damned good trainer, knows a lot of tricks and has a paternal streak, often a thing with old school Mandos, a mile wide. Another old school Mando thing is adopting people into the ways. So he takes these wayward ducklings and turned them into a pack of Nexu; loud, resourceful, audacious, dangerous. These were the ones the Colonel couldn't mold into ideal toy soldiers, they instead became highly dangerous, independent thinking warriors under Old Man Resol...and then they forged themselves in fire, as a Mandalorian must do eventually in a hard world.
The basis of the RP is this squad. The intent is to take this unit out into the wider galaxy as a fire brigade. Kare Hadaj knows she has a valuable asset here for high risk missions. So, of course, there is a larger mission, for high stakes. The Rebellion needs dangerous beings...
Currently available roles - Kare Hadaj and Old Man Resol. These are named characters, but beyond that, people can develop them as they see fit as they create them. Or come up with a character entirely on your own, assuming this gets interest and we take off here.
