Horde GM Characters

Type: Sith Sorceress
Species/Gender: Human Female
Age: 2000 (appears 30ish) Height: 5'11" Weight: 130lbs

Physical Description: Paegana, when refreshed with the life energy of an entire world, is a beautiful and voluptous woman with long straight dark hair. She wears a chrome skull-cap on her head with two cheeck-bone protectors, a choker around her neck sealed with an ancient and arcane Sith symbol, and thin wrappings on her arms and legs. Her dress is low cut with flared pointy shoulders, it is slit very high up her left thigh. Her high-heeled boots mount three large chrome rivets on the tops of her feet.

Should she go a period of time without refreshing herself, she begins to rapidly age, degenerating into a frail helpless pile of undying wrinkled flesh and bones.

Background: Paegana is 2000 years old, having long ago discovered the secret to immortality. Though her heart and veins remain forever young, powered by dark forces eternally pumping blood to her brain and body, her skin, bones, and muscles still age and decay normally. To maintain her appearance, she learned to drain the life forces of entire worlds, a process that takes several weeks, depending on the population and ecosphere of the world in question. She was captured and banished to a lifeless asteroid far beyond the rim of the known Galaxy. There she degenerated, her body feeding on itself, for1,500 years, until she was found by Kron, Warlord of the Horde. The existence of the frail and brittle lump of wrinkled flesh and hair on the desolate rock intrigued Kron. He freed her from the world. When Paegana fedon the life force of a thousand slaves, Kron was angered. But when she demonstrated the extent of her power, he saw in her a tool to his success.

Now Paegana serves Kron as an "advisor". In exchange for shrouding his fleet of starfighters and her new mobile asteroid castle, Kron gives her the planets she desires and needs to stay young. It was Paegana that directed Kron's energies towards the Republic, and it is Paegana that advises Kron on their tactics and ways. Paegana also has the ability to create homonculi minions known as "Nightmares", the Nightmares are dark servants composed of secret alchemical formulas and animated Dark Force Power.

Personality: Paegana moves like a cat, stealthy and sexy. She is a tease, but if the fancy strikes her, she'll take it upon herself to seduce, though she is always in control. She is quick to anger and often flies into fits of rage when she doesn't get her way.

Objectives: To drain the life force of as many planets as possible, and to exact revenge upon the Republic for exiling her.

Move: 10

Force sensitive: yes

Control Difficulty: Difficult (20)
Sense Difficulty: Very Difficult (25)
Alter Difficulty: Heroic (30)

Required Powers: Absorb/dissipate energy, affect mind, control mind, control pain, farseeing, life detection, life sense, projective telepathy, receptive telepathy

Time To Use: 1 hour (deep meditation)

Effect: Creates a Force construct that can be controlled by the Jedi, yet also has some degree of "free will." One of three types of homunculi(Assassin, Scout, and Burden) can be created (for stats, see below).One the homunculus is created, this power need not be kept "up." However, a Difficult Sense roll is necessary to use the creature's senses as the Jedi's own. This done, a moderate Control roll allows communication/command of the homunculus.

Any life force the creature may seem to have is simply a physical manifestation of the Force and while the homunculi are capable of limited independent thought, they tend to simply follow the last command given. When the creature suffers damage greater than a wound, it begins to disintegrate, then fade, and finally returns to the dust its physical form was created from.

Type: Nightmare Homonculous

Special Abilities: Claw 4D, Bite 6D
Move: 15 running, 30 leaping
Size: 2.5m
Scale: Character

Description: tall lanky jet-black humanoids with spindly arms and legs ending in two long powerful claws (or more accurately sharp fingers) each, with a smaller pair of arms in the mid-section. They lack a head, instead having a hump between the shoulders mounting two glowing yellow eyes. Their jagged bear-trap mouths glow pale yellow from within. When wounded, they emit no blood or show any impairment from injury. When they die, their bodies simply dwindle to nothingness, like black ice melting without water or steam.

Control Difficulty: Difficult (20)
Sense Difficulty: Moderate (15)
Alter Difficulties: Difficult (20)

WARNING: The user of this power gains a Dark Side Point. This power will drain the life from any life form. This life is determined as the Strength and Knowledge of the being. The power can be kept "up.", with the normal difficulties. A Moderate Control roll is required in any round this power is kept "up." (i.e., not the first round).

Game Effects: Use the Alter result of the aggressor (i.e. Force user) as an attack vs. the target’s combined Strength and Knowledge. Consult the damage chart.

Type: Horde Barbarian
Species/Gender: Human Male
Age: 32
Height: 6'5
Weight: 310lbs

Physical Description: A monster of a man, Kron stands 6'5" and is just HUGE! His head is bald except for a small patch where long wiry bits of hair sprout like blades of grass. His eyes are cold and piercing, with an eerie bulge. He has a tattoo of a purple lightning bold on his head above his left eye. His eyebrows are similarly long and wiry, extending out past the sides of his head like little wings. His nose is flat and twisted from too many breaks. He wears a small goatee of wiry hair. His skin is tanned by the suns of unknown worlds. He wears a suit of grey and purple armor of alien design.

Background: Kron was born into a nomadic tribe of barbarians beyond the rim of the explored Galaxy. For eons they moved from uninhabited world to uninhabited world, for the region of the Galaxy in which they lived was very sparsely populated. Over time, his people became masters of piloting starfighters, their vehicle of choice. There were several tribes of nomads which constantly fought amongst themselves over precious resources and inhabitable planets and occasionally mounting small-scale raids on inhabited worlds and colonies.

Kron quickly grew to prominence among the tribes, at first winning the role of tribal chieftain, then uniting several tribes and taking the title of Warlord. Kron's tactical brilliance, fighting acumen, and overwhelming charisma and willpower quickly brought all of the tribes of his people together. But to keep this union, Kron recognized that it needed direction and purpose. He turned his union, now called "the Horde" by others, to conquest.

Kron's army would have met swift defeat were it not for a chance meeting with a powerful ally. Kron found Paegana, a Sith Witch, banished to a remote world. Kron agreed to give to her the worlds they conquered and plundered, allowing her to drain them of their life energy, in exchange Paegana would use her Sith powers to shroud the Horde's fleet, masking their approach and location with Sith sorcery.

Now Kron has turned his Horde on the Republic, raiding remote colonies for supplies and allowing Paegana to drain them of all life. His eventual goal is nothing short of complete conquest of the Galaxy.

However, Kron is the keystone that keeps his Horde together, and should Kron die, the tribal alliance would quickly fall apart.

Personality: Fearless, determined, and very intelligent if uneducated and somewhat uncouth. Kron's personality is so strong that he overpowers everyone else in the room and is always ALWAYS the center of attention. Kron wants to be recognized as a legitimate force, as such he often adopts Republic technology and practices, such as assigning a Recorder Droid to chronicle his exploits for future generations. However, Kron is utterly ruthless and shows little mercy. When attacking a world, if it surrenders, he'll take the inhabitants as slave laborers; if it fights, he kills everyone to the last man.

Objectives: To conquer the Galaxy.

Equipment: Lightsaber 5D (he wields a Lightsaber because during the period I'm setting my game, Lightsabers are still rare but are not the exclusive domain of Jedi), Recorder Droid, Armor +3D Physical +1D Energy, "Reaver" starfighter, 12 wives.

Force Skills:
none

Move: 10
Force sensitive: no

Your average Horde Warrior was born on a remote and desolate uncharted world. His father is a Warrior, and his mother one of his wives. The status of a Warrior can be judged by the number of his wives. The children of slaves can never become Warriors, though slaves can sometimes be used in combat as a human shield.

Life in this part of the Galaxy is harsh and many Horde children die before age 6 either from starvation, cruelty, accident, or war. Children are not cherished in the Horde society, they are pushed to their limits. Children who survive to age 6 are taught to pilot and a starfighter. Upon reaching age 16, Horde Warrior children fight for assignments of new Reavers. The best fighters get their pick of the best new Reavers. Once a Warrior has chosen a Reaver, they are bonded for life and the young Warrior is now officially a part of the tribes Warrior elite. Many rituals of initiation and blood sacrifice attend such events.

There are other castes in the Horde: Technicians, Holy Men, Builders, and slaves. Only Warriors are allowed the priveledge of multiple wives. Women in the Horde are hardy and strong and share an equal voice as the men, but their roles are still relegated to raising children and managing the work of their slaves.

In addition to the Reavers, the Horde also maintain many family-ships, medium sized transports that accomodate the wives and slaves of the Warriors, as well as the other castes. These ships are formidable in themselves, but are no match for a warship or a Reaver.

Equipment: Vibrosword 7D, Powered Gauntlet 7D Crushing 5D Blaster, may parry at no loss of action, Armor +1D Physical +1 Energy, "Reaver" starfighter.

Force Skills:
none

Move: 10
Force sensitive: no

The Reaver is the name given to the starfighters used by the Horde. Each Reaver is the property of a Horde Warrior. It is his home, Warriors are able to live for weeks at a time in their ships in deep space. In a survival situation, they can survive off of the waste coolant water and insulation paste, which resembles foul-smelling gruel with just enough nutritional value to provide sustenance. The Reaver is a Hyperspace-capable star-fighter in a time where such vessels are rare (1000 years prior to the films), and it's appearance provided inspiration for later Republic designers who appreciated the utility and versatility of such a ship.

The fighters designs are ancient and modern examples tend to be heavily modified by their owners, so no two are ever alike. A Horde Warrior maintains an almost religious bond with his starfighter, caring for it and worshipping it. It is believed that within each Reaver lives a battle spirit. Often a Horde Warrior will perform blood sacrifices to his Reaver in the hopes for blessing from the battle spirit.

General Basir, Twi-Lek Mercenary Leader

General Basir leads a mercenary army employed by the Hutts. Basir's mercenaries serve as the Huttese armed forces. They own 10 transports, 1 carrier, and 5 escort fighters. Basir's men were assigned to establish a recon post on the unexplored planet Tatooine in order to observe Horde movements.

Basir is a cold man who enjoys killing. He has no aversion to torture or genocide to achieve military aims. His love is for his men. He would do anything for them and sees to their comfort and treatment.

Hutt-employed Mercenaries