T'liss Khellrea

### **(Alt: The Legion of the Raptor (in Federation Standard Language))**

The T’liss Khellrea Is the elite special forces legion of the RRF,. A group of the finest soldiers, commandos, and warbird commanders and crews the Romulan Republic, and the Romulan Star Empire before it, have to offer. In terms of standing, skill, and role the Legion is the Romulan equivalent to the M.A.C.O. Corps. of the Federation Starfleet, and the Honor Guard of the Klingon Empire; the finest troops, and ultimate answer to unforeseen threats to the Romulan people and state. They wear specialized suits of armor, incorporating the best in Romulan technology, and receive the finest and most grueling training, forming each legionnaire into the penultimate example of Romulan soldiery and a proud defender of the legacy of the Raptor. To be inducted into the Legion is considered one the highest honors a Romulan soldier can achieve in his career. Under the Romulan Republic, elements of the elite Reman Shadow Guard have now been folded into the Legion, as a sign of the new sense of brotherhood between the once divided races.

The history of the legion dates back all the way to the Sundering. When those who marched beneath the Raptor’s wings rebelled against the philosophies of Surak, and departed Vulcan after prolonged conflict. The T’liss Khellrea was the first legion established after the founding of the Romulan Empire, composed of those early proto-Romulans who saw the need for strength and honor. This is the legion that conquered Remus, that fought the Vulcans centuries later, and waged war against Earth, the Klingon Empire and even the Dominion. The legion has existed, unbroken, throughout Romulan history, defending the empire in whatever ways deemed needed and necessary. In modern times, the standard of the T’liss Khellrea has been carried over into the New Romulan Republic. In order to defend the Romulan people, and fulfill Romulan destiny and the preservation of their culture.

The members of the T’liss Khellrea form a unified legion between Romulan Naval and Army officers of the RRF, serving as a single cohesive unit, broken up into squadrons that carry all necessary forces to wage war. Between Warbirds, battalions, and necessary supporting forces, even a single squadron is capable of acting independently to serve the interests of the Romulan state, and defend Romulan interests as the elite of the Romulan military.

## Unit Culture and Traditions

Much like the Klingons or Jem'Hadar, the soldiers who make up the Legion of the Raptor follow a brief pre-battle tradition involving a battle cry shared among the unit, or said out loud to one self before an engagement.

As follows; the unit commander, or ranking officer, calls out first (if in a group setting):

> *"LEGIONAIRRES! THE RAPTOR CALLS FOR BLOOD!"*
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Traditionally, the unit would respond at attention, pounding a hard fist to their breastplates, weapons drawn and respond in unison:

> *"THE LEGION SHALL ANSWER!"*
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A similar version would be said to oneself if entering battle alone or if among aliens, for example:

> *"The Raptor calls for blood..." <readies them self for battle> "...and the Legion will answer."*
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## Equipment

### Armor of the T'liss Khellrea

The Armor of the Elite Romulan soldiers who make up the T’liss Khellrea is heavily based on the armor worn proud legionnaires who have unwavering served the Romulan people and proudly marched beneath the Raptor’s Wings. Originally designed and used by the Empire for use against the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Star Empire’s various other rivals and enemies for decades. The designs for this iteration of the Armor of the Raptor have since fallen into the hands of its successor state, the Romulan Republic, who have further improved upon its design. Taking cues from those early Romulan legions, dating back to the founding of the Empire and even the forces of S’Task who marched against Surak, the armor of today’s legionnaire draws on elements of all aspects of past, and present Romulan history and heritage. The Legionnaire’s armor is a symbol of their proud and indomitable culture while still being a cutting-edge military combat platform worthy of only the highest echelons of the RRF’s military elite. To this end the Armor of the Legion of the Raptor incorporates the latest in Romulan technology, as well as showcasing elements of new ideas drawn from a variety of sources, including stolen Tal Shiar prototypes.

### Basic Composition and Construction

The armor itself is constructed around a poly-composite weave body glove that fits as tight and comfortable as a second skin on the wearer. It offers a basic level of environmental, energy, and impact protection, while not sacrificing dexterity, mobility, or comfort. It is composed of materials that are both temperature regulating and breathable, so as to not overheat the wearer, but shielding them from extreme environments such as the deep cold of Andoria, or the intense desert heat of Vulcan.

The second layer: a flex-plate composite alloy under-armor, which is laid atop the body glove and provides a second layer of more durable energy and impact protection for the wearer. It is composed of segmented interlocking armor plates which provide the second layer of energy and impact protection, while still affording the maximum in mobility, dexterity, and are specially tuned to be as silent and matte-coated as possible to promote stealth and silence as to not give away a legionnaires position from squeaks, clangs, or light.

The third and top level of the armor consists of heavy, durable plate armor sections which encase and protect most of the non-jointed sections of the Romulan body. Chest and back plates, shoulder armor, upper arms, and forearms armor plating (including armored gauntlets), thighs, armored boots, knee pads, and finally waist armor. These armored plates form the top level and highest degree of protection. Highly energy and impact resistant, as well as serving as convenient means of placement to incorporate several of the armor’s technical advantages and systems. The technological components can be customized to fit the individual wearer’s needs and tastes, but several technologies are installed as standard and cannot be removed as per regulation, and the integrated nature of several of these systems.

Finally, the armor is completed with a full helmet that adorns the complete system allowing the wearer access to most of the command and control functions of the integrated systems. The helmet is as well composed of the same armor plate affording excellent shock, impact, and energy resistance. This command and control system is achieved via vocal commands, through an on-board intelligent computer system, or through a modified neural interface, based on a modified version of the well-known Romulan mind probes, hybridizing them with an updated form of the Romulan arrenhe'hwiua telepresence technology from the 22nd Century. The helmet possesses a standard sensor suite, a large visor which incorporates a holographic heads-up display, providing easy access to a variety of information, various vision modes across much of the EM Spectrum, an advanced communications array and emergency transponder, and light beacons for operating in dark environments.

### Personal Shield Generator (PSG)

The Personal Shield built into the armor is derived from technology developed by the Republic and the Star Empire after years of research and development, as well as the use of classified, (and in the case of the Republic stolen), Tal Shiar research into the adaptation capabilities of Borg drones.
After each weapon impact the shield’s analysis and adaptive algorithms subtly adjust the harmonics of the shield to provide scaling resistance to incoming weapons fire. Remarkably, after enough hits the shield can even provide a period of total immunity to incoming directed energy weapons fire. This immunity is only temporary, and after the immunity period has elapsed, the algorithm is reset. At this point, the resistance must be built back up again, and requires a cool down period before resistances can be built up again.

The Shield is also tied into the personal cloaking device built into the armor to provide what is called the “Reactive Escape Algorithm.” If the onboard A.I. tied into the armor detects that the shield or armor have taken too much damage, it will immediately trigger an emergency cloaking maneuver, rendering the wearer undetectable, and allowing him or her to devise an escape, or to re-establish tactical advantage and reach a new position safely. It is also very useful in the execution of feint maneuvers.

### Personal Cloaking Device

As befitting a suit of Elite Romulan combat armor, the Legion armor is equipped with a highly sophisticated and scaled down version of the famous Romulan Cloaking Device. However, due to the power costs involved continuous operation of the cloak is not possible, and can only be used for limited periods of time before its power cell requires a cool down period. Even with these limitations, the tactical advantage provided by this next-generation stealth technology, as well as its ability to work with the other systems of the armor, far surpasses its limitations in the field.

Unlike the cloaking device on most starships and warbirds the power source and emitters of the cloak is separate from that of the armor’s PSG, allowing both systems to run independent and simultaneously. A Legionnaire can cloak with impunity and still be protected by his/her personal shield. In addition, the cloaking field provides an acoustic dampening effect, greatly reducing the sounds generated by the user, to the point that only species with extreme hearing acuity (such as Caitians and Ferasans) can detect the wearer. However, these species must be actively listening for them. An unaware felinoid (or other such sensitive species or individual) may easily miss the highly dampened sounds being emitted. In so far as psionic detection of the wearer, neither the cloak, shield, nor the armor itself can protect the wearer from telepathic or empathic detection.