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Name:Backstag Thrulrackal
Race: Orc
Class: Barbarian
Role: Chief of Clan Megrakk
Gender: Male
Age: 40 years(don't know how old Orcs can get)
Appearance:
The Sneak Chief HimselfOrigins: Was born on the flagship of the Clan, Darkstrida. A looted Imperial carrier that carries the clan on its metal back. The lumbering giant has been strapped together to be a mobile mothership as the Clan is nomadic since they are never in the same place at the same time, always looting and raiding, always helping other clans and whoever can pay their price sabotage and smash their enemies in the most un orcy ways possible.
Starting Location: On the Darkstrida practicing his skills. Traveling across the Outer Rim as of right now looking for work or a raid after his success with Warlord Muthracka of the Killrash Kingdom.
Strengths: Kommando: Backstag and his Clan are orc Kommandos, specialist in unconventional warfare that are seen as a necessary evil in the "might makes right" culture of the brutish warrior race. These orcs are usually the runts of their clans and would learn how to be sneaky and more cunning than usual warriors to serve the clan as a spy master and assassin. However not every runt or outcast is able to become like this and they are usually given to a kommando clan looking to get some scraps in exchange for services. Due to this, these groups like Backstag are the equivalent to special forces and are very dangerous when fighting for they are always thinking of some new ways to crack open an Imperial world in order to get their share of the loot, one subtle way at a time.
Darkstrida: The Clan's Homeship is a large carrier, one that allows the Clan to have a long of range and flexibility that other normal clans can't afford. This helps that they have their own racers and fighters to allow for things like piracy, smuggling, and can be at battlefields to those who can afford them or allows them to scavenge battlefields to repair their big ship or supplies.
Greenskin Rambo: Thrulrackal's fighting style is the personification of the Kommando fighting style. To many humans and orcs, his way of fighting invovles never fighting like an Orc. Using looted and black-market technology, any dishonorable tactic he could use, and slit the throats of the enemy without being seen. These are the tools of the job, from using the environment to his advantage against the normal forces of the galaxy. He still has the helmet of one of the Imperial Guard in his room.
Weaknesses:
Un-Orcy Ways: Orcs in general don't like Kommando Clans. This comes from the fact that Kommandos are usually runts and outcasts that can't be normal warriors. Despite being a necessary evil, most clans and warriors won't join them, and they can only recruit from the dregs and outcasts of orc society. Orc traders are also weary to trade with kommando clans, due to their un-orcy ways. However, the black market is different. This means that they need to pick their raids and fighting less they be destroyed by the normal forces of the galaxy, including rival orc clans.
Quality bet'a than Quantity: Kommando training is higher than the standard orc usually goes through. Most of it is learning how to read different languages, sneaking and using different weaponry than a choppa and shoota. This means that numbers of runts and orcs will be lower than normal so once again, need to be careful with how they pick their battles unless they want to be destroyed by normal forces in the galaxy.
Warrior beats Thief: Thrulrackal is a master fighter, but he's no warrior. Specializing in sneaking, slashing, and killing in different ways than the standard orc way, makes him weak to that tactic. Thrulrackal relies on prep time and cunning tactics other than getting a choppa and bashing someone's head in. He actually would do bad against someone who is his equal skill and has trained as a warrior.
Equipment:
Besides Darkstrida, the Sneak Chief is known to carry two large knives the size of human thighs along with a backpack with the standard Kommando kit of a scope las rifle, food, medical kit, and other things that may arise. The Orc chief also carries a stealth generator, a gasmask and a tri-sense goggles that allows one to see in infrared, night vision, and ultraviolet. He also has his kommandos and fighter pilots to wear camo of some sort. This comes from the civilans and their families that had learned how to do this from the human slaves they picked up from the raids and markets.
Orcs Kommandos are led by Thrulrackal's Second, Mogrui Ulshulk. And he has a large cybernetic power claw and heavy las pistol. He still has that picture of
Him with his personal squad of orcs after a successful campaign sacking and conquering the Barony of Celestial IIIThe Sneak Chief himself also has his own personal squad he leads and trains with. They are considered the elite orcs of the Clan. All of the Orcs wear
Gas Masks and various melee weapons, goggles that can do the same thing as their Chief's.
Besides that, the Clan has it's own 10 squadrons of
fighters,,
Bombers,
and transport that help with protecting the ship and attack anyone that would do any damage against their homeship
Biography: Thrulrackal comes from a long line of sneak chiefs that ruled over their nomadic clan of kommandos. His mother was the former sneak chief, and her husband was the second. She was a legendary sneak chief but was having a rivalry with another legendary sneak chief known as Muchalka the Goblin, a stunty thing that was once an ally when both chiefs were breaking the Caliga Sector and kidnapped the daughter of five Imperial Dukes in order for loot and managed to help the warlord Slab Umsmasha make his own personal empire among other greenskin star-nations that threaten the Empire.
However, the fight between the two Sneak Chiefs were over greed. No one knew why or how it happened, but the battle was bloody. Across several planets, three fleet battles, and the assassination of Backstag's parents had cost Megrakk with nearly everything except their flag ship, Darkstrida. Backstag was born shortly after his mother was assassinated and he was passed on to the next sneak chief, Havik Ulshuk. He got his position in a different mean other than cracking the skulls of his opposition.
The thing is that he actually got a support via politics that most warriors wouldn't like and assassinate his opposition because he's still an orc. Sneak Chief Havik was hellbent on fighting the former ally and further crush Megrakk's prosperity on their campaign of vengeance. His son and Backstag prove themselves over these years in being sneaky and cunning against the Goblin's kommandos. However, the victories were small and the expenses of each battle being too large for the one carrier clan.
Backstag couldn't take it anymore, he got his friend Mogrui and come up with a plan to take out the clan and his father. Backstag was going to take over the Clan and end the feud in one swipe. When the big battle happened between the two clans in their motherships, the duo made their move. Bribing the helmsmen and one of the fighta squadron leaders, they took over the bridge and killed the loyalists while also bombing the already broken engines of the Goblin's ship.
In the biggest explosion that Backstag ever did, the Goblin and the sneak chief died. The young kommando made his way to the bridge with Mogrui and proclaimed himself sneak chief as he ended two chiefs, an enemy clan, and had proven he had support. It wasn't exactly overnight but he was given control over the near destroyed clan and made sure that something like this wouldn't happen again. In his first act of rulership, he moved and killed those who didn't want to allow a young orc to rule, yet some were willing due to them liking how his parents ruled.
Over the next 20 years, Backstag went across the Outer Rim going to one battlefield to another. He fought human, orc, and all matter of aliens between orc clans, pirate warlords, and Imperial Nobility. He gathered loot, tech, and recruits that he improved the Darkstrida to become more fearsome and the Clan to rebuild and become stronger and try to reclaim their old strength. The fame of the sneak chief got him to work with a set of orcs in taking the Barony of Celestial III.
Celestial III was a mercantle barony that sat on the border between the Mid Rim and the Outer. It used this as a major traffic point between tradelanes that made it a gateway to the deeper parts of the empire. The sector itself was getting more reinforcements from the crown as it was one of other sectors that served as major gateways to much more important Imperial sectors. Fighting was profitable, incredibly dangerous, and honorable for a normal Orc warrior looking for it. For Clan Megrakk, it was a place where they can ply their trade the best.
It wasn't entirely hard for the sneak chief to be the leading spymaster and lead the kommandos in the invasion of Celestial III for the warlord Garung Mutrhacka, leader of the Killrash Kingdom, used to be called Clan Killrash before the conquest of the Dukedom of Persephony. The rest of the chiefs didn't like the shortest orc in the room that had a lot of stolen orc and imperial technology to be part of their invasion force. This made Thurlrackal to prove himself twofold to the warlord and the orc chiefs as the battle went on. His carrier and his schemes that worked with the warlord find much success against the heavy defenses of the Barony.
It took years of space battles before the sneak chief and his men even got down to the planet. When he did, he saw that even then the humans were still determined to keep the skies and local space out of the hands of the barbarians. Even then the battles planetside met a tie as the Barony managed to get their hands on Imperial Guardsmen in order to keep the Gateway from falling in the hands of the greenskins. The Imperial Guard had managed to prove their worth in the eyes of the filthy barbarians as they killed more than the orcs did for them. It was a matter of skill that most Orcs couldn't match.
Clan Megrakk had seen a lot of battles but didn't do much damage, but the Imperial Guard and the Imperial enemy were wise to the pragmatic tactics of the Kommandos and how smarter they were in comparison to the standard Orc. However, the Barony paid no heed to those Kommandos as they believed that they were inferior to the Imperial Guardsman and the Clan's kommandos had managed to intercept and decrypt a message concerning the assassination of the Warlord and his loyal chiefs in hopes of ending the invasion. Such a thing was something that couldn't happen, and the sneak chief wanted to prove himself by taking on the Empire's best.
The Kommandos made a cunning plan and warned the Warlord to the plan. The Warlord allowed the runt to deal with it and he did so with brutal efficiency. The Clan ambushed them and killed them to a man. All but the leader's helmets and their dog tags were sent back to the warlord, and he told the tale of how the Guardsmen were strong, but not strong enough for a cunning kommando. Many of the chiefs didn't believe it even with the proof but the Warlord had seen the strength of the sneak chief and listen to his schemes much more and even approve of it despite being underhanded.
These schemes allowed Clan Megrakk to be a terror on the battlefield. Human soldiers had to watch out for Orc assassinations and subterfuge that became commonplace, but it didn't stop the short orc from dealing a deceive blow in the war. Planning this operation for months, his Clan saw an opportunity to take out the commander of the Imperial Guard while the main horde was sieging a city that he exactly was protecting.
Using stealth tactics and learning the enemy patrol routes, Thurlrackal took his personal force with him while his right hand, stand by to guard the Warlord during the siege. Infiltrating the city, he took note of the Guardsmen commander and his retinue. Unlike most orcs, who would scream and declare themselves to their enemies, Thurlrackal had infiltrated their command and ambushed the Guardsmen in the center of the building.
The battle between the two was considered one of the highlights of the fight and the turning point of the invasion. The commander was older than the Orc by at least a decade and had enough experience that it made the stunted orc get push back, but the Orc had a trick up his sleeve where he just dropped a taser grenade on the Guardsmen's armor and sieged up the servos. With one fell swoop, he took the head of the commander, and his team killed the rest of the Guardsmen before issuing to the orc warlord that the job was done, and he started to indicate weak points in the defenses.
Much loot was given to the clan and many of the runts wanted to join the Clan even with the battle not yet over. Still, the Warlord knew that he could trust the Kommandos at this point and so did many of the chiefs. There was many cunning strategies and information being stolen. It made the Warlord's invasion of the planet to go swiftly within the next two years. The end of the Barony's rule over Celestial III.
The sacking of the palace and the taking of the planet made him famous among the Warlord and his kingdom with helping him take his next biggest prize. The sneak chief was pragmatic and took only those who were smart enough and productive enough to help the clan become better when it comes to understanding more of the Empire's technology and culture. The Warlord was more than happy to supply some human scholars and mechanics for the continued operations of the Darkstrida but he also wanted the sneak chief to stay and be his head spymaster, offered him everything he would want and make his clan strong, but Backstag refused, looking to find work and more fighting elsewhere.
The Clan was still filled with loot, slaves, and orcs who could serve as potential kommandos and pilots for the carrier. The Warlord still has his doors opened to the one who helped get his kingdom a new jewel, but the sneak chief is still trying to carve his own path in the galaxy.
Psychological Profile: The orc is a pragmatist when it comes to combat. More cunning than the standard barbarian, he is not above backstabbing others if he can make sure that it completes a plan. He comes up with plans and contigencies against even his own second in case he shows weakness. He maybe a smart and sneaky greenskin, but he's still a greenskin at heart. He also likes to use slaves that have an education, a trade, or something being hard labor or just being a commodity to be traded.
This comes from the need for kommandos to know the culture of the Empire and the various powers and people that inhabited the galaxy. Backstag believes that to learn the culture and history of a people or sector of what that maybe invaded or raided then it will help him make plans. Many normal orcs that met him don't like him or think he is "too human" for their liking. This makes him either want to kill them or prove himself more in their eyes due to how low a standing komandos are in their society.
However, one should understand that the sneak chief, and the Clan as a whole, has a tradition of adopting alien technology. They even don't use slaves to just handle everything but use their own civilians to learn what they can and know how to use Imperial technology that is uncanny. Imperial intelligence suggest that this is a common thing for all kommando clans with the sneak chief of the Invasion of Celestial III being a one of the more famous examples.
Other Information: How much krumping can one orc with a carrier can do?
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:29 pm
