Council Enforcers

**Dev. Status** | Being Concepted

The **Council Enforcers** is an Annihilation/former quantum minor faction created by the Red Star Rising and a subfaction of the Ukrazol Ecumene that takes the spearhead warfare of the Ecumene and amplifies it into shock and breakthrough tactics of incredible force. Made for smashing through lines or holding the key points of them, the Enforcers are also great inflicters of terror. Based on elite political sub-armies like the Waffen SS or Napoleon's Imperial Guard, the Council Enforcers are a testament to the dark places where absolute, unthinking loyalty can lead you.

Whereas the Imilki poke and prod their enemies before pushing their carefully made and adapted spearhead right into the heart of the enemy, the Council Enforcers expect such work to already be done for them before they crush a hole through the line and sow terror and havoc among the enemy as they push towards final victory, leaving only corpses and terrified foes in their wake. Virtually fearless and possessed of iron discipline and brazen fanaticism, there are few who can hit harder than the Enforcers.

## Background

### Duty above All

The Enforcers have long been part of the Imilki's political structure, working where ordinary police or military units were deemed incapable of doing what had to be done. Selected through special programs that sought only the fittest, the most loyal, and those least possessed of problems such as morality, and then further drilled and enhanced from that original raw material into proper soldiers. The Enforcers have long been known for their absolute loyalty to the Ecumene, it's ideals, and by extension, the Councils, for they are the will of the Ecumene. Never questioning orders and fulfilling each one given to them with initiative, efficiency, and enthusiasm, the Enforcers have been fairly controversial to many. Some saw them as simple thugs in the alien nation, a cudgel with which the councils could use to strike down discontent.

But as the age of conquests and assimilation ebbed away, the Enforcers slowly drifted into a primarily ceremonial role. Almost never needing to be set loose, the age of peace made many forget the initial complaints about them. They were no longer doing anything objectionable after all, and they represented a long held tradition at this point, an icon of ecumenical superculture. And so they remained for years to come. With war an increasingly distant memory, the Enforcers seemed to have become little more than parade and honor guard troopers. The days of gloriously marching from world to world were so distant, so far away. The day that they would be needed again seemed to be unreachable.

Then came the message of stagnation, of creative sterility. The Supreme Council of Grand Minds decreed that there were no more ideas for technological or cultural advancement, that they had hit the plateau of their creative ability. Many decried this as a falsehood, others were fundamentally disturbed that there were limits to their abilities at all. Still others turned to long forgotten reasons for discontent and disturbance. And so the Enforcers joined the march to restore order. Those who had to be eliminated were wiped out bloody, long nights where the daggers of order stabbed into the backs of those who had brought about this disruption of once crystalline serenity.

After a short, brutal period of civil violence, the Supreme Council announced it's plan. A new age of expansion and conflict would begin. No longer would the increasingly pacifistic Ecumene turn it's attentions towards introspection, but once again it would explode outwards to seize worlds, to subjugate cultures, to tear the ideas of other civilizations from them. A new drumbeat of war would be sounded, and the Enforcers would be part of this new crusade. The military would be joined in this task by the observational forces, who would use the devices and weapons best suited to ensuring that the conflict would not be over so overwhelmingly quickly that they could not study ever possible idea of a culture outside of controlled conditions.

Just as the Enforcers marched with the military, so too did they follow the observational forces to ensure that the Ecumene's principles and the councils were obeyed.

### Earthfall

While all observational fleets have a substantial detachment of council enforcers, with the fleet at our solar system being no exception, this detachment of enforcers is made different by the addition of the brutal Council Chairman's infamous personal honor guard, whose name translates to "Cul Obsidiax" or "Midnight Slaughter", a force known for it's ruthlessness and terrifying nature in an entire unit made for ruthlessness and inflicting fear. It would be this Praetorian Guard that made very sure that society continued to function as normal, and that the observation would be successfully prosecuted. As was standard, the Enforcers had their own private fleet separate from the observer forces, so as to not waste their time with fraternization.

Though the world wasn't overly interesting at first, with only the earliest beginnings of powered flight and armored warfare amidst the blood and mud of trenches and vast plains, their interest was secured by a chance encounter with a cult in Black and Red and men and women still wearing metallic armor who managed to fight the observing forces on much more even ground than the other armies that not only couldn't stop the first observational raid, but weren't even able to get any news back to their commanders of these small battles lost in the midst of a particularly unpleasant war over nothing of real importance.

Vra'Kul'Mal ordered more intensive study, a long-term operation would be conducted to ensure that all the possibilities this species could give would be assimilated. And so a decades long stay had begun, with the Earth constantly under surveillance even as it's interest in astronomy only grew and grew just as it's scientific capability did. As another world war erupted (though not by the expected aggressor), the Ecumene stepped up it's protocols. Even as the world faced a battle between Red and Blue, the Imilki continued to remain close. Experimental science from both side was taken to be examined. Soldiers from the conflict often disappeared, sometimes whole units at a time.

The 101st airborne division famously disappeared to never be seen again as they investigated a mysterious base in Poland, the 82nd airborne and a german Panzergrenedier brigade, sent to track them, similarly disappeared, along with a Soviet tank division, the 31st guards and it's self propelled artillery brigade that sought to engage the Americans. The first group of Americans would join many other captives, having been taken by the observational forces. The second group of humans encountered the Enforcers, and were not spared. Even the regimental mascot children were disposed of and no remains were left. Hardly the only such black action taken by the Enforcers, but one that has lived on in the lore of conspiracy theorists long after the fact.

Later on, as the Soviet Union traded Stalin for Cherdenko and the Allies went from a hodgepoge of anti-communist nations to a formal international coalition, and for their success, the Councils awarded the Enforcers richly. A great parade was held in the flagship of the Jovian fleet, a vessel whose name roughly translates to "Impending Doom". A celebration to exult in the glory of their nation and the acquisition of new technologies and ideas for it. Though curiously the records gained from the Soviet political system were recently revised. The response to these questions was that they contradicted other prior data and upon rexamination it was found that the interrogated had made omissions of key facts that invalidated their prior testimony as scientifically useful.

## Units & Buildings

### Deathmatch Reinforcements

**Varghoul's Cadre**

Varghoul's Cadre is an elite group of mercenaries chartered to the infamous bounty hunter Varghoul, who despite being a citizen of the Republican states of Vigisori, willingly jumped ship to the Ecumene when he saw that it would both offer him far better pay and far more interesting equipment and toys to play with. The Cadre is an advanced force that goes ahead of the main spearhead, breaking holes open in defenses, weakening enemies, taking out key targets, sowing confusion and gathering information, all in preparation for the main assault of the enforcers. His cadre bases itself in his own personal fleet, paid for by the success of himself and his crew, while Varghoul himself owns a military grade battlecruiser as his flagship. Brought along for the Earth mission, Varghoul has taken rich enjoyment regarding his duties on Earth. All of these units can detect stealth and have quite a wide range of vision; though by Ecumenical standards they are quite soft.

 File:IconEnforcers.png | Atrazak | Bounty Hunters who have studied under Varghul himself, Atrazaks are vicious all ranges fighter who excels in eliminating high value targets from the face of the Earth and getting himself into the one on one duels tjeu favor. Using a large array of eclectic equipment, sheer skill, experience, and cold blooded professionalism; including wrist-mounted flayer projectors, high-end hard-light guns, jump-pack mounted missiles, and high-frequency blades, Atrazaks are infiltrators who will get the job done and excel at taking out other infiltrators. However, they also are functionally commandos, and only one can be summoned to the field at a time.

## Behind the Scenes

As mentioned earlier, the Enforcers as a whole take heavy inspiration from the secret police and elite squadrons of villains, in real life or in fiction, such as the Storm Troopers of the Galactic Empire and Nazi Germany's Gestapo.