Guild: Blackhawk Company
Alignment: Any alignments are welcome. However, non-good alignments are better suited to solving problems through military violence, and the M'Chekian Army has usually tended towards the Neutral and Evil ends of the spectrum.
Base of operations: The Nation of M'Chek.
How to contact us: Any of the senior officers (listed below) will be happy to help. Also, Cm. Sgt. Dillon Wylde functions as a recruiter.
What we do: Blackhawk Company is the PC division of M'Chek's armed forces.
What to expect: Kicking ass for M'Chek! Expect a lot of military-themed roleplaying, including planning and executing daring missions in wartime as well as regular guild meetings and outings. Wherever there is a threat to M'Chek and its citizens, Blackhawk Company stands in their way. We are not law enforcement, though we do aid the M'Chekian Guards when necessary.
Miscellany: The Blackhawks are part of the elite-forces wing of the M'Chek Army, and as such are called upon for dangerous military tasks requiring flexibility, ingenuity and outstanding bravery. M'Chekian citizenship is a must, as is a clean criminal record (you can't be wanted for crimes in other nations). Your character will be expected to spend a majority of their time in M'Chek. That's not to say they can't travel, but characters who only come to M'Chek to take part in DM-run army events aren't what the guild is about.
A Brief History of the Blackhawks
Blackhawk Company was formed by order of the Joint Houses to clear select areas of the Underdark for colonization and farming. Dala Wennen, former Commander of Alpha Corps, was asked to lead this new unit, which she did until her apparent death in a raid on a Shaahesk temple. Morran Unuldur, then a Lieutenant, was promoted to captain and granted command. He led the company for the rest of the campaign. When the Blackhawks reached their goal and were no longer needed, they were offered the choice of either joining the Guards or disbanding. Only one member chose to join the Guards; the others retired to civilian life. Later that year, however, M'Chek once again had need of her devoted defenders, as a flight of pyrite dragons, led by the monstrous Tharul'Zhannadar, threated to destroy all life in the nation. The Blackhawks were once again called back into service, and with the aid of several other groups held turn the tide of the battle, then took the fight to the dragons' island and there helped slay the mighty dragon himself, ending the threat once and for all. After that, the nobles saw that they might need the Blackhawks again, so they were placed on standby with the understanding that they could be recalled at any time to deal with threats that were beyond the Guards' abilities. Major Swift was given command and a number of veterans returned, including: Captain Wennen (Formerly believed dead), Major Fyne, LT O'Callaghan, and many others.
The M'Chek-Drotid War
Since the invasion of M'Chek's eastern shore by the forces of Drotid, Blackhawk Company has once again been at the forefront of the M'Chekian war effort. In their capacity as an elite, special forces unit, the Company has been called upon to undertake a series of daring missions, shoring up the nation's defences and taking the fight to the enemy. While initially faced with a crisis of leadership following the death in battle of then-commander Rolan Fyne, the Company has rallied around the leadership of Major Thaylis Beign.
Blackhawk Company has been heavily involved in the planning and execution of some of the M'Chekian forces' greatest successes in the current conflict. A hastily-formed army of M'Chekian Guards, Blackhawk Company soldiers and local regular army regiments successfully defeated the nascent Shaahesk beachhead at Eastshore, liberating the town and protecting it until its rebuilding. Operation: Iron Fist saw the Company spearhead the first M'Chekian offensive into the Shaahesk lines since the inception of the war, and succeeded in clearing, taking and holding an important Shaahesk supply base on the eastern shore. Operation: Wyvern sought to repay the Shaahesk for their earlier assault on the M'Chekian Army position at Greylake, and resulted in a decisive defeat for the forces of Drotid. Blackhawk Company, once again, was in the vanguard, ensuring the success of the mission by preventing the Shaahesk alerting their reserves of the attack.
There are rumours of other, clandestine missions undertaken by the Company in the war effort. Rumours of secret raids, assassinations, and even co-operation with the Le'Nofaythen of T'Nanshi are routinely ignored by High Command.
Command Staff, M'Chek Army
War Commissioner
- Lord Tobias Chasworth ((NPC))
Commanding Officer, Special Operations Division
- General Cassius ((NPC))
Commanding Officer, Blackhawk Battalion
- Colonel-Commissar Whelm Brittain ((NPC))
Executive Officer, Blackhawk Battalion
- Captain Silver Fox
Command Staff, Blackhawk Command Company
Commanding Officer
- Captain Silver Fox
- Derrington's Medal
Executive Officer
- 1st Lieutenant Rickus va'Alor
- Copper Eagle Medal, Derrington's Medal
Senior Officers
- Captain Richance Weller, Quartermaster
- Copper Eagle Medal
Affiliated Officers
- Major Thaylis Beign, Third Brigade (General Staff)
Enlisted Soldiers
- Command Sergeant Dillon Wylde
- Copper Eagle Medal, Derrington's Medal
- Sergeant Straccio
- Copper Eagle Medal
- Sergeant Rollek Heloc
- Sergeant Paco Di Brancaleone
- Copper Boot, Copper Eagle Medal, Derrington's Medal
- Sergeant Lucius Tragus
- Copper Eagle Medal, Derrington's Medal
- Sergeant Orfanos
- Copper Eagle Medal
- Sergeant Neeb
- Corporal Kate Benneset
- Corporal Alice
- Corporal Vaako SandFireStorm
- Corporal Vana
- Private Sammy Valorian
- Private Karna'yeritath Zamanaena
- Private Etzeth Tzeleth
- Private Kassha Firehart
- Private Kayla Bur'ernook
- Private Drashter Volterz
- Private Jack Barton
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