Snowstalkers

Name The Snow riders of Sarnix.

Government type: Oligarchy

Territories;

* The semi caretakers of the planet Kryptos, although the governor of the planet is never a snow rider it is acknowledged that even the planets governor can't give them orders, although luckily for the governors the Snowriders are content to leave the rest of the planet to the Governor's direct care, instead only using the Ice palace, her surrounding support buildings, and the surrounding wastelands in order to support themselves and their mission.

Hierarchy:

* High Lord: the leader of the SnowRiders and second only to the current Emperor of Sarnix. Currently, they are ruled by lady Georgia Avaros Yalllow
* High Shaman: the high shamans (five of them at any time) serve as advisors to the High Lord and as commanders for times when large groups of Snow Riders need to be in one place, as such they fulfill a similar role to the Jedi high council.
	+ Princess AleSix Tau, granddaughter and namesake of the current Empress, AleSix is the youngest High Shaman and her lineage is no doubt to blame for that, however, she is by no means incompetent for that, a master of the blade, strategy, and the arcane. Meaning that even if her surname was different she likely would have earned her place on the council regardless.
	+ High Shaman Ravar: Once Upon a time Ravar was a member of the witches of dathomir but eventually she left that organization and wandered the galaxy until meeting High Lady Georgia who persuaded the witch to join the newly reborn Snowriders and teach the order her ways.
* Shamans: the equivalent of masters in the Jedi Order, the Shamans are hunters who have mastered both their chosen weapon and also the force itself. One of their duties is to select initiates to train into new hunters, who will then travel with the Shaman who found them until said Shaman considers them trained enough to become a hunter in their own right.
* Hunters: the basic rank in the Snowriders organization, their job is to travel across the empire aiding local peacekeeper cells as needed, hunting down relics, and even expanding into the Lawless reaches beyond Sarnix. They serve in duos to keep each other on check however there already limited numbers, (there is one hundred hunters and twenty shamans) means they are not always deployed unless necessary.
* Apprentice: those new to the order, are force sensitives who have been found by a shaman or hunter and begun their training.
* Servants: although they are non-force sensitive, The order maintains a large collection of "servants" although despite the name they are treated well as many views serving the Snowriders as a religious calling or as penance for a (social) crime as such the servants do many duties amongst the Snowriders from cleaning the Snow Palace to tending their fields.

	+ Snowriders got their name for their ability to gather together snow and use it to support their weight enough for them to fly through the air for long distances.
	+ Many members of the order, especially taught by High Shaman Ravar and those she taught, have learned how to use the "magic" of Dathomir in addition to a handful of other force skills more common to Force users.
* Equipment:
	+ Roughly half of the snow riders have constructed lightsabers of their own to use as their primary blades, with most using standard lightsabers however a few have constructed lightsaber pikes. However, almost universally synthetic blue and purple crystals are used for the blades, which seem always to have an almost icy appearance to them.
	+ While lightsabers are the dominant weapon amongst the order, for various reasons force-blades have become a close second in the form of swords and spears tied to the bearer, however, most of these are relics from the original snowriders, and the secret of their construction has been lost, however, it is rumored that an Imperial officer possesses one with the instructions on how to make new ones carved into the blade….
	+ The last, and most simple of the weapons used by the snowriders, is the humble blaster, mostly used by those who had already grown into adulthood and became familiar with this sort of weapon by the time that they had been found by a shaman and taken into the order.
	+ Even more important to a snowrider than their weapons is their decoder slash signet ring that shows their status as a snowrider. While half is a durasteel band with a jagged edge that is designed to be able to fit into a signet ring reader that most if not all Sarnix-made vehicles are equipped with so Imperial officials (all of whom have these rings) can interface with Sarnix’s local holonet system. and connect with the chip buried in the ring, the other half is free for the bearer to decorate as they see fit.
	+ Beyond their signet rings and some sort of weapon, the individual equipment of snow rider changes depending on their current needs and personal opinions and experiences

Demographics (what sorta people are in it?):

* At present most of the members are natives of the Sarnix system, with a preference for Pantorans being selected to join their ranks and humans being a minority, however around forty members (including the high Lord, and two grand shamans) are in fact, force adepts from the greater galaxy who were called to the Force Nexus

History (300 words):

* The original Snowriders were born a thousand years ago when a band of Kessurians left their homeworld and traveled to Sarnix and colonized the force Nexus. But after three hundred years they fell to infighting when a splinter faction wiped out the Snowriders and their palace was buried in a blizzard summoned by the fighting of the force users to be lost for centuries, only spoken of in ghost tales and friend of a friend stories, however after five hundred years, eventually a band of Kessurians refound the temple and set a village up within it's walls, but during the thirty years war a few centuries later, a force adept serving under Empress AleSix, managed to find her way to the temple, and convinced the tribe than living within it's walls to join the Sarnix Empire and more importantly, use their force sensitive members to rebuild the Snowriders, and along with four other adepts serving under the Empress, the leader of the tribe and the five imperial adepts became the first new Grand Shamans while the other members of the tribe were trained by the grand shamans in the use of the force by the grand shamans, becoming the first hunters, in fact this is why the rank has that title as the first Kessurians trained in the force were their tribe's hunters.
* After they played a role in ending the war of unification, by being airdropped onto Bentoran worlds and using their powers to wreck unspeakable damage on targets that the ships could not reach, the snow riders were able to retire to Kryptos and learn more about their powers in peace so long as they serve alongside the military in order to keep the people of Sarnix safe from those who would hurt them, as such when a rogueish Vong ship set up base in the Samix sector, the Snowriders served on the frontlines alongside non-force wielders in order to fight back the invaders, but many died as they were often unintended magma sponges as their force powers attracted the hatred of their foes.
* After the war, they were desperate to regrow and when her powers were discovered, the young AleSix tau the third was sent to Kryptos with her grandmother’s blessing to be trained by the snow riders, but to their disappointment, as many a shaman wanted to train both princesses so that their favor in the empire could grow even greater, with some even wanting to supplant the Parliament as the main law writing body, but instead their Lady discussed with the Empress and so, young Allara Tau would instead be sent to train with the Jedi so she could learn from them and when she came of age and returned to her people could teach them many things they knew not. But unfortunately for them, when the princess left the order, she came to their headquarters and had a vision deep below it, causing her to leave and join the imperial knights.

	+ 1x CR90 corvette (the Wayfinder
	+ 110x headhunter class fighters.
* Membership.
	+ 1x high Lord.
	+ 5x grand shamans
	+ 120x Hunters.
	+ 83x Apprentices.
	+ 800x servants.