415th Exploratory Corps (RP)

## 415th Exploratory Corps

"*Per Aspera Ad Astra*"
―The 415th's motto, meaning through hardship to the stars**The 415th Exploratory Corps**, originally the **415th Exploratory Battalion**, also known as “***Sunrisers***” are a Clone unit specialized in exploring regions of the galaxy. During the Clone Wars, it was just a battalion used to explore a vast number of locations in the name of the Galactic Republic, either for untouched resources, more potential territory, or to smash out any conquests taking place, with them primarily targeting former Sith worlds.

It was led by Jedi General Méra Dimitra and Clone Commander Day with Major Goldy, but after a long mission in the Deep Core with Master Windu, it is now being led by General Sights, notably a Clone trooper that was promoted by the Director of Communications.

After a reorganization of multiple GAR units, The 415th was greatly expanded into a Corps, as it replaced the Corps it was originally under.

The identifying marks of the 415th was a golden stylised depiction of a sunset, which was sometimes placed in a patch with the unit’s name and motte; an Atrisian Basic saying that means *Through Hardship to The Stars*.

## Description

The 415th Exploratory Corps was a military division of clone troopers. Used for exploratory and as a reserve and supporting force, forces for other units and operations, it mainly consisted of standard troopers, although its ranks included various specialists such as Advanced Recon Commandos, Engineers and even a, at the moment, permanently attached SO BDE Clone Commando Squad, led by Commando Major Storm.

The 415th uniquely has training in Prakith Sword and hand-to-hand combat, both of which emphasizes strong, heavy hits. The 415th also share a trait with the 327th Star Corps, with that being archery. Medieval Siege Weapons is one of the most unique of the skills the 415th learn from their time in the Time loop caused on Prakith, with them becoming quite proficient in the usage of massive siege weapons.

The 157th Battalion, then led by Major Jaws when it was a company, was even more suited for non-standard ops, even having a different colour scheme to the normal golden one, with red and black accents, with their moto being “Burn Brighter”.

Marka Ragnos, using his great power in the Force was able to import shards of himself into every single clone and member of the 415th, using that yes he was able to input conscious and unconscious suggestions into them, which he used in great effect to manipulate Méra without much incident. However, the shards also made it much harder for them to be manipulated or controlled by those who are not Ragnos, but not impossible as proven for short time by the Fungus, with its raw psychic power overwhelming the shards.

## History

### The Clone Wars

#### The Beginning of the War

The 415th was involved in the First Battle of Geonosis in a limited way, losing their first Jedi General there. At some point during the starting months of clone wars, the 415th was Stationed on Coruscant, where some members did an off-the-books mission to eliminate a high profile mob boss, gaining a new member, The Droid Bartender.

Prior to the Battle of Mandalore, the 415th spent the first part of the war used to explore a vast number of locations in the name of the Galactic Republic with them primarily targeting former Sith worlds.

##### Battle of Mandalore

The 415th was apart of was Thrawn's first engagement as the Grand Admiral of the Republic Fleet, as the Senate demanded that the Mandalorian sector received focus, the 415th were drawn away from their exploration of the Sith Worlds.

They were tasked with protecting one of the padawans, Strider. He had come into possession of the Darksaber, an Mandalorian relic, with both Mandalorian and CIS forces planning on stealing the Darksaber off him. It was Méra and the battalion's job to stop that from happening. However, the operation went extremely wrong. With the entire moon shaking and beginning to fall apart from the mass mining, the caves that Republic forces, including the 415th, had to enter began to collapse; and upon their attempt to leave, they were ambushed by the Confederacy.

As an Acclamator Assault Ship landed on Concordia by the extraction point of the central mine. Due to the force of the Acclamator landing as well as explosions from the battle, a cave-in began to occur, crushing many members of the 415th and 327th still trapped within the mine, due to a cave-in earlier. In the chaos, Cad Bane grabbed the Darksaber and was now the legitimate owner of the blade.

#### The Sith Worlds

##### Korriban

Under the order of the Jedi Council, attempting to determine the source of the Dark Veil which clouded the Jedi's vision, Méra Dimitra was ordered to take the 415th Exploration Battalion into the Sith Sector. Thrawn was sent with the 415th with a small fleet of ships to the Korriban System, where they engaged a much larger CIS fleet.

   Deploying the 415th and 20 AT-TEs with speeders to the planet's surface, Thrawn defeated the CIS fleet before being forced to retreat when more reinforcements arrived, leaving the 415th without a viable space strategy.

Landing on the planet's surface, the 415th had to go through the Valley of the Dark Lords to reach the CIS outpost and gain control of the planet. Arriving in the Valley, Ragnos called Dimitra and the 415th into his tomb, before shutting the doors and leaving Zeta Squad and others outside, who were forced to engage the CIS. After entering the large temple in the back, the group that entered was sealed in the tomb. There, they were attacked by tomb-dwelling shyracks. The Sith Spirit then raised two acolytes from the grave. They fought against them, but one slipped away and killed one of the lieutenants, Jaws. Ragnos then recalled the other acolyte and had it hand Méra his holocron, he then resurrected Jaws as a Sith Zombie. The door of the tomb opened up to reveal the CIS killing the 415th who stayed behind, they then retreated after Ragnos used his power to force the CIS to back away enough for the 415th to leave.

Ragnos then induced Commander Day into a coma, unbeknownst to the 415th.

##### Bosthirda

Arriving on Bosthirda, Méra and members of the 415th were split from the main party by a Dark Side Rock Guardian. Traveling into the ruins of a village, the party discovered that the town had been devastated. Traveling into what they believed to be a Sith Enclave, the party discovered the temple was in fact a secluded Jedi temple. Sealed off from the galaxy, the Jedi temple went through their own 100 Years of Darkness. Dimitra dueled the Sith Lord who decimated the planet, deep below the temple next to a Dark Side nexus, which upon his death, began to overload with energy.

##### First Battle of Dromund Kaas

During the First Battle of Dromund Kaas, Upon landing at the spaceport the 415th found a Sith cultist. Upon interrogating him they learned of a shield generator but didn't know who guarded it. A group of the 415th went to deal with the shields as the rest dealt with the cultists.

In the Dark Temple, the 415th encountered the followers of Darth Millennial. After killing them all, they wondered what was there. Ragnos warned of an incoming threat in Kaas city, one he could not hold back any longer. After leaving the Temple, they encountered a group of strange troopers. They were Stormtroopers, brought from the Fracture.

The 415th started to fight them off, fighting their way to the Capital. They faced purge and dark troopers until they reached the reactor of the city, where they encountered a face an ominous man in dark armor. Where after detonating the reactor, the mysterious figure disappeared.

#### The Deep Core

The 415th, accompanied by Master Windu and his Padawan Ghos Gin, departed for the Deep Core, Windu was to single-handedly map the Byss Run of the Deep Core.

##### Keeara Major

On Keeara Major, the 415th was sent to find the source of the zombie infestation that plagued the planet. Then Captain Sights went with Zeta Squad and Droid on a separate expedition from the others on the planet. After fighting through the zombies on the planet, both teams were able to stop the infestation.

##### Prakith and Time Loop

The 415th would head to Prakith. As the group touched down in the landing zone, they would be attacked by wolf-like creatures that had ambushed the group. They would continue forward until they were met by a large 4 legged creature, after Jaws and Méra tame the beast, it would allow the group to ride on its back, with the Commando Botboy naming it Steven, which it seemed to like. 415th then would ride along on Steven's back for awhile before being attacked. Sights and the others would attempt to save Steven from the predators, to no avail.

As they across a small settlement of primitive knights, Sights and Méra would meet with the being called Omega. Who told them about the being known as the Shadow. They would fight against the Tirallians that had sided with Mandu, the army would arrive and would begin siege on the enemy castle.

When they then encountered the Shadow, most of the 415th, ended up being caught in a time loop on Prakith, however, that loop was only 4 months instead of the 2 years one that those closest to Mandu , including Méra. During this time the men there leaning the unique sword combat and hand-to-hand styles there as well as Archery and Medieval Siege Weapons. The 415th was reunited with with when Future destroyed a universe in the Void.

##### Byss

After landing on Byss the 415th once again met Mandu, who frustrated with their return managed to summon the Empire from the future similar to the First Battle of Dromund Kass. Further ahead they spotted an army of stormtroopers, dark troopers and AT-STs. During the fight HK-55 "Roch" detonated his core to clear the remaining enemy forces so the battalion could proceed with chasing Mandu.

They then would enter tunnels to defeat the shadow. Further into the ruins there was a junction at which Commander Day and Méra went to destroy the shield generator while the rest would wait at the shielded door. When Méra while disabled the shield they moved into the Tomb of the Shadow. They were met by Han Solo who first identified himself as "Bird". He explained that he found Méra unconscious and the ashes and helmet of Day.

Han Solo went to help defeat Mandu while Storm and the other guarded Méra. Once they fought and killed Mandu and after the loss of their flagship and the Death of Commander Day, killed by Méra to turn off the Nexus's shield generator, they left the planet on the Millennium Falcon. With the deaths of Commander Day and Major Goldy and the loss of their flagship by Future, Sights was made Commander of the Battalion. He later promoted Jaws, then a captain like him, to Major.

#### Further Missions

##### Yen Sharm Docking Station

When the Millennium Falcon needed some fuel, A Group of the 415th that went to get it, going to Yen Sharm Docking Station. Han Solo, Sights and others went to pay for the refuel when suddenly they heard a scream and went to investigate. They saw a woman being kidnapped by men dressed in black but got away before they could stop them. Han explained that five years ago there was an incident which led to the locals hating the Jedi and then questioned a vendor about what had happened.

The vendor explained that those people were the Prophets of the Convert who rule this place, protecting it from pirates and that everyone who had been kidnapped had eventually returned.

They followed the directions they were given and reached a golden room with a red liquid fountain and a statue. Sights grabbed one of the books in the room to open a secret tunnel. Further in the tunnel they saw a lot of machinery and how the woman from before was being thrown into a furnace and a copy of the woman walking out with the cultists. They learned that the security droids had malfunctioned and were replacing people with automatized police force. They made the choice of disabling the guards and trying to take on the pirates that were going to attack. During the fight Méra accidently blew up a school so they all got on the Falcon and quickly flew away.

Due to Méra getting called by Revan the Millennium Falcon flew to Dromund Kass instead of Coruscant. There they were attacked by the bounty hunter Boba Fett. During the battle Boba dropped a seismic charge which knocked out everyone but Méra and Goose. Méra then killed Goose and framed Boba. Eventually after the arrival of the rest of the battalion they occupied the Mandator II above the planet, The Will of the Force. Méra then took Droid and some others on a mission to save Ordo's adopted daughter.

##### Second Battle of Dromund Kaas

The 415th spent some time in the Munn 10's ship, the Investment. When Klutz was injured in one of the training rooms by reprogrammed training droids, a rescue effect was started. When Navy Captain Victoria Talik was ordered by Grand Admiral Thrawn to have Klutz moved, the 415th was doing a full sweep of the upper levels of The Will of the Force. Klutz was then officially classed to have died of his extensive injuries.

When the now Sith Future came on broad, the 415th tried to apprehend the then unidentified clone, but when the clone went to the Investment, Commander Sights had to stop Talik from opening fire. During the Second Battle of Dromund Kaas most of battalion was captured, thought some went into hiding. Where they worked on a way to find and free everyone. With the Sith Empire in control of Kaas, Future would then leave the Sith Empire and get them transport away from Kaas.

##### Pasaana

During a mission on Pasaana, the 415th were to escort a mining convoy. They arrived at the Mining Guild outpost and loaded all the crates but were attacked by Black Sun pirates. During the fight a crate that fell off had opened revealing crystals inside. Further into the dessert a sand worm also attacked and seeing how badly it was going on the ground, the 415th moved the crates on HK squad's ship, the Prometheus.

After opening one of the crates on the ship they discovered that there were also weapons in the crates. After getting on the ship pirate ships also joined in the chase but the 415th managed to fight them off and Sights begrudgingly finished the convoy's journey.

##### Dantooine

After the Pasaana debacle, the 415th took an unauthorized shore leave on the planet of Dantooine. There they were soon greeted by a local sheriff by the codename of Athex. Unbeknownst to the group, Athex was actually a spy for the New Republic from the universe of Fracture who was wearing the armor of an Imperial Transport Pilot as a disguise. Athex initially greeted the members of the 415th Exploratory Battalion with suspicion but ended his hostility upon learning that they were not a threat.

###### Skirmish with Mining Guild

Back in his town, Athex explained that the area was under threat from the ruthless Mining Guild. They were using a massive tank-like behemoth to rapidly mine for precious ores and minerals under the surface as this behemoth drove over the land. Combined with the severe damage this was causing to the land, and the fact that the behemoth was headed in the direction of the town, the 415th now gained motivation to stop it.

Whilst half of the 415th forces decided to distract the Mining Guild's ground troops and vehicles, a task force went and infiltrated the massive behemoth by scaling aside and avoiding the rocks that fell from it. After some face fighting from both teams both reunited within the bridge of the tank and faced off against the heads of this mining guild operation, Killing the head of their security wing and capturing their lead scientist as they tried to escape.

###### The awakening of Darth Saorus

One night a squad led by Midas from the 157th battalion secretly left to go the Field and when they hadn't returned the next morning a rescue team was sent. After arriving at the Field, the 415th discovered a cave marked with a pole, inside of which they found the corpse of one of the missing squad members and a recording. The recording showed them splitting into three and going down different tunnels before the recording suddenly cuts off.

The rescue team split up and went down the three tunnels. The three groups faced different creatures and obstacles and discovered all of the missing squad members, both dead and alive, except Midas.

Eventually, the tunnels all led to a temple where all the 415th members grouped up and found Midas attempting to activate a sith holocron. Before they could stop him, Midas succeded and awoke Darth Saorus. Darth Saorus proceeded to turn Midas into solid gold before taking form using blue holocrons and rocks and attacked the 415th.

During the fight, Saorus' holocron got damaged enough for Droid to manage to crush it and killing Darth Saorus. The destruction of the holocron caused an explosion which forced the 415th to evacuate the cave before it collapsed.

##### Tuplaa and the Rakata's Legacy

"*Damn, they even look evil*"
―Sights after reading the dossier on the RakataThe 415th headed for a staging area for new mission as ordered by Grand Admiral Thrawn. The plan was to stop the Rakata from becoming the corrupt galactic force they once were 6000 years prior.

This goal involved two separate steps; first, send a Chiss task force to negotiate and/or kill the Rakatan leader, who was experimenting with the dark side of the Force. Second, the 415th had to destroy the ancient Rakatan technology from the height of their ancient empire, in order to prevent the Rakata from activating such hostile machines ever again.

When they arrived at the Rakatan Archipelago, The Handrail's systems were shut down or put on the lowest possible setting, unknowingly done by the Chiss, to keep the operation as hushed as possible. As a result, the 415th migrated down to the surface of the planet, leaving only a skeletal crew in charge of The Handrail.

Thrawn’s agent, unknown to the 415th at the time, was in fact his brother Thrass. He informed the 415th that they were to go into the Rakata tech caves and effectively seal them in with simulated earthquakes. Unfortunately, these briefings from the wise Chiss were not enough to prepare the Corps for what would happen in the caves.

The caves happened to be a nexus for the dark side of the Force, and as a result, manipulative and traumatic illusions were prompted to the unsuspecting clones upon entering. Due to this, squads wounded and killed each other as they were misled to believe that their brothers were traitors, murderers, old foes, and other cruel deceptions twisted by the dark nexus.

However, even with these losses and complications, they were successful in their goal; detonating the planted explosives and causing the simulated earthquakes. The survivors of this incident were left even more traumatized and distrustful of the Force, especially the dark side. These paranoid feelings would later impact the 415th's future missions.

With the operation complete, Thrass' team allowed the Handrail's systems to activate once more. The Chiss, along with Xesh and Tau, departed, as did the 415th.