Martyr



Martyr

Freedom Guard soldiers who are approaching their 25th birthday, and therefore certain death, are outfitted with a high-powered explosive device and then sent screaming into the enemy to die for the cause. Sometimes soldies not popular with their commanding officers are "volunteered" for this service before their 25th birthday.

Martyr:

Weapon: Concussive Plasma Detonator

It was in the Freedom Guard's desperate defense of their water processing facilities on Kendrick that the tradition of Freedom Guard suicide bombers was born. One badly wounded Raider, Kit Aphaus, considered his position as he crouched in a ditch waiting for the medics to arrive. What was the point of the medics risking their lives to get to him and then wasting their precious supplies on him? He was nearly twenty-five years old, and because he was among the "marked", he would soon die anyway. Then a desperate idea came to him. He had with him several of the concussion detonators he and his group had been hoping to attach to the bottoms of Tachion Tanks as they hovered by. This strategy had failed, but maybe his new idea would work. If he was going to die anyway, why not take as many Imperium troops and vehicles as he could with him. With a defiant yell, he suddenly sprang up from his ditch with three detonators and ran screaming toward a mass of Imperium tanks and Guardians. His commrades looked up from their hiding places, fascinated and horrified by their own identification with the feelings that must have driven their friend to such a desperate action. Suddenly, there was a gigantic, bright plasma blast. The ground shook. A half dozen Guardians were strewn in pieces in the pass below, and a Tachion Tank was flipped over on its turret. In response, a cloud of Bions and Guardians emerged into the pass like angry bees. "That's it!" cried the group leader, "We're goin'".

Following his lead, each Raider deactivated his phasing transceiver and ran straight into the Imperium ranks. Several were cut down by Bion fire on the way, but many made it through. The massive explosion could be seen from the portals of Imperium ships in orbit above the planet. After the battle, Aphaus and his commrades were accorded the highest honors and were even designated as Martyrs for the Cause. In ensuing battles, a number of marked 24-year-old Freedom Guard soldiers followed their examples. These suicide runs in fact came to be seen as the most honorable way to die, and Freedom Guard Martyrs remained a serious base defense problem for the Imperium for the rest of the conflict.

Side : Freedom Guard

Cost = 250

Speed = 16

Sight = 8

Hitpoints = 100

Armor Class = Skin

Weapon Dmg = 180 (with area damage) DMG Modifier - Armor    = ?% DMG Modifier - Skin     = ?% DMG Modifier - Building = ?%